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Nov. 7, 2012 7:01pm Jason Howerton

Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper Cautions on Marijuana Legalization

Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper (Credit: AP)

DENVER (TheBlaze/AP) — First came marijuana as medicine. Now comes legal pot for the people.

Those who have argued for decades that legalizing and taxing weed would be better than a costly, failed U.S. drug war have their chance to prove it, as Colorado and Washington became the first states to allow pot for recreational use.

Authorities in Colorado, however, urged caution. “Federal law still says marijuana is an illegal drug, so don’t break out the Cheetos or Goldfish too quickly,” Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper cleverly quipped. The governor opposed the measure.

While the measures earned support from broad swaths of the electorate in both states Tuesday, they are likely to face resistance from federal drug warriors. As of Wednesday, authorities did not say whether they would challenge the new laws.

Pot advocates say a fight is exactly what they want.

“I think we are at a tipping point on marijuana policy,” said Brian Vicente, co-author of Colorado’s marijuana measure. “We are going to see whether marijuana prohibition survives, or whether we should try a new and more sensible approach.”

Soon after the measures passed, cheering people poured out of bars in Denver, the tangy scent of pot filling the air, and others in Seattle lit up in celebration.

As the initial celebration dies down and the process to implement the laws progresses over the next year, other states and countries will be watching to see if the measures can both help reduce money going to drug cartels and raise it for governments.

Governments in Latin America where drugs are produced for the U.S. market were largely quiet about the measures, but the main adviser to Mexico’s president-elect said the new laws will force the U.S. and his country to reassess how they fight cross-border pot smuggling.

Analysts said that there would likely be an impact on cartels in Mexico that send pot to the U.S., but differed on how soon and how much.

Both measures call for the drug to be heavily taxed, with the profits headed to state coffers. Colorado would devote the potential tax revenue first to school construction, while Washington’s sends pot taxes to an array of health programs.

Estimates vary widely on how much they would raise. Colorado officials anticipate somewhere between $5 million and $22 million a year. Washington analysts estimated legal pot could produce nearly $2 billion over five years.

Both state estimates came with big caveats: The current illegal marijuana market is hard to gauge and any revenue would be contingent upon federal authorities allowing commercial pot sales in the first place, something that is very much still in question.

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Both measures remove criminal penalties for adults over 21 possessing small amounts of the drug – the boldest rejection of pot prohibition laws passed across the country in the 1930s.

Pot has come a long way since. In the 1960s, it was a counterculture fixture. In 1971, President Richard Nixon declared the War on Drugs. Twenty-five years later, California approved medical marijuana. Now, 17 states and Washington, D.C., allow it.

Meanwhile, many more cities either took pot possession crimes off the books or directed officers to make marijuana arrests a low priority.

On Tuesday night, broad sections of the electorate in Colorado and Washington backed the measures, some because they thought the drug war had failed and others because they viewed potential revenue as a boon for their states in lean times. A similar measure in Oregon failed.

“People think little old ladies with glaucoma should be able to use marijuana. This is different. This is a step further than anything we have seen to date,” said Sam Kamin, a University of Denver law professor who has studied the history of pot prohibition.

The Justice Department says it is evaluating the measures. When California was considering legalization in 2010, Attorney General Eric Holder said it would be a “significant impediment” to joint federal and local efforts to combat drug traffickers.

Federal agents have cracked down on medical pot dispensaries in states where it is legal, including California and Washington. Individual pot users may not be immediately impacted, as authorities have long focused on dismantling trafficking operations.

Peter Bensinger, administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration from 1976 to 1981, and other former DEA heads urged Holder to make more noise this year about the pot votes. Colorado was a critical state for President Barack Obama’s re-election.

Now, he said, “I can’t see the Justice Department doing anything other than enforce the law. There’s no other out.”

Brian Smith of the Washington State Liquor Control Board, which will implement the new law, said officials are waiting anxiously to find out what federal law enforcement authorities plan to do. “They have been silent,” Smith said.

