So...Colorado and Washington, huh?

[Big Mon]

I'm happy about this. But it's not enough. The rest of the country needs to follow suit. I don't care whether or not it's going to be a boon to the economy. I just want to be able to sit on my porch and smoke a bowl without being treated like I make bongs out of dead babies

[Psyre]

I'm happy about this. But it's not enough. The rest of the country needs to follow suit. I don't care whether or not it's going to be a boon to the economy. I just want to be able to sit on my porch and smoke a bowl without being treated like I make bongs out of dead babies

Could have sworn that's what the Bloo Ghost Factory actually did?

[Big Mon]

I'm happy about this. But it's not enough. The rest of the country needs to follow suit. I don't care whether or not it's going to be a boon to the economy. I just want to be able to sit on my porch and smoke a bowl without being treated like I make bongs out of dead babies

Could have sworn that's what the FUZZIFER actually did?

fix'd

[WeHuntKings]

Wouldn't it save some money too by not shoving people in jail over weed?

a thousand times yes. that's why this shit is so important.

[GardenoftheDead]

given the Obama administration's war on medical marijuana, they'll probably occupy CO and WA with Federal troops.

The obama administration will stop that if they're smart. Now if they do that, they run the risk of going to the Supreme Court with it. And given our strict constructionist majority, they'll probably say,"You can't touch it until it crosses state lines."

[dubkitty]

"Obama administration" and "smart" are contradictory.

[GardenoftheDead]

Every administration is smart. You just don't agree with some of them.

[dubkitty]

and every child is "special" in their own way

[Ancient Astronaught]

Washington and Colorado are the test markets. If in the next four years we see what Norml is promising come true and it does help the economy of each state while hopefully decreasing the crime rate and lowering the number of prisoners in jails then we will see more states jumping on board next election. Once 8 to 10 states legalize it and basically tell the government that they arent willing to enforce an outdated law we will see change in government regulation. As long as its 21+ and regulated like alcohol I'm happy.

[dubkitty]

you're making the unwarranted assumption that the Feds won't use various powers to force the states to comply, as they did when they forced all the states to raise the drinking age to 21 on pain of having all highway construction-and-maintenance funds cut off. the Federal government is never going to cede any form of control back to the states unless forced.

[Officer Bukowski]

Every administration is smart. You just don't agree with some of them.

I agree.

If you think you're smarter than Obama then why haven't you figured out how to become the president of the United States? Talking about how he's stupid but not doing anything is counterproductive.

[D.o.S.]

you're making the unwarranted assumption that the Feds won't use various powers to force the states to comply, as they did when they forced all the states to raise the drinking age to 21 on pain of having all highway construction-and-maintenance funds cut off. the Federal government is never going to cede any form of control back to the states unless forced.

That's 100% true, and the drinking age limit is a good thing to bring up/keep in perspective.

[Ancient Astronaught]

you're making the unwarranted assumption that the Feds won't use various powers to force the states to comply, as they did when they forced all the states to raise the drinking age to 21 on pain of having all highway construction-and-maintenance funds cut off. the Federal government is never going to cede any form of control back to the states unless forced.

This while unfortunately true is not a good way to gain confidence in the party and the establishment as a whole.

"Yes the people voted that they wanted it but we represent them and we say no so we are going to shut it down."

The representatives need to stop trying to tell the people they represent what is best for them when they are telling their representative what they want. The greed and corruption in this countries government is mind boggling, their job is to represent us but they won't listen to what we want.




Argh i better stop now or I'm gonna rant incessantly for hours......

[dubkitty]

This while unfortunately true is not a good way to gain confidence in the party and the establishment as a whole.

as Orwell presciently observed, the object of power is power. the Federal government doesn't care about gaining confidence...when public approval of government is at the sub-20% level as it is today, the ship of confidence has already sailed long, long ago.

[D.o.S.]

This while unfortunately true is not a good way to gain confidence in the party and the establishment as a whole.

"Yes the people voted that they wanted it but we represent them and we say no so we are going to shut it down."

The representatives need to stop trying to tell the people they represent what is best for them when they are telling their representative what they want. The greed and corruption in this countries government is mind boggling, their job is to represent us but they won't listen to what we want.

That said, the public is retarded. The Tea Partiers in the House are there doing exactly what their voters want them to do... a couple years ago my home state's legislature (Maine) passed a law allowing gay marriage certificates when the people didn't want it, and it was subsequently overturned by a popular vote--not because Mainers don't want gay people to enjoy marriage benefits (as we saw last night, when we voted to reinstall them), but because they didn't want the government passing laws without putting them to a vote.

On the one hand--that makes sense. You want your representatives to represent you.

On the other hand--we just voted to put reinstate something that we'd repealed because we didn't like that our elected officials went over our heads, even though a majority of the state supported it.