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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“Legalize it!” they said.... “It’ll reduce crime!” they said.
Looks like it still created crime. Who knew?
We did.
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.
They bust bars for selling liquor to those underage, it doesn’t mean alcohol shouldn’t have been legalized.
Someone could make a lot of money opening snack foods stores in the same areas.
Failed to pay their tribute to their betters.
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.
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
“weed out or blunt”
Harrumph!
Many people use that to get off of government approved opioids.
What do the police say to marijuana sellers when they knoc on the door with a warrant? “High”, we’re the police.
I thought they _wanted_ the business!
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 ...
pop supposed to be POT
"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?
Is it a cash business in Colorado like it is in WA?
Probably tax evasion.
Stoners forgot to pay the government mobsters.
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.
Kind of expected when one develops “pockets of legality” for an otherwise illegal product.....
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