Both states will have about a year to come up with rules for their legal pot systems.

In Mexico, which produces much of the pot that gets into the U.S. and where cartels and the government are embroiled in a yearslong deadly battle, the man in charge of Enrique Pena Nieto’s presidential transition said the administration opposed legalization.

“These important modifications change somewhat the rules of the games in the relationship with the United States,” Luis Videgaray told Radio Formula.

A former high-ranking official in the country’s internal intelligence service who has studied the potential effects of legalization said he was optimistic that the measures would damage the cartels, possibly cutting profits from $6 billion to $4.6 billion.

Alejandro Hope, now an analyst at the think tank Mexican Competitiveness Institute, said among the complicating factors could be whether a strong U.S. crackdown on legal pot could negate all but the smallest effects on the cartels.

In Seattle, John Davis, a medical marijuana provider, called passage of the state’s measure “a significant movement in the right direction.” But he said he expected some confrontation with federal authorities.

“This law does not prevent conflicts,” he said, adding that its passage “will highlight the necessity to find some kind of resolution between state and federal laws.”

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thedirtmover
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 9:37pm
OK,, so it’s somewhat legal.
Here in Ca. pot busts are still going on
The FEDS will not give you one break.
They catch you selling for profit, they take
everything you got.
BTW,, the price still won’t go down. We thought that too.

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- sillyfreshness
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 3:30am
  I don’t smoke pot, so I have no dog in this race. But this looks like another example of the will of the people getting ignored. The people of a state spoke and the feds are going to totally ignore it and keep sending in their jackbooted thugs to enforce a law that nobody wants. The feds don’t care what anyone thinks. Yup, sure looks like a Republic to me. Our federal government isn’t governed by the people, the people are governed by the government.
  
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- harrysmallcraft
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 5:32am
  Yeah, isn’t it still a Federal crime? Read fresh political commentary at: http://smallcraftadvisorychronicles.blogspot.com/
  
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mtnvortex
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 9:22pm
Funny how you folks that use the tired old “gateway drug” argument never include alcohol as a gateway drug. I’d be willing to bet that most people drank one of daddy’s beers long before discovering pot. And alcohol is FAR more addictive and dangerous than pot.
I hate to see conservatives divided on such common sense issues. We should be sticking together for the goal of “small government”. If you believe in Prohibition, you are not for small government. And you are being hypocritical, unless of course you support banning alcohol too.

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- makamae
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 9:59pm
  I love the absurd argument that, just because alcohol is just as bad, this means we should also legalize pot. This is like saying “rape is bad, so let’s just let murder go, too.” The ultimate small government is no law at all, which is anarchy, of course. Saying your pet issue should be legalized doesn’t obviate the whole concept of small government. It should realistically be labeled smallER government.
  
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- Advection
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 10:03pm
  Amen to that. Prohibition makes everything worse. The only bright result in this election will be watching the liberals reaction to Obama putting an end to their reach for liberty.
  
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- makamae
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 10:15pm
  Prohibition makes everything worse? So, if we legalize rape, it would make it better? How about murder? I’m sure if it isn’t against the law to commit armed robbery, then it will no longer be a problem.
- KidCharlemagne
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 11:06pm
  makamae
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 9:59pm
  
  I love the absurd argument that, just because alcohol is just as bad, this means we should also legalize pot.
  ==========================
  
  OK, then at least be consistent……….since you believe that the government knows what’s good for you, then just let the government make all of these decisions on your behalf instead:
  
  May 31, 2012: NYC Mayor Bloomberg On Soda Ban: ‘We’re Simply Forcing You To Understand’ What’s Better For You
  
  Fair enough?….
  
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- Eastinfection
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 8:50am
  MAK….
  
  Your comparisons to rape and murder are ridiculous because you can not commit those acts without directly infringing on the Constitutional rights of others…. I’m sure now you will be furiously coming up with hypothetical situations where pot infringes on another’s rights but they will surely be examples where another crime, in addition to pot, has been perpetrated. ie: theft, neglect, DUI, etc.
  Go preach Big- brother progressiveness elsewhere. We’re chock full around here.
  
