All You Need to Know About 4/20, the Marijuana-Centered Holiday Celebrated by College Students
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(AP/The Blaze) – Students and others across the country have long observed April 20 as a day to celebrate marijuana. Here are some questions and answers about the counterculture holiday and the state of marijuana in the United States:
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WHO CELEBRATES? The observation is shared by marijuana users from San Francisco‘s Golden Gate Park to New York’s Greenwich Village. Last year, some 10,000 people gathered at the University of Colorado-Boulder to simultaneously smoke marijuana. This year, the university is shutting down a campus quad that hosts the annual 4/20 gathering. Organizers say the protest may be moved to a nearby off-campus neighborhood, which could cause clashes between police and protesters. A rally is planned for Denver near the state capitol on Friday and Saturday. Police have suggested they’ll be taking a hands-off approach to the gathering, which could draw tens of thousands of people. In Austin, Texas, country music legend Willie Nelson, who’s open about his marijuana use, was expected to help unveil an 8-foot statue of himself in downtown Austin at 4:20 p.m. local time.
WHAT’S IT MEAN? The number 420 has been associated with marijuana use for decades, though its origins are murky. Its use as code for marijuana spread among California pot users in the 1960s and spread nationwide among followers of the Grateful Dead. Like most counterculture slang, theories abound on its origin. Some say it was once police code in Southern California to denote marijuana use (probably an urban legend). It was a title number for a 2003 California bill about medical marijuana, an irony fully intended. Others trace it to a group of California teenagers who would meet at 4:20 p.m. to search for weed (a theory as elusive as the outdoor cannabis crop they were seeking). Yet the code stuck for obvious reasons: Authorities and nosy parents didn’t know what it meant.
HOW MANY STATES HAVE LEGALIZED MEDICAL MARIJUANA? In 1996, a ballot measure made California the first state to legalize medical marijuana. Sixteen states now allow the use of medicinal marijuana.
HOW MANY STATES ARE CONSIDERING LEGALIZING RECREATIONAL POT? Two states — Colorado and Washington — are considering legalizing pot for recreational purposes.
WHERE DOES THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT STAND? Marijuana use, sale and possession are illegal under federal law.
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therealconservative
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 9:25pmSorry folks, but Ron (Drug Pusher) Paul is going nowhere.
Report Post »kaydeebeau
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 9:44pmSeems I remember that anti-marijuana and anti-cocaine laws were enacted by the Democrats in the 20′s as with the rally cry that Black men would rape and pillage under the influence….
What, more Democrat “protection” based upon keeping the black man down? As with anti-gun laws (can’t trust an honest black man with a gun) . pro-abortion (Sanger Eugenics), “Great Society” help (from the biggest racist to ever hold office before O – LBJ who came up with a palatable way to keep (and return many) blacks into shackles – hint read LBj’s own words)
Wake up folks. Everything the Dems have done in the last 150 + years is designed to enslave not only the former black slaves, but every other non-elitist (regular) citizen
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 9:50pmKAYDEEBEAU Don’t forget Woodrow Wilson,he was a vile racist and more importantly he violated the constitution daily like the Marxist POS in office today.He also got us into WW I.
Report Post »kaydeebeau
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 10:34pm@ Progressive.. yep – thanks for the reminder – I will have to remember to include him (Wilson) in my rants…. There are so many, hard sometimes to keep up…. So sad that there ares so many still clueless
Adonai li v lo Ira
Report Post »Jaycen
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 12:49amWait, I’m pretty sure Ron Paul invented the idea of 420. Didn’t he? Where’s a wide-eyed Paul supporter when you desperately need one?
Report Post »Jaycen
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 12:50am@kaydeebeau
It was the Progressives who were the greatest Prohibitionists.
Report Post »NOT A CRAZY
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 12:51am4/20 is also Hitlers birthday. Marijuanna will never lead you anywhere except the wrong direction. Marijuanna is the cause of a lot of problems despite what you pro-pot clowns have yourselves convinced of. No one will read this so I won’t waste anymore time.
