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Colorado Stores Throw Open Their Doors to Pot Buyers

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post #27

I'm curious what happens to the people who were surviving on the cash from selling it illegally. Some of them are poor slobs. Some of them are organized crime. Are they just going to try to sell it at a lower price since the police cannot tell where you got it from and might not even care anymore? Tax savings alone radically reduces the price.

They can now get a legal job selling it over the counter. They can get licensed and sell it legally via delivery or whatever (I don't know the regulations). They can leverage their growing operation into a legal business that sells to dispensaries. They can get a job in another field...though, the skills acquired through dealing illegal drugs aren't necessarily very marketable.

I dunno...but, we didn't, as a nation, mourn the end of bootlegging as a career option when alcohol prohibition ended. So, I'm not going to mourn the end of the small-time drug dealer (or the large scale cartel dealers, either).

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post #55
post #3

"Skeptical federal authorities are also paying attention. Although marijuana remains illegal under federal law, the Justice Department has given a tentative approval for Colorado and Washington to move ahead with regulating marijuana. But it warned that federal officials could intervene if the state regulations failed to keep the drug away from children, drug cartels or federal property, and out of other states." I h…

Truth is, every law is based on people who ruin it for everybody else. That is how marijuana got outlawed in the first place. People has this belief that we are somehow rewarded for passing thousands of new laws every year. The resulting authoritarian society is just the unintended consequence. Nobody actually picks authoritarianism on purpose.

People has this belief that we are somehow rewarded for passing thousands of new laws every year.

The people in Congress are called "lawmakers." That's the problem right there. Even if society were to reach an ideal 100% perfect state, they'd still need to pass more laws to justify their jobs, so we'd soon be broken again.

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post #3

"Skeptical federal authorities are also paying attention. Although marijuana remains illegal under federal law, the Justice Department has given a tentative approval for Colorado and Washington to move ahead with regulating marijuana. But it warned that federal officials could intervene if the state regulations failed to keep the drug away from children, drug cartels or federal property, and out of other states." I h…

"federal property" - I'm sure the TSA at DIA will be stepping up their pot detection and nail plenty of unsuspecting tourists. I wonder if Colorado will put up a sign going towards the airport reminding people of federal law.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Now stop that right now! :) I strongly doubt there is any such thing as "medical- grade " marijuana. "Medical marijuana" refers to pot sold in such as way as to shield the buyer and seller from criminal liability (by requiring a prescription from a health-care provider). No official or semi-official body is holding this medical marijuana to any standard. Heading off a potential nit: in the last year or two a new stra…

Doesn't 'Medical Grade' just mean high quality? IANAS but there are lots of different levels of quality right? Like in Pulp Fiction? "That one's a Wild Man."

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Colorado, unlike a large number of US states, seems to take crazy things like simple economics and overwhelmingly positive scientific research into account when drafting laws. Here in the south we prefer to use 1950's mores, Jim Crow era law enforcement priorities and 3000 year old Judean religious texts when writing our laws. Bravo Colorado!

With our luck, the fed gov't will announce that states can choose to expand marijuana laws and they will pay for the infrastructure and it'll be just like Medicaid!

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#108
post #84

More acceptance would presumably result in more clinical trials of cannabis. I'm aware of some small scale studies which have shown promise for diseases such as IBD (Crohn's/ulcerative colitis). How it stands presently some sections of society (global) suffer unnecessarily. I'm lead to believe that some substances in cannabis are neuroprotective; This contrasts to something like alcohol, which causes neurological dam…

More research seems like a really good side benefit if it happens. Inhaling burning plant matter is still bad for you. There are alternate means of ingesting the compounds in Marijuana though.

Vaping, edibles, and tea. At least that's what pop culture says.

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post #93
post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Based on the above comment I was expecting like $20/lb tea...not $275/lb. I just checked and I got a box of Bigelow from Food Lion (don't judge). Based on the net weight on the box, it's a little under $35/lb granted it is a small box so buying in bulk would definitely bring that down. So I can't imagine what $6/lb tea would taste like but I'm not sure I can justify $275/lb either. This is my cheap-ass tea by the way…

http://uptontea.com is somewhere in between and has not disappointed the few times I've ordered from them.

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Re: Colorado Stores Throw Open Their Doors to Pot Buyers

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Colorado, unlike a large number of US states, seems to take crazy things like simple economics and overwhelmingly positive scientific research into account when drafting laws. Here in the south we prefer to use 1950's mores, Jim Crow era law enforcement priorities and 3000 year old Judean religious texts when writing our laws. Bravo Colorado!

- There are no successful clinical trials on marijuana by the FDA.

For someone who praises science, your statements really show your ignorance.

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