Yep, soon they will graduating to the hard stuff!
Stupid is as stupid says...
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 success—so 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 Year’s 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 steep—in 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 before—and 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, they’ll be sold out in the very near future.
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Ahhhh... I am not that sanguine on modern usage of tobacco. It was, interestingly enough, used for religious worship purposes by American Indians. Get in touch with God — smoke a cigarette? The Indians did better at that (at least with respect to what they believed was God) than we Christianized Westerners do. Outside of the lodge or wherever the peace pipe was smoked, they did not keep on puffing the stuff.
I can get behind that.
Where do I sign up for lessons ?
Redneck lessons. Hmm there is a whole market there. Duck Dynasty, are you willing to step up?
I think the modern use of tobacco was very beneficial. Someday we will understand the productivity boost from tobacco (in terms of improving personal productivity, not just as an article of trade) was very important in creating modern industrial society.
There certainly is a need for lessons. Most of us coastal and immigrant types don’t know where to begin.
Sort of like listening to the symphony but being unable to find a violin dealer.
What about them smoking that garbage on city streets? Would secondhand marijuana smoke get innocent passersby high? I don’t want anything to do with any illicit drugs. I barely take prescriptions like antibiotics.
It certainly had a heyday as a commercial product, but so did more prosaic things like food and clothing. There’s probably plenty of data out there for anyone who would want to try to quantify it. I believe in laissez-faire with respect to drug items (with the more powerful items within the purview of doctors) but that doesn’t equate to recommending them. I had close family felled by excessive smoking so I have seen the dark underside of the tobacco smoke cloud.
Tea, which has caffeine, was a widely traded item too. Taxes upon it were the subject of the Tea Party.
All these stoners did is vote for higher priced weed.
Idiots on many levels.
Maybe I could suggest it be added to the Dummies line. Redneckdom For Dummies!
I doubt secondhand pot does anything more than smell weird. The quantities used are smaller than in tobacco smoking.
LOL
Since liberals have outlawed smoking nearly everywhere I notice all the pot smokers being interviewed claim all they eat it instead of smoking it.
Hard to imagine.
Yep, soon they will graduating to the hard stuff!
Stupid is as stupid says...
Unless it is tobacco, like Cigarettes, Snuff and other legal vices that were crushed under the great white rapist Klinton.
Exactly.
Somebody needs to also organize packaged tours with boot camps and lessons. Duck or deer hunting by the numbers for Asian immigrants maybe. Bass fishing. We would have to have tour leaders with flags and stuff. Language classes led by native speakers from Alabama. Auto tinkering, maybe motorcycle too. Beer appreciation.
I take my son skiing out West every year. It’s always a toss-up whether we go to Utah or Colorado. 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.
Pretty much the ONLY people who use pot for legitimate purposes are cancer patients, who are pretty much priced out of anything (especially after ObamaCare gets done reaming them...)
And, well, we really are going to have to restart the appreciation of chewing tobacco. I can see doing an international competition event in San Francisco, the Fort Mason venue possibly, that will award prizes for the finest stuff. The locals will very likely start one upping each other with their choice of certified organic grand cru plug with loads of terroir. And let us not speak of the stylistic potential of spittoons.
I think you are missing the point about the possible effect on CO gun control laws...progress on getting rid of them was going well. That progress may be in jeopardy with an influx of liberal weed smokers.
Also the reference to the story of the NY residents moving to CO so they can smoke their weed legally.
I worked in a dangerous job. I was one of those eeeeeeevvvvvviiiilllllllll correctional officers. I am not sure about all state workers, but we had mandatory and random drug testing.
I wonder how long until people start getting robbed so someone can buy more pot for themselves.
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