Report Post »PoliticiansRCrooks
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 1:05amFigures some commie that calls him self a conservative would resemble Ron Paul with marijuana. He clearly condemns drugs, but doesn’t want it to be enforced by the Federal Government. Let the states decide. The government has no right to infringe on other peoples lives. FINAL!!
Report Post »kaydeebeau
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 1:24am@ Jaycen though during the time period mentioned the only progressives were democrats. Sadly, many in the Reoub party have abandoned their roots and are now basically the equivalent of the dems of about 50 yrs ago.
Love your name, sorry but nostly I have no idea what you are talking about and when I do, I disagree….. :)
Report Post »West Coast Patriot
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 1:29amTheRealLiberal, You just have a hard time understanding reality don’t you? First, Ron Paul does not condone drug use. He just is for states determining the laws. If a state has laws you do not like, you can vote with your feet, as Ronald Reagan stated (another Libertarian thinker). When the federal government makes a law that all states must abide by, there is loss of freedom. Second, No matter what type of bigotry is imbedded in your brain, marijuana has medicinal properties. I am a cargiver (caregivers cannot legally smoke marijuana, so do not think I am a pothead) for my son who has epilepsy from a traumatic brain injury he received when he was young. His neurologist tried several different medications that did not work, so he had us try marijuana after he turned 21. Instead of 3-4 seizures per month on meds, he now only has one every 8 months or so by smoking a few puffs three times a day. But with the federal law in place, it does not matter that it is prescribed by his neurologist and is legal for him in this state, he could be arrested if he were camping on federal land. That is a bad law that needs to go away. It violates my son’s rights and his personal relationship with his doctor. Wise up man.
Report Post »db321
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 2:00amSmoke all you want dumb a$$es – Employment for Govt and Financial industry is now 95 applicants to find 15 that can pass a drug test and Back Ground Check – get caught – you are destine to work at McDonald’s the rest of your life – Accountability sucks – you will pay for your “if it feels good do it lifestyle!
Report Post »kaydeebeau
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 2:35am@ West yep…while I agree with the removal of prohibition style laws and the racist reasons they were inacted, I still struggle with the years of inodctrination I rec’d in school as well as the line between the morality and the tough love (non-enabling) required by society to let the drug adled user lie in the street until he decides to get up to better himself.
We, as a society, have to be prepared to let them lay there rather than trying to help them and unfortunately we have lost the will to do just that. We are not so inclined to be willing or prepared to let the others live with the consequences and the personal responibilty of their choices
Report Post »TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 7:55am[…] a man, not having the power of his own life, cannot, by compact, or his own consent, enslave himself to any one, nor put himself under the absolute, arbitrary power of another, to take away his life, when he pleases. No body can give more power than he has himself; and he that cannot take away his own life, cannot give another power over it […] But though this be a state of liberty, yet it is not a state of licence: though man in that state have an uncontroulable liberty to dispose of his person or possessions, yet he has not liberty to destroy himself […]
Report Post »2Fedup
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 12:14pmOk first off, Ron Paul doubtedly gets high. There’s a big difference between being pro drug use, and being pro drug legalization. U so-called conservatives think there’s nothing wrong w the national gov telling citizens what they can and cant do in the privacy of their own home when it comes to different drugs, but wonder why u cant get a hardcore states‘ and individual rights candidate who’ll actually shrink government and not just talk about it elected? You cant have ur cake and eat it too. if you want more freedom, u have to accept that there must be more personal responsibility, too. Legalizing drugs wont cause a giant boost in drug use by most americans. Guess what? theres already a TON of americans on illegal drugs. U dont realize how many people u encounter everyday on drugs if u dont pay close attention. Guess what else? ur kids already have complete and total easy access to drugs. It doesnt matter where u live, they r literally everywhere n much bigger amounts than u, or the police realize. My point is not to scare u or make u think that this should be a big concern, my point is that anyone that really wants to use illegal drugs, already can, and prob does. So legalizing them wont change usage. What it will do is take power from the fda. U know, that big gov run, corrupt org that is in the pocket of all the huge prescription drug companies?
