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Weed is now LEGAL in CO and WA!!!

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DaDankyDank said:
Ohio doesn't either. We don't have enough support right now, but we're definitely in the process. The good thing is our signatures and support never expire until they're turned in. Hopefully we'll have enough by 2013-2014 to get something moving.

What's sad is I personally haven't seen anyone collecting signatures yet. I've read about setting up our own stations, but I've still been too lazy to actually commit to doing something like that even though I'm a college student on an extremely liberal college campus. It honestly makes me feel sort of ashamed, but hopefully people better than myself will step up to the plate and hopefully make it happen. We all have to do our part and right now I'm not fulfilling that duty.
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The laws are too lax in Ohio to get people motivated I think....few years maybe...
 
I live in washington, im waiting for 2 things. The first stonner to get a dui, and the first state cannabis store.
 
Since it was a referendum, the Attorney General of both CO and WA will use public money to fight the Feds on this. Since there are two that paved the way, I would not be surprised to see many more states follow suit via legislature. The states are too broke to pass up on millions of new taxes that only affect stoners...
 
Congrats CO and WA!!! <3 <3 <3 it..
More states follow suit and it will be federally legal in no time, which is ideal..

@chicago..
I'm close 2 u on the WI border and we don't have medical either, but I think if it went b4 whoever it sure would pass.
Sorry, idk who decides that, I don't follow politics @ all..
 
So by doing this are they aiming to eliminate the black market supply and demand? Because that's the main reason I thought decriminalising weed was even being considered. I'm just a bit unclear on whether it's been made completely legal; to possess, grow and distribute. Or whether it's being regulated and taxed. I read somewhere it's the former?
 
Technically though on a federal level it's still illegal. Federal overrides state law, but the states made it legal for recreational use..
As I'm not from any of the "legal" states, I'm a little unclear myself. That's the jist though..

Idk, if the feds still go after the medicinal/ recreational states though.

^ yeah, dawglaw said it..
 
I'd believe it.. I hope more states follow, more follow they can't ignore it. It would have to be made legal federally.
 
mgrady3 said:
if the federal gov't goes after them it will draw a lot of bad press; a feds vs. states' rights is not the kinda showdown the Obama gov't needs right now.
I think its everyone's best interest to just let it play out and se what happens. Especially if the state are going to generate lots fo tax revenue - the gov't gets their cut from that as well.

The precedent is surely on the feds side if they do fight it though - Gonzales v. Raich and the Commerce Clause come to mind.
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Its fucked up but obama has already ordered the feds to crack down on it do more raids and shit. Good one barack, what a great way to start off your second term as president.
 
KillCops said:
Its fucked up but obama has already ordered the feds to crack down on it do more raids and shit. Good one barack, what a great way to start off your second term as president.
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Source? I'd be surprised if he did that, he was the one who stopped the feds from cracking down on the medicinal shops in California.

I wouldn't be surprised if this gets brought to the supreme court and shot down because federal law overrides state law. On the other hand, I wouldn't be surprised if this is the catalyst that leads to federal law being changed. Only good things can come out of this.

Now to legalize heroin.
 
Effuzion said:
he was the one who stopped the feds from cracking down on the medicinal shops in California.
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Source? I know as recently as September shit was going down in CA:

LA Times said:
Federal officials brought their war on medical marijuana dispensaries to Los Angeles on Tuesday, raiding several shops and issuing warning letters to dozens more.

Officials at the U.S. attorney's office said it was the first large-scale federal action taken against cannabis shops in the city, and said more will probably follow.

"We couldn't do all of L.A. at once," said Thom Mrozek, a spokesman for the office. "There's just too many stores."
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http://articles.latimes.com/2012/sep/26/local/la-me-medical-marijuana-20120926
 
Jibult said:
Source? I know as recently as September shit was going down in CA:




http://articles.latimes.com/2012/sep/26/local/la-me-medical-marijuana-20120926
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Those raids have nothing to do with Obama. And from that same article:

In the early days of President Obama's tenure, Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. said federal prosecutors would not target medical marijuana users and caregivers as long as they followed state laws. But as the risk of prosecution diminished, storefront dispensaries and enormous growing operations proliferated in California, often in brazen defiance of zoning laws and local bans.

Last year, the four U.S. attorneys assigned to the state announced that they were taking aim at large-scale growers.
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It sounds like there was a reason those medical dispensaries were being targeted: they were breaking zoning laws. Whether that's grounds for being raided or not is up for debate, but clearly Obama is not "ordering the feds to crack down" on medical marijuana.
 
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