Posted on 04/29/2014 6:21:54 AM PDT by rktman
Colorado and Washington are the first states to legalize recreational marijuana. In my state of Colorado, Amendment 64 was passed by 55 percent of voters by ballot referendum last year and took effect on January 1 of this year. State government officials are giddy with the prospects of increased revenue from marijuana sales. Marijuana tourism is booming in Colorado, giving new meaning to Rocky Mountain High. Now, four months into this new experiment, it may be worth looking at some of the unintended consequences.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Colorado is going to prove Jefferson right.
God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that His justice cannot sleep forever.
- Thomas Jefferson
The plant is an idol to many serious smokers much like Golem’s attitude to the ring. I’ve seen it when a friend of mine gets inebriated and goes off extolling every aspect of his buds. It’s like a sickening worship of a plant - truly adolescent and twisted.
I don’t have the persuasive skills necessary to enlighten you if you’ve already determined that those who oppose legalization are stupid. Just curious, because I can’t figure out why otherwise sharp people have a hard time with this, do you smoke pot? Have you been around many pot smokers?
Any argument to get that drug. That is how powerful it is.
There is no waste in spending money to prevent a drug damaged culture. The corrupt politicians want people spending their time in a stupor. It was not stopped due to politicians wanting the money. Aerial spraying of the farms, more severe penalties for possession would have further reduced the use. The President of Columbia offered to allow the U.S. to send helicopters to spray the fields it was stopped. The Taliban stopped the poppy production and we went to war against them. The U.S. marines were destroying the poppy fields in Afghanistan and they were ordered to stop. We are now treated to pictures of Marines walking through the poppy fields filled with blooming heroin poppy’s. There has never been a real war on drugs. Don’t give me the phony argument a war on drugs does not work. It could be stopped in six months with a real attack on production of supply and severe penalties for the demand side. There has been a “Media Boom” advocating Marijuana use over the last few years. The problem is political and social and needs addressing.
One can never totally eliminate vice one can only prevent its spread to the healthy portions of society.
It is my position, and that of the Founders, that our system of government is for a moral and religious people, and is unsuitable for the governance of any other.
Drug abuse, including alcohol and prescription drugs, are spiritual problems. America kicked God out and drug abuse is but one symptom.
What percentage of Americans can quote the Ten Commandments? Of that small number, how many even make the attempt to obey God's Law?
You argue like a gun grabber. Like a gun grabber, you place blame on a thing, not on behavior of people. Your policies put millions of non violent people in prison. Your beloved SWAT teams kick in about one hundred doors a day in violation of the Fourth Amendment.
Pot is cheaper, more readily available, and more potent than before your stupid war on a plant began. If you so dislike what Colorado did, feel free to not visit.
Are you hooked?
I fail to understand that states that are banning tobacco smoking in any public place and even private businesses, spending millions to stop people from smoking tobacco and taxing tobacco heavily ostensibly so people do not smoke are now embracing pot smoking. We know that inhaling tobacco smoke has serious health effects and health nannies are telling us that second hand and even third hand smoke is deadly, but the the health care community seems to be absent from this pot smoking debate. I can’t believe that inhaling pot smoke is any less a health hazard than tobacco.
Apparently you just won’t give a crap....dude. :>}
Colorado just proves the point:
If you want to know what surrendering on the WOD looks like - look at Colorado.
If you want to know the liberal leftist results of waiving the white flag on the WOD looks like - look at Colorado.
And this article points out only the obvious beginning. Wait a year or two and revisit the increase in crimes and welfare recipients.
You complain about SWAT teams now? Hoo boy. Wait till dope is even more prevalent due to libertarian hippies and OWS supporters and watch and see how the State reacts.
It won’t be pretty.
The government in NYC can regulate soda size but the government in Colo can’t regulate marijuana safely?
FOX reported that 4th grade children were caught selling marijuana. The druggies are so befuddled by their drug ingestion that they do not care what the consequences are. All they want is unrestricted access to their favorite substance. You see the druggies on this forum; they viciously attack any person who protests against their addiction and the resulting unrestricted purchase and sale of an addictive, harmful substance. The politicians are so consumed with a lust for tax revenues they don’t care either. Colorado is gone as a nice place to raise ones family; the government of Colorado protects sex perverts and druggies.
I agree we can put up with the collateral damage of death on the highway, suicides, drug induced mental damage, drug induced sloth. WOW! Like Man! (Sarcasm)
Californian's voted that marriage is between one man and one woman, yet a Sodomite judge struck down that amendment to the California Constitution, allowing so called Sodomite "marriages."
I guess as long as vice is approved government does nothing. If a law promotes virtuous self control it is disapproved.
In whose interest is it that we have a vice ridden society?
Follow the MONEY!
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