Report Post »2Fedup
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 12:30pmThe FDA puts out new “great” drugs every year. Start paying attention to the new drug commercials and then notice the lawyer commercials. Almost all of the new “wonderful” drugs that come out end up killing people and having waaay worse side affects that we find out about 3 years later. Guess how much money was made in that time though? The fda now only requires a drugs benefits to generally outway it’ side effects. Usually some people get some benefit and others get bad reactions. Its a multi billion dollar rackit. Guess what else? U know where the violent thugs and gangs get all their resources to control whole portions of cities, and prisons, and countries like mexico? It aint from gun running. It from selling illegal drugs to americans. No amount of task forces will ever put more than a miniscule dent in this, despite what those whose jobs r n this area tell u. they rnt close and never have been. u know why prohibition of alcohol was ended? because the gangsters were gettng filthy rich, w more money than ther cops and feds.Just like they r today selling drugs. u know how to ACTUALLY completly destroy their income, and thus their network and activities? Legalize drugs n america. i know its a scary thought for many of u, but it really is the only true solution, and it will not cause random kids smashed everywhere in the streets or driving deaths any more than already exists.
Report Post »2Fedup
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 12:41pmBelieve me, i dont get high, and dont want to, i just have seen alot of that side of american culture. Our prisons wont be so overcrowded, and cops will be free to chase actual violent offenders instead of enfocing morality. Btw, here’s a bit more knowledge for the niave consrvs: 420 isnt just celebrated by college students in liberal big cities. If u have teenagers that skipped school yesterday . . . theres a(my own stat) 98% chance they smoke weed. I hate to break it to u, but dont be too hard on them. It really isnt as bad as u have been told. its not good, but it doesnt automatically make them destined for devil worship. I would just focus on getting them goal oriented for their future career and make sure they dont get sucked into leftwing ideology where being a total societal mooch and failure is accepted w open arms. Im sure u did something crazy once or twice when u were young, its the same thing. theyre likely looking to experiment w something taboo or be a crazy kid. Just try to keep it from consuming their life and theyll likely grow out of it, if u teach them about money and budgets and what it takes to raise a family and be successful. Class dismissed.
Report Post »West Coast Patriot
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 2:26pmTime_2, Are you showing your true colors again? You sit there and spout out at all Paul supporters that they are liberals, yet you often quote things that are liberal. Your quote comes from John Locke. Who is John Locke?
John Locke FRS (29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704), widely known as the Father of Classical Liberalism.
You must really love liberalism.
Do not get me wrong, Locke did have an influence on some of our founding fathers, even Thomas Jefferson. Some of his ideas were good, and he was an influence with the Declaration of Independence, but the fact that he is the father of classical liberalism, shows that you like the liberal mindset more than you let on.
Report Post »West Coast Patriot
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 2:30pmTime_2, By the way, I forgot to add this:”Scholars believe that Karl Marx later adapted Locke’s theory on property in his philosophies.” A lot of people were influenced by Lockes ideas.
Report Post »BarackStalin
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 2:55pmA woman can abort her own child because she is free to do whatever she wants with her own body…
But if you smoke a joint men will come and put you in a cage because THAT’S immoral…
Hands off my body…you don’t own my body
Report Post »NorthwoodsCowboy
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 2:57pmSo Ron Paul is a “drug pusher” since he believes in the entire Constitution and believes the States should have the power to decide their own drug policy by the will of their citizens rather than the Federal Government? And I suppose he must be a “drug pusher” since he wants to end a failed and pointless drug war that costs us Billions? Prohibition doesn’t work, and has never worked (read a history book). People are going to continue to use drugs, people are going to continue to supply those drugs, and we are going to continue spend billions to arrest and incarcerate those users and suppliers with little benefit to anybody.
Report Post »Copper Catfish
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 8:12amTeddy Roosevelt, Republican, and Woodrow Wilson, Democrat, were BOTH progressives! There are MANY Republican progressives; we call them RINOs.
Report Post »THXll38
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 9:21pmDon’t smoke da weed, but who cares if other people do? Legalize the crap and be done with it. I never meant a stoned a hole, but I meant many drunk a-holes.
Report Post »NOT A CRAZY
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 12:52amYou must have been stoned when you wrote this…or you are just stupid.
Report Post »PoliticiansRCrooks
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 1:04amMy father is a doctor and he told me marijuana saves many lives and Alcohol kills many people. So let me get this straight, your allowed to get drunk and pop pills but some can’t smoke weed? I want to know why that bothers some one so much. Just like if some gay guy got married. If your not there, why does it bother you so much? If your going to make marijuana legal, than make alcohol illegal. Don’t be a hypocrite.
Report Post »PoliticiansRCrooks
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 1:12am*illegal ( ahhh )
Report Post »NOT A CRAZY
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 9:14amYour father is either a liar or a kook. Is your father Satan or Ron Paul?
Report Post »omgfolks
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 11:53amNot Crazy! your as ccrazy as a loon. Your so far out of the realm of reality it is sad. Marijuana is not near as harmful as booze which is legal, Booze either kills or affects millions every year. The goverment knows it should have been legalized years ago however have people like you who are afraid of it to use in their interest in keeping taxes high and the jails full to support their jobs. They have used their scare tactics to stip citizens of rights and will forever do so until people are no longer afraid and take back the goverment. If you have never tried it, do so , become informed, learn for yourself, then when you do and find out that in moderation this can be a good thing, Vote for the legalizations of it. I really hate hearing from the uninformed, those who only think they know becuase someone else says so. Well you someone else has lied more to the citizens in this country than carter has liver pills. Try it, see for yourself.
Report Post »scruffycat
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 10:42pmI hope everybody had a great 4-20 !!
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 9:04pmThe problem some people have with marijuana use is they worry the user might feel euphoric and they just can’t have that,not to worry it‘s my understanding that growers are removing the psychoactive ingredient THC the part that gives that dreaded euphoria so no need to worry that the end user is ’getting high‘ and they’re still getting the benefit from the drug ie chemo side effects etc.
Report Post »AmazingGrace8
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 12:13pmI don’t know, just gets down to choices you make in your life. People concerned with “calories” so drink the light beers & still make the choice to drink & drive and be a danger to themselves & others. Then the choice of drinking the light beers & staying at home & not drink & drive. We have sex organs and choice of “marriage-sex“ or ”free-love” sex. We make the choice to have another sex partner while being married or unmarried & have “free-love” sex with many partners. Marry a person that has herpes or if unmarried & knowing a partner has herpes but still have sex with that person.
Report Post »And the beat goes on.
Southern Rebel
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 9:04pmNothing relieves stress, enhances relaxation & laser like focus like a big fatty. Pot is not a gateway drug, it’s not harmful and when used responsibly, is better than any drug the pushers in the pharmaceutical industry and it’s pimps can provide. Besides, it’s natural.
Report Post »More people use the stuff than most people realize. De-list it already.
HorseCrazy
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 10:18pmits the stupid people factor with life it always is. cars are safe but stupid people make them deadly same goes for pot. too bad we can’t just ban stupidity would clear out wa dc real quickly.
Report Post »Hossua
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 12:28amExcept even stupid people can’t make pot deadly. It is physically impossible to ingest enough marijuana to kill yourself.
Report Post »NOT A CRAZY
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 12:55amThere is nothing like potheads to spread lies and stupidity in regards to pot.
Report Post »PoliticiansRCrooks
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 1:06am@NOT A CRAZY – Yup, your a crazy, now go fetch your medicine cabinet.
Report Post »NOT A CRAZY
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 9:21am@Politicians…That is about the level of response you can expect from a pothead. Good one…for about a third grader. The truth is that you cannot talk sense into the stoned mind. The truth will not permeate. Come to think of it, that is very similar to the Liberal mind. Are you a Paulbot?
