Posted on 08/03/2014 7:09:41 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
Marijuana joined roses and dahlias Friday in blue ribbon events at the nations first county fair to allow pot competitions.
This weekends Denver County Fair includes a 21-and-over Pot Pavilion where winning entries for plants, bongs, edible treats and clothes made from hemp are on display.
Organizers say the marijuana categories this year which come with the debut of legal recreational marijuana in Colorado add a fun twist on Denvers already-quirky county fair, which includes a drag queen pageant and a contest for dioramas made with Peeps candies.
Weve been selling tickets to people from all over the world, and we keep hearing they want to come see the pot, said Dana Cain, who helped organize Denver Countys first fair three years ago. This years event is expected to draw 20,000 people.
Judges considered only the quality of individual marijuana plants, not potency or the merits of drugs produced by the plants.
(Excerpt) Read more at denver.cbslocal.com ...
“For many years the opening lines from Foss’ The Coming American (”Bring me men to match my mountains / Bring me men to match my plains / Men with empires in their purpose / And new eras in their brains”) were inscribed on a granite wall at the United States Air Force Academy to inspire cadets and officers, but they were removed in 2003 to harmonize in perception to the Air Force Academy’s having become coeducational.
Too bad Colorado has become such a leftists dream land....
How did we ever survive it being legal from Colonial times until FDR and the New Deal?
We had a different, less hedonistic culture, it competed with opium but wasn’t that well known. The 60s really changed America and not for the better. We have to deal with today’s America.
Has it been worth wholesale violations of the Constitution - asset seizures, SWAT raids, criminalizing otherwise legal bank transactions etc. - in your opinion?
libertarians don’t deal with “today’s America” they are pie-eyed utopians who think their drug and sex liberation and open borders will create a perfect nirvana.
“Brave New World” explains it well
God doesn’t have to send a plague. We’re doing it to ourselves.
What will be the advantage of substituting self discipline with “if it feels good, do it” in your opinion?
Its bedtime, so I will not be staying on the thread trying to convince anyone of anything. But I will post this link:
http://www.populartechnology.net/2014/04/150-scientific-studies-showing-dangers.html
“Perception of marijuana as a “safe drug” is scientifically inaccurate (University of Montreal)
Cannabis more damaging to health than previously thought claim doctors (Imperial College London)
NIDA review summarizes research on marijuanas negative health effects (New England Journal of Medicine)”
Argue/agree with the 150 study authors. Good night!
I’ll give you a simple, straight answer to your question - as soon as you do the same for mine.
“150 scientific studies showing dangers of marijuana”
This is an awesome list of studies! Proof positive that those few relentless pothead Freepers are brain-damaged and will never back down from their irrational choombacca defense.
Drug dealers are for the most part, the scum of the earth profiting from the desperation, addiction and hopelessness of their customers, cartels eliminate their competition by murdering them and are protected by the governments they have corrupted. Los Zetas have branched out into supplying iron ore but still use the same techniques to stifle competition.
You think pot doesn’t kill? In 1982, shortly after I went on salary, I was called in the middle of the night due to a mine accident. An underground locomotive operator had run through a red block light hitting the rear of another train. The other train’s operator was in front of his train throwing a switch. The collision cut him in half. Not something you want to see, particularly if you know the man. The motorman who ran the block light told me he didn’t see it, he was “floating”. The only drug found in his drug test was thc.
The drug war is a war against criminal enterprises. If it’s not drugs, it will be something else. Might as well keep drugs expensive and a little risky to get. I really don’t think anyone has a right to a chemical high. Booze is bad enough.
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JimSEA: Drug dealers are for the most part, the scum of the earth profiting from the desperation, addiction and hopelessness of their customers, cartels eliminate their competition by murdering them and are protected by the governments they have corrupted. Los Zetas have branched out into supplying iron ore but still use the same techniques to stifle competition.
So the cartels got richer and more powerful, despite the drug war. That's called failure.
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JimSEA: Might as well keep drugs expensive and a little risky to get.
That's another failure =>
In the USA, the average inflation-adjusted and purity-adjusted prices of heroin, cocaine and cannabis decreased by 81%, 80% and 86%, respectively, between 1990 and 2007, whereas average purity increased by 60%, 11% and 161%, respectively.
No, seriously. Breaded deep-fried Thai stick. Somebody’s going to do it and make an obscene amount of money on the fair circuit.
People who are high don’t rebel against the evil acts committed by their government. It’s all cool. Soma.
Alcohol, tobacco, and deep-fried Twinkies also have negative health effects. In a free society, does government or the individual adult decide whether to self-inflict those negative health effects?
I was thinking ganja flavored green Peeps, dipped
in hashish batter and deep fried...
Mmmmm, deep fried Majoon.
"Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish?
Nothing else."~Epictetus
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I will rephrase your question to: “Does the Government have the right to prevent you from harming you in your pursuit of (?) pleasure? (I would not say happiness In this case.)
I was not really attempting to answer that question. I did provide a resource to assist people with information on why marijuana is not a harmless recreational drug. It is good that people have access to this information, is it not?
I will ask in return; should some one be allowed to use methamphetamine even once? Or heroin? With addictive drugs you may choose to use it the first time, but do you really have free choice after that? Do you wish that freedom on someone who ends up a prostitute or a career criminal to support their habit? How free is the person whose home is burgled by someone to support their habit? A law does not provide absolute restraint, but it may make someone think twice before taking damaging action.
“Our Friends The Deep-Fried Honey-Oil Peeps”, or, “Why Johnny Can’t Move”.
I was not really attempting to answer that question.
But in a free society it needs to be asked. Too many FReepers leap straight from 'it's not harmless' to 'it's proper for government to ban it.'
What is your answer to that question?
I did provide a resource to assist people with information on why marijuana is not a harmless recreational drug. It is good that people have access to this information, is it not?
Absolutely - it's good for information about all harmful activities to be accessible.
I will ask in return; should some one be allowed to use methamphetamine even once? Or heroin? With addictive drugs you may choose to use it the first time, but do you really have free choice after that?
Since of all those who ever used heroin, more than three in four never became dependent, the answer is "yes, you continue to have free choice after the first time." And since the corresponding proportion for marijuana is even higher than that for alcohol, a free-choice-protection argument can't support the current alcohol-legal-and-pot-illegal policy.
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