[a fool in paradise]

So much for the rhetoric of “tax the hell out of it”.

[cripplecreek]

Decriminalize and keep the tax out of it.

[tacticalogic]

I’m not a fan of marijuana, and I do worry about the moral signal that legalizing recreational use sends, but at least so far it hasn’t had any worse impact than alcohol. We should at least study the impact of marijuana so that we can have an informed debate.

I worry more about the political signal that saying we can't let this be a State's Rights issue because we can't trust the States to make the right decision sends.

[grobdriver]

so far it hasn’t had any worse impact than alcohol

And we sure want more people out there driving DUI.

[Ken H]

National marijuana prohibition is dead and it isn’t coming back. The states are dealing with it now, as they should have been all along per the Tenth Amendment.

[Paladin2]

"marijuana’s potential for treating diseases"

Treatment? Like an antibiotic? Feh.

[cloudmountain]

POT--ain't it great?
It's really a commie foreign enemy plot to turn American youth into mush brains...not unlike their pot-head/mush-brain parents. NOTHING WRONG with pot. It's NOT a "gateway" drug.

It's NOT!!!!

It's NOT!!!!

It's NOT!!!!

It's NOT!!!!

It's NOT!!!!

It's NOT!!!!

It's really NOT!!!! Wah!!

Lol :o)!!

[greene66]

Disappointing, as Malkin has been one of the few pundit/columnists left that I stuck with, as so many of the so-called conservative writers went off the rails in so many ways (hello, Ann Coulter!). I don’t agree with Malkin here. Ah, well. To hell with ‘em all. I’ve pretty much stopped reading each and every one of them, just like I stopped watching FoxNews.

[gr8eman]

Go downtown and buy a dimebag furkreissakes

[nathanbedford]

We should at least study the impact of marijuana so that we can have an informed debate.

I think the proper question is not whether marijuana is harmful, it is, or whether it leads to undesirable collateral problems, it does, the question is, are the disadvantages of legalizing marijuana greater or less than the disadvantages of continuing to, at least notionally, make it illegal?

In my view the corruption and general disregard for the rule of law is so harmful to a society which is already disintegrating partly because of a general disregard for the rule of law that I believe the harm of keeping it technically illegal far exceeds the societal harm of legalizing it. I believe that we are reaping all the disadvantages of illegality,such as driving under the influence, and none of the advantages of making marijuana legal, such as disincentivizing criminal activity.

At the same time we are not reaping the advantages of making marijuana illegal, such as reducing consumption rates.

The war on drugs is lost, and the war on corruption is about to be lost as well.

[greene66]

Yep. America-2014 for you. A nation of dopeheads and degenerates.

[CedarDave]

I enjoy her commentary but haven’t seen Michelle on “Fox and Friends” on Thursday mornings recently. Maybe she’s on with a different host or no longer has a Fox contract. Anyone know?

[forgotten man]

Attorneys are going to make a lot of money defending clients arrested for driving under the “influence” of marijuana. Most people know about the legal limits on the amount of alcohol in the blood. Traces of marijuana stay in the system a long time. Lawyers will argue that their client had traces of marijuana in their system because they smoked pot days earlier and the client was not high at the time of the arrest. I predict that the lawyers will clean out the clients bank accounts and blow smoke in court.

[who knows what evil?]

I didn’t care much about the ‘drug war’ until I got ‘swatted’ by a neighbor who wanted our apartment. I do now. Legalize the damn stuff, and quit putting the lives of innocent people at risk at the hands of your local police.

[who knows what evil?]

Irony...the Red Hampshire legislature is hell-bent on decriminalizing pot (pressure from Free Staters), but as of right now it is ILLEGAL for a Red Hampshire gardener to post a packet of vegetable seeds for sale on eBay without the same labeling license that is issued to commerical outfits. WTF? (Most states exempt small gardeners from labeling laws, but not this one. Free State? Yeah...right.)

[outofsalt]

pfl

[Organic Panic]

"ID checks are frequent"

[DouglasKC]

Our society today is the wet dream of every 60's liberal...drugs, sex, rock and roll.

We're in the last days of America.

[indthkr]

The State of Colorado is an embarrassment.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

The CDC says marijuana has more carcinogens than tobacco. It also causes brain damage.

It won’t be long until the lawsuits start against the marijuana suppliers and retailers as users start turning up more frequently in auto and work accidents.