Report Post »usedCZARsalesman
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 8:56pmCRAZY…would you please give anything that even come close to supporting evidence for your claims? I have smoked weed every single day of my life for the past 15 years. I have never in that period missed a day of work, had a single moving violation in a vehicle (and I drive high everyday as well), my three children all make straight A’s in school and are all active in athletics (I am also a low level professional MMA fighter). No one in my family has ever been convicted of a crime and we go to church every Sunday…what harm is my pot smoking doing? What business is it of your?
Report Post »Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 9:02pmWhen I was In High School pot was everywhere and easier to get than legal regulated beer. Just Legalize the crap already and stop wasting tax money ,bullets, and trashing the Constitution in the failed war on drugs. No One can complain about Obamacare being Unconstitutional and support NDAA,The Patriot Act,HR 347 and NYC policemen stopping and searching people just because they are black.
Report Post »Karama
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 8:44pmA day pot heads and Neo Nazi can both agree to celebrate on. It‘s Hitler’s Birthday.
Report Post »PoliticiansRCrooks
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 1:07amit’s also many other peoples birthday.
Report Post »4xeverything
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 5:34amYeah, like Napolean III.
Report Post »lynn4
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 8:28pmI’ll smoke to that; light up another one.
Report Post »M0rt4lity
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 8:11pmThere is absolutely nothing wrong with marijuana and that’s the truth of it. Most of the things people believe wrong with it today is everything the good ol‘ gov’t told you that was wrong with it. It kills brains cells, and all that other nonsense they try to fill your head with thru the dare programs and what not thru public schools. I use to be one of those people, that is until i returned home from Iraq. Diagnosed with PTSD the doctors were pretty much feeding me pills I was on 9 at one time. Seroquel which is one of the very strong medication that was giving me weird side effects such as rapid heart beat. Doctors solution to fixing that was by placing me on beta blockers to slow down my heart rate… Really? I ended up getting my medical marijuana card, and it has really been the best thing for me. I’m a everyday smoker have been for 2 years and have had absolutely no side effects, i’ve been off the medication the doctors had me on, and i’ve been handling my PTSD much better than i was on the meds the doctor had me on. I think before people jump to conclusion assuming how bad marijuana is they should do a quick google search to kill all the myths that have been taught. Only reason marijuana has ever been assumed to kill brain cells was because back when testing on apes or monkeys, scientist forgot that you need oxygen in order for your brain to live. The lack of oxygen is what gave the apes damaged brain cells not the marijuana itself.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 8:47pmMay I humbly ask you what you do for a living?
Report Post »HorseCrazy
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 10:12pmseroguel is awful. I took that for ptsd for 3 days…I had enough its awful I am glad you found something that works for your ptsd.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 8:09pmI remember the meaning of 420 to mean; a sandwich baggy that measured 4 fingers tall (horizontally) filled with pot and costing $20. But, that was a long time ago….
Report Post »OperationNorthwoods
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 8:55pm@ Monk “I remember the meaning of 420 to mean; a sandwich baggy that measured 4 fingers tall (horizontally) filled with pot and costing $20. But, that was a long time ago….”
That must have been a long time ago because what you described would be like a 1/2 ounce and that don’t cost anywhere near 20 bucks anymore. You can’t get and 8th of an once for 20 dollars.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 11:55pm@OperationNorthwoods
Report Post »4 fingers was a full oz back then. And $20 would have filled up my car’s gas tank 3 or 4 times.
The-Monk
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 11:58pm@OperationNorthwoods
Report Post »Also, I have no idea what it looks like anymore or what it costs. And I don’t what to know either.
Therightsofbilly
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 12:00amHey MONK,
Looks like you and me are pretty close to the same age.
Hope all is well.
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 12:02am@THE_MONK
Did you car get around 7 mpg like mine did?
Report Post »republitarian
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 8:08pm“WHERE DOES THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT STAND? Marijuana use, sale and possession are illegal under federal law.”
This is the problem. The town next to mine is a “dry” town, meaning that no alcohol is sold there. We are perfectly capable governing ourselves at the local and state level.
