[Golfingnut]

Legalizing it would put a major crunch on street sales thereby making it more difficult for unauthorized buyers from finding a source. Denver is experiencing a decline in street sales already and a reduction of underage users.

[TexaninVA]

Originally Posted by Golfingnut

Find the facts not the emotion.

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You are posting in the wrong thread again, fyi.

[Golfingnut]

Originally Posted by gomoho

You forgot something:

Legalizing would enable some folks that stay away now because of the law to go ahead and light up and potentially go down a slippery slope.
My personal opinion. Please no sarcastic questions.

Good point and I agree it is very likely to happen, but in smaller numbers than the numbers from the beneficial aspect of legalization.

[sharonga]

Legalize it and tell me where to buy it. Please don't tell the FBI or CIA. I am paranoid enough!!!!

[rp001]

Originally Posted by Villages PL

Has anyone thought about the possibility of unintended consequences? Do you want to live in a "Dumb And Dumber" dumbed down society? Don't we have enough of that already?

If marijuana becomes legal for recreational use, there will be many more young people using it than otherwise would have. Once it is officially sanctioned and approved, it will seem totally harmless to new generations of young people.

Has anyone figured out what the costs of that might be?

Oh please

[2BNTV]

Medical yes, if necessary. Recreational, NO.

I fully realize there is a slippery slope on this issue.

[TexaninVA]

Originally Posted by Villages PL View Post

Has anyone thought about the possibility of unintended consequences? Do you want to live in a "Dumb And Dumber" dumbed down society? Don't we have enough of that already?

If marijuana becomes legal for recreational use, there will be many more young people using it than otherwise would have. Once it is officially sanctioned and approved, it will seem totally harmless to new generations of young people.

Has anyone figured out what the costs of that might be?

Originally Posted by rp001

Oh please

RP .... In spite of your eyes rolling at VillagesPL very uncool and un-hip comments, he is in fact spot on IMHO. In addition, the impact on younger kids (ie many more using it over time ) is completely predicable.

[gomoho]

Originally Posted by TexaninVA

Originally Posted by Villages PL View Post

RP .... In spite of your eyes rolling at VillagesPL very uncool and un-hip comments, he is in fact spot on IMHO. In addition, the impact on younger kids (ie many more using it over time ) is completely predicable.

I wonder how much of this balderdash about legalizing isn't an attempt to appear as hip or cool - look at me I'm living on the edge. I've lived through the potential devastating effects of marijuana and just can't wrap my arms around the idea of making it legal. We are already suffering in this country from people that are not motivated to work, what on earth will happen if there are more on that roll cause they're smoked up and just can't do it!

At the risk of repeating myself "even Governor Jerry Moonbeam Brown from California has admitted legalization could create a very unproductive society".

[KeepingItReal]

Originally Posted by Golfingnut

WBKO RADIO Not worth wasting time on that place.

Too much pot already?


THAT PLACE Happens to be WBKO TV Station not radio, but it is a good example of the problem with pot smoking.

Here's another copy of the story from a different source you might like better:

http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/story/24...stoned-driving

Excerpt from the story:

Washington, the only other state that has legalized recreational pot, saw more than 1,300 drivers test positive for marijuana last year - that's almost 25 percent more than in 2012.

Of those, 720 had levels high enough to lead to an automatic drugged driving conviction, though Washington officials say there's been no corresponding jump in car accidents.

Colorado's $1 million ad campaign, which begins March 10, comes from a federal grant from the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration.

A Spanish-language ad campaign is launching next week, too. Those ads show a man blowing smoke and the message, "When you use marijuana, don't drive."

Dispensary owners helped develop the Colorado ads and plan to voluntarily hand out brochures and hang "Drive High, Get a DUI" posters.

"We recognize our duty to be a part of the DUID conversation," said Elan Nelson, a dispensary worker who is vice chairwoman of the state's Medical Marijuana Industry Group.

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Associated Press Writer Gene Johnson in Seattle contributed to this report.

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Kristen Wyatt can be reached at http://www.twitter.com/APkristenwyatt

[KeepingItReal]

Originally Posted by Barefoot

This is a rational post. Marijuana is easily accessible now and often sold to young kids. I'd rather see it legalized and restricted to adults.

Like cigarettes, that really worked out well......

This story proves that kids will have pot more than ever before.

http://www.denverpost.com/breakingne...e-legalization

GRAND JUNCTION — In two years of work as an undercover officer with a drug task force, Mike Dillon encountered plenty of drugs. But nothing has surprised him as much as what he has seen in schools lately.

Dillon, who is now a school resource officer with the Mesa County Sheriff's Department, said he is seeing more and younger kids bringing marijuana to schools, in sometimes-surprising quantities.

