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Governor signs Amendment 64, marijuana officially legal in Colorado
fox31 ^ | 12.10.2012 | fox31

Posted on 12/10/2012 1:33:01 PM PST by Morgana

DENVER — Go ahead and bust out the Cheetos and Goldfish, Colorado. Marijuana is now legal in the Centennial State.

Just over a month after the citizens of Colorado voted in overwhelming favor of Amendment 64 to legalize marijuana for recreational use, Governor John Hickenlooper signed the Executive Order that makes an “official declaration of the vote.”

What does it mean?

(Excerpt) Read more at kdvr.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: cannabis; colorado; drugs; drugwar; marijuana; pot; upinsmoke; warondrugs; wod; wodlist; wosd
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To: danielmryan

The sad state of the welfare class is completely entangled with drug prohibition. While excusing none of the other causes — sloth, promiscuity, ignorance, illegitimacy, etc. — drug prohibition has made a bad thing much worse. The lure of drug dealing kills or imprisons an absurd portion of the young men of that class, and renders them ineligible for most employment when they get out of the game. Drug gangs are the main source of structural criminality and violence in their communities. Drug money deeply corrupts institutions that could be relied upon otherwise to stabilize or bring order.


101 posted on 12/10/2012 9:21:57 PM PST by only1percent
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To: Wyrd bið ful aræd
Any more than He expects you to eat poisonous berries.

Poisonous berries kill.

Pot does not.

Your argument is, um, retarded.

102 posted on 12/11/2012 6:29:46 AM PST by Hemingway's Ghost (Spirit of '75)
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To: Wyrd bið ful aræd
If the left favors something, that should instantly raise a red flag.

Psst - prohibitionism is a progressive thing . . .

103 posted on 12/11/2012 6:33:33 AM PST by Hemingway's Ghost (Spirit of '75)
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To: Hemingway's Ghost

If prohibitionism is a progressive thing, the why do the lefties all favor the legalization of weed?


104 posted on 12/11/2012 6:38:34 AM PST by Wyrd bið ful aræd (Gone Galt, 11/07/12)
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To: Wyrd bið ful aræd
If prohibitionism is a progressive thing, the why do the lefties all favor the legalization of weed?

They hardly do. If they did, Massachusetts and Vermont would be weed paradises right now. They are not.

I think you may need to take a time out and do some research on how the prohibitionist movement was started here in the United States. We can discuss afterwards.

105 posted on 12/11/2012 6:43:30 AM PST by Hemingway's Ghost (Spirit of '75)
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To: Hemingway's Ghost
Look at the number of states in which the state 'rat party has added marijuana legalization to their platform. Texas, Iowa, Colorado, North Carolina, Washington.

In addition, consider the states in which pot is decriminalized or legal for recreational use. California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Colorado, Nebraska, Minnesota, Ohio, New York, the New England states excepting New Hampshire and Vermont, Virgina, Alaska, and Mississipi.

Of those, only Alaska and Mississipi are conservative states, and Alaska has a 'high' population of Inuits who smoke the stuff for religious reasons, which skews the state further in favor than it otherwise would be.

Like it or not, pro-weed is firmly in the realm of leftydom...Except our good buddy Ron Paul of course, who favors legalizing it.

106 posted on 12/11/2012 7:05:45 AM PST by Wyrd bið ful aræd (Gone Galt, 11/07/12)
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To: Strategerist
Given they are teaching kids I'd consider any teachers that DIDN'T drink at all dangerously insane.

Wow! just WOW!!!

107 posted on 12/11/2012 7:06:54 AM PST by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: Wyrd bið ful aræd
Like it or not, pro-weed is firmly in the realm of leftydom...Except our good buddy Ron Paul of course, who favors legalizing it.

We're talking about prohibitionism.

Do some research on the origins of prohibitionism - the thing that got the ban this/ban that attitude really rolling in the 19th and 20th century - and then we can have a discussion on whether that mentality is a progressive or conservative cause.

108 posted on 12/11/2012 7:16:12 AM PST by Hemingway's Ghost (Spirit of '75)
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To: Hemingway's Ghost
I'm talking about weed. You can compare it to alchohol prohibition and the first time marijuana was regulated in the United States in 1860 and the war on drugs in the '80s and on and on it goes.

Here and now, the liberals are tearing our country apart. Here and now, it is predominately liberals who favor the legalization of marijuana. Therefore, here and now, I oppose the liberals in their efforts to further degrade America with weed, as I oppose them on every other issue they push.