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- Coded-Dude
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 11:29am
  Advection – Please explain to everyone how someone smoking marijuana or drinking alcohol in the privacy of their own home is the same as raping or murdering another human being. /logic fail
  
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- Coded-Dude
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 11:37am
  Sorry Advection…that post was meant for Mak, not you.
  
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mtnvortex
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 8:53pm
“Governments in Latin America where drugs are produced for the U.S. market were largely quiet about the measures…”

I personally don’t indulge anymore( I haven’t for many years), but I know for a fact that American grown is FAR superior to anything from south of the border. These U.S. growers take it very seriously, and have it down to a science. I am confident that measures like this will definitely have a huge impact on the criminal cartels’ influence. The only reason the cartels make so much money is because the “product” is illegal.
And yes, I’m a conservative who voted for Romney. We need to start looking at these issues with a little common sense. Do I want my children smoking dope? Absolutely not! I don’t want them drinking booze either! It comes down to parenting…PERIOD.
We as conservatives need to stop cherry picking issues on which we allow the government to overstep it’s bounds. Raise your own children, responsibly.

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- ShyLow
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 10:54pm
  I agree. God put the plant here, so why is man standing in the way of it being grown.
  
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spfoam1
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 8:31pm
If a state makes it legal, the feds will come and hit the biggest distributors, just like in California. It’s called the shakedown. People smoke it whether it is illegal or legal, so the real question is where do you want the money to end up…..in Mexico or in the US? If you smoke it do you want it contaminated with insecticides that the mexicans will spray all over it, or do you want it organic like the California medical pot? How did prohibition work out?

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ExLawman
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 8:00pm
http://www.drugwarfacts.org/cms/Causes_of_Death

Along with footnotes and reference points.

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- makamae
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 8:09pm
  Yeah, real unbiased web site. Actually, it’s kind of a meaningless site. The table you’re pointing out doesn’t discuss any of the other factors applicable to the discussion, like the fact that pot is a gateway drug, among other things.
  
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- KottonmouthKings
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 9:27pm
  because the gateway BS is just a “theory” a theory I have been proving wrong for 10 years, peoples personalities are different, marijuana only affects the cannabanoid recepters in our brains (we do have the thc componant in our brain) other hard drugs mimic artifical dopamine which is a whole different high or feeling.
  
  …have you even researched?
  
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- makamae
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 10:03pm
  In reality, everything is a theory, if it falls short of something one can see definitively. You can take that even further and say it’s just a hypothesis, since we’re not likely to get people to volunteer to try pot on a long-term basis, when they’ve not tried it before, from an early age, to determine what their pattern is over time.
  
  To say it’s a “BS theory” just isn’t a factually accurate use of the term theory, and shows you have no idea about the scientific method.
  
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- Eastinfection
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 8:53am
  MAK…
  
  “Yeah, real unbiased web site.”
  
  If you read the footnotes you would see that these statistics came from the US government.
  You know, … your progressive big brother buddy.
  
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makamae
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 8:00pm
I’m wondering where this bonanza of tax dollars is going to come from? If you’re a moronic pot head, would you rather buy pot from a government sanctioned entity, who will tax you, or from the dope dealer down the street who won’t and obviously isn’t too worried about breaking the law? Further, why would a company want to go down the road of being lible for what their pot head customers do under the influence, a la bartenders & bars being responsible for giving too many drinks to people who then drive?

The whole thing is ridiculous.

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- Danny78
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 8:36pm
  Personal Freedom = Ridiculous
  
  More conservative wisdom?
  
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- makamae
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 8:53pm
  Danny – we restrict all kinds of things that can be labeled as “personal freedom.” If anarchy is your bent, then you’re on the wrong site. “Conservative wisdom” recognizes that there have to be SOME limits on human behaviour, in order to protect society as a whole.
  
