stupid pot shops, what the sh*t

[kidicarus13]

I know the state uses most of the $ it collects to "regulate" the shops. I agree though, where's the social benefit?

[Marlin]

Not really, going off my opinion.

Other than dealing with the brain dead ones who smoke it. I have no real problem with it.

Having been in the position of dealing with heavy drinkers and heavy smokers over the years, Both have the attention span of a nat. But at least with the drinkers, at least it's a little easier to "fill the memory gaps" of the previous day.


Ehhh, sometimes anyway.

[TFOGGER]

but where dose that money go ??? it sure it not going to safer, cleaner neighborhoods . or to educate children . make new parks ect . it just seems like all the drug money is wasted . So now we get drugs and revenue thrown in our face and nothing changes except now there are a few less people for the cops to arrest ??? i call bull sh*t .treat it like booze sounds like the best plan so far .

I have some friends that work in the industry(but do not partake), and abide by ALL of the state regs, including sales taxes. Many of these dispensaries operate in violation of state law, including hours of operation (10am to 7pm only), proximity to other dispensaries, proximity to schools, lack of security, etc. The state is slowly cracking down on these violators, but they have only 16 enforcement officers to regulate the hundreds of dispensaries.


I agree, legalize and regulate like alcohol or tobacco(but not firearms).

Alcohol, tobacco, and firearms should be a convenience store, not a government agency....

[spyder]

I don't do drugs of any kind, but I laughed at calling pot smokers "drug addicts".

I smoked a couple times during high school, but I couldn't get around the "high" feeling that everyone else liked so much. I just didn't like it. However calling pot a drug and trying to make it into such a bad substance I think is a joke. (Drug: any substance having psychological effects, such as a narcotic, stimulant, or hallucinogenic agent, especially habit-forming and addictive substances.) Pot is as much a drug as alcohol, actually less in my opinion. Alcohol has a lot more side affects to it than marajuana, you also can't die from smoking too much. I'm not advocating to have a bunch of dumb ass pot heads running around giggling at everything like retards, just saying. Pot is just the new "in" thing to do, sooner or later it will just be a normal thing like alcohol. I think something like 30% of the profits of those places goes to taxes, where the taxes go, I have no idea. The crap is so easy to get it isn't even funny, when I hurt my ankle, the second doc I went to asked if I would like a prescription for it to help. What a joke.

[spyder]

Alcohol, tobacco, and firearms should be a convenience store, not a government agency....

I like that!

[TS12000]

But I'm sick bro *cough* *cough*

[JoeT]

I used to be vehemently anti-drug, but I also used to be anti-gun (grew up in Massachuass)..

Hey, Waltham guy here. . . . although never anti-gun




I can say that as a business it's been good for Colorado. It generates jobs, tax dollars, and some REAL GOOD business people are coming out of the industry. I have a couple "medicinal bakeries" that I sell normal bakery items to (the add their pot somewhere in the baking process). And these are VERY SHARP business people.

I will admit that 85-92 are a blur to me. If I could find it, I tried it. . . a friend's death by overdose (combo of herion and cocaine) really woke me up. Pot wasn't a "gateway" for me, it was something that other kids had that I could do socially while I looked for harder stuff.

I have 2 daughters (age 8 and 9) and I do wonder if the easy access here in Colorado will have them "experiment" earlier and more often. In fact my 9 year old had a D.A.R.E. officer at school a couple weeks ago talking about drugs and stuff. That evening at dinner, she asked both my wife and I if we ever felt pressure or tried drugs. My wife lied (she smoked pot maybe 10 times in her life, nothing else). I found it an opportunity to teach from my mistakes. We talked about my friend, a cousin I had (also ODed), my brother who barely has a brain cell because he's always high (even at 40) and how lucky I was that I didn't die too. . .

sorry if I took this off topic

[Great-Kazoo]

The whole "Medical" MJ thing is a farce.

The problem is that the Federal Government needs to reclassify Marijuana as a Class II Narcotic so that LEGITIMATE doctors could prescribe it and LEGITIMATE pharmacies could fill those prescriptions.

Instead we have this BS system of "Medical" MJ where 99.9% of the "patients" are just potheads that have figured out how to game the system and get their recreational pot legally.

It undermines the legitimacy of the law and frankly doesn't do anything to eliminate the REAL problems associated with drug use and the illicit drug trade.

Either make it a real, legitimate prescribable pharmaceutical (like morphine or vicodin) or just legalize it and let people buy it for recreational use like alcohol. But lets end the silliness.

well said. the down side is the feds would have their money fix cut off and well all know what happens when the feds don't get their slice of the pie.

[Monky]

Oddly enough.. I was just hearing from a denver dist judge about how many cases they have tying up their docket. Sellers, vs growers, growers vs seed holders.. blah blah blah..

[DeusExMachina]

Hey, Waltham guy here. . . . although never anti-gun

Melrose here...

I left when I graduated high school. I think mostly the schools drilled the anti-gun message.