Voters in the ski resort town of Breckenridge, Colorado legalized marijuana and marijuana paraphernalia by a nearly three-to-one margin on Tuesday.
It is the first municipality in the United States to allow paraphernalia, such as pipes, bongs and bubblers.
"[The measure] passed 73 percent to 27 percent," ABC 7 News in Denver reported.
"'This votes demonstrates that Breckenridge citizens overwhelmingly believe that adults should not be punished for making the safer choice to use marijuana instead of alcohol,' said Sean McAllister, a Breckenridge attorney who proposed the ordinance," ABC continued.
"Possession remains illegal under state law, but Breckenridge Police Chief Rick Holman said his department will 'still have the ability to exercise discretion,'" Colorado's Summit Daily News added.
It's never been something that we've spent a lot of time on, so I don't expect this to be a big change in how we really do business, he said, according to the Daily News.
"It will not make it more available to minors, won't make it legal to smoke it on the street, won't get you out of trouble if you're stoned behind the wheel," the Daily News opined in an editorial supporting the measure. "What it says is that if you, as an adult, choose to possess small amounts of marijuana for personal use, you won't be busted for it. It's still a much more stringent law than those that apply to alcohol a substance you can own as much as you want of and consume in public."
The paper added: "Eventually, it seems these small possession busts will be a thing of the past state-wide, which makes us conclude some kind of 'nuisance pot smoke' ordinance needs to take their place roughly analogous to public intoxication statutes."
In Breckenridge, which has about 3,300 registered voters, passage of the measure is not a surprise. While an effort to legalize marijuana state-wide failed during the 2006 elections, Breckenridge voters supported it by a margin of nearly 3-to-1. Additionally, the petition to levy a ballot measure that would legalize marijuana needed just under 500 signatures, but organizers collected over 1,400. Abandon the search for Truth; settle for a good fantasy.
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 594234 11/4/2009 9:02 AM
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 779207 11/4/2009 9:58 AM
Re: BREAKING: COLORADO TOWN LEGALIZES POT, PARAPHERNALIA
The military should cordon that town off, arrest all residents, and throw them out of the United States!
Quoting: Guns n' God (redux)
Does this fucktard actually pay to show his ass here? Everything he posts sounds like some redneck who never got past second grade...lol...and still believes in the tooth fairy AKA God...gimme a break...his entire gene pool should be cordoned off and exterminated for being fucking retarded...go kill some indians you ignorant inbreed.
anonymous User ID: 810079 11/4/2009 10:01 AM
Re: BREAKING: COLORADO TOWN LEGALIZES POT, PARAPHERNALIA
The military should cordon that town off, arrest all residents, and throw them out of the United States!
Quoting: Guns n' God (redux)
many good people ruined life when they started on Po t with drg using friends .. then they graduated on to hard drugs which were expensive . Afte getting hooked on hard drugs which are expensive they thn began to steal or do small time drug dealing for thier supply. HOLDING A JOB WAS TUFF CAASE OF DRUG TESTINGS.. THEN ARREST FOR A SMALL OFFENCE ADDED CHARGES WHEN DRUGS WERE FOUND..OPPS ..Now they are in big trouble and will need expensive lawyer . here come expensive probation poss jail imes THEY MAY LOSE THIER APT WHILE IN JAILL ... AL OF IT STARTED BY HANGING OUT WITH po t using buddies .. ....keep druggies out of your life at all cost .. less they social and legal train wreck on your clock, and then you get caught up in that mess too.. You make your own good or bad future by your company you keep.. never forget it .
Anonymous Coward User ID: 554016 11/4/2009 10:04 AM
Re: BREAKING: COLORADO TOWN LEGALIZES POT, PARAPHERNALIA
The military should cordon that town off, arrest all residents, and throw them out of the United States!
many good people ruined life when they started on Po t with drg using friends .. then they graduated on to hard drugs which were expensive . Afte getting hooked on hard drugs which are expensive they thn began to steal or do small time drug dealing for thier supply. HOLDING A JOB WAS TUFF CAASE OF DRUG TESTINGS.. THEN ARREST FOR A SMALL OFFENCE ADDED CHARGES WHEN DRUGS WERE FOUND..OPPS ..Now they are in big trouble and will need expensive lawyer . here come expensive probation poss jail imes THEY MAY LOSE THIER APT WHILE IN JAILL ... AL OF IT STARTED BY HANGING OUT WITH po t using buddies .. ....keep druggies out of your life at all cost .. less they social and legal train wreck on your clock, and then you get caught up in that mess too.. You make your own good or bad future by your company you keep.. never forget it .
