I know how to liberate Colorado from the pot-heads

[Byte Stryke]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/08/marijuana-in-north-korea_n_4067341.html


not only is pot legal

its dirt cheap

[islandermyk]

Ha! I'm gonna spread the word [Coffee] I'm posting this on my Facebook! [Beer]

[ZERO THEORY]

So marijuana is N. Korea's version of soma in Brave New World?

[Zundfolge]

So marijuana is N. Korea's version of soma in Brave New World?

So just what do you think it is here?

[merl]

So just what do you think it is here?

beer

[Cylinder Head]

It's also legal and dirt cheap here, and there's no threat of being thrown in a gulag.

[ZERO THEORY]

So just what do you think it is here?

Digital entertainment.

Feeling blue? Just escape into a vicarious vacation with shows about abusive mothers parading their children around in depraved pageants, or envy families of socialites and follow their every move. Watch scripted "reality" shows about repo companies and stereotypical rednecks.

[Circuits]

Fatso has a monopoly on cheetos, doritos and other crispy snack foods over there. Potheads would never go for it without their munchies.

[KestrelBike]

Digital entertainment.

Feeling blue? Just escape into a vicarious vacation with shows about abusive mothers parading their children around in depraved pageants, or envy families of socialites and follow their every move. Watch scripted "reality" shows about repo companies and stereotypical rednecks.

Sounds like a quote from a modernized 1984, but it's sadly all too real.

[Ronin13]

Are you kidding? They're too lazy to learn a new language... aren't most pot-heads too lazy to even cook a real meal- that's why Frito-Lay has yet to go bankrupt.

[Sawin]

hahaha a grocery bag full for 80 cents? All the idiot pot heads in CO are getting ripped off!

[Kraven251]

how do you take CO back from the potheads ...make sure there is nothing on the ballot about pot in any shape or form, they won't show up to vote.

[Irving]

[facepalm] ....

[Colorado_Outback]

LOL

If anything Colorado gets more and more like NK every year.

[cofi]

LOL

If anything Colorado gets more and more like NK every year.


QFT

[hatidua]

Maybe I'm not paying adequate attention, but what harm do the pot smoking masses cause? I don't partake so I can't accurately pontificate on the virtues of the product but I can't recall any instance in which my life has been hampered by those that use the stuff.

[KLR650]

I am for a free society: smoke weed, drink liquor, build and shoot guns; I don't care. Just don't attempt to weaken this nation and stay outta my business. I don't understand why so many freedom loving gun owners can have a problem with marijuana, especially when a great many smoke tobacco or drink alcohol. Unless it affects you personally and in a negative way.

[RMAC757]

I am for a free society: smoke weed, drink liquor, build and shoot guns; I don't care. Just don't attempt to weaken this nation and stay outta my business. I don't understand why so many freedom loving gun owners can have a problem with marijuana, especially when a great many smoke tobacco or drink alcohol. Unless it affects you personally and in a negative way.

And the newbie goes yard! Nice reply, unless you think that a alcohol actually pacifies someone. I wish we'd decriminalize it nationally.

[ZERO THEORY]

Maybe I'm not paying adequate attention, but what harm do the pot smoking masses cause? I don't partake so I can't accurately pontificate on the virtues of the product but I can't recall any instance in which my life has been hampered by those that use the stuff.


I am for a free society: smoke weed, drink liquor, build and shoot guns; I don't care. Just don't attempt to weaken this nation and stay outta my business. I don't understand why so many freedom loving gun owners can have a problem with marijuana, especially when a great many smoke tobacco or drink alcohol. Unless it affects you personally and in a negative way.

My only actual physical gripe with it is how tacky head shops and dispenseries make a neighborhood look. Talk about killing property value. If people want to escape, so be it. It's not my business or problem.
What does concern me is that with drug use (alcohol, marijuana, etc.) and contemporary society in general, comes indifference and apathy. And that DOES effect me. It puts people like Morse and Hudak in office. It allows magazine restrictions, and the breakdown of TABOR. It leads to hive-minded support of charlatans and their agent provocateurs.

I also find it humorous that the whole passing of 64 was predicated on the false pretense of taxing the current marijuana market. As if the kind of people that sell dope on east Colfax are suddenly going to file for a business license and help fund the education system now that it's legal. If I know anything about drug dealers, it's that they love losing their comparatively low profit margins to the state.

[Irving]

Marijuana users are not a protected class, so it is easy to unjustifiable project hate onto them.