  I’m wondering – would you allow everything by law, then just let everyone fend for themselves? We could always do away with law enforcement, then let everyone take whatever measures they think appropriate to take care of their stuff, their homes, their friends/families, their persons.
  
  Or, do you think it’s a good idea, for example, to make it against the law to drive while intoxicated, and have some means of penalty for those who break that law?
  
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- Danny78
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 9:41pm
  Sure I’ll concede to some limits on Human behavior. How about we sum it up quickly and agree that as long as one citizens behavior doesn’t interfere with another citizens personal safety or property?
  
  This Country enjoys way more than some limits on personal freedom.
  Conservatives and Liberals really do enjoy their control over others. It seem that liberals are way more upfront about their desires to control others though. Conservatives pretend to support freedom and liberty and then do the opposite more often.
  
  As for law enforcement when will conservatives come out of the closet and say how proud they are of the police state we have built???
  
  Be well good sir.
  
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- makamae
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 10:09pm
  “How about we sum it up quickly and agree that as long as one citizens behavior doesn’t interfere with another citizens personal safety or property?”
  
  Sooo, if pot heads injure or kill others by their use, either through something like driving while under the influence, or a likely escalation to heavier drugs, which could lead to crimes commited to acquire said drugs… In essence, then you agree with me, that this is actually a bad idea.
  
  And, to call this a police state is truly laughable. I go all over the country without any contact with police, save the idiotic TSA. Frankly, I agree that goes too far. I’d rather take my chances with no security and be allowed to arm myself and protect myself while flying, but that seems unlikely and unrelated.
  
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- KidCharlemagne
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 11:29pm
  “And, to call this a police state is truly laughable.”
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  Try riding down Interstate 40 in Tennessee sometime with an out of state tag then and see how far you get:
  
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  “Video Shows How Tennessee Steal Money from innocent motorist with out of state plates in the name of the war on drugs.”
  YouTube: “Tennessee Law Enforcement Stealing Money from out of state innocent motorist”
  
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- Danny78
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 12:21pm
  WTF is a pothead? And tying marijuana use to harder drugs and violent crime is the same BS the federal government tried to use on own grandparents decades ago. “Them dirty brown skinned men will rape and kill white women if they just get a whiff marijuana”.
  
  Are you over 70?
  
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Detroit paperboy
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 7:57pm
Everybody who wants to smoke weed………IS smoking weed, so it’s not working REGARDLESS of how anyone feels about the issue……it’s everywhere, and in 50 different varieties………PERIOD.

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- blanco5
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 8:11pm
  Good point!
  
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ExLawman
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 7:44pm
My first post was cut off. There are 1,000s of people employed in the industry in Colorado.

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- Jenasus
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 8:05pm
  And there could be millions of people employed if marijuana is legalized in America.
  The use of hemp as a renewable resource could also be used.
  
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barber2
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 7:43pm
The camel’s nose if under the drug tent….

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ExLawman
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 7:40pm
Federal thresholds for marijuana is 100 plants or 100 pounds. The Feds need to stay out of We the People’s wishes. Gee, where have I heard that before? Oh yeah… Wake up!

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ExLawman
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 7:37pm
Having spent a career in Law Enforcement, and working on a drug task force, it’s my opinion that’s its time to tax and regulate marijuana. I am a proud member of LEAP, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, http://LEAP.cc For Gods sake people, it’s a plant. Not one person dies from the use of it. http://www.drugwarfacts.org/cms/ Prohibition didn’t work for alcohol and it is not and has not worked on drugs. We can’t afford to put people in jail, rip families apart and tie up already over crowded courts.

Mexican cartels send tons be cheap nasty marijuana across every day, mostly hoping it gets caught by the order patrol. Yes, they do it on purpose. It ties up the agents and then the cocaine, black tar heroin, methamphetamine and illegals come on thru.

The true endless war is the war on drugs and it needs to end. The country can’t afford it. And for you far right people, it was a progressive president who signed the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937.