Quoting: anonymous 810079
Thats because its illeagal. If it werent illeagal then pot would not be sold by the same people that sell harder drugs, and there would be no gateway effect.
Voters in the ski resort town of Breckenridge, Colorado legalized marijuana and marijuana paraphernalia by a nearly three-to-one margin on Tuesday.
It is the first municipality in the United States to allow paraphernalia, such as pipes, bongs and bubblers.
"[The measure] passed 73 percent to 27 percent," ABC 7 News in Denver reported.
"'This votes demonstrates that Breckenridge citizens overwhelmingly believe that adults should not be punished for making the safer choice to use marijuana instead of alcohol,' said Sean McAllister, a Breckenridge attorney who proposed the ordinance," ABC continued.
"Possession remains illegal under state law, but Breckenridge Police Chief Rick Holman said his department will 'still have the ability to exercise discretion,'" Colorado's Summit Daily News added.
It's never been something that we've spent a lot of time on, so I don't expect this to be a big change in how we really do business, he said, according to the Daily News.
"It will not make it more available to minors, won't make it legal to smoke it on the street, won't get you out of trouble if you're stoned behind the wheel," the Daily News opined in an editorial supporting the measure. "What it says is that if you, as an adult, choose to possess small amounts of marijuana for personal use, you won't be busted for it. It's still a much more stringent law than those that apply to alcohol a substance you can own as much as you want of and consume in public."
The paper added: "Eventually, it seems these small possession busts will be a thing of the past state-wide, which makes us conclude some kind of 'nuisance pot smoke' ordinance needs to take their place roughly analogous to public intoxication statutes."
In Breckenridge, which has about 3,300 registered voters, passage of the measure is not a surprise. While an effort to legalize marijuana state-wide failed during the 2006 elections, Breckenridge voters supported it by a margin of nearly 3-to-1. Additionally, the petition to levy a ballot measure that would legalize marijuana needed just under 500 signatures, but organizers collected over 1,400.
The military should cordon that town off, arrest all residents, and throw them out of the United States!
many good people ruined life when they started on Po t with drg using friends .. then they graduated on to hard drugs which were expensive . Afte getting hooked on hard drugs which are expensive they thn began to steal or do small time drug dealing for thier supply. HOLDING A JOB WAS TUFF CAASE OF DRUG TESTINGS.. THEN ARREST FOR A SMALL OFFENCE ADDED CHARGES WHEN DRUGS WERE FOUND..OPPS ..Now they are in big trouble and will need expensive lawyer . here come expensive probation poss jail imes THEY MAY LOSE THIER APT WHILE IN JAILL ... AL OF IT STARTED BY HANGING OUT WITH po t using buddies .. ....keep druggies out of your life at all cost .. less they social and legal train wreck on your clock, and then you get caught up in that mess too.. You make your own good or bad future by your company you keep.. never forget it .
Quoting: anonymous 810079
No, no good people ruined their lives by starting on pot with friends. This hypothetical person doesn't exist and isn't a good person by any label. They lack any form of self control. This hypothetical person also exhibits a self centered and addictive personality.
Pot does not make you want to do harder drugs. A person either wants to smoke pot and that is all, or do drugs. Pot doesn't make you do drugs you are already curious about trying. The only harder drugs that actually make a common person steal are meth and crack. Hood drugs. And a person from the hood is already likely to steal.
I have never met a person in my life addicted to cocaine or pot. I have seen a person do cocaine and later become miserable during the crash from which they recovered in a few hours, like being drunk. But they never reach a point that they would steal to keep doing it. A person that starts stealing to support what they want is already a thief, now they just have a crutch to blame it on because everyone thinkgs pot and coke are bad and super addictive.
