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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They didn’t tax this drug when it was legalized? D’oh!
Yep. Outlaw drug fiends, and leave our Constitutional rights alone.
You actually made some very valid points.
“Yep. Outlaw drug fiends, and leave our Constitutional rights alone.”
You can do one or the other. But there is no way to do both.
Like...wow, man...what about your constitutional right to get high? LOL!
Our Second Amendment is a right. Getting wasted and perpetuating problems is not.
No one has a right to ingest a contagious disease or to spread the use of the slaves’ drug—not even in the privacy of their closet.
Everyone who is not making a big income: get off the weed of slavery. Start a business. Compete. Let the Massah’s kids smoke the herb to be stupid and lazy—not your kids.
Go read the 10th Amendment and get back to me.
Let’s get rid of all of the other overreaches first, if that’s possible with so many potheads in politics. ;-)
I thought pot was supposed to make you "mellow"?
Except, you pay for their food, phones and health care and the stoners vote your destiny.
Hang drug sellers and exile dope fiends or force them to undergo treatment. Marijuana still a crime but hard drug sellers get treated very harshly. Trial and televised execution within 30 days. Choice of hanging or firing squad. Marijuana sellers get exile for 10-20 years. Really seal our Mexican border to keep drugs out along with illegal aliens.
The same liberal crowd who push marijuana legalization push more and more redistribution of wealth, Obama care, more welfare, more Obama phones, higher taxes, more disability payments to anyone who applies. The pro-legalization libertarians you find at Free Republic are a small minority compared to the liberal Obama voters who are pushing it
Same as immigrants vote 72% for Obama so will stoners except higher. They will vote for the candidate who promises legalization or de-criminalization of marijuana
Exactly, and we have to understand them. To them, they are voting for freedom: freedom to have the necessities of life without doing anything to earn them.
I have no idea how it is going to end, but not well, I think.
Did they ever say who did the shooting at the pot gathering last weekend?
Not that I’m aware of.
(Probably another Democrat or Occupy type. When it’s a Tea party person they will let you know.)
Mega Dittoes.
in New York City cigarettes are taxed so much that two out of every three cigarettes sold are sold on the black market. Which funds islamic terrorists. The same thing will happen with legal marijuana. If the stupid state wants to tax it so much; it will be cheaper to buy it on the black market which funds the drug dealing murderous cartels.
Is there a connection between being a nation with a flabby gay-friendly military and also legalizing marijuana? Five years ago I would look at Europe and say there is and we are headed in this direction.
Europe has no real military so they try and project power by coming off as a moral superpower with their bullshyte European Court and the International Court of Justice in the Hague. JugEars is trying to copy them where his stinking lawyers and socialist managerial class are always in charge and calling the shots
Looks like a nice, civil plan without any “war.” There’s no “war on drugs,” you know, but the metaphor is funny. If there were a war on drugs, our military forces would have quickly won it with the blessings of the majority of the population a long time ago.
The civilian imitations of boot camps worked very well for young criminals, BTW, where prior soldiers with real combat specialties (especially former drill sergeants as supervisors) worked with them. Much activity and cheer leading seemed to get the trainees through the transformation. But some from civilian police work tended to let their political/social tendencies and vindictiveness ruin morale and cause conflicts.
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