Weed Legal in CO on Jan 1st

[TheVictors]

The quality has been incredibly high (hey-oh) for years and in CO in general. Hawaii, Colorado, Oregon/Washington ....always been good.

The tax rate is the aspect that's interesting ...plus, the pricing is exactly what the "black market" has been ...funny how it's legal but still costs what it would have anyways.


Rocky Mountain High, Colorado ....sweet snow and riding today.

 

[Monster]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeYsTmIzjkw

 

[tigermud]

Pot stocks did extremely well last week

 

[food4thought]

Let me be clear up front: pot is not a positive thing, particularly for young people.

That said, there are several good reasons to legalize pot.

1) Removing a relatively harmless drug from the black market where dealers have a financial incentive to push harder, more dangerous, and more profitable, drugs like coke, meth, etc.

2) The money previously spent fighting pot users/dealers and incarcerating them needlessly can now be used for more important things.

3) Instead of spending money fighting it, the government can now benefit from taxing it's sale.

I am a conservative Christian, and I don't think pot is completely harmless, but I am also a bit of a pragmatist... and it has become painfully obvious that we CANNOT stop people from smoking pot. So instead of fighting a losing battle, and crowding our jails and prisons with nonviolent offenders, our society is better served by regulating the market and earning tax revenue from it.

JMHO

 

[Thumb]

We can't stop terrorism, child pornography, money laundering, or tax evasion either. Should we just give up because it's a losing battle?

You think by making pot completely legal all the people who profit in it's traffic now will just accept it as a loss and become regular hard working members of society?

You call it being a pragmatist, I call it being naive.

 

[tinselwolverine]

You're both making dim witted points.

Jails stuffed full of non-violent pot smokers?

Seriously?

Have you been smoking pot?


Where does anybody go to prison anymore for possession of a small amount of reefer?

And comparing weed to child pornography and terrorism?

Really?

 

[elrod817]

You're both making dim witted points.

Jails stuffed full of non-violent pot smokers?

Seriously?

Have you been smoking pot?


Where does anybody go to prison anymore for possession of a small amount of reefer?

And comparing weed to child pornography and terrorism?

Really?

Yeah...but I'm pretty sure pot's a gateway drug to both child porn AND terrorism.

 

[tinselwolverine]

Yeah...but I'm pretty sure pot's a gateway drug to both child porn AND terrorism.

I like Thumb a lot....but his last post?

Thumb's post was dumb.

The other guy?

I don't recognize him; he doesn't matter.

But his post was also dumb.

 

[Thumb]

You're both making dim witted points.

Jails stuffed full of non-violent pot smokers?

Seriously?

Have you been smoking pot?


Where does anybody go to prison anymore for possession of a small amount of reefer?

And comparing weed to child pornography and terrorism?

Really?

Show me where I compared weed to any of those things? I simply said they were all things the government can never stop, that's not really a comparison of one to another.

Only a dim witted person would make the astronomical leap that I was equating any of those things with each other.

A brighter person might understand the point was that just because you can't stop people from doing something is no reason to stop trying.

 

[TheVictors]

Ask 10 cops if they'd rather deal with a bunch of drunks or stoners and 10 cops will reply with the latter. Cops have been looking the "other way" regarding weed for years unless there is a quantity justifying intervention or local laws like those in AZ or TX which are incredibly tough.

In CO the local/State law was passed by people who recognize this and in a few years, I would bet that many states legalize weed.

And rather than compare smoking pot to child porn or terrorism, why not compare it to alcohol or prescription pharmas; both of which are legal and equally if not more destructive than pot.

 

[Gulo Blue]

Where does anybody go to prison anymore for possession of a small amount of reefer?

I don't know how many times you have to be arrested before they start talking about prison, but if the two are related, then it's not so much a matter of where as a matter of the race of the person in possession.

 

[Gulo Blue]

Nope. Not that related. Biased source, but my gut says Tinsel is right.

http://learnaboutsam.com/the-issues/marijuana-and-whos-in-prison/

A survey by the Bureau of Justice Statistics showed that 0.7% of all state inmates were behind bars for marijuana possession only (with many of them pleading down from more serious crimes)

 

[TheVictors]

incredible. what are the police going to do if they're not arresting all those Black folks for possession of marijuana?

 

[spockmaster]

incredible. what are the police going to do if they're not arresting all those Black folks for possession of marijuana?

find other reasons to arrest black people by the dozen. they always find some reason.

 

[TheVictors]

true

 

[tinselwolverine]

Show me where I compared weed to any of those things? I simply said they were all things the government can never stop, that's not really a comparison of one to another.

Only a dim witted person would make the astronomical leap that I was equating any of those things with each other.

A brighter person might understand the point was that just because you can't stop people from doing something is no reason to stop trying.

Oh bite my willy.

When you juxtaposed child porn and terrorism against weed you were comparing them.

That's what a comparison is.

That's why we call it that.

I didn't call you a dim wit.

Simply your comparison was dim witted.

 

[Gulo Blue]

Oh bite my willy.

When you juxtaposed child porn and terrorism against weed you were comparing them.

That's what a comparison is.

That's why we call it that.

I didn't call you a dim wit.

Simply your comparison was dim witted.

Just like lots of theoretically valid comparisons to Nazis, there's a line between the two, even if it's tough to draw up a good definition for the line.

 

[Thumb]

Oh bite my willy.

When you juxtaposed child porn and terrorism against weed you were comparing them.

That's what a comparison is.

That's why we call it that.

I didn't call you a dim wit.

Simply your comparison was dim witted.

So you might have been happier if I used littering, jaywalking, or texting while driving? Because those really would have emphasized the point I was making much better right? But it was dim witted anyways and you missed it all together.

Maybe you can be my editor here, I'll send you all my posts beforehand and you can give me your advice on if it falls into the categories of dumb, dim witted, acceptable, or Dinozzo.

 

[tinselwolverine]

Sure I'll do that for you.

 

[Gulo Blue]

It's sensationalist. Not dim-witted.