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Whether You Like it or Not - California Will Legalize Pot Next Year
cbs47 ^ | 9-27-09 | cakid1

Posted on 09/27/2009 2:36:52 PM PDT by cakid1

Whether You Like it or Not - California Will Legalize Pot Next Year

(That seems to be the idea behind a new article out today)

According to a well known, and outspoken leader from the left it’s a good bet that the state will legalize Pot next year.

Part of the reason?

The state needs...


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KEYWORDS: brainondrugs; ca2010; dopers; leggalizepot; maryjane; potheads; reefer; wod
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To: Texas Eagle

And why would sellers (who are breaking the law now), want to do the paperwork and pay the taxes? Why not continue breaking the law?

Their logic escapes me....

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41 posted on 09/27/2009 3:12:21 PM PDT by hoosier hick (Note to RINOs: We need a choice, not an echo....Barry Goldwater)
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To: cakid1

Jerry the fairy don’t have anything to say about it!


42 posted on 09/27/2009 3:15:55 PM PDT by dalereed
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To: ccmay

While what you said about marijuana may be true, legalization will not stop there. Proponents will clamor for legalized cocaine, meth and on and on.

And if harder drugs are not de-criminalized, then the cartels will happily continue on in their assault on America.

This Nation can NOT surrender in the WOD. California may lose the battle over marijuana, but it will be at their own peril.


43 posted on 09/27/2009 3:16:50 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (I am Legend)
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To: cakid1
The Nanny State Sycophants will not be amused.
44 posted on 09/27/2009 3:18:13 PM PDT by trumandogz (The Democrats are driving us to Socialism at 100 MPH -The GOP is driving us to Socialism at 97.5 MPH)
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To: ccmay
"The fact is that there is absolutely no comparison: Alcohol is far more dangerous and destructive than marijuana in every single way you can measure. Alcohol is probably the third or fourth worst drug out there (after PCP, amphetamines, and perhaps opiates.)"

The dishonest behind that old tale is obvious to the rest of us. We know how the bipolars, the depressed and the Xanax ho's got started. Most of us are also aware that most of the alcoholics drink in order to soothe the initial paranoia in their pot high.

Marijuana is the most common tool for inducting working class young people into slavery.


45 posted on 09/27/2009 3:18:20 PM PDT by familyop (cbt. engr. (cbt), NG, '89-' 96, Duncan Hunter or no-vote)
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To: cakid1

46 posted on 09/27/2009 3:18:51 PM PDT by underthestreetlite
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To: ccmay

...the dishonesty behind that old tale, even.


47 posted on 09/27/2009 3:19:17 PM PDT by familyop (cbt. engr. (cbt), NG, '89-' 96, Duncan Hunter or no-vote)
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To: cakid1

I am adamantly for or against almost any controversial issue, but on this one...ho hum. Would I try pot if it were completely legal? Haven’t decided.


48 posted on 09/27/2009 3:19:46 PM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by nature, not nurture)
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To: ccmay

I agree with you word for word down to my former employment in a psy. hospital and my occasional glass of wine.


49 posted on 09/27/2009 3:22:45 PM PDT by trumandogz (The Democrats are driving us to Socialism at 100 MPH -The GOP is driving us to Socialism at 97.5 MPH)
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To: cakid1
I like it....I LIIIIIIIIIKE IT! :-)
50 posted on 09/27/2009 3:31:14 PM PDT by ChrisInAR (The Tenth Amendment is still the Supreme Law of the Land, folks -- start enforcing it for a CHANGE!)
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To: hoosier hick

I at the point where anyone for any reason, in any way that can not pay any tax, that can avoid, dodge, postpone, what ever from any fine, fee, permit, tax, excise, fund, assessment or any other wasted theft by any government entity....is a hero to me.

Defund the government. Defund the left.


51 posted on 09/27/2009 3:31:20 PM PDT by Leisler (It's going to be a hard, long winter)
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To: ccmay
We have come to a societal accommodation with booze,

You mean thousands of years of alcohol based White, Western Culture, and now it is time for us to start adapting the thousands of years of Middle Eastern Hashish and Marijuana culture?

52 posted on 09/27/2009 3:31:34 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: cakid1

California will show the nation how to kill productivity with a weed.


53 posted on 09/27/2009 3:34:12 PM PDT by jonrick46 (The Obama Administration is a blueprint for Fabian Socialism.)
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To: cakid1
I always find it interesting that so many of the libtards that are anti smoking (cigarettes) are for the legalization of pot.......
54 posted on 09/27/2009 3:34:15 PM PDT by Kimmers (Be the kind of person when your feet hit the floor each morning the devil says, Oh crap, she's awake)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Most people won’t try harder drugs. Smoking pot or using whiskey is not even remotely close to using meth or PCP. People reach a tolerance of fun and beyond that is insane.

This is the same crap that is tossed out every time: pot is a gateway drug.

How many people use PCP? How many people use pot and have never tried PCP?


55 posted on 09/27/2009 3:34:49 PM PDT by wireplay
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To: mamelukesabre

Great Point !

Also, in the past 4-years the number of pot shops ( ‘Medical Pot ‘ ) have gone from four in L.A. to over 600.

I guess there are a lot of ‘sick’ people in L.A.


56 posted on 09/27/2009 3:35:01 PM PDT by cakid1
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To: Texas Eagle
The only possible good thing I can see coming out of this is the rest of the states seeing just how stupid a move this is and avoid doing it themselves.

You mean like homo marriage

57 posted on 09/27/2009 3:37:27 PM PDT by j_tull (I may make you feel, but I can't make you think.)
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To: Texas Eagle
Idiot. Why would people pay tax for something they are currently getting tax free?

Idiot. 'Cuz it would be LEGAL! DUH!!!!!! No longer would we face criminal penalties for enjoying marijuana in the privacy of our own homes! Freedom isn't free, therefore I would gladly pay a tax when the other option is having a criminal record. Besides, rarely have I ever gotten my marijuana for free.

58 posted on 09/27/2009 3:39:28 PM PDT by ChrisInAR (The Tenth Amendment is still the Supreme Law of the Land, folks -- start enforcing it for a CHANGE!)
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To: cakid1
State's where marijuana is legal medically!

Arizona, California, Nevada, Oregon, Wasington State, Alaska , Hawaii, Maine and the Dist of Columbia.

59 posted on 09/27/2009 3:40:19 PM PDT by underthestreetlite
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To: BulletBobCo
Then California gets to see if Federal Law trumps State Law.

Exactly. It would be interesting to see the fight for states' rights come from the Left. I went to one of the links on that page and saw this:

"California Assemblyman Tom Ammiano – wants a law – to legalize and then tax pot. It’s a money maker – he says.

But today President Obama said: "The answer is no," he said. "I don't think that is a good strategy to grow our economy."
"

My first reaction is: who the hell does Obama think he is to say "no" to California? I hope the hippies get pissed off about that. If the petition comes my way, I'll sign it. I hope it passes and brings a showdown between California and DC.
60 posted on 09/27/2009 3:40:54 PM PDT by fr_freak
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