Again, it’s a plant. At its highest point (pun intended) over 1,000 people signed up for medical cards in Colorado. Guess what? Armageddon didn’t happen! All the traffic wrecks, rapes, murders and who knows what else didn’t happen! Guess what did happen…the state got 1.4M in sales tax revenue last year. That doesn’t include city and county taxes for each community the dispensaries are in.

Payroll taxes, taxes on supplies bought, etc people will do it, make it legal and control it. Oh yeah, 1,000s of pe

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- drs1969
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 8:11pm
  The CIA is behind all this, they profited from Heroin since Nam. They are the reason we went to Afghanistan, and stayed there forever. They are the reason Osama was ‘kept alive’ years after his death. Being an exlawman, I’m sure you know all that.
  This ‘far right person’ knows that FDR used Reefer Madness to promote their prohibition of narcotics, probably at the request of the newly legalized alcohol industry. All bad policies spring from DC. This is a 10th Admendment issue. Until we get rid of DC tyrants, nothing changes.
  
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- Wool-Free Vision
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 9:01pm
  @ExLawman
  
  I like your comment, but I would just like to add one more point that you, as a Law Enforcement veteran, can also verify. Your average pot smoker is a nice, friendly person who would never want to harm you or anyone else. I’m not talking about the criminals who smoke pot, I’m talking about the pot smokers who are otherwise not guilty of any other crime.
  
  This unjust persecution in the form of prohibition makes nice, friendly people into unemployable criminals and convicts. This is why it’s such a shame, because we end up making criminals out of some of our best, nicest, friendliest, and most creative fellow Liberty-loving Americans for doing nothing to harm anyone.
  
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- mtnvortex
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 9:01pm
  THANK YOU for your common sense and honesty! And I don’t even smoke.
  
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chips1
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 7:29pm
What really seems odd is that the government is concerned about how much people eat because they are fat and yet the government wants to increase taxes so they can get fat. They have to cut down on the money calories. Just look at Shiela Jackson. Now that’s way beyond fat.

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- sparkyrules
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 7:48pm
  Smoking weed will only make them even fatter.Coping a buzz,getting the munchies and eating junk food.I wonder what Moochelle would think of this?
  
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KidCharlemagne
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 7:28pm
That’s weird……..

When the States recently tried to set their own immigration laws, then we got this:

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“The federal government is the chief enforcer of immigration laws, and while we appreciate cooperation from states, which remains important, it is clearly unconstitutional for a state to set its own immigration policy,” said Attorney General Eric Holder in a release. “A patchwork of immigration laws is not the answer.”
http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/22/us/utah-immigration-law/index.html

However, the situation is entirely reversed when it comes to drug laws…….in fact, all 50 states have had their own drug laws in place for years and years and years, however you don’t see the federal government taking any of the states to court for enacting their own drug laws….

But now that a state has decided to amend its drug laws, then why should the federal government start caring about this now?

If you make your own immigration law, then the DOJ takes you to court……..if you make your own drug laws, then the federal government leaves you alone (unless of course, you make it legal)….

What gives?…

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JP4JOY
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 7:27pm
The War on Drugs is and will continue to be one of the last growth industries is the US. There would be thousands of unemployed Lawyers, Judges, Correctional Officers and Law Enforcement personnel in the US without this “War”. Until that revenue stream (including the seized property) can be replaced by another means it will not be jeopardized by the will of the people.

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- freeberty
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 7:36pm
  JP
  
  Exactly, they make it sound like it something honorable, but it’s all about stealing money out of the citizen’s pocket when it comes to useless government parasites in the justice system.
  
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- Danny78
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 7:37pm
  Right you are good sir. We can’t have the wrong sort out there prospering…………
  
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Zipit
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 7:22pm
You go Hickenloopy! Moron!

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Danny78
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 7:19pm
There is no way DEA and the Federal Government will allow this to stand and the Governor knows that. Nice try Colorado you don’t have the freedom to make important decisions on your own.