Report Post »HuckleberryFriend
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 7:48pmNever touch the stuff but it is funny that “The Blaze” is reporting on 420. Ha ha…
Report Post »Constructionist
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 9:00pmLol, good catch
Report Post »Mark0331
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 10:07pmexactly..;-)
Report Post »bproorda
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 7:47pm“Swallowing half an hour before closing time, that second dose of soma had raised a quite impenetrable wall between the actual universe and their minds.”
Brave new world by aldous huxley. Read it!
Report Post »HuckleberryFriend
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 8:36pmGreat book.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 7:39pm420? Interestingly… 42 is the Biblical Number for Death!
Report Post »CFL Tea Party
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 7:34pmI’m pretty sure 4/20 started as a way for anti-semitec lefties to secretly celebrate Hitler’s birthday… and we all know many secret lefty party involves drugs, worship of dead dictators, or gay sex.
Report Post »EndTheFedNOW
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 7:57pmLol your joking right…
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 9:45pmLSD trip
Report Post »West Coast Patriot
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 1:40amCFL, Hitlers birthday and the 4/20 term for marijuana have no correlation as in Europe they say the day before the month when announcing dates. So in Europe, Hitlers birthday would be 20/4. Man some people have to bring race into everything, must be a liberal.
Report Post »OperationNorthwoods
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 7:25pmLegalize it. Stop wasting my money on busting pot heads.
Report Post »just my opinion maybe not yours
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 7:23pmWe could pay off out debt with legillizing pot, most of you should be behind it this concept! Pot is less of a social problem then any other drug (legal or illegal) or Alcohol! Those that Smoke Pot already do it and maybe 1 time a year we hear about someone that smoked pot got into a auto accident! What you will find is most will not drive because they can’t get past the Fridge to get to the garage!! Legallize it and tax it, pretty soon we will be needing a new tax on something since someone that smokes cigerettes will be made to quit just so they can get a job!!!
Report Post »JP4JOY
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 7:31pmIf we tried to pay off the national debt with pot taxes we would collectively never find the door. Dude we owe about $50,000.00 PER PERSON on the total national debt. Even at 100% tax rate that is a lot of weed!!!
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 7:39pmJP4JOY But the money we‘re wasting on the ’war on drugs’ could be put to better use.
Report Post »republitarian
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 8:13pmCollect all the SALES tax you want.
SIN taxes are immoral. (Wait… can I say that? :)
Report Post »HorseCrazy
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 10:16pmexcept they will tax it so much there will still be a black market like cigs right now. no one can grow tobacco, imagine when they ban growing your own pot plants after legalizing you can grow them in my state I don‘t because I don’t touch pot I would be a fat chick if I did.
Report Post »West Coast Patriot
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 1:45amThe only way we will get rid of the debt, is to get rid of the FED. Change to a sound financial system and quit printing money out of thin air. Our entire monetary system is built on debt. None of our money is backed by anything except a promise to pay. If you do not understand this, you will never figure out the problem we face.
Report Post »usedCZARsalesman
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 9:04pmactually weed is cheaper to grow than tobacco and the govn could sell it for 4x as much and still be giving the buying a HUGE deal. We could literally tax weed at 300-400% and everyone would still make tons of money and the user would cut his weed bill by 75%…Win/Win
Report Post »scuba13
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 7:18pmCuogh, cough, cough……What were we talking about?
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 7:36pmSkittles, we need some skittles Trayvon go get us some skittles…………..
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 8:49pmSkittles to eat and some Ice-T to listen to….
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 7:15pmOkay how many people are killed because of marijuana? I personally have no use for it but what’s the BFD about pot? Oh it’s the gateway drug yes right,no we need these laws to continue the ‘war’ on drugs but the problem is the ‘war’ isn‘t on drugs it’s on the constitution but that‘s just a trivial matter no we need to continue this ’war‘ on drugs because it’s so successful.
