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.
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Sounds like somebody has been smokin' something.
Tax the shiite out of this stupid drug then put up tariffs on Chinese goods. Then cut Federal taxes
How about when millions of these zonked out idiots get on disability and you are taxed for it or commit crimes to get money to buy pot? This is the law of supply and demand. You make something cheap, legal and more available....Then you will get a lot more customers meaning millions more dumbass potheads
They’re already changing the law?
Yep, it's obvious that it's not the will of the people politicians care about it's their money.
The solution to that problem is to end Federal disability payments entirely. There is ZERO Constitutional authorization for them anyway. If someone commits a crime while stoned, prosecute them for it.
Un-freakin-likely but pot legalization is very likely so you will get both and you will pay more taxes to support those potheads who get in on the disability racket
what you are explaining is NO different than the way it is
NOW. Anyone stupid enough to smoke dope is already doing it, already on disability and already committing crimes. This isn’t gasoline or normal consumer goods, only morons smoke the stuff and legalizing it barely make any difference other than save us billions of dollars incarcerating and feeding otherwise harmless idiots.
and legalizing sodomy had no effect? It’s all over media and schools and gay marriage didn’t happen?
I saw some video from a Denver pot festival, amazing how many “consenting adults” were children.
Of course its going to be used to groom the kids into potheads.
Hello Idiocracy!
Legalize it and definitly pot use among the young will go up and ruin their brains so their next step is getting on disability. Pot affects the young, still forming brain more than the adult brain
I agree with you guys on principle. It’s more of an emotional post than anything.
After this last election and liberals basing it on social issues, and watching them try to go after guns—yet again—I say ban all things liberal.
Actually, pot probably should be legal but highly regulated. However, I could care less because I would probably smoke it once a year (if that) if it was ever legal, so it doesn’t really affect me. I can live without it. Liberals can’t.
Liberals have made it clear conservatives are the enemy and not the terrorists. Screw them! So I say, Ban all things liberal.
That’s the problem with legalization—end the welfare state first.
I’ll take whatever slice of freedom I can get when I can get it. The Left works incrementally. So should we. Let these idiots fry their brains good and hard. That way when the Crash comes they won’t have the means or the will to survive.
Now the real war on drugs will begin. The politicians won’t want the drug pushers cutting in on their revenues. LOL
AS long as they don’t drive cars, trains, buses, planes, perform surgery, teach kids, etc., I don’t care what they do in their own closet.
closet?
It won’t stay in any closet. They will blatantly expose children to it right out in the open. It will be like gay rights.
Nor do I.
I’m with ya!
The evidence says the opposite: the young report that they can get illegal pot more easily than legal-only-for-adults cigarettes or beer.
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