for ppl who dont watch the news

[BD_Paintball]

well this link will fill you in. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,174256,00.html what do you think?

[oneworld]

why dont they just say :

go ahead!, smoke weed!!!

[Glickman]

interesting.


although the state possession laws apparently still applies


i do think that a big part of inital use by teens is based on the "taboo" of it. interesting to see if this decreased use and abuse

[UTDragun]

how does that work, i thought pot was made illegal by the supreme court

[MagVak]

This is just another attempt at decriminalization of marjiuana. I'm all for it and believe that Denver is going about it responsibly. However it should end at ganja, nothing more. Anyway I'm not sure how federal and state laws effect this ruling. It would make sense that you could still get charged in state or federal court however who's going to press charges on some dude with a jilla rolled up in his cigarette pack, or an ounce worth of jillas...that'd be a lot of jillas.. I doubt any state district attorney, not to mention federal, would ever pursue such a case. We should be freeing up resources and going after the crack, meth, heroin dealers/users in an effort to curb addiction related crime. It's all relative and the dude abides. Go Broncos!

[BD_Paintball]

states laws over ride federal laws which will allow them to be able to do this.

[tropical_fishy]

California also has a pot law that scoots around the Supreme Court ruling-- there are legal pot farms in California, even though they're technically illegal. The Constitution and federal law is supposed to trump all, but no one quite knows what to do with a state or city that has had its voters legalize pot.

Does anyone else feel like "it'll reduce traffic accidents!" is a huge stretch?

[bleachit]

states laws over ride federal laws which will allow them to be able to do this.

supreme court has ruled on many occasions just the opposite.


hey, lets turn alcoholics into druggies!!! that sounds like a great idea.

so instead of alcohol related traffic accidents you get alcohol and marijuana related traffic accidents.

[tropical_fishy]

supreme court has ruled on many occasions just the opposite.


hey, lets turn alcoholics into druggies!!! that sounds like a great idea.

so instead of alcohol related traffic accidents you get alcohol and marijuana related traffic accidents.

I think what this statute is saying is that they're abolishing mandatory minimums (which to me is a good thing, there are way too many nonviolent drug offenders in jail for life over pot) and instead making it illegal to deal. Think about it-- an ounce of pot. Now think about a normal, average human being (taking into account that everyone is different, and pot has different strengths). A full-grown male can probably smoke that much and feel it. Let's say that all the alcoholics DO decide to become potheads-- would you rather have someone who's depressed smoking and hanging out, mellowed out, or angry and drunk? I'd take the pothead, personally.

But honestly? What alcoholic would turn from alcohol to pot. The two are so different, and the effects are so different... to me, there's no real connection.

[MagVak]

If decriminalization was taken seriously then there'd be a similar set of penalties for pot related crimes, just as there are for alcohol related crimes. In my personal experience I've never heard of someone getting stupidly baked and causing injury behind the wheel. That's simply my personal experience, granted I live in Wisconsin...take that as you will. In the grand scheme of things one must ask a simple question: Does alcohol or marijuana poes a greater threat, equal threat or lesser threat to society? I can't say one is worse than the other, nor would I suggest that one is better. Both have thier own addictive and intoxcating properties. Both can lead to death by physical abuse of the body through prolonged overuse. Both can be misused and should kept out of the hands of minors. There is simply a taboo placed on pot for one reason or another. We tried outlawing Alcohol once which didn't exactly take real well. Unless someone can prove that responsible pot use causes one to ingnore responsibilities, remove themselves from society or commit crime solely to obtain it, I'll keep an open mind on the issue.

[tropical_fishy]

There is simply a taboo placed on pot for one reason or another.

That's an interesting story, actually, and it has to do with yellow journalism, William Randolph Hearst and the Spanish-American War of 1898. Hearst was this really rich guy up in CA whose dad mined stuff and passed on his wealth (that's the abridged version). He owned a whole bunch of newspapers. After the start (and perhaps the end? I dont remember) of the Spanish-American War, Hearst was accused of doctoring stories about marijuana and the harm it could possibly cause to Americans to escalate the situation in the Caribbean and Mexico. It wasn't just pot, either... it was all hemp products; paper, rope, etc. The real issue came after the war when he linked up with... oil... and.... timber? I think? And discredited hemp as a relatively inexpensive petroleum substitute. Because of his machinations (ohman I love that word) pot has been illegal ever since.

(Yay for dressing up as William Randolph Hearst as a junior in high school!)

(I had a sexy hat.)

[SpecialBlend2786]

(I had a sexy hat.)

yes, yes you did

[CoFFeY[NiTrO]]

come oooonnnn TEXAS! And to be honest, I am a better/more alert driver when 'intoxicated' but I'm postive that im some of the few, more people are probably worse and pay less attention....

[kosmo]

The war against weed was fought much later than the Spanish-American and first world wars. Pot was legal until 1937, and the true catalyst of both the ruling and Hearst's anti weedishness was the marriage of a Hearst daughter into the heirarchy of Dupont, which had recently invented nylon and was working on what would become modern plastic. Hemp was much cheaper than nylon, and due to its high cellulose content, wouldve provided stiff competition for its petroleum based plastics. Hearst then began a smear campaign utilizing his newspapers and a corporate tool of a politician named Henry Anslinger (who actually coined the phrase "Marihuana" as a racist term to place a negative view on it and the large influx of Mexican immigrants).

[anomoly40]

It also has more protien than soybeans, and an acre of hemp can manufacture more usuable cloth than an acre of cotton.

I don't see why hemp is illegal. You can smoke an acre worth of hemp and not get any type of "high".

http://naihc.org/hemp_information/hemp_facts.html