Celebrate Good Times: Pot Now Legal In Three More States
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The bad news is the Republicans now control the senate but the good news is marijuana legalization advocates are on a major roll: Ballot measures loosening pot laws have passed in Alaska, Oregon, and Washington, DC. The DC law, which could still be blocked by the Republican Congress, will allow residents and visitors to grow and possess marijuana but not sell it, reports theWashington Post, while the measures in Oregon and Alaska allow it to be sold in stores for recreational use, as in Washington state and Colorado.
At a victory party in Portland, a prominent legalization advocate hailed the end of a “painful, discriminatory, harmful policy that has terrible consequences for our state,” the Oregonian reports. Meanwhile, Guam voted last night to legalize medical marijuana, reports the Post.
In other ballot measures rounded up by the AP:
- Minimum wage: Voters in Alaska, Arkansas, Nebraska, and South Dakota approved minimum wage increases.
- Crime: California has voted to save hundreds of millions in prison costs by reducing the penalties for some crimes, treating offenses including shoplifting, forgery, fraud, and petty theft as misdemeanors instead of felonies.
- Abortion: Voters in Colorado and North Dakota rejected “personhood” measures for the unborn that could have led to tough abortion restrictions, while Tennessee voted to give state lawmakers more power to regulate abortion.
- Food labeling: Colorado voted against requiring labels on genetically modified foods. A similar measure is on the ballot in Oregon.
Thanks to Newser for story contributions.
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Woohoo, now I can get it all over the west coast.
Florida’s medical M bill needed 60% to pass and didn’t quite make it and partially because of ads and a “debate” featuring cops and some people in white coats handing out sophistry like Mardi Gras beads, all of which pseudo-reasoning assumed the conclusion: that it’s a dangerous drug.
Sure, it’s associated with crime — it’s freaking illegal!
Sure it’s a gateway drug like milk, since we all start out on milk, right?
It’s not FDA approved! Why of course not, since the FDA isn’t authorized to approve it because it’s illegal!
A fake doctor appears insisting that it offers protection to “drug dealers” and of course it does by making it legal just as the repeal of prohibition offered protection to bar tenders.
“It will be sold in pot shops” indeed, and liquor is sold in liquor stores — but Americans, or should I say Floridians are too stupid to use basic logic.
Maybe next year.
ABOUT TIME. WHAT’S YOUR PROBLEM AMERICA? GET WITH THE REST OF THE FREE WORLD.
No shit. I’ll smoke it no matter legal or not wherever I am.