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Topic: Pot smokers’ outlook still hazy
after Colorado legalization vote |
Pot smokers’ outlook still hazy
after Colorado legalization vote
Washington Times, by Valerie Richardson
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Posted By:grandpa, 11/28/2012 2:28:48 PM
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| When it comes to legalized pot, Coloradans are still holding their breath. Three weeks after votes were cast, state recreational smokers are waiting and watching warily for the Obama administration’s reaction to Amendment 64, which made the Centennial State one of just two in the nation where lighting up in small amounts for personal pleasure is no longer a state crime.
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Comments:
Obama went soft on medical marijuana four years ago by assuring the drug traffickers that the administration would give a free pass to small scale pot merchants. Subsequently, teen pot use soared. He´s now repeating that assurance for state-legalized pot. And teen use will soar even higher.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
zoidberg, 11/28/2012 3:00:25 PM (No. 9037923)
Whatever promises Obama made about medical marijuana have been broken. He has gone after medical marijuana way more vigorously than his predecessor. And as for tying teen use of pot to medical marijuana, correlation is not causation.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
harleynyc, 11/28/2012 4:29:00 PM (No. 9038097)
How long before obama nationalizes the tobacco industry, and markets pot laced ´Camel Highs´.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
sudmuf, 11/29/2012 5:57:38 AM (No. 9038832)
"Onward through the fog"
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