Poll: Marijuana Law Reform

[TenBears]

I bet you would be much healthier. Sad that it's not a legal option. Kinda crazy that it can't at least be prescribed.

Don't worry, the doctors have highly addictive opiates to treat you with. If you smoke/eat a plant, the man will come for you.

 

[twoguns?]

I have Fibromyalgia, arthritis, spondilitis, etc. I would love to try therapeutic cannabis instead of all the meds I'm on now.

Me too...
It only quiets the pain for a little while, before that...you just don't care...
There are several vitamins, herbs that ..seem.. to help...just depends...

 

[twoguns?]

Don't worry, the doctors have highly addictive opiates to treat you with. If you smoke/eat a plant, the man will come for you.

itll do for now...

 

[TenBears]

 

[Raoul Duke]

Soooo, apparently Lankford is a Tribe hating douche:

On August 6, an obviously senseless Bill was proposed by Senator Lankford (R-OK) that seeks to attack and destroy a tribe’s sovereign right to decide whether to engage in the cultivation of cannabis plants in States where medicinal marijuana growing and use are legal.

The KIDS Act (S. 1984) stands for “Keeping out Illegal Drugs Act of 2015”. This Act is intended to “close the door” on Indian Tribes from having anything to do with cannabis and threatening to cut off all their federal funding and benefits if they move forward to regulate its use on tribal trust property.

Senator’s Lackford’s motives for proposing such an unprecedented law intent on selectively targeting Tribes paints a wrongful picture that Tribes are incapable of caring for the health and welfare needs of their members. The Senator’s “Wild West” depiction that Tribes are incapable of engaging in highly regulated business endeavors is unrealistic, offensive, “illusory” and not supported by credible evidence.

http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2015/08/18/tribes-must-protect-right-grow-weed

Before we continue, let’s give it up to James Lankford for maintaining our state’s longstanding tradition of sending Senators to Washington who will make us all look as backwards and idiotic as humanly possible. Way to go, sir! We salute you like a teenager losing his or her virginity at the Falls Creek Church Camp.

So, other than being a conservative moralist who wants to regulate other people’s choices and lifestyles that do not affect him, why’s he being so hardcore about this?

“The Native American community experiences the highest drug induced death rate in the country,” Lankford said.

Ok, that is a problem, but what exactly does marijuana have to do with it? Marijuana is probably the safest drug out there. You can’t overdose on it and it has actual medical benefits. Hell, Acetaminophen poisoning sends more Native Americans to the ER than marijuana. Is Lankford also going to push to ban Tylenol?

“It is important for our nation to help address this issue for the sake of the next generation of Native Americans. This legislation is a good step in trying to protect young tribal members and fulfill our trust responsibility to Native Americans.”

Listen, I’m sure our Native American population appreciates your concern and sudden interest in their health and well-being, but forgive them if they don’t want “protection” from a white, Bible-thumping, Washington D.C. politician. They’d probably just prefer it if you just left them alone and let them do their own thing.

Marijuana cultivation and sale are illegal under federal law. However, the Obama administration has recently given tribes flexibility in how they want to approach enforcement of marijuana laws on their reservations.

That flexibility may even extend to allowing American Indian tribes to legalize marijuana on their land and to tribal governments profiting from the sale. Lankford’s bill would prohibit that…

Tribes receive federal funds, including grants, from numerous federal departments and agencies for the array of services they provide.

Question: If marijuana is a killer drug, why hasn’t Lankford introduced a bill to strip federal funding from states that have legalized marijuana? The answer probably has something to do with hypocrisy, double standards and Native American tribes being an easy target.

http://www.thelostogle.com/2015/08/11/james-lankford-wants-to-save-native-american-tribes-from-deadly-marijuana/

 

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looks like legalization of pot in Colo is NOT going the way of naysayers ...

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Since marijuana legalization, highway fatalities in Colorado are at near-historic lows
August 5, 2014

Since Colorado voters legalized pot in 2012, prohibition supporters have warned that recreational marijuana will lead to a scourge of “drugged drivers” on the state’s roads. ~

It seems to me that the best way to gauge the effect legalization has had on the roadways is to look at what has happened on the roads since legalization took effect. Here’s a month-by-month comparison of highway fatalities in Colorado through the first seven months of this year and last year. For a more thorough comparison, I’ve also included the highest fatality figures for each month since 2002, the lowest for each month since 2002 and the average for each month since 2002.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...lities-in-colorado-are-at-near-historic-lows/

 

[ARnut]

Someone told me the homeless population in CO has went up drastically. I think they are migrating in personally. Kinda like the homeless population in Hawaii has gone up, if your gonna be homeless, may as well do it in a mild climate where winter isnt a factor. Or go to CO where you can be homeless and buy pot with your handouts. Anyone have any insight on this?

A few of the east coast states fly their homeless to Hawaii because of the weather. That is what the tour guide told us in Hawaii anyway.

 

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"Florida Cannabis Act" Would Legalize Marijuana

September 14, 2015

Florida voters could decide if recreational pot is legalized like alcohol, if Regulate Florida gets its initiative on the 2016 ballot.

Michael Minardi is on a mission to make recreational marijuana legal in Florida next year.

Asked how he would do that, considering that a ballot measure to legalize just medical marijuana didn’t pass in 2014, he says, “We’re going to use science, and we’re going to use stats.”

Minardi is a West Palm Beach attorney who in March won a landmark case that successfully used medical necessity as a defense for pot charges against his client. He has teamed with fellow attorney Bill Wohlsifer and marijuana activist Karen Goldstein to form the corporation Sensible Florida and an associated group, Regulate Florida. Together, they have developed a proposed amendment to the state constitution that would legalize and regulate recreational marijuana for adults.

The “Florida Cannabis Act” proposes legalizing pot and regulating it like alcohol. It would allow anyone 21 or older to purchase and possess up to an ounce of marijuana and, if licensed, grow up to six plants at home.

http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/news/florida-cannabis-act-would-legalize-marijuana-7255598

 

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Colorado's marijuana tax revenues nearly double last year's figures

State brought in nearly $73.5m in the first seven months of 2015
Colorado on pace to take in $125m, compared to just $44m last year
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/21/colorado-marijuana-tax-revenues-2015?