Posted on 01/23/2015 7:13:21 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Colorado’s decision to legalize marijuana was a bad idea, the state’s governor said Friday.
Gov. John Hickenlooper, a Democrat who opposed the 2012 decision by voters to make pot legal, said the state still doesn’t fully know what the unintended consequences of the move will be.
If I could've waved a wand the day after the election, I would've reversed the election and said, 'This was a bad idea,’” Hickenlooper said Friday on CNBC's “Squawk Box.”
“You don't want to be the first person to do something like this,” he said.
He said that he tells other governors to “wait a couple of years” before legalizing marijuana as Colorado continues to navigate an unknown, non-existing federal regulatory landscape for the industry.
“There's a whole regulatory environment... that really regulates alcohol,” he said. “We're starting from scratch and we don't have a federal partner because [marijuana] is still illegal federally.”
In February 2014, the Obama administration released guidelines for the marijuana industry indicating the federal officials would not target financial institutions or businesses engaging in selling pot as long as those businesses were compliant with state laws.
Despite the guidelines, banks are reluctant to finance marijuana businesses in states where it is legal because federal law still lists marijuana as an illegal drug. Congress would need to pass a law removing that language.
Marijuana is legal in four states: Colorado, Oregon, Alaska and Washington. Congress has blocked the District of Columbia from legalizing pot after voters in November cast ballots that they wanted to make the drug legal.
Pointing out the harm done by Alcohol does not justify the harm done by Marijuana.
If anything, it makes people question why we would want another intoxicant to produce even more damage.
I actually like the idea of legalizing pot in Washington D.C. They are already parasites, and it would make it easier to explain why they are doing something stupid over there.
The pro pot Nazi’s are out in full force.
Who on this thread is "pro pot" (I'm not - I'm anti-pot-pro-legalization) and what makes them "Nazis"?
If you depend on the state to define what is acceptable morally, and to define how you raise your children morally, you are a weak soul. And that view is what is leading to more and more government intrusion on our freedoms as Americans. You can’t use that much sugar, that much salt, you don’t need that many guns, that many bullets.
How about we just save a lot of time and you tell me where is the authority in the constitution for stopping people from shipping chemical weapons into the country?
Or do you think the government doesn't have the authority to do that?
Only because he did not want to be the first one to do it!
Are you listening Libertarians? GOPe?
NEVER EVER GO BIPARTISAN WITH THEM, BECAUSE THEY WANT YOU TO BE BLAMED!
Boehner is the stupidest scum.
Just watch, the opiates will be next. Already have seen some on here pushing for full access of them. They won’t be satisfied with just pot, they’ll go for acid, heroin, meth, coke, everything. It’s like gay marriage. Get the camel’s nose under the tent with the medical scam and then push and push. Drugs cause the users’ to push even harder than the gay marriage/superiority issue though.
However, you are correct for now. The pot pushing is full out insane now. But they aren’t going to just sit back on the rest either.
Pot is a gateway drug because people lie to kids and tell them pot is just as bad as all the other drugs.
When they try pot and find out that they were lied to, they assume the same is true for all the other drugs and that’s where they get into trouble.
No my friend, you are the one that doesn't know what you are talking about. I used to know a pimp that would start out by getting girls hooked on weed, and he would then put some crack into it. In a week they were hooked on crack.
He would then send them out to the street to make him money.
I know numerous other examples of people who started out on pot, and eventually got bored with it so they turned to coke, crack, meth and heroin.
It is indeed a gateway. It gets them into the habit of using drugs, and they eventually develop a tolerance to it, at which point they want something stronger.
That's in the Commerce Clause. The power to regulate commerce with foreign nations covers anything coming across the border. There is ample historical reference to establish that as being within the original intent of the Commerce power.
Now, do you have anything to back up this "Defense clause" theory, or are you just making shit up?
I don't that is why the contradiction is so insidious.
No, i'm pointing out that humanity's contact with alcohol is so old that we actually evolved genes to process it.
Marijuana has NEVER possessed the degree of exposure to mankind that alcohol has. I am pointing out that comparisons between the two are childish and stupid.
You need to put your weed down for a bit and let your head clear. It is axiomatic that if all those serial killers were pot users, then all those specific pot users were serial killers.
I’ve heard the song Proud Mary was about smoking, well you know, on or near riverboats.
Crazy culture thing. There are doubtless other things that will actually make the tripper feel “prouder.”
I didn't know that. Presumably you know who this guy is?
And he doesn't think this OBSESSION is evidence of a psychosis?
He certainly behaves like a psychotic loon if you ask me.
Clean your light bulb, bub. Even if every murderer smoked pot, that doesn’t prove every (or even most) pot smokers are murderers... what kind of craziness is this, maybe it rivals that of smoking pot.
Projection makes you look silly
It doesn't stay in their homes, it keeps getting spread to the next generation.
Break the chain of contact, and we can start producing generations free of the attraction to use drugs.
Huh, with a freep birthday of last May?
Why do you keep putting out laughably illogical statements. It’s almost as if you partook of... well, you know. Does that lamp smell like oregano?
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