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 dont 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.
Its clear that the intent is to prevent marijuana from being legal and being regulated and being controlled, said Mason Tvert, who led last years 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 theres no money, we shouldnt have marijuana, Crowder said.
(Excerpt) Read more at denver.cbslocal.com ...
Sure there is a war on drugs. Nixon and Reagan both said so. Nixon created the DEA. We now have 40,000 SWAT raids on people every year now and going up. Innocent people are shot in these raids. Men with full automatics break into homes and out of hand ‘hush puppies’. We do employ the military and paramilitary forces in this drug war. For example, two hundred marines were recently dispatched to patrol Guatamala for traffickers. This drug war has our 4th amendment rights surrounded and is incrementally encroached on.
Now that the “war on drug drug abuse” is taking on a military nature the drug warriors are now uncomfortable with the metaphor they themselves invoked.
I’m a prior service conservative, so I know that police, including SWAT team players, are civilians. They not doing anything like infantry combat—not even close. And there’s no fire support (artillery, air support, etc.). They’re only waking dope fiends from their sleep, when they get correct addresses, and arresting them, civilian style.
A repeal amendment would require the support of two-thirds of the state legislature in order to qualify for the ballot.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/apr/26/legal-marijuana-colorado-could-be-short-lived/
Do you have documentation for that?
We need those boot camps plus we need to boot people (exile) who persist in selling small amounts of drugs. When word gets around you will be booted the others will shape up.
The older bomb brother was selling drugs...so his friends have said. Lots of people on various forms of welfare are selling drugs to supplement what they get from the taxpayers
When the majority of the population saw what a military war on domestically produced drugs entailed, I'd hope they'd have more backbone and love of freedom left than to "bless" it. I know it's nothing any true American conservative could bless.
Nowhere in Europe is marijuana legalized.
Yes, a sufficiently stupid government could make legalization no better than the current policy - but since only NYC has done it with tobacco, and no U.S. jurisdiction has done it with the mind-altering drug alcohol, it seems the odds are it won't be done with marijuana.
Who is being arrested in Western Europe for having marijuana? No one. Maybe a few distributors who are selling harder drugs.
Germany for example http://www.420magazine.com/forums/germany/87439-germany-cannabis-law.html
Holland http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_policy_of_the_Netherlands#Non-enforcement
Fair enough. Where is the constitutional amendment authorizing fedgov to ban any drug? They needed one for alcohol.
We are definately headed there.
Who is being arrested in Western Europe for having marijuana? No one. Maybe a few distributors who are selling harder drugs.
Germany for example http://www.420magazine.com/forums/germany/87439-germany-cannabis-law.html
Holland http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_policy_of_the_Netherlands#Non-enforcement
Non-enforcement against persona-use amounts is not legalization.
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