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Governor: Legalizing pot was bad idea
The Hill ^ | January 23, 2015 | Kevin Cirilli

Posted on 01/23/2015 7:13:21 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife

Colorado’s decision to legalize marijuana was a bad idea, the state’s governor said Friday.

Gov. John Hickenlooper, a Democrat who opposed the 2012 decision by voters to make pot legal, said the state still doesn’t fully know what the unintended consequences of the move will be.

If I could've waved a wand the day after the election, I would've reversed the election and said, 'This was a bad idea,’” Hickenlooper said Friday on CNBC's “Squawk Box.”

“You don't want to be the first person to do something like this,” he said.

He said that he tells other governors to “wait a couple of years” before legalizing marijuana as Colorado continues to navigate an unknown, non-existing federal regulatory landscape for the industry.

“There's a whole regulatory environment... that really regulates alcohol,” he said. “We're starting from scratch and we don't have a federal partner because [marijuana] is still illegal federally.”

In February 2014, the Obama administration released guidelines for the marijuana industry indicating the federal officials would not target financial institutions or businesses engaging in selling pot as long as those businesses were compliant with state laws.

Despite the guidelines, banks are reluctant to finance marijuana businesses in states where it is legal because federal law still lists marijuana as an illegal drug. Congress would need to pass a law removing that language.

Marijuana is legal in four states: Colorado, Oregon, Alaska and Washington. Congress has blocked the District of Columbia from legalizing pot after voters in November cast ballots that they wanted to make the drug legal.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; Philosophy; Politics/Elections; US: Alaska; US: Colorado; US: District of Columbia; US: Oregon; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: buyersremorse; cannabis; dontbogartthatjoint; drugs; federalism; johnhickenlooper; legaldope; marijuana; nannystate; pot; potheads; warondrugs; wod
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To: varyouga
So is alcohol. But it is also chemically addictive and causes permanent damage to EVERY organ in EVERY abuser. There has not been ANY damage shown from the chemicals in pot to ANY cell in ANY user at ANY dose.

Pointing out the harm done by Alcohol does not justify the harm done by Marijuana.

If anything, it makes people question why we would want another intoxicant to produce even more damage.

121 posted on 01/23/2015 11:44:27 AM PST by DiogenesLamp
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To: gleeaikin

I actually like the idea of legalizing pot in Washington D.C. They are already parasites, and it would make it easier to explain why they are doing something stupid over there.


122 posted on 01/23/2015 11:46:46 AM PST by DiogenesLamp
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To: DiogenesLamp

The pro pot Nazi’s are out in full force.


123 posted on 01/23/2015 11:46:46 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va
The pro pot Nazi’s are out in full force.

Who on this thread is "pro pot" (I'm not - I'm anti-pot-pro-legalization) and what makes them "Nazis"?

124 posted on 01/23/2015 11:49:45 AM PST by ConservingFreedom (A goverrnment strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.)
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To: central_va

If you depend on the state to define what is acceptable morally, and to define how you raise your children morally, you are a weak soul. And that view is what is leading to more and more government intrusion on our freedoms as Americans. You can’t use that much sugar, that much salt, you don’t need that many guns, that many bullets.


125 posted on 01/23/2015 11:50:22 AM PST by ican'tbelieveit
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To: tacticalogic
Can you produce any historical background to back up that assertion? There is evidence to support the assertion that it's not within the original intent of the Commerce Clause, but finding it within the intent of the Defense clause seems to be a personal innovation.

How about we just save a lot of time and you tell me where is the authority in the constitution for stopping people from shipping chemical weapons into the country?

Or do you think the government doesn't have the authority to do that?

126 posted on 01/23/2015 11:50:44 AM PST by DiogenesLamp
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Only because he did not want to be the first one to do it!

Are you listening Libertarians? GOPe?

NEVER EVER GO BIPARTISAN WITH THEM, BECAUSE THEY WANT YOU TO BE BLAMED!

Boehner is the stupidest scum.


127 posted on 01/23/2015 11:50:58 AM PST by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall not be infringed)
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To: central_va

Just watch, the opiates will be next. Already have seen some on here pushing for full access of them. They won’t be satisfied with just pot, they’ll go for acid, heroin, meth, coke, everything. It’s like gay marriage. Get the camel’s nose under the tent with the medical scam and then push and push. Drugs cause the users’ to push even harder than the gay marriage/superiority issue though.

