Did CO legalize personal use today?

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The dispenseries are crap anyway. It's just like always, the best stuff comes from a private guy, and the commercial stuff is weak.

My caregiver sells me better bud for what the dispensery would sometimes less, without sales tax or any record keeping, plus a free oz every harvest. There is no reason to use a dispensery unless you have no caregiver

 

Hasn't been my experience. Maybe it's just the dispensaries you have tried.
The main one I go to is always way better price and quality then I have seen on the street.

 

I haven't purchased anything from dispensaries, as I live in KY, but every time I go to CO to visit my friends/family, the stuff they are getting is top notch. And at half the price that I pay for it here.

 

Yeah, my connect has a med card. My experience with medicinal weed has been top notch quality!

 

Call me a pessimist. My guess is Obama will sick his feds to those states and fight these new policies. Possibly by threatening to cut federal funding to those states.

 

Maybe.

But if so, it's poor politics.

When the people who vote you in are, in a percentage greater than half, saying that they want a law changed, if you chill and let it happen, fewer will notice or care than if you attack them. If you attack them people realize that you're actually repressing them..... you can't be the guy whos administration says they ended the war on drugs (lol....) and also be in the national spotlight repressing whole states that have voted to allow the use of a harmless plant.

I mean you can, but it actually serves the prohibitionist agenda worse than just stepping back, waiting for MAD to sabatoge it, and then pointing and going "see?".

Like how the DEA website (and officials, from time to time) have a little talking point about how alaska legalized pot, and it failed.... of course they have about a tenth of the story, and still lie about that tenth, but it sounds a lot better that "alaska legalized pot, and we drove tanks into nome, to root out every last dirty stoner".

 

The DEA might be able to go after major weed distributing companies, if they are ever formed, but they can't really go after all the little guys who now believe they can legally grow a couple plants in their backyard. They would have to arrest people en masse, then ship them off to some federal courts to try them. It's almost laughable to think about.
Effectively, weed is legal for personal use in CO and noone will be able to change that for a while I believe.

 

OTHER fascist governments have managed it

I kid, ours isn't that fascist or stupid yet. Right now they lie to you and expect you to believe it, instead of killing you if you don't pretend to believe it.

I mean, it SHOULD be laughable to think that the US supported pol pot as he murdered one out of every four cambodians in cold blood.... but hey, we did.

 

I agree, MachineElf

The fact is, shops that attempt to get a license to grow lots of marijuana are allowed to be turned down by local governments. What is going to happen there remains to be seen. But regardless, people now have the right to have and grow their own marijuana. That is the real gift.

Call me conceited, but I believe it won't be long for some "Pot Lounges" to take the scene! In Denver anyway..

 

Yeah, well no matter what they say about stores, possession is legal anywhere.

I wonder what the law says about personal sales between individuals who are both qualified to have weed, but where neither represents a store? (that is, a standard pot deal) Or gifts?

 

But will the federal government allow it? Couldn't they still be arrested because it's a Schedule 1 drug?

 

probably bust you for not collecting tax...

 

Just heard an interesting NPR story regarding this marijuana process.
The fact is, on a federal level it is illegal to have marijuana (obviously)
And the catch is, it is nearly impossible to run a cash only business. So to have a marijuana shop you have to get a loan. Which means you have to go through the bank. Nearly no bank wants to give out a loan to a guy who aims to sell weed. They don't want to risk it on the chance of getting shut down.

However, the story was brought by a "dealers" perspective and he said that sadly they just have to be unhonest about the topic to the bank to get the loan. "I plan to make money" it worked for him and shops will come up with the people smart enough to work there way around the loan (which will happen)

The real victory here is the personal use, never mind where you get it. And it's just not practical for Feds to bust down on individuals. The real issue is going to be about business verse fed. For the common stoner/citizen marijauana is legal and free! (As of dec 6th~)

 

I live in Wa. So now the ball is in the FED'S court.

 

My guess is the federal government is gonna get all pissed off and start arresting people in CO and WA.

When medical marijuana was passed in all the west coast states, it didn't stop the Clinton administration from fighting back

 

http://www.npr.org/2012/11/24/165776654/legal-pot-has-arrived-now-what?ft=1&f=1001

 

can i go vist and be legal? or i have to have a card to buy it.?
sucks in p.a.

 

If you live in a med state now and get proper docs you can. If you read the story, you'd see that no, you can't just go there and buy weed.

You'd go all the way to CO, but can't find any there?:toetap05: