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Colorado voters to decide on recreational pot plan - Refuse/resist - 02-29-2012 02:37 AM
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46555317#.T03SeNVjm1s
By KRISTEN WYATT
updated 2/28/2012 9:08:09 AM ET
DENVER  Colorado voters will decide this fall whether to legalize marijuana for recreational use when the state becomes the second in the nation to put such a proposal on ballots this year.
The Secretary of State's Office said Monday that supporters of the legalization initiative collected enough signatures to get their measure before voters, meaning Colorado will join Washington state in putting a recreational pot question on November ballots.
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The plan would also direct state lawmakers to put an undetermined excise tax on pot, with the proceeds going to education.
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Proceeds going to education. I like it.
This might have a decent chance at passing in Colorado.
If it passes in 1 state, it could mean a MAJOR VICTORY for the legalization movement.
Most important though..
A MAJOR VICTORY FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
Perhaps 1 day it'll lead to freeing the hundreds of thousands of those imprisoned/incarcerated because of our archaic outdated and INHUMANE marijuana laws.
Sociopaths imprison pot smokers. Why?
Are pot smokers really that threatening?
Really?
America imprisoning potheads is a fucking disgrace.
RE: Colorado voters to decide on recreational pot plan - TheCrone - 02-29-2012 04:19 AM
You ask why the sociopaths imprison pot smokers. Well, keeping some drugs illegal is a big benefit to the police, to the politicians, and to the prison industry.
And to the big banking institutions as well, most of which have laundered many a drug lord's profits for them, at a hefty price.
And now that the Big Pharmaceuticals are about to patent dozens if not hundreds of cannibinoid substances, off of which they hope to make a huge profit, there is the spectre of the huge campagign finances that those in the Poltical Class rely on. So that is one of the reasons why I suspect that Obama's DOJ suddenly decided to reverse itself back in the fall of last year, in terms of going after the medical marijuana clinics in Washington State, California, and also Colorado.
RE: Colorado voters to decide on recreational pot plan - ima_sinnic - 02-29-2012 04:34 AM
Here in Maine this past fall, online reports on the Bangor Daily News website about a guy busted for growing 16 pot plants, and another about brothers busted for 30, were followed by unanimous comments calling for legalization. Not ONE comment supported the arrests or even keeping it illegal.
Just another case of the "government" going totally against the will and wishes of the vast majority, the 99% whose taxes pay their salaries -- salaries that apparently pale in comparison to their bribes from the 1% waste products.
RE: Colorado voters to decide on recreational pot plan - Hawkeye-X - 02-29-2012 08:42 AM
You know how I'm voting for this.
RE: Colorado voters to decide on recreational pot plan - ima_sinnic - 02-29-2012 10:32 AM
Hawkeye, I envy you the chance to vote on it.
Hopefully my state will soon follow.
RE: Colorado voters to decide on recreational pot plan - Borneo - 02-29-2012 01:14 PM
I can't vote on this. I'm moving to Florida in April. I'll be dodging at windmills, voting in that state by November. On the plus side, I can vote for Alan Grayson
RE: Colorado voters to decide on recreational pot plan - Refuse/resist - 02-29-2012 03:53 PM
(02-29-2012 04:19 AM)TheCrone Wrote: You ask why the sociopaths imprison pot smokers. Well, keeping some drugs illegal is a big benefit to the police, to the politicians, and to the prison industry.
And to the big banking institutions as well, most of which have laundered many a drug lord's profits for them, at a hefty price.
And now that the Big Pharmaceuticals are about to patent dozens if not hundreds of cannibinoid substances, off of which they hope to make a huge profit, there is the spectre of the huge campagign finances that those in the Poltical Class rely on. So that is one of the reasons why I suspect that Obama's DOJ suddenly decided to reverse itself back in the fall of last year, in terms of going after the medical marijuana clinics in Washington State, California, and also Colorado.
Well said.
Sociopaths profit from locking up humans. The privatized for-profit prison industry is a blatant form of American-style corruption.
Caging humans for profit. Many non-violent. Many for just smoking pot.
Government(non-private) prisons/pens have a place in our society for violent murderers etc. The worst white collar criminals, corporate polluters, corporate criminals, pension robbers, price gougers etc also belong behind bars in Govt. prisons.
I agree with everything you said Thecrone!
It's a disgusting system.
Capitalism. The whole fucking scam.
RE: Colorado voters to decide on recreational pot plan - jest - 03-11-2012 10:08 AM
I hope it makes on the ballot too. I fear it will only pass if some corporation finds a way to make a mint off it.
RE: Colorado voters to decide on recreational pot plan - F. Gordon - 04-17-2012 10:00 PM
Medical marijuana has been a great revenue source for the State. I'll be voting Hell Yes on this but I fear that it will not pass. Those that currently sell medical marijuana will be part of those that fight it.
RE: Colorado voters to decide on recreational pot plan - TheCrone - 04-20-2012 05:33 PM
(02-29-2012 04:34 AM)ima_sinnic Wrote: Here in Maine this past fall, online reports on the Bangor Daily News website about a guy busted for growing 16 pot plants, and another about brothers busted for 30, were followed by unanimous comments calling for legalization. Not ONE comment supported the arrests or even keeping it illegal.
Just another case of the "government" going totally against the will and wishes of the vast majority, the 99% whose taxes pay their salaries -- salaries that apparently pale in comparison to their bribes from the 1% waste products.
Yet yesterday, CNN was countering that what you are seeing as far as public support for legalization in Maine, and what I know to be public support in Calif., with sad tales of how some pot smokers found that it "disoriented them and made decision making problematic." As if alcohol wouldn't do the same thing.
If pot makes you weird (as it happens to do to me) there is an easy remedy - don't smoke it! But the idea of Big Government throwing everyone in jail who does toke up is preposterous, except for the profit factor of the various enterprises that get rich by keeping it illegal.