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POT IS LEGAL NOW

November 04, 2009
by IAN WINTHROP

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In September Fortune ran a story called “How Marijuana Became Legal,” to celebrate some recent, aggressive water treading on the legalization frontline. First the DoJ sent out a strongly worded memo directed at ending federal raids on legal marijuana dispensaries. A measure which effectively does fuck-all to reverse a recent, questionably legal step back toward prohibition. Then the people of Maine and Colorado voted in favor of ballot initiatives that were long overdue and purely symbolic, respective to the two states. So, pot’s still illegal, and Fortune’s click-generating, magazine-selling over-broad speculation is really just another entry in a long line of spurious predictions about weed’s future in the States. Even the Brits are getting in on it now, although they’re not the best at stirring this particular pot. A few mere paragraphs after the aforelinked article praises LA for its super-progressive pot policies (as exemplified by the city’s 700+ medical marijuana dispensaries, or something), they spiral back down to reality. “The police still police it and hundreds of thousands of Americans — disproportionately black and poor — are in jail for it.” Even in these enlightened, potentially pre-post-prohibition days, over half the population still opposes legalization despite increasingly persuasive arguments from the “legalize and tax it” camp. As usual, progressive policies are being held back by a bunch of “dopes.”


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    monkeyseemonkeydoo: as long as you smoke at home it doesn't really matter one single bit whether it is or isn't.

    4 months ago

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    Jono: I hope the legalization of pot brings prices down. I can't keep paying what i do for the grand daddy purp. Highway robbery i tell you!

    4 months ago

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      buttateeth: the best part will be the selection. all the sudden you go from two options to entire display counters full of the shit.

      4 months ago

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    taco_baby: why would an alien need a satchel? can't he make shit teleport or something? oh yeah, that's where he keeps his papers. gotcha.

    4 months ago

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    cacophobia: now i want to smoke . thanks.

    4 months ago

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    gnarwhal: i'd get high too if i had to probe butts all night long.

    4 months ago

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    tiffbit: it's about time http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2009/02/marijuana_legalization_more_popular_than_key_conservative_leaders.php

    4 months ago

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      snocapsonballcaps: thanks. that got my spirits up a little after the shit that went down in va and nj. not that the democratic alternatives were really much better...

      4 months ago

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    AcreDemon: This guy's so baked he didn't even care when Rex tagged his shoulder.

    4 months ago

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    ghostfingers: the only thing scarier than aliens coming and taking over would be a bunch of stoner aliens coming and wanting to "hang." oh god, i'd have to off myself.

    4 months ago

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      nate: jesus. aliens listening to string cheese incident and driving around in veggie oil-powered ufos is now my worst nightmare.

      4 months ago

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    MasonAndersonsweet: Meh, pot is still legal at my house. That's all that really matters.

    4 months ago

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      cacophobia: ok, i'm coming over now dude.

      4 months ago

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    drenched: who cares if it's legal or not? people smoke on my block in the middle of the day and cops don't give a shit. what i want to know is if legalizing it will make it cheaper or not. i know it will take the dealer markup out of it but has anyone sat down and come up with a real number on how it would be taxed? don't get me wrong, it would be sweet to walk to the corner store and buy a pack of joints but how much are we talking here?

    4 months ago

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      gabriellamm: yeah, how crazy would it be to buy your weed at the neighborhood store in front of that sweet old lady...not that matters much...but what would happen to the price? and the quality?

      4 months ago

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      cacophobia: really. i dont care if it's legal or not.

      4 months ago

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    dingodick: i guess much like the chinese, aliens are difficult to tell if they're high or not. now... the question that remains unanswered for me is does thc affect the alien mind like ours? there is so much marijuana research that still needs to happen.

    4 months ago

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      nate: i love racist drug jokes.

      4 months ago

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    Marvin: I hope this means an end to the stupid pot commercials like the guys driving off from the drive-thru window and hitting the little girl. I think they only made that to bum out kids watching television high that couldn't find the remote fast enough to change the channel.

    4 months ago

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      JenB: I love the anti-pot commercials- they make me laugh even when I'm not high

      4 months ago

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    1up: might not be legal yet but it will probably be decriminalized in the next several years. of course, it had to go down when i barely smoke anymore.

    4 months ago

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    crypt: since when does the population decide? and uhm, aliens smoke weed ey'day.. just sayin'

    4 months ago

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    leonnnn: I have never understood the connection between aliens and smoking pot.

    4 months ago

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      bummerdude: neither have i. bad taste has something to do with it.

      4 months ago

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