Portugal recently decriminalized marijuana and their country hasn’t collapsed or increased drug addicts.It‘s much better to leave it on the black market where there’s no violence with the drug trade yes prohibition is much better since it worked so well with alcohol and as a bonus it gave us Al Capone and all the murders that he ordered.But they got ole Al on tax evasion,can’t mess with the IRS.
Report Post »just my opinion maybe not yours
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 7:27pmThe gateway to drugs is PUBLIC SCHOOLS!!! I don’t know any kid that started doing drugs until they hit the PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM!!! BTW the real gateway DRUG is Cigaerettes!!!
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 7:32pmThat’s right the public school monopoly is a cesspool,churning out illiterates by the millions and the ones who can read and write go to college to become communists,socialists and anarchists.
Report Post »JP4JOY
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 7:38pmI have to agree with a good portion of your post. The war on drugs has been successful in grabbing property from the stoners who get caught by the enforcers. They will strip you of your money, cars, guns, house, land, you name it they have confiscated it and it’s a HUGE revenue for the states. It really needs to end because if you take the profit motive “black market” out of pot it would quietly disappear from the perceived problem it is made out to be today.
Report Post »HorseCrazy
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 10:13pmagree that gateway to drugs and sleeping around etc is public schools. yes without a doubt that is the majority of where the trouble starts
Report Post »colt1860
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 12:02am@just my opinion maybe not yours
Yep. Government run public schools are also the gateway into becoming little communist subjects. How the American people don’t see the conflict of interest in having the Government educate our children is beyond me.
Report Post »happy2behere
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 7:04pmI am proud of my alma mater and the CU Regents for recognizing the vast majority of CU students do not participate in the 4/20 rally and that it was a nuisance for many. So they shut it down. Yay, common sense finally ruled the day. A smashing success!
Report Post »barber2
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 7:12pmMe too. And the place got fertilized too .
Report Post »ronin_6
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 6:59pmOf for the love of Mike….How much more time money and effort do we need to spend on this ditch weed garbage? Legalize it and let Darwin do what he does.
Report Post »Obamammy
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 7:07pmLegalize what? Laziness and stupid people talking about other times they got high?
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 7:48pmDarwin already does what he does.
Which group of people do you know of that continually, and vigorously fights for the right to kill off it’s own replacements?
Report Post »republitarian
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 8:40pm@Billy, Which group of people do you know of that continually, and vigorously fights for the rights of states to govern themselves?
Let’s try an experiment. Let these states do what they want. If you don’t like the result, don’t try it at home.
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 10:28pm@REPUBLITARIAN
I wasn’t commenting about weed.
I was making an off-hand, off-topic comment about abortion.
I agree with you on the states rights issues on most things.
But I don’t think states, or the Fed have the right to give a green light to murder.
Report Post »republitarian
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 11:28pm@ Billy, I gotcha. And I probably shouldn’t equate the two.
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 12:09am@REPUBLITARIAN
It’s all good !!
Report Post »Conservative_T-Rex
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 6:58pmdoes anyone know a pothead who isn’t a complete dumbass??
http://www.sporcle.com/games/Bohnfather/fox-news-personalities
Report Post »Obamammy
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 7:08pmNope. That is ALL they talk about.
Getting. High.
Report Post »just my opinion maybe not yours
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 7:09pmI know lots that aren’t and I know lots of non potheads that are so whats your point!!!
Report Post »barber2
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 7:12pmIs that what is wrong with today’s ” Let’s Have A Revolution ” Crowd ? Would love to hear fromn the Occupiers/ Adbusters / Anarchists….
Report Post »Hossua
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 8:23pmThere are a lot of dumbasses in this country, unfortunately marijuana is not the cause.
Report Post »Banter
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 9:44pm@Hossua
At least 48% of the country fits this description. You have to be a real dumba$$ to think the government can, and should, take care of you. I suspect pot fits in there somewhere.
Report Post »Hossua
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 12:35amNah, pot isn’t the cause. How does someone that thinks the federal government has no right to ban drugs depend on the government? Think maybe someone with an agenda uses the issue to divide limited government people into warring factions so they can’t accomplish anything?
