Colorado Marijuana Laws

[SFC B]

+1, completely agree.

I don't use, nor drink hardly, but I think alcohol is worse in some instances.

Having lived with "medical" since I moved to the Springs I have a couple of observations.

First, I haved noticed any negatives surroundings or activities near the despensaries even APPROACHING what accompanies liquor stores.

Second, the local sales tax raised has done som very specific good in the city (ie park maint. and street lights).

Finally, I will say that from a personal persectve, having been a Deputy Sheriff for a few years before I went back to school and then into the Army, I would rather deal with 50 stoners than ONE drunk rednecks :/ Never had someone on weed alone fight me, beat their wife or go out in public looking to start shizz. Just my experience.

 

[mtmiller]

....but they are all atheists.

 

[dustinf]

I'd think a lot of companies will be real nervous about litigating employee termination cases involving pot down there. I could see it now, the defense attorney's first question during the voir dire is; I see from the jury surveys that some of you smoke pot. How many of you support Colorado's pot law? Every person in the jury pool raises their hand. The company rep immediately starts to pass out and screams we want to settle on the way to the floor...

I'm drug and alcohol tested at work all the time. It's in our contract and I think every workplace should do it.

 

[Corax]

All the drug war is doing is making some Colombians very rich. End federal price supports for drugs.

 

[sbhooper]

All the drug war is doing is making some Colombians very rich. End federal price supports for drugs.

There are two sides to this mj thing, but I tend to agree with you. All the money spent on a drug war, could have made all of us millionaires twice over and accomplished the same thing. Any drug is readily available everywhere you go. It has made millionaires out of street thugs.

No easy answer.

 

[WV Hunter]

Assuming both are legal, I don't understand how smoking weed is any different than drinking alcohol?

Both are gateway drugs, both are dangerous when abused, both impair judgement.

Yep. I know I've said it before and it really has nothing to do with this thread but 80,000 people a year die in alcohol related deaths compared to 8,000 gun deaths.

 

[LopeHunter]

Having lived with "medical" since I moved to the Springs I have a couple of observations.

First, I haved noticed any negatives surroundings or activities near the despensaries even APPROACHING what accompanies liquor stores.

Second, the local sales tax raised has done som very specific good in the city (ie park maint. and street lights).

Finally, I will say that from a personal persectve, having been a Deputy Sheriff for a few years before I went back to school and then into the Army, I would rather deal with 50 stoners than ONE drunk rednecks :/ Never had someone on weed alone fight me, beat their wife or go out in public looking to start shizz. Just my experience.

I worked for a large concert arena in the 1990s and we staffed for "war" when a band had a hard-drinking fan base. ZZ Top on a weekend drawing 5000 would net dozens of fights. Phish on a weekend drawing 20,000 would have a couple of fights. Property damage correlated with fights.

I have seen lives destroyed by tobacco, alcohol, prescriptions and street drugs. As for gateway drugs, tricky to decide what is first in a line of dominoes. Did Pepsi lead to Coors to cigs to weed? Caffeine is addictive.

 

[EODRay]

Officer: Sir, I pulled you over for doing 5mph in a 30mph zone. Are you high?
Driver: No officer, I was just going to the store for some more chips.
Officer: Well I'm going to let you off with a warning this time. See if you can pick up your speed a little. A kid could run into the back for your car with his bike or something.

The day they legalized pot in Colorado, I told my friend that we needed to open a store called "Munchies". It would be like the "White Castle" is for drunks.

 

[TLC]

Officer: Sir, I pulled you over for doing 5mph in a 30mph zone. Are you high?
Driver: No officer, I was just going to the store for some more chips.
Officer: Well I'm going to let you off with a warning this time. See if you can pick up your speed a little. A kid could run into the back for your car with his bike or something.

The day they legalized pot in Colorado, I told my friend that we needed to open a store called "Munchies". It would be like the "White Castle" is for drunks.

taco bell is for drunks. white castle is for munchies time.

 

[Devil Diver Down]

Assuming both are legal, I don't understand how smoking weed is any different than drinking alcohol?

Both are gateway drugs, both are dangerous when abused, both impair judgement.

One of my good friends drank himself to death about 6 weeks ago. He'd been hospitalized twice - told his pancreas, liver and kidneys wouldn't stand for it - and still he couldn't (or wouldn't) control it, leaving behind a 6-year old son. He never smoked pot, but he did take prescribed pain meds and pour booze on top. His brother has probably put half a million up his nose and smokes pot every day, but doesn't drink much - he's still alive and kicking. Not much of a scientific baseline, but booze gets portrayed as okay by most while pot is largely demonized. Lobbying is pretty effective.

All the drug war is doing is making some Colombians very rich. End federal price supports for drugs.

Lobbying is pretty effective. I wonder if there's ever been a less effective, expensive government initiative, up to and including O' Bummer Care, than the so-called War On Drugs. Completely impotent and emptied this country's pockets.