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Colorado’s Pot Shops Say They’ll Be Sold Out Any Day Now
Time ^ | January 04, 2014 | Brad Tuttle

Posted on 01/04/2014 9:02:25 PM PST by Ken H

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To: Ken H

States should probably have the authority to decide if its legal or not.

But this reminds me of “Republic... if you can keep it”. Try and build freedom with a drugged populace. A few you can absorb. More than a few and you start twisting into the tarmac.


101 posted on 01/05/2014 12:23:50 AM PST by marron
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To: subterfuge
Why go to the government approved, overpriced dispensories? Don’t the buyers already have connections?

So if you like your weed, you can keep your weed...?

102 posted on 01/05/2014 12:25:27 AM PST by Cyropaedia ("Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principal of evil...".)
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To: Ken H

I suppose its notable that the people who are demanding freedom to smoke are not by and large demanding freedom to start businesses and educate their children or choose their own health care. We might see these as seamlessly related issues but I don’t know that the average pothead sees it that way.


103 posted on 01/05/2014 12:29:10 AM PST by marron
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To: KevinB
This year it will be Utah, even though it will be a little more expensive, in order to avoid the stoner culture we would surely find at the CO resorts.

Because, Lord knows, there weren't any stoner skiers or snowboarders on the slopes before Colorado passed this law.

104 posted on 01/05/2014 12:58:56 AM PST by Washi (Stop Obama's War On Jobs)
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To: sickoflibs
<<<<>>> Dems are loving this!!!!!
105 posted on 01/05/2014 1:02:13 AM PST by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: CorporateStepsister
I wonder how long until people start getting robbed so someone can buy more pot for themselves.

Was that sarcasm, or do you really think that isn't already happening in every state in the nation for every kind of drug, legal and illegal?

106 posted on 01/05/2014 1:05:01 AM PST by Washi (Stop Obama's War On Jobs)
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To: Lurker

“The Federal government has absolutely no authority to regulate what people smoke. None whatsoever v”

But they have passed laws making POSSESSION illegal! You can smoke it, you just can’t have it to smoke.
It will be interesting to see if the FEDs try to interfere with the Colorado law like they have been doing in California with respect to “medical marijuana.” Here, they are threatening the owners of buildings leased to “marajuana dispensaries” with the forfeiture of their real estate under the Federal drug laws unless they kick out the dispensaries to whom they rent space. Who knows, maybe Colorado will take them on. It would be fun to watch.


107 posted on 01/05/2014 1:16:49 AM PST by vette6387
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To: Mr. Blonde; Travis McGee

This forum is rabidly anti pot because I think that most freepers (yankees and others)live where pot smokers tend to be libs or occupy sorts and that naturally rankles them...yet I know pot smokers in Michigan and NorCal who are right wing or Randian at least...personally

The rest is reefer madness nonsense

I live in Dixie....99% of the hundred or so pot smokers I know are God guns and guts types

I smoked pot from 71-84..

I doubt many here consider me a lib.

Pot is not without faults but I prefer to be around a stoner more than a drunk

I really despised cocaine snorters....all blather....

I am only addicted to one thing....punani......or just a woman’s love and physical affection......a lifelong severe addiction

I have no plans to try to quit.....ever.

Freepers can sure be silly nannies....they toss liberty out the window on a whim

So fire away y’all

War daddy....racist anti Semite homophone sexist bigot neoconfederate pot apologist

Could anyone possibly make this stuff up?

Why don’t I still smoke.....I’m too damn busy....I’d love to on occasion otherwise and I just might


108 posted on 01/05/2014 1:43:08 AM PST by wardaddy (wifey instructed me today to grow chapter president beard back again....i wonder why?)
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To: wardaddy

The Pot Head yammerin’, are always right, by opinion.


109 posted on 01/05/2014 1:49:37 AM PST by RedHeeler
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Federal Government backed police officers handling drug users is bad, but federal government backed evangelists handling drug users would be OK? Sounds nanny state with either a gun or a bible.


