Congrats CO!

jt09 · Ladies Man Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 22083 City: Austin

On Wednesday, when recreational marijuana became legally available to Colorado consumers, pot shop owners across the state believe they collectively made more than $1 million in a single day of business.

http://www.policymic.com/articles/78143/marijuana-sales-in-colorado-top-1-million-on-first-day

goofyboy · Posted: Jan 06, 2014 3:27 am Post subject:

how long till the federal government rolls in and shuts them down for a money grab?

jt09 · Ladies Man Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 22083 City: Austin

feds have said they aren't going to do that.

the bigger issue is banks not working with the dispensaries because of the federal laws. there's all this money, and there's nowhere to put it.

pretty sure this is the correct piece: http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/medical-marijuana-will-colorados-green-rush-last-3/

jryoung · Ladies Man Joined: 19 Mar 2004 Posts: 7664 City: Man Jose

With the money to be made, it will be interesting to see who weighs in on Federal Policy. When CA goes, I would be there is a push from many on the sidelines who stand to profit.

In ten years people are going to be bitching about their GMO weed from Monsanto.

Wakebrad · Ladies Man Joined: 11 Dec 2003 Posts: 12257 City: Dallas

Nor*Cal · Ladies Man Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 9479 City: Sac

I've already read reports of people complaining that the tax is too high... Rolling Eyes

jt09 · Ladies Man Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 22083 City: Austin

lolz! the price is dead low to begin with! my brother just moved to austin from colorado and he's beside himself over the price increase.

jt09 · Ladies Man Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 22083 City: Austin

The growing campaign for legalizing marijuana has a new, unlikely supporter: the National Review.

The conservative magazine published an editorial on Monday applauding Colorado for becoming the first state to make the "prudent choice" of legalizing recreational marijuana, "thus dispensing with the charade of medical restrictions and recognizing the fact that, while some people smoke marijuana to counter the effects of chemotherapy, most people smoke marijuana to get high.

The prohibition of marijuana, its editors argue, has led to "billions in enforcement costs, and hundreds of thousands of arrests each year, in a fruitless attempt to control a mostly benign drug."

"We make a lot of criminals while preventing very little crime," the National Review writes, "and do a great deal of harm in the course of trying to prevent an activity that presents little if any harm in and of itself."

http://news.yahoo.com/national-review-marijuana-161920924.html

RampageWake · Posted: Jan 06, 2014 6:49 pm Post subject:

ohsix · Posted: Jan 07, 2014 5:26 am Post subject:

pet575 · Posted: Jan 07, 2014 11:35 am Post subject:

ohsix, I agree on your DC v. international cartel view.

What is the difference between your take on the side effects of weed v. the side effects of alcohol?

It is called "liquid courage" for a reason. Laughing

eeven73 · Posted: Jan 07, 2014 11:37 am Post subject:

I propose an index for drug legalization where the likelyhood that a person would suck anothers d!ck for a dose of said drugs is inversely related to its legality.

jryoung · Ladies Man Joined: 19 Mar 2004 Posts: 7664 City: Man Jose

ohsix · Posted: Jan 07, 2014 12:43 pm Post subject:

Nor*Cal · Ladies Man Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 9479 City: Sac

ChrisG · Posted: Jan 07, 2014 2:43 pm Post subject:

jt09 · Ladies Man Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 22083 City: Austin

pyrocasto · Posted: Jan 07, 2014 4:14 pm Post subject:

RampageWake · Posted: Jan 07, 2014 5:19 pm Post subject:

Okie Boarder · Ladies Man Joined: 03 Mar 2008 Posts: 10056 City: Edmond

jason_ssr · Posted: Jan 13, 2014 3:10 pm Post subject:

The problem in America with allowing people the freedom to perform any action successfully (legally), is our inability to allow them the freedom to fail. We ban drugs because we don't have the stomach to allow people to fail and die.

I agree with Okie in that what we SHOULD do is end the war on drugs. Let the the job market dictate the use of drugs. Let the side effects of drugs run their course. Some people will live their lives just fine doing recreational drugs. I know several successful people who are good family guys who party occasionally with coke. They have for decades. I don't, I've never done any drugs. Some will die from the drug, or die from breaking into the wrong house. To truly allow people the freedom to put whatever they want in their body, we have to allow them the freedom to die from it.

We as a society have grown to the point where we cannot handle ultimate accountability. We are burdened with "saving" everyone who sucks at life. Therefore, we have to limit the freedoms of everyone to attempt to reduce the burden those who suck at drugs put on society. So, we cant end the war on drugs as the people requiring saving will grow exponentially, not because of the drug itself, but because of the understanding that there is no consequence. The US society will bail you out of whatever stupid thing you do, be it drugs, sub-prime loans, or running an insolvent car company, why not?

eeven73 · Posted: Jan 13, 2014 5:36 pm Post subject:

Very we'll said.

Tbonez · Posted: Jan 14, 2014 8:17 am Post subject:

Bunch a hippie pot heads in this thread...Get a job, ya losers!

(' Laughing

')

Okie Boarder · Ladies Man Joined: 03 Mar 2008 Posts: 10056 City: Edmond

jason_ssr, well said.

eeven73 · Posted: Jan 16, 2014 8:11 am Post subject:

Up in WA state there is all sort of political stuff going down in efforts to stop there legalization.

http://www.katu.com/politics/Rules-for-Reefer-Who-gets-the-final-say-240388461.html

Basically, a number of counties are refusing to allow legalization.

jryoung · Ladies Man Joined: 19 Mar 2004 Posts: 7664 City: Man Jose