Colorado Voters Legalize Marijuana!

yes the fed guy has to say stuff like that but look at the facts:
there is a long standing precedent about states passing stuff and then the feds give'n the "big brother ok"
bud is scheduled in the same category as heroin, if they dont say that bs answer they would be down playing the sever consequences of use'n "mr brownstone" so yes a lackie will say just as he did when his puppet masters pulled his cord
the guy in charge is quiet because he knows he will lose a court case....the facts, not studys, are not in the fed's favor
if they were going to do any raids or w/e they said the same when calli made it medical. and now how many states is it medically legal...and now 2 legal /clap

if they are smart they will /wait till it catches enough along so the feds can get a dip in that tax pool. change'n the few law and opening the door for the rest of us

This is one issue were Obama pisses me off. Here you have a guy who admitted to committing what he enforces as a felony (don't forget coke) through his appointments as DEA and DOJ head, something that can keep you from becoming a president, he has no problem enforcing that after admitting to doing it, while being president? Mind boggling. So what does he do after getting by this ridiculous law that could have cost him his job even though it obviously has nothing to do with ones ability to be a president?

He acts within his own moral integrity and experience to reclassify it as a non-criminal infraction. JK, He Goes after medical marijuana facilities of course and appoints a DEA head who agrees with keeping it on par with Heroin. The fact that its so small, so stupid, and just marijuana, yet can completely ruin someones life, is essentially the whole point and makes him that much more ridiculous.

Not really. No ones really expecting people to open up pot shops because of this law. I doubt you'd be able to buy it anywhere in the sense of from a store.

What this law has done has made possession irrelevant. Federal officers are not going to come down and take away a person so they can be charged for a federal crime every single time a citizen gets caught with possession.

It might not be anything like the repeal of alcohol prohibition, but this was still a big deal.

also look up hemp....from clothes to a house... hemp can make all of this.. with a little fed approved r/d who knows hemp oil power a car?
it would not stop deforestation but slow it down for sure

Umm ... no

Go reread that article and pay attention to the exact wording used. The "experts" are not feds, their former agents. So while their opinion is valid, it's still only an opinion.

The words "could" and "might" were used, those are not definitive words and represent a possibility. A meteor could hit my apartment building, doesn't mean it will. Just like the FBI / DEA could attempt a crack down, don't mean they will.

Also remember what I stated earlier. The state is just decriminalizing it, meaning its not a state crime and they won't bother with it. The FBI / DEA rely heavily on local law enforcement for information and support on suspected criminal activities. That support is now gone, the FBI / DEA will have to go about doing the investigation on their own. That gets expensive really quick and the government is under a budget crush.

So ultimately it will come down to priorities. The FBI / DEA will have to prioritize what is and isn't important for them and allocate their limited resources accordingly. Most importantly this means no more midnight / no-knock raids by a paramilitary SWAT team that results in people / dogs being shot. Those teams are part of local law enforcement and while the DEA / FBI have similar resources, well those resources must cover the entire country.

So honestly, this is the best way to go about doing this. Enough states make it incredibly hard / expensive for the FBI / DEA to chase small time Cannibis possession / growth and those agencies will simply stop doing it out of pragmatism. This will in turn eventually force an eventual congressional debate on the mater with the results of it being removed off the Schedule I list of controlled substances. I suggest everyone put pressure on their local congressmen(women) to do exactly this.

No I went to bed. I am not going to sit and agrgue all night with someone whose mind I will never change, nor whose mind I care to change. You don't have to make everything personal.

/backreads

/rubs temples


Thanks for saying it!


^^^THIS^^^

Eik and I were talking about this in another thread not too long ago. Which states' major cities/suburbs don't have smoking ordinances that require you to be so many feet away from public buildings? I know here they were enforced a little over half a decade ago. I've seen people have a ticket doled out to them here and there. I haven't really seen as many public smokers in the past six years as I did in the proceeding twenty-one. I really don't see how this is a complaint for most people.

Jesus! Here if you have a cigarette in the end of the parking lot some *** with a Whole Foods sack will give you the stink eye from a mile.