State Considers Legalizing All Marijuana

KMJ 580 ^ | 10-29-09 | Marcus Wohlsen

[kbennkc]

I hope they still ban giggle weed .

[gdani]

I live in Ohio where one can have up to 100 grams (a pretty large amount) and it's only a minor misdmeanor - like jaywalking.

As far as I'm concerned, at this point, they might as well legalize it & make some money off it.

[darkside321]

just a question what are STDs? i never heard of this. hey i have been to amsterdam and no one tried to euthanize
me ;-)

[RockyMtnMan]

No? So long as it’s valuable it will be imported.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,255523,00.html

Once it’s legal there will be no value in exporting it from Mexico.

[qam1]

So you will be able to smoke a joint in a bar in California but not a cigarette

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

[spodefly]

If California would legalize pot and develop the Northern California pot industry into an export business, they could solve their budget shortfalls. Combine that with releasing all those incarcerated for marijuana and there might even be a budget surplus.

Of course I haven’t really worked the numbers on that and I am pretty stoned at the moment, but it sounds like a plan that would work ...

Be right back ... going to get some chips ...

[GeronL]

Will it be legal to sell on the street? to kids? Can parents still teach their kids not to use it? Will it be illegal to grow it in the backyard or garage?

Can we jail quacks who prescribe it for everything under the sun? Don’t like school? Doc says smoke crack or something lol..

California is a failed state anyway, this will make little difference.

[GeronL]

Nobody ever smuggles cigarettes into New York to avoid taxes either.

[Hoodat]

I know there's a reason why marijuana should remain illegal, but I can't seem to remember what it is.

(there's a very good reason why they call it dope)

[RockyMtnMan]

Frankly, from a Constitutional perspective, that is entirely up to the state of California. The Commerce clause should not be used to usurp state’s rights. Just as Tax law should not be used to regulate “machine guns”. The commerce clause is invoked to prevent growing, distribution and sales.

The side benefit is all the pot heads will move to California and hopefully out of my state.

[GeronL]

Let them. As long as we don’t have to pay for their welfare programs that would be fine.

[mouse_35]

Why would it be anymore available to kids than tobacco or alcohol? My kids told me point blank that it would be easier for them to get marijuana than alcohol or tobacco.

[patriotUSA]

California is a failed state anyway, this will make little difference.

DING-DING-DING. We have a winner!

[GeronL]

And this would make it easier.

[muawiyah]

I've known two people who had minor heart attacks and in the US, or virtually any other country, they would have made it from the airport to the hospital for treatment.

Alas, they were in Nederland and didn't survive the ride.

BTW, you are probably not ever going to discover someone trying to euthenize you ~

[wita]

Hey Mu, what’s your preference a drunk illegal or someone puffing a joint. I know which one I would choose. Yes, I know there are other choices that one just jumped to the front of the line.

I would like to see a three year sunset test of legalization. Clear out the non violent offenders filling up the jails, eliminate the obscene profit motive for pot, and generally get on with normalizing something that never should have been made illegal IMHO. If Booze and tobacco are legal knowing the effects they have on society, there is precious little to say negatively about pot in comparison. Again to repeat IMHO.

[muawiyah]

STDs are "sexually transmitted diseases". The influx of new hookers from Eastern Europe has overwhelmed the pitiful attempts by the city fathers to control the whores of Amsterdam.

[RockyMtnMan]

Actually it will. The more libtards we can get to congregate on the left coast (see elections) the better off we’ll be. Call Kali a loss and encourage every last one of them to move there and out of the “Red” states (making them purple or even blue!).

I live in a purple state and it pisses me off. We were a Red state when I moved here.

[Macoozie]

Legalize it. Tax it like any other farm crop. Some will grow their own, so be it. Others will sell it, so tax it and regulate it like tobacco. Apply the same rules to weed. DUI? Treat it the same as every thing else.

You drink Beer, Wine or Scotch? Don’t tell me I can’t smoke my ganja. It’s none of your dang bid’ness.

[fr_freak]

Pot is not smuggled, most of it is probably grown right here.

Actually, quite a bit is smuggled in from Mexico. However, you are correct in one sense: the Mexican drug cartels also like to co-opt our national parks to set up pot farms.