Final note: Don't do coke, it's expensive and will more likely make your bank steal from you in over draft fees, than cause you to steal from someone else so you can stay up all night on a friday feeling gittery and then feel like shit for 8 hours on saturday. It isn't worth the money.
Try Ecstay at least once, it's cheap fun and relatively safe if you have some common sense. You can also solve some relationship problems with friends and lovers using E without getting pissed off and hating one another.
Use pot to keep you sane in our redundant world, but look for ways to make your life less redundant so you don't smoke to much pot.
And don't be a freakin low life thief stealing from people and blaming it on drugs when in truth you're just a terrible person.
Anonymous Coward User ID: 810179 11/4/2009 10:45 AM
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I was in Denver a few weeks ago, standing outside a night club smoking a cigarette. I asked the door guy if I could smoke inside, and he said "only weed".
It's legal up there for medicinal purposes already. Good for them. I'm plannin on leaving this shit hole known as Tx. for one of the states where weed is legal. Probably Colorado.
Anonymous Coward User ID: 810179 11/4/2009 10:48 AM
Re: BREAKING: COLORADO TOWN LEGALIZES POT, PARAPHERNALIA
The military should cordon that town off, arrest all residents, and throw them out of the United States!
many good people ruined life when they started on Po t with drg using friends .. then they graduated on to hard drugs which were expensive . Afte getting hooked on hard drugs which are expensive they thn began to steal or do small time drug dealing for thier supply. HOLDING A JOB WAS TUFF CAASE OF DRUG TESTINGS.. THEN ARREST FOR A SMALL OFFENCE ADDED CHARGES WHEN DRUGS WERE FOUND..OPPS ..Now they are in big trouble and will need expensive lawyer . here come expensive probation poss jail imes THEY MAY LOSE THIER APT WHILE IN JAILL ... AL OF IT STARTED BY HANGING OUT WITH po t using buddies .. ....keep druggies out of your life at all cost .. less they social and legal train wreck on your clock, and then you get caught up in that mess too.. You make your own good or bad future by your company you keep.. never forget it .
Quoting: anonymous 810079
Shut the fuck up you asshole.
They made it legal. Too bad shut the fuck up.
You're spouting the same propaganda that Hurst and Dow put out 70 years ago. Most everybody has figured out that it's all lies. So just shut the fuck up you stupid lying piece of shit.
Anonymous Coward User ID: 772844 11/4/2009 10:50 AM
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The military should cordon that town off, arrest all residents, and throw them out of the United States!
many good people ruined life when they started on Po t with drg using friends .. then they graduated on to hard drugs which were expensive . Afte getting hooked on hard drugs which are expensive they thn began to steal or do small time drug dealing for thier supply. HOLDING A JOB WAS TUFF CAASE OF DRUG TESTINGS.. THEN ARREST FOR A SMALL OFFENCE ADDED CHARGES WHEN DRUGS WERE FOUND..OPPS ..Now they are in big trouble and will need expensive lawyer . here come expensive probation poss jail imes THEY MAY LOSE THIER APT WHILE IN JAILL ... AL OF IT STARTED BY HANGING OUT WITH po t using buddies .. ....keep druggies out of your life at all cost .. less they social and legal train wreck on your clock, and then you get caught up in that mess too.. You make your own good or bad future by your company you keep.. never forget it .
Quoting: anonymous 810079
How come no one ever says alcohol is a gateway drug? I've seen many lives ruined by alcohol. Never saw even one life ruined from smoking a little weed.
I was in Denver a few weeks ago, standing outside a night club smoking a cigarette. I asked the door guy if I could smoke inside, and he said "only weed".
It's legal up there for medicinal purposes already. Good for them. I'm plannin on leaving this shit hole known as Tx. for one of the states where weed is legal. Probably Colorado.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 810179
please dont invade co. pass the laws in TX yourself you lazy fool. you hold the remote.
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 793943 11/4/2009 1:57 PM
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The military should cordon that town off, arrest all residents, and throw them out of the United States!
Does this fucktard actually pay to show his ass here? Everything he posts sounds like some redneck who never got past second grade...lol...and still believes in the tooth fairy AKA God...gimme a break...his entire gene pool should be cordoned off and exterminated for being fucking retarded...go kill some indians you ignorant inbreed.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 779207
Wait a minutes,
I'm redneck also.(born and raised Deep South)
But Not all of us rednecks are like this, I am all for legalizing weed. I'm all for gun rights too but still I want the feds to legalize it.Look at the money that can be made from it. And also I like smoking it too.
