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Food stamps at pot shops banned under Colo. bill
AP ^ | 1-10-14 | KRISTEN WYATT

Posted on 01/10/2014 5:07:57 PM PST by dynachrome

DENVER (AP) -- Food stamps for a pot brownie? It's an urban myth in Colorado, but state lawmakers want to make sure that doesn't happen.

A bill proposed this week by several Republicans would add marijuana dispensaries to liquor stores, gun shops and casinos as places where recipients of public assistance payments and food stamps can't use their electronic benefits cards to access cash.

There haven't been any reports of public EBT cards being used at marijuana dispensaries. But lawmakers say pot shops should be added to the law to make clear it's not legal.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: colorado; ebt; foodstamps; marijuana; pot; potheads; welfarestate
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My guess it has already been tried and worked. Lasagna? brownies? cookies? All sorts of food offered laced with pot.
1 posted on 01/10/2014 5:07:57 PM PST by dynachrome
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To: george76

and pingy here


2 posted on 01/10/2014 5:09:51 PM PST by dynachrome (Vertrou in God en die Mauser)
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Just buy food with your EBT card, sell it for cash, then take the cash to buy pot, just like people have been doing for decades.


3 posted on 01/10/2014 5:10:04 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: Vince Ferrer

Yup. drugs or booze.


4 posted on 01/10/2014 5:11:44 PM PST by dynachrome (Vertrou in God en die Mauser)
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To: dynachrome

That is just plain MEAN! The ACLU needs to get on this case at once.


5 posted on 01/10/2014 5:13:20 PM PST by madprof98
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To: dynachrome

Yawn-what BS. EBT cards are now able to be used for cash. They will go to the ATM outside and buy their drugs inside thanks to the American taxpayer. Get up early and work hard folks, there are millions laying on couches counting on you!


6 posted on 01/10/2014 5:15:24 PM PST by icwhatudo (Low taxes and less spending in Sodom and Gomorrah is not my idea of a conservative victory)
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To: dynachrome
Colorado has not been the same since this “legalization” mess came about. I live in Colorado and have for 59 years. Colorado reminds me of California more and more. I drove by one of the pot dispenseraries and there was a line of 70 people deep.
7 posted on 01/10/2014 5:16:55 PM PST by St.Mark
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To: dynachrome

All pot buyers will get increases on the EBT card to cover their munchies.


8 posted on 01/10/2014 5:17:17 PM PST by Right Wing Assault
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To: dynachrome

Absolutely racist. Disgraceful. Why, they might just as well hose people down with firehoses from hydrants and sic attack dogs on them.


9 posted on 01/10/2014 5:19:43 PM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (At no time was the Obama administration aware of what the Obama administration was doing)
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Just buy food with your EBT card, sell it for cash, then take the cash to buy pot, just like people have been doing for decades.

No, silly, you sell the EBT card (at a discount) and then you get a replacement.

Why go through the hassle of doing someone else's grocery shopping?

10 posted on 01/10/2014 5:20:51 PM PST by Gunslingr3
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To: dynachrome
One assumes that all welfare rats know how to work around this rather easily, and will be smoking marijuana, generously supported by the taxpayer in no time.

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11 posted on 01/10/2014 5:21:11 PM PST by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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To: dynachrome

Must be the Koch brothers behind this. They’ve been to Colorado before!


12 posted on 01/10/2014 5:33:41 PM PST by aynrandfreak (Being a Democrat means never having to say you're sorry)
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To: dynachrome

Unfair food discrimination. Pot is a vegetable.


13 posted on 01/10/2014 5:35:52 PM PST by smoothsailing
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heh. I like your screen name.


14 posted on 01/10/2014 5:42:42 PM PST by dynachrome (Vertrou in God en die Mauser)
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To: dynachrome

Now hows de heck dey gonna get deys buzz?


15 posted on 01/10/2014 6:01:57 PM PST by Bullish (America should yank Obama like a rotten tooth before he poisons the entire body)
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To: St.Mark

My true and heartfelt sympathies. I’ve always loved your state. Drove through and visited often, always taking time out to enjoy the westerny history and heritage.

Seeing it become a repository of liberal, gun-grabbing, dopehead filth really makes me want to vomit.


16 posted on 01/10/2014 6:15:45 PM PST by greene66
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My god, what’s next, Doritos??


17 posted on 01/10/2014 6:18:35 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: dynachrome

So ... they’re prepared to drug test everybody who has an EBT card?


18 posted on 01/10/2014 6:39:02 PM PST by Vesparado (The American people know what they want and they deserve to get it good and hard --- HL Mencken)
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To: greene66

Stay out of the Denver-Boulder axis of evil and still a very nice state. Out voted by the obozobots in the big cities.


19 posted on 01/10/2014 6:43:36 PM PST by dynachrome (Vertrou in God en die Mauser)
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To: dynachrome
It's not their business if your salad if flammable!
20 posted on 01/10/2014 7:11:47 PM PST by CrazyIvan (Obama phones= Bread and circuits.)
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