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Posted on 11/04/2014 9:47:16 PM PST by CorporateStepsister
NEW YORK (AP) — Voters in Oregon and the District of Columbia approved ballot measures Tuesday allowing the use of marijuana by adults, elating legalization activists who hope to extend their winning streak across the country.
Oregon will join the company of Colorado and Washington state, where voters approved the recreational use of pot two years ago. And the District of Columbia is on the same path unless Congress, which has review power, blocks the move.
Still to come were results from Alaska, which also had a marijuana-legalization measure on its ballot Tuesday.
Other volatile issues on state ballots include gambling and abortion. Two competing measures in Washington state gave voters a choice on whether to expand background checks for gun sales.
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Oregon has already gone to pot for quite awhile already.
I may have to start growing MJ. Probably good money in it.
Oh, just effing wonderful!!! Just what we need.
Open a Pot, Pizza, and Doritos store.
They can smoke pot, but just can’t pump their own gas.....
You wouldn’t believe all the weed stores here in CO.
“They can smoke pot, but just can’t pump their own gas.....”
Gasoline...NO. Diesel...Yes, if the station allows. Keeps a lots of people employed and idiot drivers from discharging static while pumping their own.
Wait till the Govt. extortioners levy a huge tax bite out of the pot jubilee.
“Wait till the Govt. extortioners levy a huge tax bite out of the pot jubilee.”
Bingo. 70% or more in fed taxes, lol. Bet these pot store owners become Pubs and capitalists real quick when they find out what taxes they are about to be hit with.
Thank God....Marijuana rejected in FL due to 60% approval required to pass. John Morgan pledges to try again & use his millions to put another Marijuand Amendment on the 2016 Ballot. His lamented that the youth vote didn’t come out for the mid-term election.
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I don’t like pot and I used to be against legalization but now I feel that ANYTHING that curbs the gestapo power of midnight raids and property seizures is a good thing.
That makes this a good thing, in my eyes. Even though it also makes me sad.
I spent a year in FL five years ago. They apparently don’t know marijuana is illegal, as half the drivers in Miami Dade and Broward counties were stoned on the freeways. Scary.
I’ll take taxes over jail any day.
I’ll take taxes over jail any day.
It’s not just the no-knock raids that value evidence over human life, nor just the abuse of asset forfeiture laws known as policing for profit. The drug war “justifies” surveillance of our computers, phones, and homes through “sneak and peek” operations, was a primary rationale for the Fast and Furious gun and grenade walking programs, and drug war mandatory minimum sentences have filled our prisons.
The war on pot is just another big government failure. I’m glad to see more and more voters admitting it’s also a dangerous and expensive failure.
This happens a lot? Discharging static, I mean.
I’ve never been a big anti-War-On-Drugs person. But it’s the no-knock raids and asset forfeitures that have pushed me over the top.
I’d rather have addicts dying on park benches every day than police kicking down my door one day because their GPS-dispatch system had a momentary glitch.
Luckily, you don’t have to have addicts dying on park benches as a price of ending cannabis prohibition. The evidence on physical addiction is mixed at best and unless you count a sketchy case in England, no one in human history has ever died of a marijuana overdose. Cannabinoids can kill cancer cells, but can’t kill you.
You’re not the only ex-drug warrior who has turned around on this issue. Ten years ago, dozens would have showed up here already to call me a pothead for my post above.
Even CNN’s Sanjay Gupta, formerly a reliable voice for drug war propaganda, now admits he and others have terribly and systematically misled Americans about marijuana for years. To his credit, he did finally recognize the evidence in front of his face that, despite its Schedule 1 status, marijuana is medically useful.
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