Posted on 04/27/2013 12:30:29 PM PDT by Red Steel
DENVER (AP/CBS4) — Marijuana legalization could be going back to the ballot in Colorado — a prospect that infuriated pot legalization activists Friday.
The proposal for a marijuana ballot measure came as the House started debate Friday evening on bills to regulate and tax pot. One bill would state how pot should be grown and sold, and the other would tax recreational marijuana more than 30 percent.
A draft bill floating around the Capitol late this week suggests that a new ballot question on pot taxes should repeal recreational pot in the state constitution if voters don’t approve 15 percent excise taxes on retail pot and a new 15 percent marijuana sales tax. Those would be in addition to regular state and local sales taxes.
Lawmakers have only a few days left to finish work deciding how to regulate the newly legal drug.
Marijuana activists immediately blasted the proposal as a backhanded effort to repeal the pot vote, in which 55 percent of Coloradans chose to flout federal drug law and declare pot legal in small amounts for adults over 21.
“It’s clear that the intent … is to prevent marijuana from being legal and being regulated and being controlled,” said Mason Tvert, who led last year’s campaign to add recreational pot to the state constitution, which has allowed medical marijuana since 2000.
Sen. Larry Crowder, R-Alamosa, said the whole purpose of legalizing recreational marijuana was to raise money for education and other programs. “So if there’s no money, we shouldn’t have marijuana,” Crowder said.
(Excerpt) Read more at denver.cbslocal.com ...
Fine with me.
Block all things liberal.
Personally I think that deliberately making oneself more stupid than one already is is a very poor long term survival strategy. That being said, if adults want to smoke a plant I don’t think it’s any of the governments business at all. As long as they’re in the privacy of their own home I don’t give a rip how they intoxicate themselves.
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Hahahahahahahahahahahaha......just a minute.......have to catch my breath.......hahahahahahahahahahahaha!
Honest to God, they would legalize rape and murder if they could find a way to tax it.
The CO potties are all smoking about this one. ;^)
The article has a news video at link.
Prostitution for sure. That’s one I’m surprised hasn’t started getting pushed yet. But it will for sure within the next 5-10 years as the ‘anything goes’ mentality keeps spreading. Hope they repeal this just out of common sense, not just taxes.
Prositution is legal, but not taxed in Nevada.
It’s a multi referendum question, where one of the avenues is an outright repeal of legalized marijuana, which I hope gets the most votes.
exactly my thoughts
Nothing like giving pushers a tax free business! Liberals didn’t think about that!
I just don’t like the fact that we use resources that could be used elsewhere to defend those who got caught and all the cops that run around trying to find the latest kid smoking a doobie. It is completely ridiculous. The War on Drugs was the dumbest thing every thought of. A total waste of money by some idiots trying to feel good.....so insane.
Only in a few areas, I know. I’m not really against some stuff like that being legal in certain areas. I think gambling is fine in a few places too, but the spread of it all over has not helped anything imo.
To not prosecute drug pushers who prey on naive children is misguided. The war on drugs has successfully removed a lot of crack coke, cocaine and meth addicts off the streets. There is some room for debate on soft drugs like marijuana but not the hard stuff. That is not even up fopr debate in my book.
Coloradans forget what the real drug is. Its tax money. There is no way they are going to allow pot to not be heavily taxed, at least as much as cigarettes.
Good, go for it.
Do it on your own time; don’t hide agenda to say extra money for schools. See the pothead activists running the country now.
Politicians: Voters can’t do that. Only we can do that. And we won’t.
Personally I think that deliberately making oneself more stupid than one already is is a very poor long term survival strategy. That being said, if adults want to smoke a plant I don’t think it’s any of the governments business at all. As long as they’re in the privacy of their own home I don’t give a rip how they intoxicate themselves.
Yes, I agree, the stupid should not live on fruits of the responsible.
Let the stupid take responsibility for their stupid acts, don;t drag competent people into the quagmire they created for themselves.
If someone wants to fry their brain cells drinking and smoking dope, it’s none of my damn business as long as they aren’t on the road or otherwise being a menace. One of the benefits of drug decriminalization is to use the legalized supply to crash the price and put the drug cartels out of business without firing a single shot... they have absolutely no defense against this. Get government involved and start taxing it at 50-75% and the benefit is negated and the black market thrives yet again. If it’s cheaper to get from the local dope dealer, no one will buy the legal stuff that is taxed to hell and it all falls apart.
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