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‘Amsterdam on steroids’: Las Vegas dispensaries brace for Saturday start of recreational sales
lasvegassun.com ^ | 6/29/2017 | Chris Kudialis

Posted on 06/29/2017 8:21:31 AM PDT by rktman

Fueled by one of the world’s largest tourism industries, Nevada is preparing to do the same on July 1. A May report published by Gov. Brian Sandoval’s task force on marijuana estimates that up to 63 percent of recreational buyers will be tourists.

“Everything we know shows that millennials are very pro-marijuana, and that’s the new marketing push,” said Nevada state Sen. Tick Segerblom, a longtime marijuana advocate. “This is a game-changer for Las Vegas and tourism here as far as I’m concerned.”

“Amsterdam on steroids,” he added.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 13; biggovernment; cannabis; cpod; marijuana; mj; nannystate; particulates; polpot; pot; potheads; reefermademess; smoke; toke; wod
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To: TheStickman

Be honest stickman. You really don’t see the “prohibitionist” dog whistle in any of my remarks. Your paranoia is seeing threatening things in mere words, when such threatening “prohibitionist” things are not there at all.

And your appeal to popularity is the way 14-year-old girls talk. “We’re popular, you’re not, so we won’t take you seriously.” Really? Next thing you know, you’ll be claiming hildebeast deserves to be president because she won the popular vote.

You’re better than this, stickman.


141 posted on 06/30/2017 4:49:17 PM PDT by Vision Thing (You see the depths of our hearts, and You love us the same...)
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To: Boogieman
What section of the Constitution is that?

Maybe you should actually read it.


Move along Pilgrim you bother me.

142 posted on 06/30/2017 5:22:07 PM PDT by itsahoot (As long as there is money to be divided, there will be division.)
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To: NobleFree
No, it doesn't - Article I Section 8 enumerates exactly what issues are within the legislature's authority, and intrastate drug matters are absent from that enumeration.

Get out the word then we been had. You act as if any of this mattered. The 2nd at one time may have mattered, not anymore.

143 posted on 06/30/2017 5:25:14 PM PDT by itsahoot (As long as there is money to be divided, there will be division.)
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To: itsahoot
No, it doesn't - Article I Section 8 enumerates exactly what issues are within the legislature's authority, and intrastate drug matters are absent from that enumeration.

Get out the word then we been had.

This is old news to true conservatives.

You act as if any of this mattered.

The Constitution will always matter to true conservatives.

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144 posted on 06/30/2017 6:21:17 PM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: Vision Thing

It’s Friday night, VT. Go watch a movie or stare into a mirror & tell yourself how awesome you think you are. In any case, have a pleasant night and I forgive you for being so arrogant & disparaging. I’m sure it won’t be the last time.


145 posted on 06/30/2017 6:27:00 PM PDT by TheStickman (And their fear tastes like sunshine puked up by unicorns.)
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To: Vision Thing

“You’ve told me your story before, and I know that pot isn’t your god, instead it’s just a coping mechanism. “

Aww, how sweet. Another diagnosis fallacy.

Will you tell me how tall I am too? The color of my eyes or my shoe size?

Maybe you know where I hid my bag of gold. You see, I was sleep walking, dreaming about my mother and I....


146 posted on 06/30/2017 6:35:07 PM PDT by TheStickman (And their fear tastes like sunshine puked up by unicorns.)
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To: TheStickman

You’re givin’ good ad humminer, stickman. :)


147 posted on 06/30/2017 7:09:52 PM PDT by Vision Thing (You see the depths of our hearts, and You love us the same...)
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To: TheStickman

Paranoia, big destroya. :)


148 posted on 06/30/2017 7:11:04 PM PDT by Vision Thing (You see the depths of our hearts, and You love us the same...)
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To: Hot Tabasco
There's not a medical professional I know (and my family is filled with them) that agrees that marijuana has any medical benefits whatsoever.

Either they're lying, or you are. My family also has a few MDs and other doctorates in it.

At a bare minimum, it relieves pain better than aspirin and ibuprofen (without the anti-inflammation effects). It acts as a very effective appetite stimulant (important for many maladies, both physical and psychological). It is exceptional as a stress-reliever. Toss aside all of the other claims about cancer and Parkinsons and the other biggies... those 3 I listed alone are huge and basic medical benefits that are undeniable by any human being with an ounce of education or common sense. So, once again, ether they're lying, or you are. Care to guess which?

