Posted on 01/04/2014 9:02:25 PM PST by Ken H
A few days into the experiment, the new world of legal recreational marijuana sales in Colorado appears to be a big successso much so that pot shops are finding it impossible to keep up with demand.
According to the Denver Post, at least 37 stores in Colorado were licensed to sell recreational pot to anyone 21 or over as of New Years Day. The Associated Press and others reported long lines outside Denver pot shops, with some eager customers forced to wait three to five hours before getting a chance to go inside, step up to the counter, and make a purchase.
Prices have been steepin some cases, stores were charging $50 or even $70 for one-eighth of an ounce of pot that cost medical marijuana users just $25 the day beforeand taxes add on an extra 20% or so. Even so, sales have been brisk.
The two operational pot shops in Pueblo collectively sold $87,000 of marijuana on January 1, per the Pueblo Chieftain, and store owners say that if demand persists anywhere near the current high, theyll be sold out in the very near future.
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The Federal government has absolutely no authority to regulate what people smoke. None whatsoever v
Legal pot costing plenty more than the black market. A windfall for state tax coffers. Feds will be climbing on this gravy train posthaste. And so it begins.
so we pricing out people who can use it for legit medical purposes.
Potheads=dumbheads is correct.
But still, we have always had the dumb, and pot doesn’t make them dumb, it just identifies them.
I always agreed with Bill Buckley that pot should be legal. Its filthy stuff but banning it is worse.
The influx of liberal potheads could easily reverse that trend.
I thought this was supposed to reduce prices. Don't high prices usually cause a black market on the stuff? Maybe now, the dealers on the streets will be making more money too.
I am indifferent to it.
So you're indifferent as to whether the Tenth Amendment is honored?
So then has the aroma wafted over into Loveland Kansas yet???
But then they would drain out of somewhere else that they already infest. Net effect is a wash.
1) Federal ban on drugs (such as marijuana) is unconstitutional.
2) State ban on drugs (such as marijuana) is constitutional under the 10th Amendment.
3) If a state decides not to ban a drug (such as marijuana) then that is the state's right.
Personally, I would like to see government charity (housing, food stamps, healthcare) entirely stopped. Be responsible. Don't expect anyone (taxpayers) to rescue you from bad decisions. If that is the situation, and if someone uses drugs and does OK, then I have no problem with it.
Is someone legally challenging Colorado passing this law legalizing and taxing their residents getting high?
Or are you asking my opinion on an non-issue?
Yes, I know it's B. Obama seems happy with this.
-PJ
“The other matters, such as collapsed morals, failing marriages, bastard children, overwhelming bureaucracy and fascist corporatism are much worse than drugs have ever been.”
In large part a consequence of drugs in our society.
I’d like to see a state legalize heroin and crack just to see what the “state’s rights” absolutists say about it.
There has never been a law against smoking anything, fed or state.
Correction. There’s never been a law against smoking dope.
There, though have been laws against smoking in specified locations.
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?
Not that I know of.
Or are you asking my opinion on an non-issue?
Just trying to determine where you stand on the Tenth Amendment. I'll put you down as "indifferent".
You mean they don't already? I worked for the state of California, for more than 25 years, and was in the Air Force for 20. In both, initial drug screening was a condition of employment, and we could expect random testing at anytime. I wonder if this law means that we can expect MJ use at Fort Carson, or the Air Force Academy?
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