Sheriffs Try to Overturn Legalization of Pot in Colorado

Time ^ | March 05, 2015 | Tessa Berenson

[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?”

[TianaHighrider]

“weed” is NOT at all like gay marriage.
You might as well say they should outlaw Alcohol because if not we have to license people to marry their pets.
One has absolutely nothing to do with the other.

One is a medicinal, industrial, textile, and yes, recreational, plant which was MADE ILLEGAL in an attempt to discourage Mexican immigrants less than a century ago. The other is a NEW concept straight from Communist teachings to destroy Western Society. BIG DIFFERENCE.

[tacticalogic]

You should look up the words "Non Sequitur."

You should look in a mirror.

[DiogenesLamp]

Urban legend - you'd have to be locked in a steamer trunk with pot smoker to get a second-hand high.

We certainly get second hand bill paying for all the dope smokers. Like I said, every dope smoker I know is getting some sort of government check, and in a lot of cases their children are being supported by the state.

[ConservingFreedom]

the IDIOTS in Colorado also thought Obama was a good idea.

Alaska disagreed - and also legalized pot.

[Osage Orange]

Well...they could be arresting illegal aliens.

[muir_redwoods]

I know reading is hard but I’m not pro-dope, I’m pro-freedom. I think alcohol, nicotine and other, so-called recreational drugs are an abomination that destroy human life. I think laws against them destroy human freedom. I know the distinction is difficult for some but not most.

[ConservingFreedom]

You might as well say they should outlaw Alcohol because if not we have to license people to marry their pets.

Well said!

[DiogenesLamp]

Have to take your word for it, not that I'd take your word for anything.

You can believe anything you like, but you can't force reality to conform to your beliefs.

[ConservingFreedom]

I’m not pro-dope

The frothers will never abandon such slurs - I've decided to wear them as badges of honor.

[DiogenesLamp]

shortly thereafter?? 50+ years

The lives of nations are measured in Centuries, not decades. It was a relatively short period after drug usage had become widespread enough to notice.

[muir_redwoods]

I haven’t resorted to cutting-and-pasting from biased sources; I wish you would too. Drug laws enrich and strengthen the cartels the same way prohibition created the Mob. Your support for such laws is support for the cartels. That’s the net effect irrespective of your fond intent. BTW, my kids had the option of using drugs and chose not to because they know better. It’s called responsible parenthood.

[DiogenesLamp]

Plenty of nonsmokers do too - and plenty of smokers don't. Your argument is like saying that since many very obese people get a government check government should regulate all adults' diets. (And it seems like the 0bamas want to make exactly that argument.)

I would say that anyone accepting an unearned paycheck from the government most certainly need to have their lives regulated. If they weren't doing something wrong, they wouldn't need to be getting money from me.

Don't like my apples? Stop shaking my tree.

[Ken H]

Ted Cruz supports Colorado's prerogative to legalize marijuana. So do most of the other GOP contenders.

You're just SOL.

[eyeamok]

You should keep reading, it is obvious from your posts you have neglected huge swaths of historical record in your quest to control free people.

Sig Heil

[muir_redwoods]

As I clearly indicated, drug users should be held accountable for their actions. If they are narcotizing others, they should be held to account for such actions.

[ConservingFreedom]

I would say that anyone accepting an unearned paycheck from the government most certainly need to have their lives regulated.

I'm on board with that - what about those not accepting an unearned paycheck from the government?

[DiogenesLamp]

You might as well say they should outlaw Alcohol because if not we have to license people to marry their pets.

And here we go again with the usual Libertarian false comparison to alcohol.

What your argument boils down to is this.

" Waaaaaaaaahhhhh!!!!! They get Alcohol!!! I want my Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeedddd!!!!"

[Responsibility2nd]

Your point is clear. You think a Christian should have to quit their job as a marriage license clerk or else be complicit with an immoral law.

These sheriffs took on their jobs when marijuana was both immoral and illegal. Now that its legal, you want them to shut up.

If your boss asked you to lie on the office reports, would you do it?

[DiogenesLamp]

I know reading is hard but I’m not pro-dope, I’m pro-freedom.

And you think Freedom will continue to exist in a Libertarian society? How naive.

[MileHi]

Arguing with dope advocates authoritarians is unproductive. Anything which doesn’t include agreeing with them about dope usage their myopic world view is completely rejected, and so therefore it is a waste of time.

And then

You can believe anything you like, but you can't force reality to conform to your beliefs.

See, projecting. There are nice people who can help you work through your obsession. It's unhealthy.