However, you are correct for now. The pot pushing is full out insane now. But they aren’t going to just sit back on the rest either.


128 posted on 01/23/2015 11:52:59 AM PST by Monty22002
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To: willyd
You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.

Pot is a gateway drug because people lie to kids and tell them pot is just as bad as all the other drugs.

When they try pot and find out that they were lied to, they assume the same is true for all the other drugs and that’s where they get into trouble.

No my friend, you are the one that doesn't know what you are talking about. I used to know a pimp that would start out by getting girls hooked on weed, and he would then put some crack into it. In a week they were hooked on crack.

He would then send them out to the street to make him money.

I know numerous other examples of people who started out on pot, and eventually got bored with it so they turned to coke, crack, meth and heroin.

It is indeed a gateway. It gets them into the habit of using drugs, and they eventually develop a tolerance to it, at which point they want something stronger.

129 posted on 01/23/2015 11:54:57 AM PST by DiogenesLamp
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To: DiogenesLamp
How about we just save a lot of time and you tell me where is the authority in the constitution for stopping people from shipping chemical weapons into the country?

That's in the Commerce Clause. The power to regulate commerce with foreign nations covers anything coming across the border. There is ample historical reference to establish that as being within the original intent of the Commerce power.

Now, do you have anything to back up this "Defense clause" theory, or are you just making shit up?

130 posted on 01/23/2015 11:56:26 AM PST by tacticalogic
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To: ican'tbelieveit
f you depend on the state to define what is acceptable morally

I don't that is why the contradiction is so insidious.

131 posted on 01/23/2015 11:56:33 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: ConservingFreedom
You're blatantly cooking your books: the history of all (pre)humanity on one hand, but of this country on the other.

No, i'm pointing out that humanity's contact with alcohol is so old that we actually evolved genes to process it.

Marijuana has NEVER possessed the degree of exposure to mankind that alcohol has. I am pointing out that comparisons between the two are childish and stupid.

132 posted on 01/23/2015 11:59:05 AM PST by DiogenesLamp
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To: ConservingFreedom
How many pot users are serial killers? Almost none of them.

You need to put your weed down for a bit and let your head clear. It is axiomatic that if all those serial killers were pot users, then all those specific pot users were serial killers.

133 posted on 01/23/2015 12:01:56 PM PST by DiogenesLamp
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To: central_va

I’ve heard the song Proud Mary was about smoking, well you know, on or near riverboats.

Crazy culture thing. There are doubtless other things that will actually make the tripper feel “prouder.”


134 posted on 01/23/2015 12:04:03 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Monty22002
He’s been doing it near 15 years now. 15 years of your life WASTED spamming FR with drugs.

I didn't know that. Presumably you know who this guy is?

And he doesn't think this OBSESSION is evidence of a psychosis?

He certainly behaves like a psychotic loon if you ask me.

135 posted on 01/23/2015 12:05:09 PM PST by DiogenesLamp
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To: DiogenesLamp

Clean your light bulb, bub. Even if every murderer smoked pot, that doesn’t prove every (or even most) pot smokers are murderers... what kind of craziness is this, maybe it rivals that of smoking pot.


136 posted on 01/23/2015 12:05:47 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: DiogenesLamp

Projection makes you look silly


137 posted on 01/23/2015 12:06:16 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: ConservingFreedom
Many - I'd bet most - pot smokers would be delighted to quietly and legally buy pot at a licensed store and smoke it at home. So let them.

It doesn't stay in their homes, it keeps getting spread to the next generation.

Break the chain of contact, and we can start producing generations free of the attraction to use drugs.

138 posted on 01/23/2015 12:07:27 PM PST by DiogenesLamp
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To: Monty22002

Huh, with a freep birthday of last May?


139 posted on 01/23/2015 12:07:56 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: DiogenesLamp

Why do you keep putting out laughably illogical statements. It’s almost as if you partook of... well, you know. Does that lamp smell like oregano?


140 posted on 01/23/2015 12:09:11 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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