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Dushman Kush
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 7:18pm
Only our Leader can dispense with the freedom torture of George H.W. Bush, et al. Our Leader wants our Government to focus on “Nation-building here at home.” That path won’t offend any thinking person’s sense of reality….. Down with all the “Republican” tortures of Freedom !!! May they be doomed at every turn !!!

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- rickc34
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 7:29pm
  How about we do it like the terrorist …cut the heads off a few so the others will talk.
  
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- momrules
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 7:31pm
  You make me laugh. Your comments always sound like you are reading dialogue for an 8th grade play. Keep it up. I love being entertained by children.
  
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- Dushman Kush
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 8:33pm
  MOMRULES…..Why dost thou feed them fish?
  
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jal43
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 7:18pm
Young conservatives are not Christians..In fact, we are against legislating Christianity..Because when you legislate Christianity you lose freedom..Young conservatives are serious about fiscal conservatism..When the record of the fiscal conservatives of the gop as a whole is nothing more than a shell game, spending on war instead of foodstamps, you are not for small government..Young conservatives recongnize the gop as the sham that it is..You must begin to cater to the non-Christian fiscal conservatives or you will conitnue to recieve only 35% of the youth vote

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- momrules
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 7:33pm
  Sweetie you have copied and pasted this all over now. We get it. Young conservatives are dumb and atheist now.
  
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jal43
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 7:17pm
Good one..Keep legislating Christianity gop and keep receiving 35% of the youth vote. Young conservatives are not Christians. And if the gop continues legislates Christianiy in favor of freedom you will continue to lose. In the same breadth, young conservatives recognize the shell game sham of the gop’s “fiscal conservatives.” Instead of food stamps you spend on war nation building. And that’s when they aren’t donning their blatent big votes for bailouts and the like.

The truth is the gop needs to shed its social conservatism as the old guard gop goes 6 feet under and begin paying more than lip service to fiscal small government.

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Jenasus
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 7:17pm
Johnny Appleseed wasn’t planting apple trees.
He was planting POT and his name was Johnny Pot Seed.
George Washington grew weed in the White House and the Constitution is printed on hemp paper.
End the war on drugs which is really a war on the people who use drugs and not the drugs.

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- Mr.Fitnah
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 7:20pm
  Fact check
  http://www.usconstitution.net/constfaq_q145.html
  
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Mr.Fitnah
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 7:14pm
Got to love a Governor who does not support the citizens nor states rights.

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Jenasus
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 7:12pm
Marijuana is not a drug. Drugs are man made.
Johnny Pot Seed says, “A joint a day keeps the doctor away.”
Support your local marijuana grower. Buy American grown Marijuana. (BAGM)

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- chips1
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 7:35pm
  It would sure make it easier to smell the drug users. If only it would be that easy to detect the communists.
  
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- JACKTHETOAD
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 4:23am
  Pot smokers stink to high Heaven. Easy. I don’t feel comfortable with them on the roads with all the high-powered and treated stuff out there now. It distorts perception and judgement too. Catch one behind the wheel after someone gets hurt or dies, lock ‘em up and throw away the key.
  
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ModerationIsBest
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 7:12pm
Wonder how many people on here who support “liberty” and “smaller government” want the police to arrest every pot smoker.

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MDECKER
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 7:12pm
Not so fast Mr. Governor! Since when did this Justice Department concern itself with State Laws?

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- makamae
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 8:59pm
  This isn’t about state laws… the Justice Dept. is SUPPOSED to concern itself with Federal laws. If you ‘d read the article, you’d realize that they’re talking about enforcing federal laws.
  
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- Eastinfection
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 8:41am
  “the Justice Dept. is SUPPOSED to concern itself with Federal laws.”….
  
  lol… tell that to all the “sanctuary” cities for illegal aliens..
  
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heavyduty
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 7:09pm
Might as well get high because this country is screwed big time! At least they can be happy while they are unemployed!

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- barber2
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 7:42pm
  Agree. Marijuana and Obama go together like a horse and carriage…
  
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