California's former top cop forms marijuana distribution firm in new age of legalization

L.A. Times ^ | Dec. 21, 2017, 3:30 p.m. | Patrick McGreevy

[granite]

Former California Atty. Gen. Bill Lockyer is going from enforcing laws against marijuana to legally distributing the drug under the state’s new rules that allow the sale and possession of pot for recreational use.

With state-licensed sales of marijuana starting Jan. 1, Lockyer has co-founded a firm, C4 Distro, that will distribute packaged marijuana concentrates and edibles to stores in Los Angeles.

He says California’s new regulated system has a chance to be a model for the rest of the country.

“For me as somebody who was on the law enforcement side for so many years, I saw the inadequacies of the effort to regulate something just by calling it illegal,” Lockyer said. “I think legalizing will help stabilize and help legitimize this industry and result in better consumer protection and other public benefits.”

[The Iceman Cometh]

If you want to put yourself on the fast track to stupidity, smoke weed.

As a person suffering from a failed knee replacement with awful pain, I'll take cannaboids any day over garbage opoids.

[The Iceman Cometh]

If you want to put yourself on the fast track to stupidity, smoke weed.

Oh, and by the way, you don't have to smoke it these days.

[himno hero]

another bullshit politician who was involved prior to its legalization.
hows that for Christmas?

[sargon]

If you want to put yourself on the fast track to stupidity, smoke weed.

If you want to increase your speed by tenfold on that same "fast track to stupidity", drink alcohol...

[Ken H]

Yeah right. This country was flat on its back until FDR and LBJ came along and outlawed pot during the New Deal.

Thank goodness for Progressives!

[C210N]

I have mixed thoughts, while fighting a local push (putsch) for recreational marijuana stores in my town in MA. MA passed a legalization statewide ballot measure 2 years ago, which allows towns to outright ban the stores. Legalization is one thing; commercialization is quite another. I’m a proud nimbyist on this topic, and yes, there are federal considerations.

[fr_freak]

The average IQ in legalized states is dropping...

That is entirely possible, and it is also entirely possible that regular use of marijuana will drop IQ (hopefully temporary). But that is irrelevant to the issue with the War on Drugs. There are a great number of things that adults can choose to do that are less than healthy, from drinking to eating Twinkies and beyond. The real issue is whether we want our federal government making life choices like this for us, and then ruthlessly enforcing them to the point that the War on Drugs warriors have done.

I don't have a problem with states legalizing drugs, nor do I have a problem with states criminalizing drugs (from a legal standpoint). That is what federalism is all about. I do have a problem with the federal government regulating individual behavior, and I have a problem with them regulating which potted plants an individual citizen grows in his backyard for his own use and claiming that some vague, indirect, possible effect on interstate commerce is the Constitutional justification for it.

When you allow the federal to have that kind of power, the state governments become nothing more than vassals of the federal government, and we all become nothing but serfs to our Washington DC overlords.

[The Iceman Cometh]

If you want to increase your speed by tenfold on that same "fast track to stupidity", drink alcohol...

Alcohol gives me wicked migraines. Ergo, I don't get much fun in my life ;-)

[xp38]

I have a question. Will widespread mj use work to the advantage of our side, have no impact or help the dims?

[Ken H]

“I’m a proud nimbyist on this topic, and yes, there are federal considerations.”

Only if you believe in a living, breathing Constitution. Why do you insist on taking a leak on the Tenth Amendment?

[granite]

I have a question. Will widespread mj use work to the advantage of our side, have no impact or help the dims?

You may be on to something...

[DoughtyOne]

This does not reflect well on his forum life in law enforcement.

[Vaquero]

I would too if I didn’t think the Feds would take my Guns. I take very mild opioids. But I hate them. The Feds need to wake up.

[SaxxonWoods]

He is perfectly placed for this and will be a multimillionaire in a few years.

[American in Israel]

What you want to bet that bills been on that bandwagon long before it became illegal.

[1_Inch_Group]

Cannabis has helped me through a lot of pain from surgeries, when I’d otherwise be downing Percosets. I’ll stick with the non-opium based relief as well.

Using cannabis doesn’t make you stupid...that’s just left over drugwar residue on the public mind. I’m still on the FAR right of the bell curve.

Shouldn’t ever have been legalized for recreation for those under 30 though. It does affect developing brains in a bad way.

[donna]

Destroy our young people and our country.

[Hepsabeth]

Alcohol gives me wicked migraines.

Your body recognizes it for the poison it is.

[granite]

Alcohol gives me wicked migraines.

Your body recognizes it for the poison it is.

I heard just recently that many are allergic (as am I), if you feel ill immediately after ingesting alcohol, you are probably allergic and should avoid imbibing.

[Sixgun Symphony]

It’s a win for limited government and free enterprise.