Legal pot winning in Nevada ("Nevada to vote on making dope legal")

Edinburgh Evening News (UK) ^ | 8 Oct 2002 | STUART REID

[MrLeRoy]

VOTERS in Nevada are to decide next month whether to become the first state in the United States to legalise marijuana.

[...]

A September 26 poll in Las Vegas showed a majority of voters supporting the measure, with 55 per cent in favour and 43 per cent opposed.

In addition, the group promoting the constitutional change, Nevadans for Responsible Law Enforcement, or NRLE, is flush with money - it has almost £330,000 on hand - and has run TV ads since September 12.

Opponents, who waited until September 27 to officially form Nevadans Against Legalising Marijuana, may not even have money for mailing, according to the group’s members.

Opponents are appalled that the largest newspaper in the state, the Las Vegas Review-Journal, endorsed the measure as a means to "bring compassion and common sense to drug laws" and that Republican Governor Kenny Guinn has refused take sides.

[CHATTAB]

Society wants cigarettes (tobacco products) to be illegal...
And at the same time wants pot to be legal???????????????

[tacticalogic]

Society wants cigarettes (tobacco products) to be illegal...

And at the same time wants pot to be legal???????????????

Near as I can figure it's a giant conspiracy by the snack food cartels.

[IMHO]

I'm betting that the 87% of land that's federally owned will end up being used for most of the pot production.

[tacticalogic]

Let's hope they stay away from growing it around Los Alamos.

[bpjam]

I love my home state, but Nevada is about as libertarian as you are going to find. People, in general, just don't care what their neighbors are doing. The last 'medicinal' dope initiative passed with 70% of the vote. Despite the fact that 'medicinal' is still Federally illegal and there are about 5 people total who would qualify for this use, the rest of the population here didn't care. Even the Mormon's are out fighting against this and they don't tolerate things are mild as caffeine. Go figure.

[Virginia-American]

Society wants cigarettes (tobacco products) to be illegal...

And at the same time wants pot to be legal???????????????

It's much safer physically and not addictive. And the second-hand smoke smells better, IMO.

[big bad easter bunny]

most pot these days in grown using hydroponics. In fact I recently read that in California it takes the energy of a whole power plant to power all the home grown in that state.

[tacticalogic]

Even the Mormon's are out fighting against this and they don't tolerate things are mild as caffeine. Go figure.

While they eschew caffeine, the do brew a tea from the ephedra plant, and they may easily find themselves a target of federal regulation for posession of a precursor to methamphetamine.

[monkeyshine]

Drive it in from California, Utah, Arizona... or grow it there.

[monkeyshine]

It doesn't matter if the feds strike it down. If the state makes it legal, then the state will not arrest or prosecute. That leaves the feds alone to enforce the laws... which they can if they want to, and probably will... but will be largely ineffective.

Anyway, it has to start somewhere. What gets my goat is that a lot of states have already passed medical marijuana laws, but the congressmen from these states don't move on this on the federal level. California, Arizona, Nevada, Washington and others are a powerful block in congress... yet they stand back and allow the feds to usurp their own states' rights.

[FreeLibertarian]

Let's hope they stay away from growing it around Los Alamos.

Los Alamos is in New Mexico not Nevada. The reseeding efforts after the fire have been quite sucessful.

[tacticalogic]

DOH! You're right. Nevada has the Nevada, Central Nevada and Tonopah test ranges.

[MrLeRoy]

Society wants cigarettes (tobacco products) to be illegal...
And at the same time wants pot to be legal???????????????

I want them both legal. I don't know what "society" wants.

[Wolfie]

Yep. Wierd argument thought. Its not like "society" hasn't held inconsistent positions before (like those who want tobacco to remain legal , and marijuana to remain illegal).

At any rate, there's no point getting too fired up (no pun intended) one way or another, as the Nevada initiative has to pass twice (now and again in 2004) to become law.

[spodbox]

Has reseeding been successful? I grew up in Los Alamos, and I would not have been surprised if pot *was* grown in the forests around there.

[FreeLibertarian]

Has reseeding been successful? I grew up in Los Alamos, and I would not have been surprised if pot *was* grown in the forests around there.

Haven't walked up the "Hill" this year but it is my understanding that a number of people contributed to erosion control efforts after the fire by "reseeding" the hill. Time will tell.

[Nate505]

It's nice to know Nevada has redeeming qualities about it...

[F16Fighter]

"And the current biggest obstacle is AG John 'Jack Boot' Ashcroft"

Hey Dude -- put the bong down for a moment...

I'm sure you would feel much more secure with Tommy Cheech as Attorney General. He could enlist Cheech Marin as head of the DEA and then we can all sod our suburban lawns with Turkish poppies and Panama Red.

[Nate505]

At least he'd be too stoned to be as much as a thug as Ashcroft is....

[F16Fighter]

"At least he'd be too stoned to be as much as a thug as Ashcroft is...."

Find yourself a hyperbolic oxygen chamber and remain in it for a few days. By that time perhaps a single brain cell will be saturated enough with oxygen to have you provide an iota of proof to support your claim that AG Ashcroft is a "thug".