Posted on 07/08/2014 11:00:17 AM PDT by PoloSec
BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) — Washington on Tuesday became the second state to allow people to buy marijuana legally in the U.S. without a doctor's note as eager customers who lined up outside stores made their purchases and savored the moment.
People began buying marijuana at 8 a.m. at Top Shelf Cannabis, one of two Bellingham stores that started selling the drug as soon as it was allowed under state regulations. Several dozen people waited outside before the doors opened at the shop in this liberal college town of about 80,000 north of Seattle.
The first three customers in line were residents of Kansas, in Bellingham for their grandfather's 84th birthday. Sarah Gorton, 24, of Abilene, Kansas, came with her younger brother Robbie, as well as her boyfriend.
"It's just a happy coincidence and an opportunity we're not going to have for a long time," said Sarah Gorton, a 24-year-old with dreadlocks and homemade jewelry. "I'm really thrilled to be a part of something that I never thought would happen."
Gorton's boyfriend, 29-year-old Cale Holdsworth, made the first purchase: two grams of pot for $26.50. As customers applauded, he held his brown bag aloft and said, "This is a great moment."
The start of legal pot sales in Washington marks a major step that's been 20 months in the making.
Washington and Colorado stunned much of the world by voting in November 2012 to legalize marijuana for adults over 21, and to create state-licensed systems for growing, selling and taxing the pot. Sales began in Colorado on Jan. 1.
Washington issued its first 24 retail licenses Monday. An Associated Press survey of the licensees showed only about six planned to open Tuesday: two in Bellingham, one in Seattle, one in Spokane, one in Prosser and one in Kelso.
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For example ... ?
The article on Drudge says that the Seattle store only got 10 lbs of marijuana to sell.
The shortage is caused by the high standards that the state set (no mold or contaminants) and the water regulators who have been restricting water to farms and now to marijuana farms as well. Many people think that water that could be used for food crops or farm animals, should not be wasted on marijuana.
I was just thinking that ten pounds isn’t very much. Kids in Whatcom County were always getting caught smuggling marijuana across the border, 50lbs at a time. A black garbage full was 50 ponds.
Of Americans used pot in the last year, 40% had not used in the last month. (http://www.samhsa.gov/data/NSDUH/2012SummNatFindDetTables/DetTabs/NSDUH-DetTabsSect1peTabs1to46-2012.htm#Tab1.1B)
Truth. Drug warriors are some of the most dangerous and evil people in the country IMO.
Thanks. Those stats confirm what I have said.
“Truth. Drug warriors are some of the most dangerous and evil people in the country IMO.”
When they get anal probed and raped by the police, they’ll come around. Unfortunately it will be too late by then...
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certain posts extolling weed in contrast to the “demon alcohol”.
For example ... ?
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Post 22. On this thread.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3177537/posts?page=22#22
Quote: “i know plenty of conservatives who choose a natural plant over the demon alcohol.”
I mean really, are you that obtuse or non-observant?
I'm not sure we're looking at the same statistic....
The drop from ever used, to used in last month, to chronic use is very large and consistent with the observation that occasional use dies out.
To my mind, use once in the last year is essentially no use.
Occasional use is much more frequent than once in a year to my mind.
There is also a problem in these studies. People who may use dope once a year very well do not feel effects, because they are doing it socially, don’t inhale much or take many tokes etc...
These studies should really be focused on getting stoned, the full effect.
Data on that may be
No, the opposite is true - if occasional use were rare, nobody would use more than once a year but less than once a month.
Thanks - I missed that one.
“No, the opposite is true - if occasional use were rare, nobody would use more than once a year but less than once a month.”
Time doesn’t stand still. New humans come along with regularity.
And I consider once a year not occasional use, but no use.
Welcome.
A few other things you might consider is that Opium causes dissociative hypnogogic hallucinations. Methamphetamine commonly causes users to suffer from paranoid delusions, and psychotic behavior not to mention that it ( along with amphetamine, cocaine, Dexedrine, Adderall (dextroamphetamine), Ritalin(methylphenidate) and even caffeine in sufficient doses) can cause sleep deprivation hallucinations which are far more severe than LSD, MDMA, and Psilocybin.
Further I suspect that there are many people due to their misuse of meth/amphetamine, alcohol, opiates etc that would consider their drug addiction "life changing".
Most of those people wouldn't even call cannabis a "real" drug.
pot legal, drugs overrun, someone in the UK saying pedophilia is normal...
These are some heady times for Libertopians.... paradise is nigh
border open and overrun
I think the truth is that most of the legalization crowd is getting money from socialists because there isn't a real difference between the Cloward-Piven plan and full legalization. It's the same reason our government colluded with the latest invasion of our country, why there is such a thing as Obamacare, etc etc etc.
I say this as someone that thinks the constant and continual supra-constitutional powers usurped by our government, purportedly to fight the "drug war", has been far more damaging to our republic then had no prohibition and drug laws never been implemented.
Fixing this and most of our other national issues isn't really complicated, we just need the will to make some hard decisions and stick to them.
Socialists and libertarians are sympatico because they both think their utopia will arise from the ashes
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