Cali decriminalizes pot

[30ashopper]

A month before California voters decide the fate of a ballot initiative that would legalize marijuana, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed a bill that essentially puts those caught possessing small amounts of the drug on the same level as those caught speeding on the freeway.

California reduces possession of marijuana from misdemeanor to “infraction” ? Hot Air

Anyone think we will ever have something like this in Florida? This state tends to lean libertarian on most issues, but I'm not sure our elderly constituents would approve.

 

[Smiling JOe]

It may be a while. We still plant trees to make paper.

 

[John R]

Before Fla decriminalizes or goes medicinal, let CA and CO get it all figured out. It's like the wild west in CO right now.

 

[30A Skunkape]

California reduces possession of marijuana from misdemeanor to ?infraction? ? Hot Air

Anyone think we will ever have something like this in Florida? This state tends to lean libertarian on most issues, but I'm not sure our elderly constituents would approve.

I have long thought that there would be a domino effect with decriminalizing marijuana. Once people realize the incredible drain of resources and money wasted fighting something less destructive than alcohol, things will change. Of course, lots of politicos are funded by people profiting from the prohibition, so look for slow change.

 

[Lynnie]

Most interesting read for a beautiful Saturday morning!

 

[LuciferSam]

The only problem is, the feds can still go in there and bust people. It depends on the administration, but doesn't seem to be a conservative or liberal issue.

 

[futurebeachbum]

I have long thought that there would be a domino effect with decriminalizing marijuana. Once people realize the incredible drain of resources and money wasted fighting something less destructive than alcohol, things will change. Of course, lots of politicos are funded by people profiting from the prohibition, so look for slow change.

Exactly.

It only took us 13 years as a nation to figure out what a train wreck the 18th amendment was. And that's only because the moonshiners and organized crime were big money behind the forces that fought prohibition's repeal and stretched it out that long

Its likewise amazing its taking forever to figure this out for other drugs.

Its probable that the Drug Cartels have been quietly funding politicos and government bureaucrats who have built empires around the 'war on drugs' and fixing this mess will be stalled as long as possible.

 

[Smiling JOe]

Interesting topic. Talking about prohibition of alcohol for a moment, ask yourself, "why did prohibition start?"

If you want some help, start by googling Dr Rudolph Deisel, inventor of the real bio-desiel. You might also want to google Standard Oil and Rockefeller. While you are at it, maybe google Henry Ford, who had started making engines that would run on moonshine. Political pull is always, and I mean always behind government action. The same is true with hemp. If people really wanted to go green, they would push for gov't to allow the growing of Hemp in the USA. It is about 100 times better than trees for paper, rope, etc. Our very own St Joe company (aka Alfred Dupont) didn't like that crap, even though you cannot get high from hemp. They started scaring the American people into fearing hemp, and they also pushed from with the gov't to have it outlawed.

 

[seagrovegirl]

While in Michigan last weekend, I got a tour of a legal, licensed medical pot farm. It sells for $300. an ounce. Does insurance pay for this? Incredibly, you have to grow pot from the government's seed, which grows seedless pot. One seed is named G-13, which stands for Government Marijuana. The letter M is 13th in the alphabet. This seed comes from many years of perfecting by our Federal Government. (I wonder whose administration that came from...hmmmm). Although I don't smoke pot, I was told by the grower, that one hit will make you melt, two hits and you are out! See the Government can do something right.

In Michigan you can get a license to grow and sell their pot. You can also get a license to smoke it. The grower has to have a controlled growing environment under lock and key. Once harvested their is no control.

 

[Kayak Fish]

I smoked some G-13 here and there in my youth. Highly recommend.