109 posted on 12/11/2012 7:26:43 AM PST by Wyrd bið ful aræd (Gone Galt, 11/07/12)
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To: Wyrd bið ful aræd
Here and now, the liberals are tearing our country apart. Here and now, it is predominately liberals who favor the legalization of marijuana. Therefore, here and now, I oppose the liberals in their efforts to further degrade America with weed, as I oppose them on every other issue they push.

You posit it as a conservative/liberal issue, but what I'm suggesting is it's really a statist/non-statist issue instead.

You're concerned with the societal effects of marijuana use, and that's a legitimate concern. However, this makes you no different, in effect, from a liberal who is concerned with the societal effects of poverty, or a liberal who is concerned with the societal effects of income disparity between blacks and whites, or a liberal who is concerned with the societal effects of not having access to free contraception through one's law school health care policy. In all cases, you're clamoring for a heavy-handed, proactive government solution to a societal problem that is best handled in an EXTRA-governmental manner.

You want to warn people of the societal effects of marijuana use? Have at it. Educate people: Broadcast your message far and wide. Use facts. Argue your case. Make yourself heard.

Don't ask the government to do your dirty work for you, lest you give liberals and progressives the standing to get the government to do their dirty work for them as well.

Get it?

110 posted on 12/11/2012 7:44:08 AM PST by Hemingway's Ghost (Spirit of '75)
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To: Hemingway's Ghost; Wyrd bið ful aræd

Wyrd bið ful aræd just fell off the Obama bus and landed on our front lawn a couple of months ago, and has been stinking up the place ever since.

He has no understanding of the fact that government interferance in people’s lives is the essence of leftist politics. He’s been a leftist all of his life, if what he has posted here is any evidence.

He thinks tyranny is “going Galt.”


111 posted on 12/11/2012 8:21:13 AM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: danielmryan

That sounds like one big mess.


112 posted on 12/11/2012 8:31:17 AM PST by Morgana (Time to play cowboys and muslims.)
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To: editor-surveyor
I would like to ask you then, in light of the libertarian attitude you project, what is your opinion on gay "marriage?"

The leftists claim that the government shouldn't "interfere" with it. What say you?

113 posted on 12/11/2012 8:49:40 AM PST by Wyrd bið ful aræd (Gone Galt, 11/07/12)
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To: Hemingway's Ghost
"You posit it as a conservative/liberal issue, but what I'm suggesting is it's really a statist/non-statist issue instead."

In a way you are correct, but then things are getting too philosophical. In the real world, if I see the democrats/liberals throwing their weight behind something, I'll push against it. In my opinion we can't afford to play mental chess on things like weed and let the lefties get their way on yet another issue.

It is true that the liberals are statist totalitarians, and it is true that the liberals support legalization of marijuana. Thus they must see it in some way having a positive effect on their goal of creating a marxist state, and thus the legalization of marijuana, while possibly having the appearance of an issue of freedom, is actually in some way accelerating us towards marxism. I can see no other reason why the lefties would support it.

Remember, in order to keep the populace docile in a dictatorship, freedom is reduced but license is increased. Marijuana is a license issue to keep the sheeple happy while their true, pure, God-given freedoms are stolen. IMHO.

114 posted on 12/11/2012 8:57:52 AM PST by Wyrd bið ful aræd (Gone Galt, 11/07/12)
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To: Wyrd bið ful aræd
In a way you are correct, but then things are getting too philosophical. In the real world, if I see the democrats/liberals throwing their weight behind something, I'll push against it. In my opinion we can't afford to play mental chess on things like weed and let the lefties get their way on yet another issue.

Your math is off.

The decriminalization of marijuana is not a Democrat/liberal issue. If it were, why, then, would not Obama simply announce that the feds will no longer enforce federal MJ law in states where weed is legal for recreational use and medicinal use? Reports are that under the Obama administration, anti-MJ federal action is on the uptick from where it was under the Bush administration.

Further, as I wrote earlier, if marijuana decriminalization were a Democrat/liberal issue, weed would be perfectly 100% legal here in Massachusetts, where 9.5 out of every 10 of our pols are not only Democrats, but the most progressive kind of Democrat.

Truth is, there are prohibitionists on both sides of the aisle, because prohibition is not a liberal/conservative issue, it's a statist/non-statist issue.

115 posted on 12/11/2012 9:15:26 AM PST by Hemingway's Ghost (Spirit of '75)
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To: Wyrd bið ful aræd
Thus they must see it in some way having a positive effect on their goal of creating a marxist state

And they must be correct about that? Because liberals so accurately perceive reality?

116 posted on 12/11/2012 12:06:04 PM PST by JustSayNoToNannies ("mouth piece from the pit of hell" (Bellflower, 11/10/2012))
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