Pot More Popular in Colorado than Obama or Romney

MSimon · Post by **MSimon** » Wed Nov 07, 2012 6:03 am

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-1 ... f-colorado

http://denver.cbslocal.com/2012/11/06/n ... alization/

Obama got 51 pot got 53.

palladin9479 · Post by **palladin9479** » Wed Nov 07, 2012 7:16 am

You know, it's really hard to argue against a democratically approved amendment. I mean seriously ... how long until it's the "Government" dictating laws instead of democratically creating them.

MSimon · Post by **MSimon** » Wed Nov 07, 2012 7:36 am

palladin9479 wrote:You know, it's really hard to argue against a democratically approved amendment. I mean seriously ... how long until it's the "Government" dictating laws instead of democratically creating them.

Well there is the little problem of the Republicans being in cahoots with the cartels. And some Democrats too.

Skipjack · Post by **Skipjack** » Wed Nov 07, 2012 1:12 pm

This is going to be interesting...
Are the feds going to interfere, or will they just let them do it?
If they wont stop it, the rest of the US will watch closely how this affects Colorado and its population. I know I will. Msimon, remember the experiment we agreed on with pot? Well, that could be it, no?

GIThruster · Post by **GIThruster** » Wed Nov 07, 2012 3:19 pm

MSimon wrote:Well there is the little problem of the Republicans being in cahoots with the cartels. And some Democrats too.

You had something like evidence?

Diogenes · Post by **Diogenes** » Wed Nov 07, 2012 11:29 pm

MSimon wrote:
palladin9479 wrote:You know, it's really hard to argue against a democratically approved amendment. I mean seriously ... how long until it's the "Government" dictating laws instead of democratically creating them.
Well there is the little problem of the Republicans being in cahoots with the cartels. And some Democrats too.

Don't forget the racism. Opposition to legalized drugs is RACIST!

palladin9479 · Post by **palladin9479** » Thu Nov 08, 2012 1:30 am

Skipjack wrote:This is going to be interesting...
Are the feds going to interfere, or will they just let them do it?
If they wont stop it, the rest of the US will watch closely how this affects Colorado and its population. I know I will. Msimon, remember the experiment we agreed on with pot? Well, that could be it, no?

A bit more complicated then that. All they've done is decriminalize it at the state level, meaning that if your consuming it your not breaking a state law. The state won't investigate, prosecute or incarcerate people for this. The feds can still do it but then it's the FBI doing the investigation, prosecution and incarcerate in a federal penitentiary. The FBI would also be the ones paying for all this not the state.

Now multiple this across the two states that have it fully legalizes and then again across all the "medical" states and you can see how difficult it would be for the DEA / FBI to enforce it. They could still in theory try to enforce it, but they'll just end up pissing a whole lot of people off doing so.

hanelyp · Post by **hanelyp** » Thu Nov 08, 2012 3:22 am

We should keep watch on pot use in Colorado. I'd not be surprised if it shows an exponential growth curve until it approached a saturation point.

palladin9479 · Post by **palladin9479** » Thu Nov 08, 2012 6:23 am

hanelyp wrote:We should keep watch on pot use in Colorado. I'd not be surprised if it shows an exponential growth curve until it approached a saturation point.

You can be guaranteed that reported use will be on the rise.

Now notice what I just did there, I didn't say use would be up, I said reported use. The difference is slight and easily forgotten, the human mind will pick it up and completely drop it.

Once it's legalized there won't be a negative stigma against open reporting production, distribution and consumption of Cannibis, so you suddenly get good numbers. In an illegal market your forced to guesstimate numbers based on anonymous surveys, police arrest data, police investigation data. You take those numbers then multiply them by a factor that is how much you think is not being found. Suddenly your numbers are kinda shaky and subject to a large margin of error.

After the numbers solidify you'll get slowly increasing reported usage until it flattens out. Once social discrimination sets in you'll see usage go down and specifically you'll see abuse (over-consumption / addiction) go down.