Colorado potheads not out of the woods yet.

[Slowhand]

Were prob hi!!

Well shit, you didn't even have to work for that one.

[sig239]

Good to see marijuana use still being made criminal, while cigarettes and alcohol are a key part of society.

< Smokes a pack a day, doesn't smoke weed.

< Wishes advertising campaigns had led him to smoking weed instead of cigarettes.

check out what the tax's are on fuel, cigarettes and booze. NY a pack cost 10.00 1/2 is taxs.

http://taxfoundation.org/article/state-sales-gasoline-cigarette-and-alcohol-tax-rates-state-2000-2010

[VaderTT]

Pot users should get life, fuck those lazy Henlike squatter pumps!

[Cooter]

I don't smoke but I'm ready.

Visit multibro

[talisman]

Can you imagine all the tax savings and revenue legalizing this shit would bring?

iirc, an article I read a couple of weeks ago said that the medical side brought in 1.2 billion in sales last year.

[Buick355]

iirc, an article I read a couple of weeks ago said that the medical side brought in 1.2 billion in sales last year.

And I'm sure that's just a tiny fraction of what it would be if it was legal w/o a script. Just think of all the tax paying jobs it would create plus the tax collected from sales. And all the "criminals" that our tax dollars pay to keep in jail for weed related bullshit. It only makes sense to legalize it and I don't see how it's any worse than alcohol. They should legalize it and create legislation that promotes growing and distributing this stuff within our own borders.

[racrguy]

And I'm sure that's just a tiny fraction of what it would be if it was legal w/o a script. Just think of all the tax paying jobs it would create plus the tax collected from sales. And all the "criminals" that our tax dollars pay to keep in jail for weed related bullshit. It only makes sense to legalize it and I don't see how it's any worse than alcohol. They should legalize it and create legislation that promotes growing and distributing this stuff within our own borders.

I wonder if they legalized it they would release the people in jail/prison.

[The King]

It will get to where it is legalized at the national level. Many of the old or soon-to-be old folks, who do tend to get out and vote, have used it in the past themselves and are likely in favor of legalization.

[Buick355]

I wonder if they legalized it they would release the people in jail/prison.

I should hope so.

[bcoop]

It will get to where it is legalized at the national level. Many of the old or soon-to-be old folks, who do tend to get out and vote, have used it in the past themselves and are likely in favor of legalization.

According to recent polls, 52% of Americans are in favor of decriminalization at the least.

That said, I don't expect to see anything change federally until that number is closer to 65%. If even then. Until they can find a way to give a DUI for being under the influence of pot, it won't be legal.

[IHaveAMustang]

I want it legalized just to crush the cartel's main cash cow. Sure they still can move heroin and cocaine, but Pot would probably end the violence overnight as we would start buying/growing our own US made stuff.

[talisman]

And I'm sure that's just a tiny fraction of what it would be if it was legal w/o a script. Just think of all the tax paying jobs it would create plus the tax collected from sales. And all the "criminals" that our tax dollars pay to keep in jail for weed related bullshit. It only makes sense to legalize it and I don't see how it's any worse than alcohol. They should legalize it and create legislation that promotes growing and distributing this stuff within our own borders.

Completely agree.

[big_tiger]

I wonder if they legalized it they would release the people in jail/prison.

Im guessing they would have to write something in specificly that would pardon/dismiss people that commitied violations in the old laws. They did break the law, so F'em.

I think politicans are scared the cartels would ramp up violence because their cash flo would be cut off?

Is weed worse for the body, than alcohol? I don't think anyone could say that it is.

[Baron Von Crowder]

I'd be interested to see a study in revenue generated from legal sales/taxes vs. seizures/ forfeitures.

See: prohibition.

[David]

I wonder if they legalized it they would release the people in jail/prison.

Nope, not unless you retroactively did it for every criminal in the country.