149 posted on 06/30/2017 9:37:11 PM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: itsahoot
Then you should be opposed to the Drug lord that is really behind this

That Drug Lord got 71% of Floridians to vote how he wanted? Geez, the Russians should contract with him. He is far more effective at election-influencing than they are.

And yes, you sound exactly as ridiculous as the Libs with their Russia Russia Russia empty diatribe.

150 posted on 06/30/2017 9:40:31 PM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: Teacher317
That Drug Lord got 71% of Floridians to vote how he wanted? Geez, the Russians should contract with him.

LMAO! There is no statement too stupid for a Drug Warrior to say and mean; their "truth" is whatever serves their mania.

151 posted on 07/01/2017 5:29:22 AM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: Vision Thing

Mind-reading (Also, “Speculation;” “I can read you like a book”): An ancient fallacy, a corruption of stasis theory, speculating about someone else’s thoughts, emotions, motivations and “body language” and then claiming to understand these clearly, sometimes more accurately than the person in question knows themselves. The rhetor deploys this phony “knowledge” as a fallacious warrant for or against a given standpoint.


152 posted on 07/01/2017 5:51:49 AM PDT by TheStickman (And their fear tastes like sunshine puked up by unicorns.)
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To: NobleFree
The Constitution will always matter to true conservatives.

Then elect a Congress that has at least read it.

Only one other document exceeds it in Wisdom and we ignore that one too.

153 posted on 07/01/2017 8:36:30 AM PDT by itsahoot (As long as there is money to be divided, there will be division.)
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To: Teacher317
And yes, you sound exactly as ridiculous as the Libs with their Russia Russia Russia empty diatribe.

Keep pushing drugs and keep loosing.

154 posted on 07/01/2017 8:37:39 AM PDT by itsahoot (As long as there is money to be divided, there will be division.)
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To: itsahoot
Defense of the Constitution is the core of conservatism.

The Constitution grants the federal government no authority whatsoever over intrastate drug matters. [...] Article I Section 8 enumerates exactly what issues are within the legislature's authority, and intrastate drug matters are absent from that enumeration.

You act as if any of this mattered.

Amazing how in just a few of your posts the Constitution went from "the core of conservatism" to "as if any of this mattered".

The Constitution will always matter to true conservatives.

Then elect a Congress that has at least read it.

I do what I can - and in the meantime I don't brush off pro-Constitution statements.

155 posted on 07/01/2017 10:46:29 AM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: TheStickman

TheStickman, you are a good person.


156 posted on 07/01/2017 11:57:30 AM PDT by Vision Thing (You see the depths of our hearts, and You love us the same...)
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To: NobleFree
I do what I can - and in the meantime I don't brush off pro-Constitution statements.

Well it isn't enough and hasn't been for 100 years.

Why are you not complaining about the FED, a truly unconstitutional mess, Why do you think getting everyone stoned will help? Ron had a bunch of crazy potheads follow him around, did he win?

With literally hundreds of true constitutional issues to debate why do Libertarians only talk about drugs?

157 posted on 07/01/2017 4:18:15 PM PDT by itsahoot (As long as there is money to be divided, there will be division.)
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To: NobleFree
Amazing how in just a few of your posts the Constitution went from "the core of conservatism" to "as if any of this mattered".

Legalizing drugs will not fix this and neither will the ballot box.

158 posted on 07/01/2017 4:19:18 PM PDT by itsahoot (As long as there is money to be divided, there will be division.)
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To: itsahoot
Why are you not complaining about the FED, a truly unconstitutional mess,

Because FReepers seem to agree on that point, at least to a much greater degree than they do about the federal War on Drugs?

Why do you think getting everyone stoned will help?

I think ceasing to hyperinflate drug profits and channel them into criminal hands will help.

159 posted on 07/01/2017 6:02:49 PM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: itsahoot
Amazing how in just a few of your posts the Constitution went from "the core of conservatism" to "as if any of this mattered".

Legalizing drugs will not fix this

I never said it would.

and neither will the ballot box.

Perhaps not. You have a better plan?

160 posted on 07/01/2017 6:04:44 PM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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