"When we have middle school kids show up with a half an ounce, that is shocking to me," Dillon said.

The same phenomenon is being reported around Colorado after the 2010 regulation of medical marijuana dispensaries and the 2012 vote to legalize recreational marijuana.

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There are no hard numbers yet because school disciplinary statistics do not isolate marijuana from general drug violations. But school resource officers, counselors, nurses, staff and officials with Colorado school safety and disciplinary programs are anecdotally reporting an increase in marijuana-related incidents in middle and high schools.

"We have seen a sharp rise in drug-related disciplinary actions which, anecdotally, from credible sources, is being attributed to the changing social norms surrounding marijuana," said Janelle Krueger. Krueger is the program manager for Expelled and At-Risk Student Services for the Colorado Department of Education

Krueger said school officials believe the jump is linked to the message that legalization (even though it is still prohibited for anyone under 21) is sending to kids: that marijuana is a medicine and a safe and accepted recreational activity. It is also believed to be more available.

Marijuana that parents or other adults might have kept hidden in the past may now be left in the open, where it is easier for kids to dip into it to sell, use or, in some cases, simply to show off, said school officials and law enforcement.

"They just want to be cool," said Dillon of some of the younger students he has seen with pot at school.

Krueger, who has been an adviser to resource officers across Colorado for 17 years, said she has heard many stories from officers about kids bringing pot to schools.

One that an officer related at a meeting recently involved a student dropping a small baggie of marijuana from his pocket as he was walking down a school hallway. The school principal was walking past the student at the time and picked up the pot. He asked the student if it belonged to him. The student immediately admitted it was his and reached out to take it back from the principal.

What struck Krueger and the officer about this incident was the fact that the student didn't seem to realize that there was anything wrong with having the pot or that there would be any disciplinary consequence for it. The officer said the student acted like having marijuana was an ordinary thing and no big deal.

Jeff Grady, a Grand Junction school resource officer who has spent 25 years working in schools, tells a story about sitting in his car at a park near Grand Junction High School one day watching groups of kids through binoculars because they come to the park to smoke on lunch breaks.

"Kids are smoking before school and during lunch breaks. They come into school reeking of pot," he said. "They are being much more brazen."

He said school officials call him and he talks to the kids, but it is a little more difficult now to cite them if they aren't caught in the act. They can say that they were around an adult medical marijuana user and weren't smoking themselves, Grady said.

http://speaknowcolorado.org/fact-zon...juana-alcohol/

[KeepingItReal]

Originally Posted by Golfingnut

I see a common connection between no votes for legalized marijuana, no vote for gun control, no vote for immigration reform and a no vote for minimum wage increase. Having issue with one or two, no big deal, but when someone is against all, I see a problem.

And what problem is that and why does it matter?

[wendyquat]

Oh go ahead and legalize it! I can see the "dumbing down" has already started!

[Golfingnut]

Originally Posted by KeepingItReal

Too much pot already?


THAT PLACE Happens to be WBKO TV Station not radio, but it is a good example of the problem with pot smoking.

Here's another copy of the story from a different source you might like better:

http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/story/24...stoned-driving

Excerpt from the story:

Washington, the only other state that has legalized recreational pot, saw more than 1,300 drivers test positive for marijuana last year - that's almost 25 percent more than in 2012.

Of those, 720 had levels high enough to lead to an automatic drugged driving conviction, though Washington officials say there's been no corresponding jump in car accidents.

Colorado's $1 million ad campaign, which begins March 10, comes from a federal grant from the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration.

A Spanish-language ad campaign is launching next week, too. Those ads show a man blowing smoke and the message, "When you use marijuana, don't drive."

Dispensary owners helped develop the Colorado ads and plan to voluntarily hand out brochures and hang "Drive High, Get a DUI" posters.

"We recognize our duty to be a part of the DUID conversation," said Elan Nelson, a dispensary worker who is vice chairwoman of the state's Medical Marijuana Industry Group.

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Associated Press Writer Gene Johnson in Seattle contributed to this report.

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Kristen Wyatt can be reached at http://www.twitter.com/APkristenwyatt

Sorry, but you source is a fox affiliate. Please pic a legitimate one.

[Golfingnut]

This very thread has the legalization of MEDICAL MARIJUANA ahead in the polls 2 to 1. Twice as many of your fellow villagers are in favor. It is not a case of right/wrong or uncaring/compassion. There is and will always be a faction around that feels they are better equipped to dictate laws to the majority; however, as long as we are a democratic society, we all must respect our way and honor the final decision. Overall, America and all her laws is the best thing going. Let's enjoy her together.

Lou

[Golfingnut]

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