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Posted: Thu 10:48 AM, Jul 07, 2011
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Reporter: Associated Press Email
Updated: Thu 6:13 PM, Jul 07, 2011

Pot Legalization Effort Underway in Colorado

DENVER (AP) -- It's day one for pot legalization backers gathering signatures for a Constitutional Amendment seeking to authorize pot for recreational use in Colorado.

Supporters need about 86,000 signatures to get the question on ballots next year. They start collecting signatures Thursday afternoon in Denver.

If approved, the amendment would make pot legal in small quantities for adults over 21 starting in 2013. Sixteen states allow medical marijuana, but Colorado's proposal would set up a federal showdown over recreational pot rules.

Backers of the amendment say the time is right to seek full legalization.

Some pot activists say the measure includes too much regulation and plan to propose a rival suggestion.

Colorado voters rejected a marijuana legalization measure in 2006.

(Copyright 2011 by the Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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  • by Prophet Location: Prague on Jul 8, 2011 at 08:06 AM
    It didn't pass in California and there is no way it will pass in Colofornia.
  • by Disgusted Location: Ritterville on Jul 7, 2011 at 05:55 PM
    I'll make you folks a deal. If I can purchase a 100w incandescent bulb, a toilet that uses a proper amount of water, and not purchase health insurance I will not use, then you can smoke all the pot you want. Deal?
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      by Aspen on Jul 9, 2011 at 08:19 AM in reply to Disgusted
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        by Disgusted on Jul 9, 2011 at 04:49 PM in reply to Aspen
        I do Aspen. I have a garage full of 100w bulbs and a well lit house. The commode is a 1.6gl/flush but I make sure and flush it 3 times every time. As for Healthcare, I was lucky enough to be able to escape the tyranny of the local Healthcare/Marxism complex and purchase health insurance through a decent American company. You are 100% correct that the best way to stand up is to not participate. You are also correct that it is your own personal choice if MMJ is correct treatment for you. I suspect that even if MMJ passes as legal, the local Healthcare/Marxism complex will insist people be tested for it, and triple their insurance rates if they test positive. It's what they do with nicotine and B.M.I. right now.
  • by Waiting on Jul 7, 2011 at 05:36 PM
    Look at booz..people get stupid, beligerant, and violent. I have had family members be told if they do not stop drinking, they will DIE. Why is it ok to have something comprable to heroin legal, but when it comes to recreational use of mariuana, it is such a huge deal? Insaine! Tell me the las time any one has heard of someone getting killed by a stoned driver? And the last time someone has been killed by a drunk driver. When people stop being scared and actually begin thinking realistically on this, they will suprise themselves.
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      by Luke on Jul 8, 2011 at 05:02 PM in reply to Waiting
      What about those who drink AND smoke pot at the same time? Don't try to tell me it doesn't happen, I know people who do. Since they only do a breathaliser test they don't pick up on the pot in the persons system, they're probably far more people who have been killed by someone on both booze and pot than have ever been tested for. Pot stays in a persons system for as long as 45 days, if they keep smokin it builds up, then if they drink beer, wine or hard stuff the threshold for intoxication is lower. Your argument for the virtue of pot has a lot of holes in it.
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        by Aspen on Jul 9, 2011 at 08:07 AM in reply to Luke
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          by luke on Jul 9, 2011 at 01:54 PM in reply to Aspen
          I know people who do both. THC stays in the system for up to 45 days based on drug testing I have been a part of in the past, as a job foreman I had to fire many people because they thought being off the weed for a month so they could get a job would insure them passing the drug test. Like it or not, the more you smoke the more it accumulates. random testing caught those who passed the test to get the job then started smoking again. The whole idea about legalizing MJ is nothing more than rebellion against all and any authority along with dumbing down people to the level of drug users. Just like the democrats, if you destroy the middle class and take everything the wealthy have, you only have two classes of people, the poor, and the politicians and friends. That way they can feel like they destroyed poverty, by making every one the same. If you can get drugs legalized, you can do away with the idea that there is something wrong with drugs, right?
  • by Disgusted Location: Ritterville on Jul 7, 2011 at 12:44 PM
    It was really cool the way the Obummer administration jumped on the drug enforcement bandwagon by sending guns to the drug cartels in Mexico. Very innovative. We are so lucky to have such honorable people in power.....
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      by Anonymous on Jul 7, 2011 at 06:13 PM in reply to Disgusted
      ha ha, you make it sound as though if you have an R after your name, you walk on water. It is still sad to see that there is very little difference between either the D crooks or the R crooks, they just want to line their pockets, neither the D or the R really care about you, or this country, they are just using the R's and the D's for their purposes. The green grass on the other side of the D or R fence. Maybe someday we will all wake up and see, the D's suck, the R's suck.....
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        by Disgusted on Jul 7, 2011 at 06:35 PM in reply to
        You are correct. The problem is the Demicans and the Republicrats But in politics the choice is usually the lesser of two evils and the majority of the time that is Republicans.
  • by moregasm on Jul 7, 2011 at 11:26 AM
    and? 90% of marijuana enforcement happens at the state and local levels so it's got to start somewhere.
  • by Mason Storm Location: GJ on Jul 7, 2011 at 10:59 AM
    Still trying to legalize (on the State level) a Federally Banned substance...

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