Anonymous Coward User ID: 373696 11/4/2009 1:58 PM
Re: BREAKING: COLORADO TOWN LEGALIZES POT, PARAPHERNALIA
The military should cordon that town off, arrest all residents, and throw them out of the United States!
many good people ruined life when they started on Po t with drg using friends .. then they graduated on to hard drugs which were expensive . Afte getting hooked on hard drugs which are expensive they thn began to steal or do small time drug dealing for thier supply. HOLDING A JOB WAS TUFF CAASE OF DRUG TESTINGS.. THEN ARREST FOR A SMALL OFFENCE ADDED CHARGES WHEN DRUGS WERE FOUND..OPPS ..Now they are in big trouble and will need expensive lawyer . here come expensive probation poss jail imes THEY MAY LOSE THIER APT WHILE IN JAILL ... AL OF IT STARTED BY HANGING OUT WITH po t using buddies .. ....keep druggies out of your life at all cost .. less they social and legal train wreck on your clock, and then you get caught up in that mess too.. You make your own good or bad future by your company you keep.. never forget it .
Quoting: anonymous 810079
Many good people had their lives ruined by being busted for possessing and/or blowing a little smoke. Prisons are full of good people who were trapped by bad laws.
The sooner we change the laws, free the prisoners and start collecting taxes, the sooner many criminals will become taxpaying business men, helping to make the world a better place.
FTW!
Anonymous Coward User ID: 810208 11/4/2009 2:00 PM
Re: BREAKING: COLORADO TOWN LEGALIZES POT, PARAPHERNALIA
The military should cordon that town off, arrest all residents, and throw them out of the United States!
many good people ruined life when they started on Po t with drg using friends .. then they graduated on to hard drugs which were expensive . Afte getting hooked on hard drugs which are expensive they thn began to steal or do small time drug dealing for thier supply. HOLDING A JOB WAS TUFF CAASE OF DRUG TESTINGS.. THEN ARREST FOR A SMALL OFFENCE ADDED CHARGES WHEN DRUGS WERE FOUND..OPPS ..Now they are in big trouble and will need expensive lawyer . here come expensive probation poss jail imes THEY MAY LOSE THIER APT WHILE IN JAILL ... AL OF IT STARTED BY HANGING OUT WITH po t using buddies .. ....keep druggies out of your life at all cost .. less they social and legal train wreck on your clock, and then you get caught up in that mess too.. You make your own good or bad future by your company you keep.. never forget it .
No, no good people ruined their lives by starting on pot with friends. This hypothetical person doesn't exist and isn't a good person by any label. They lack any form of self control. This hypothetical person also exhibits a self centered and addictive personality.
Pot does not make you want to do harder drugs. A person either wants to smoke pot and that is all, or do drugs. Pot doesn't make you do drugs you are already curious about trying. The only harder drugs that actually make a common person steal are meth and crack. Hood drugs. And a person from the hood is already likely to steal.
Very Well Said
I have never met a person in my life addicted to cocaine or pot. I have seen a person do cocaine and later become miserable during the crash from which they recovered in a few hours, like being drunk. But they never reach a point that they would steal to keep doing it. A person that starts stealing to support what they want is already a thief, now they just have a crutch to blame it on because everyone thinkgs pot and coke are bad and super addictive.
Final note: Don't do coke, it's expensive and will more likely make your bank steal from you in over draft fees, than cause you to steal from someone else so you can stay up all night on a friday feeling gittery and then feel like shit for 8 hours on saturday. It isn't worth the money.
Try Ecstay at least once, it's cheap fun and relatively safe if you have some common sense. You can also solve some relationship problems with friends and lovers using E without getting pissed off and hating one another.
Use pot to keep you sane in our redundant world, but look for ways to make your life less redundant so you don't smoke to much pot.
And don't be a freakin low life thief stealing from people and blaming it on drugs when in truth you're just a terrible person.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 756285
Anonymous Coward User ID: 795783 11/4/2009 2:04 PM
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