Posted on 03/05/2015 6:14:02 AM PST by Ken H
The lawsuit brought against the state claims sheriffs are faced with a "crisis of conscience"
A group of sheriffs will file a lawsuit Thursday against Colorado for its legal marijuana law.
The lawsuit says legalizing pot on a state level while it’s still illegal on a federal one creates a “crisis of conscience,” USA Today reports.
Colorado is “asking every peace officer to violate their oath,” Larimer County, Colo., Sheriff Justin Smith, the lead plaintiff in the suit, said. “What we’re being forced to do … makes me ineligible for office. Which constitution are we supposed to uphold?”
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
I think part of the problem for getting cannabis derived medicines approved is the result of so many of these recreational drug users pushing the "medical marijuana" bullsh*t to the point where everyone believes there is no such thing as "medical use."
They've made an utter farce of it everywhere it has been done, with anyone claiming "anxiety" can get a "prescription" to toke weed. It is no wonder that people are dubious about it having any actual medicinal uses.
These Libertarians never stop pushing their spin, and they are hurting real people with their crapstorm of false assertions.
How about those who are seeing more and more marijuana related issues in the ER? Or those who have kids with substance abuse problems who now think its OK to spend their life stoned? I’m not a JBT but I hate the damage this law has done to my patients and my family.
I’m spending a great deal of my retirement trying to adopt my grandaughter away from her drug addled parents - started with marijuana now on IV meth and cocaine. Drug use is not a victimless crime.
We are still a nation of laws, and by all means, go ahead and try to change that.
In the mean time I would love the Feds to crack down on all those states who do not
uphold the laws against illegal Drugs. Including the users, all of them.
Grow up, and stop equating "freedom" to stoner tampering with your brain chemistry. You mock the meaning of the word "Freedom" with such infantile tripe.
The low unemployment is due to a recession resistant ecomony not the use or lack of use mj. The tourist and oil/gas/mining economy in colorado frequently does better than most of the nation when it comes to unemployment.
Bull - not only doesn't second-hand smoke get one high, it's barely detectable by drug tests:
"researchers paired several regular pot smokers and nonsmokers and put them in a sealed compartment together for an hour, while one smoked a joint containing a relatively strong strain of marijuana.
"The 12 nonsmoking participants were then tasked with peeing into a cup 13 times over the next 34 hours. Their urine was tested for 9-carboxy-THC, the marijuana metabolite commonly measured in standard drug tests.
"The results, published this month in the Journal of Analytical Toxicology, gives nonsmokers with weed-using friends reason to breathe easy. The scientists found urine levels of this metabolite surpassed typically detectable levels (50 nanogram per milliliter) in only one experiment participant, and this happened during a brief window four to six hours after exposure."
- http://www.newsweek.com/could-second-hand-pot-smoke-make-you-fail-marijuana-test-278913
You cannot pervert this into a Right, the right to use illegal drugs.
Drug use violates nobody's rights.
And you may as well say Sharia has a right to cut off heads
No, cutting off heads does violate rights.
It's all part of the same dark forces at work. You are pushing evil, and you are just too stupid to understand that your ideas are just another front in the war with darkness.
Stop pushing evil. Just stop it.
"Marijuana related" means merely that when asked if they used marijuana they said yes - it's a garbage 'statistic.'
That only proves that Wealthy Californians have been moving there and bringing their money with them. Look behind at the mess they left in California, and contemplate that’s where Colorado will be in the future.
You are bringing REAL TYRANNY, but again, your mind cannot contemplate beyond your own petty existence. The future consequences of your advocacy simply escape you because you judge everything from your little tiny experience instead of far more expansive historical perspective.
You got that from this? "A stoned society is not productive"
So anybody who disagrees with you and legalizing pot is a Communist? You're an idiot.
Here’s a fact; this isn’t 19th century China. Drugs are flooding this country today and the vast bulk of us don’t use them. Any explanation for that?
I'm talking about chronic pain and gov control over legal medications for pain. It's that simple.
I'm not an abuser of anything.
For me, the tightening of prescription pain killers by the Gov, pressuring MD's to NOT prescribe what I actually need is an abomination for ME.
FMCDH(BITS)
Yes, human evolution has advanced so greatly in the last hundred years that Human Americans are vastly different in their susceptibility to dangerous brain altering chemicals.
We have nothing to worry about because our BIOLOGY has changed so much that drugs don't affect us any more.
What, are you some kind of f***ing idiot? Human biochemistry hasn't changed much in the last million years or so, and you think what took down China won't also take down us?
Just because your legislature doesn’t know how to write laws doesn’t mean freedom should be outlawed and, as I indicated clearly ( but will do so again, just for you) I don’t use anything stronger than black coffee, no alcohol, no nicotine and no other so-called recreational drugs. I do take an 81 mg aspirin every morning.
Different issue. I don't have any problems with medicine being used for medicinal purposes.
Wrong. Mj related issues includes the multiple people I admit for cyclic vomiting syndrome directly related to their mj use as well as overdoses/suicide attempts where mj is involved. Real, and not a garbage statistic, but thank you for playing.
Again with name calling. No it’s not human biology that has changed but there are one or two minor cultural differences between 19th century China and 21st century America. Those factors might help explain why the US is, despite the absurd and ineffective laws, being flooded with drugs and most of us aren’t even tempted.
Tell me, if heroin, crack and meth were legalized tomorrow, how much would you buy? Is that a biological difference between you and the average Chinese peasant of 150 years ago or are you simply more aware of the dangers?
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