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.
And when even a far-left nutjob screwball like Hickenlooper gets it...
AKA finding out the hard way. There are reasons for our traditions!
So why doesn;t this guy resign? He just admitted he doesn;t know what he’s doing!
Dawn shines on Marblehead.
unintended consequences
Anyone could see what these would be if they only thought about for a few minutes.
Oh. Well, sorry. Too bad about that.
What a twerp, wanting it both ways.
He signed the damn bill, now it’s a mistake?
So what exactly is the reasoning besides “not having a federal partner”?
Crime is down, car accidents are down and tax revenue is up by all measures.
He’s leftist, not libertarian.
Still, all he did was to create a grey market (officially still verboten by the Feds, but at this time they are winking). That is kind of the worst of both worlds.
“We’re starting from scratch and we don’t have a federal partner”
He says that as though it’s a bad thing.
DU-U-U-H-H-H
Could’ve saved you millions in research studies Gov...now you’ve screwed up one of the prettiest places on the planet for 30 pieces of silver and imported potheads from every corner of the United States...we know how this will end...
Stoned voters helped re-elect cHickenlooper.
Having a place for all the rest of the country’s potheads to go... if it were true the other 49 ought to be thanking ole Hicky.
That’s why they call it dope.
There are reasons for our traditions!
And there it is. If you’re in rebellion to that Creator,
you’re going to reject His Word and anything based on it,
and demand that your way “work” just as well as His.
Having a place for all the rest of the country’s potheads to go... if it were true the other 49 ought to be thanking ole Hicky.
Nah it’s just a major distribution center...not like a fly trap; more like a fresh steaming pile of poop breeding more flies
I think if people went to Amsterdam and walked around for a week or two....you’d come to several realizations about legit pot.
First, you don’t see hardly any doped up Dutch folks on the streets....mostly just doped up tourists from other countries.
Second, if you look carefully....there’s plenty of LSD and Heron usage in Amsterdam....so legit pot gimmicks didn’t decrease those options.
Third, cops have various ways to determine if a guy is stoned....and if you fail a drivers drug test...they get pretty serious by taking the license away for a year.
Fourth and final...if we upset about folks doing pot in a public situation...we ought to be equally upset about people who drink to excess in a public situation as well. Same brain cell damage in the end.
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