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With new year, California's recreational pot laws take effect
FOX NEWS ^ | 01-01-2018 | Lukas Mikelionis

Posted on 01/01/2018 3:13:52 PM PST by Kevin in California

The new year in California brings broad legalization of recreational marijuana – a much-anticipated move two decades after the state was the first to allow the use of the drug for medicinal purposes. California joins states such as Colorado -- as well as Washington, D.C. -- where pot is permitted for recreational purposes even as the federal government continues to regard the drug as a controlled dangerous substance, like LSD and heroin.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; cannabis; corruption; dopefiends; marijuana; opioids; opoids; organizedcrime; pitbulls; pot; potheads; wod
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To: Slyfox
"Colorado's car crash fatalities have increased by 40% since they allowed pot."

That and many other consequences are good for big government spending.

"Good luck with that CA."

California will love it, as will the socialists running all of the other states. It's coming. Try to make sure that your younger family members have secured jobs with one of the few business managers or owners who don't use marijuana. Otherwise, it will be hard for any of them to keep a job without doing it to please the boss.


21 posted on 01/01/2018 5:06:05 PM PST by familyop ("R-r-r-uff!" --Curly, "The Three Stooges")
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To: familyop

I don’t get it...cigarette smoke is demonized but marijuana is glamorized?


22 posted on 01/01/2018 5:11:27 PM PST by lilypad
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To: Does so; Lockbar
"I know several habitual marijuana users..."

"I know only two: both are younger than me, and tethered to oxygen bottles."

I know of several who are near 60 years of age, and they're all on oxygen. Another one had COPD and preached that pot cures cancer. He was in his fifties, when he died from lung cancer.


23 posted on 01/01/2018 5:17:58 PM PST by familyop ("R-r-r-uff!" --Curly, "The Three Stooges")
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To: lilypad
"I don’t get it...cigarette smoke is demonized but marijuana is glamorized?"

Marijuana lowers inhibitions (white slavery) and brings in easy money (big prices for small packages). It also prepares many for bigger things (more expensive, more addictive drugs). The customers are very loyal and subservient.


24 posted on 01/01/2018 5:22:04 PM PST by familyop ("R-r-r-uff!" --Curly, "The Three Stooges")
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To: Kevin in California

I hope Trump does nothing to help our state. He only got like 25% of the vote here, this state is ground zero for the so called resistance and there nothing but hatred for Trump up and down this state. We dont deserve his help and deserve to waste away in our own shit.

I gotta find away to get out of this cesspool.


25 posted on 01/01/2018 5:53:29 PM PST by Angels27
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To: Kevin in California
I'm praying so much that Trump unleashes his DEA on the dispensaries in my state for violation of federal law.

Yeah, think of all the no-knock warrants and unarmed citizens getting shot by Fed-cops. What an endorphin rush all those stories will be! /s

26 posted on 01/01/2018 6:08:55 PM PST by TigersEye (0bama. The Legacy is a lie. The lie is the Legacy.)
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To: lilypad
I don’t get it...cigarette smoke is demonized but marijuana is glamorized?

Yeah, it's impossible to ignore that apparent dichotomy. Right now, politicians in San Francisco and other liberal communities are in the process of trying to ban 'flavored tobacco' (or something like that) while they promote marijuana. The more anti-tobacco a place is the more pro-marijuana it seems to be. What gives? As someone who doesn't use either tobacco or marijuana but lives in the Bay Area where the former is demonized but the latter is celebrated, I've thought about this for a while and tried to make some sense out of it. My conclusion is that liberals promote pot because they (1) enjoy it themselves; and (2) want a population that is stoned and stupid and permissive. This is why we see George Soros promoting marijuana. They don't want a clear-thinking population that will question their bulls--t. An impaired-thinking population is easier to manipulate.
27 posted on 01/01/2018 6:13:42 PM PST by irishjuggler
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To: Yaelle

Normally I would say that 99.5% of “medicinal” pot users would disappear right after recreational was available....but I am hearing that “medicinal” users avoid either the excise tax or the sales taxes...I think it is the sales tax but I will have to check. The lower “medicinal” prices may motivate some to keep their MM card.


28 posted on 01/01/2018 6:16:30 PM PST by Drago
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To: Kevin in California

“I’m praying so much that Trump unleashes his DEA on the dispensaries in my state for violation of federal law. “

I’m praying so much that President Trump continues to support State’s right’s on this issue & that he never caves in to the demands of nanny-state supporters.


29 posted on 01/02/2018 3:45:46 AM PST by TheStickman (#MAGA all day every day!)
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To: Yaelle

They proliferated because they were being used as illegal dispensaries for recreational purposes - got to be too obvious there was more recreational market than medical and it is causing a quandary.


30 posted on 01/02/2018 4:32:06 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone? I think Trump may give it back...)
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To: irishjuggler

Also alcohol is demonized but marijuana? Not so much. Is there a mothers against stoned driving yet?


31 posted on 01/02/2018 6:15:57 AM PST by lilypad
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To: trebb

And of course the innocent suffer the most when leftists come to play.


32 posted on 01/02/2018 9:33:12 AM PST by Yaelle
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