Report Post »PoliticiansRCrooks
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 1:10amWhy does the Government enforce marijuana laws but Americans are allowed to take pills such as oxycotton ( pain killers ), depression meds, etc. These kills more people than anything combined.
Report Post »4xeverything
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 6:55pmToday is my daughter‘s 4th birthday and ever since the day she was born we haven’t heard the end of it. Needless to say, we were sooo excited when her little brother joined the family this past Friday…the 13th.
Report Post »BexRN
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 7:46pmIt’s my birthday, too. 35 years, and I never heard of this until last year. Sure heard a lot about sharing a birthday with Adolf, though. :(
Report Post »4xeverything
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 5:00amI hear ya, and having a very German last name doesn’t help.
Report Post »trueamerican40
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 6:51pmMarijuana makes you stupid, lazy, numb to the realization that our national debt is 16 trillion and growing…that’s why our dictator president smokes it along with crack in the afternoons.
Report Post »Hossua
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 8:24pmLOL. Oh wait, you are serious.
Report Post »PIL
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 1:15amBeer, whiskey, gin, liquor, wine, moonshine, can have that same effect. Yet with the exception of moonshine, they’re all legal.
Why can’t we support pot in moderation? If you’re getting high at home or in a bar, it’s none of your business. Let people be free and stop regulating their lives.
If I’m wrong, then don’t whine when the government makes eating meat illegal.
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kaydeebeau
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 6:51pmOK parents…are your kids and / or your money going to centers of “higher education”? Still think it is a good investment? Cut the money train and cut the cord….
Report Post »Lloyd Drako
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 6:48pm4/20 is also Hitler’s birthday. Coincidence? I think not. . . .
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 7:41pmThere was also “Four and twenty blackbirds, baked in a pie”
A line from “Sing a song of sixpence” for those that are wondering.
The author of that nursery rhyme might have been partaking.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 9:00pm@Therightsofbilly
Report Post »You bring up an interesting point. Almost every Nursery Rhythm for Children has to do with death;
Rock-a-bye-Baby… baby falls from tree
Pocket full of Posies… ashes to ashes we all fall down
I’m now thinking that all these Nursery Rhythms were written by progressive socialist.
wethepeoplepress
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 9:48amWhy dont you eat some perscribed zanex and wash it down with some wine hypocrites.
Ron Paul is correct, the war on drugs is a joke. Violent criminals should be in jail, not citizens who were caught smoking weed in a state like Nevada that have zero tolerance. If you have two felony strikes against you and you get caught driving through Nevada with a roach in your ashtray, its LIFE without Parole! You evangelicals support it while sipping the nectar of the devil.
God created the flower, man uses it in a unprocessed state, what is the problem? Could it be the gov does not make $ off of it, or is it the fact that Pharmaceutical companies would lose millions from it, Big oil is scarred to death from it as it produces more energy than sugar cane. Don’t forget that a new governmental study just came out that proves pot smoke does not hurt the lungs at all, does not even leave any tar or buildup according to lung tissue from deceased smokers. You cant say the same thing about the drugs most of you consume. Ie. caffeine, alchol and prescribed drugs so many of you are addicted to.
Obama is the worst president ever, but I give him credit for stoping mountain top coal removal and slowing down deep water drilling after horizon. Kudos to him for trying to get US on solar and wind. GOP should take away the lefts argument and support common sense approaches to getting off oil. Demcriminilize weed as well and open door for it as renewable energy, pharmacuticals, etc… Romeny = Ob
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 12:47pm@WETHEPEOPLE
I did not read past your first sentence, as I do not take Zanax, or drink wine, but you can “whine” if you like.
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 7:52pm@WETHEPEOPLE
I did finally read part of your post, and you know what else, We?
Anyone who already has two felony convictions to their credit should know enough to be very, very cautious about what they do, and where they do it.
If they are stupid enough to ring up a third? …………….sucks to be them, huh?
Good grief !!!
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