110 posted on 01/05/2014 2:17:32 AM PST by AnAmericanInEngland
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To: RedHeeler

Susanville?

I love that area.....


111 posted on 01/05/2014 2:18:02 AM PST by wardaddy (wifey instructed me today to grow chapter president beard back again....i wonder why?)
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To: AnAmericanInEngland

Well, I didn’t quite have that in mind. General evangelism. Ultimately this is going to have to be a function of what is written at the top of the U.S. Constitution. I.e. “We The People.” Because the church can’t be subject to Caesar.


112 posted on 01/05/2014 2:23:57 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (The Lion of Judah will roar again if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)
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To: wardaddy

Good. How do you know it?


113 posted on 01/05/2014 2:32:48 AM PST by RedHeeler
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To: GATOR NAVY
I know that's always been an argument of the legalize crowd but I never bought it. The users have already established what price they are willing to pay-why would a seller, especially if turned out to be the government-charge any less than the illegal dealers did?

It has only been a few days, do you expect equilibrium price already?
114 posted on 01/05/2014 3:49:42 AM PST by Kegger
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To: wardaddy
Susanville? I love that area.....

CCC and CSP High Desert?

115 posted on 01/05/2014 4:52:49 AM PST by Mark17 (Chicago Blackhawks: Stanley Cup champions 2010, 2013. Vietnam Veteran, 70-71)
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To: wardaddy; dead; Lurker

I’m happy to see states going their own way. If Colorado pays a price in social fallout, so be it, they can serve as a test lab. And anything that diminishes the clout of an overarching fedgov leviathan is a good thing in my mind.


116 posted on 01/05/2014 5:43:41 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Cyropaedia
Why go to the government approved, overpriced dispensories? Don’t the buyers already have connections?

So if you like your weed, you can keep your weed...?


117 posted on 01/05/2014 5:50:12 AM PST by Anton.Rutter
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To: gleeaikin

Since the cigarette buying age was raised to 18 it’s easier for kids in high school to buy pot than cigarettes.


118 posted on 01/05/2014 5:56:49 AM PST by Rebelbase (Tagline: optional, printed after your name on post)
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To: Mr. Blonde
It seems you could easily apply all of that to alcohol as well, except I would rather deal with someone who smoked a bowl the night before than drank to excess.
is funny how much my experience with people who smoke a lot is from the stereotype on here. Lots and lots of smart capable people, who don’t escalate to harder drugs, smoke weed regularly.

I guess it's always unfortunate that some people need SOME drug/opiate/whatever to pump into their body to cope with world.

Alcohol and pot are not addictive, habit forming, yes, but not addictive. I haven't heard of booze as a gateway drug to addictive drugs. But I have heard that about pot.
I guess weak people unable to cope with the world will turn to whatever is available.

Your comment "Lots and lots of smart capable people, who don’t escalate to harder drugs, smoke weed regularly" belies what doctors say. But what do THEY know?
My husband's BEST friend was a pot smoker. He's dead now but not after his brain turned to mush after the all of pot smoking. He spoke the same way you do of pot. Such a waste.
Our best man, also a friend of my husband, was a drunk. He got sober, decided he was gay (after marriage and two children) and died of AIDS, as his YOUNG lover got AIDS and gave it to our best man. He chose homosexuality, since there is no gay or bisexual gene, as he chose alcohol and chose to stop drinking.

119 posted on 01/05/2014 6:00:00 AM PST by cloudmountain
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To: Washi
Because, Lord knows, there weren't any stoner skiers or snowboarders on the slopes before Colorado passed this law.

Of course there were, but it was pretty discrete. I don't expect the case now. I'm not a prude by any stretch, but I don't like stoners.

120 posted on 01/05/2014 6:59:13 AM PST by KevinB (Barack Hussein Obama: Proof-positive that affirmative action does not work.)
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