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

cbs47 ^ | 9-27-09 | cakid1

[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...

[hoosier hick]

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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[dalereed]

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

[Responsibility2nd]

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.

[trumandogz]

The Nanny State Sycophants will not be amused.

[familyop]

"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.

[underthestreetlite]

[familyop]

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

[steve86]

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.

[trumandogz]

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

[ChrisInAR]

I like it....I LIIIIIIIIIKE IT! :-)

[Leisler]

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.

[ansel12]

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?

[jonrick46]

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

[Kimmers]

I always find it interesting that so many of the libtards that are anti smoking (cigarettes) are for the legalization of pot.......

[wireplay]

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?

[cakid1]

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.

[j_tull]

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

[ChrisInAR]

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.

[underthestreetlite]

State's where marijuana is legal medically!

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

[fr_freak]

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.