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Denver shuts down 26 legal pot businesses, makes arrests
AP ^ | 12/14/17

Posted on 12/14/2017 6:55:32 PM PST by x1stcav

DENVER (AP) — Denver authorities shut down 26 legal marijuana businesses Thursday and arrested 12 people suspected of illegal distribution of pot after a yearlong criminal investigation.

Potential charges relate to marijuana sales exceeding limits set in state law, police said. Colorado allows people 21 and older to possess an ounce or less of marijuana under a measure approved by voters in 2012.

The city department that regulates marijuana businesses issued the order to close the businesses based on the police investigation, spokesman Dan Rowland said. It marked the first time the city has issued an open-ended suspension to any legal marijuana business since sales began in 2014, he said.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: cannabis; cannapiss; criminals; denver; marijuana; noselfcontrol; pot; potheads; reedermademess; reefermademess
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To: x1stcav
A serious topic taken as a spoof. Marijuana only enriches the “pushers “ who promote it. Do you really believe that smoking this crap does anyone any good? Nonsense. The myrin institute has been on the front lines for a long time. http://myrin.org/ Are we on the road to a society of sybaritic hedonists whose only goal and pastime is to get stoned? Think again.
21 posted on 12/14/2017 7:28:38 PM PST by Fungi (Fungi rule the world, no one knows it yet.)
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To: x1stcav



You can take the pothead out of illegality, but you cannot take the illegality out of the pothead!



22 posted on 12/14/2017 7:31:02 PM PST by Vision Thing (You see the depths of our hearts, and You love us the same...)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

“Legalize it!” they said.... “It’ll reduce crime!” they said.

Looks like it still created crime. Who knew?

We did.


23 posted on 12/14/2017 7:38:52 PM PST by Cleavis
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To: x1stcav
Dave's not here.

I know a guy who own a legal business in maryjane, and he says he follows the law to a T. Its a pain, but its the rules. He also said that there are tons of people who dont do the same, and they put their businesses at risk.

24 posted on 12/14/2017 7:42:24 PM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: Cleavis

They bust bars for selling liquor to those underage, it doesn’t mean alcohol shouldn’t have been legalized.


25 posted on 12/14/2017 7:44:15 PM PST by Wolfie
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To: x1stcav

Someone could make a lot of money opening snack foods stores in the same areas.


26 posted on 12/14/2017 7:45:38 PM PST by Architect of Avalon
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To: x1stcav

Failed to pay their tribute to their betters.


27 posted on 12/14/2017 7:51:58 PM PST by gunnut
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To: sagar

If the United States needed to amend the Constitution to make alcohol illegal, then how do they justify banning marijuana without the same legal consideration. I’ll just add “Tenth Amendment” and leave it at that.


28 posted on 12/14/2017 7:59:15 PM PST by DNME (The only solution to a BAD guy with a gun is a GOOD guy with a gun.)
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To: x1stcav

There is another medicinal plant that the DEA has their panties in a twist over...

Mitragyna speciosa, commonly known as Kratom.

Unless you live in one of the 6 states that have state laws prohibiting it you can order it on ebay from many sellers.

It does possess some good qualities, and there probably is a reason to be concerned about its use by addiction-prone people.

A rather huge dose costs about 2 dollars, an ordinary dose half that.

You have to take it on an empty stomach, (well, there goes my chance to ever try it..lol)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitragyna_speciosa


29 posted on 12/14/2017 8:02:35 PM PST by Bobalu (Build the Wall. Deport them ALL)
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To: sparklite2

“weed out or blunt”

Harrumph!


30 posted on 12/14/2017 8:09:09 PM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (NOT TITO)
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To: Bobalu

Many people use that to get off of government approved opioids.


31 posted on 12/14/2017 8:14:10 PM PST by Karl Spooner
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To: x1stcav

What do the police say to marijuana sellers when they knoc on the door with a warrant? “High”, we’re the police.


32 posted on 12/14/2017 8:32:36 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: x1stcav

I thought they _wanted_ the business!


33 posted on 12/14/2017 8:37:13 PM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: x1stcav

Denver has WAY, WAY, WAY too many pop shops - seems like one or two on every block on East Colfax, so shutting down a few is no biggie, in fact, probably reduces the struggle of others trying to stay in business ...


34 posted on 12/14/2017 9:48:00 PM PST by catnipman ( Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: catnipman; x1stcav

pop supposed to be POT


35 posted on 12/14/2017 9:56:43 PM PST by catnipman ( Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: TigersEye
A windfall for the cannabis shops that obeyed the regulations.

"Potential charges relate to marijuana sales exceeding limits set in state law"

Imagine if you opened the paper and read that 26 Ford dealerships were closed and their employees and owners arrested for selling more cars than limits set in state law allowed? Would you think, 'that's insane in a free country', or would you think, 'that's a windfall for the crappy dealerships that people didn't want to visit, but that got a law passed limiting how many cars their competitors could sell in a year'.

I prefer property rights, liberty, and free enterprise to state laws about who can sell how many weeds after submitting the requisite forms. But freedom is scary, so we need more rules, and more cops, and of course more taxes to support them. But the taxes aren't enough, so lets find some civil forfeiture too.

Is that really what we want?

36 posted on 12/14/2017 9:57:49 PM PST by Gunslingr3
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To: x1stcav

Is it a cash business in Colorado like it is in WA?
Probably tax evasion.
Stoners forgot to pay the government mobsters.


37 posted on 12/14/2017 10:39:37 PM PST by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
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To: Fungi
Apparently you are not aware that YOU have cannabinoid receptors. You were designed to accept the fruit of this herb.

It's not like ethanol, your brain doesn't asphyxiate.

The people that use it responsibly are not criminals, neither are the people that abuse it. They are people.

As far as your institute, they are another flash in the pan CIA front to quash their competition in the drug industry.

The Truth is soon to be realized about the deep state and the hell it has put this country through for the past hundred years.

38 posted on 12/15/2017 1:30:33 AM PST by rawcatslyentist
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To: rawcatslyentist
http://www.drugfreeworld.org/drugfacts/marijuana/behind-the-smoke-screen.html
39 posted on 12/15/2017 3:42:34 AM PST by SVTCobra03 (You can never have enough friends, horsepower or ammunition.)
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To: x1stcav

Kind of expected when one develops “pockets of legality” for an otherwise illegal product.....


40 posted on 12/15/2017 3:52:08 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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