[Circuits]

Most of your weedies are liberals and O voters. I got no problem with weed or pot smokers, per se, but dislike most of the pot smokers for reasons other than their pot smoking.

[Colorado_Outback]

My only actual physical gripe with it is how tacky head shops and dispenseries make a neighborhood look. Talk about killing property value.

Tell me about it! A liquor store or (another) Subway would be way better to look at!

[ZERO THEORY]

Most of your weedies are liberals and O voters. I got no problem with weed or pot smokers, per se, but dislike most of the pot smokers for reasons other than their pot smoking.

Precisely.

[Irving]

Tell me about it! A liquor store or (another) Subway would be way better to look at!

I'm partial to check cashing places myself.

Even though I agree with Zero Theory.

[RMAC757]

My only actual physical gripe with it is how tacky head shops and dispenseries make a neighborhood look. Talk about killing property value. If people want to escape, so be it. It's not my business or problem.
What does concern me is that with drug use (alcohol, marijuana, etc.) and contemporary society in general, comes indifference and apathy. And that DOES effect me. It puts people like Morse and Hudak in office. It allows magazine restrictions, and the breakdown of TABOR. It leads to hive-minded support of charlatans and their agent provocateurs.

I also find it humorous that the whole passing of 64 was predicated on the false pretense of taxing the current marijuana market. As if the kind of people that sell dope on east Colfax are suddenly going to file for a business license and help fund the education system now that it's legal. If I know anything about drug dealers, it's that they love losing their comparatively low profit margins to the state.

Now while I don't smoke weed or even drink much, I don't see a difference. I'll even go a step further and say that alcohol creates more problems and violence. If your gonna criminalize one you've got to do the other and we already know how that story ends courtesy of prohibition. There's always gonna be a demand for weed. By criminalizing it we create a problem that wasn't there. Hence we need need more border agents, jails, prisons and cops ( tax dollars ). I think that the sooner we accept this, the better we will all be. Think about it. The accountant or doctor who would've voted conservatively but likes to smoke will now be more likely to vote differently. Eventually it will become a business like booze. There will be people selling on the side like they do booze in rural Georgia illegally, but for the most part it will be big business. If you think that only twenty something dropouts and Fish fans smoke weed you need to open your eyes. In Colorado it's all classes. As to who people vote for dude, it's all about choice. That's what makes us who we are. We need to be better to win. Also, in our market based society, your always gonna have a crappy side of town.

[Whistler]

Is this the same guys that yell "freedom!" in every thread? The ones offended by the characterization of them as low IQ rednecks clinging bitterly to their guns? The same guys that have no issue with homosexuals and rail endlessly about people telling them how to live their lives? So you mean "freedom for me, not you..."Smelly damn hippies!" I don't smoke it and don't see how those that do affect me so I don't care but freedom means freedom in my book and not just for the things I like.

[Colorado_Outback]

I'm partial to check cashing places myself.

Even though I agree with Zero Theory.

Personal preference aside, I have a hard time believing anyone's property value took a hit.

[akumadiavolo]

I also find it humorous that the whole passing of 64 was predicated on the false pretense of taxing the current marijuana market. As if the kind of people that sell dope on east Colfax are suddenly going to file for a business license and help fund the education system now that it's legal. If I know anything about drug dealers, it's that they love losing their comparatively low profit margins to the state.

Taxing of the current market was not part of it, just taxing the new market. Frankly you would have to be an idiot to keep buying from some dude on the street when you can go into a licensed store that has to meet health and inspection requirements or just grow your own if you have the knowledge to do so. The whole point of this is to put the street dealers out of business the same way speakeasies and moonshiners died off after alcohol prohibition ended.

Also if the street level dealers you know had low profit margins then they were doing something very wrong. Everyone that I ever knew that got into that shit made a ton of money.

[ZERO THEORY]

Also if the street level dealers you know had low profit margins then they were doing something very wrong. Everyone that I ever knew that got into that shit made a ton of money.

Sorry, don't know any drug dealers. I was being hyperbolic.

[akumadiavolo]

Sorry, don't know any drug dealers. I was being hyperbolic.

Ah, well the more you know. Drug dealers profit margins are FAR from low.

[UrbanWolf]

Liberals' town favorite things are weed and freedom to say bullshit. They want places where they can smoke weed and say bullshit at the same time, NK isn't one of those places.

[tmleadr03]

Meh. I really don't give a rats ass one way or another about pot smokers or for that mater any other drug users. It should all be legal and taxed. Just like booze. Make it illegal and what to do you get? Well, lets look at how the prohibition worked out...