By Stephen C. Webster Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 -- 10:19 pm
Voters in the ski resort town of Breckenridge, Colorado legalized marijuana and marijuana paraphernalia by a nearly three-to-one margin on Tuesday.
It is the first municipality in the United States to allow paraphernalia, such as pipes, bongs and bubblers.
"[The measure] passed 73 percent to 27 percent," ABC 7 News in Denver reported.
"'This votes demonstrates that Breckenridge citizens overwhelmingly believe that adults should not be punished for making the safer choice to use marijuana instead of alcohol,' said Sean McAllister, a Breckenridge attorney who proposed the ordinance," ABC continued.
"Possession remains illegal under state law, but Breckenridge Police Chief Rick Holman said his department will 'still have the ability to exercise discretion,'" Colorado's Summit Daily News added. Story continues below...
“It's never been something that we've spent a lot of time on, so I don't expect this to be a big change in how we really do business,” he said, according to the Daily News.
"It will not make it more available to minors, won't make it legal to smoke it on the street, won't get you out of trouble if you're stoned behind the wheel," the Daily News opined in an editorial supporting the measure. "What it says is that if you, as an adult, choose to possess small amounts of marijuana for personal use, you won't be busted for it. It's still a much more stringent law than those that apply to alcohol — a substance you can own as much as you want of and consume in public."
The paper added: "Eventually, it seems these small possession busts will be a thing of the past state-wide, which makes us conclude some kind of 'nuisance pot smoke' ordinance needs to take their place — roughly analogous to public intoxication statutes."
In Breckenridge, which has about 3,300 registered voters, passage of the measure is not a surprise. While an effort to legalize marijuana state- wide failed during the 2006 elections, Breckenridge voters supported it by a margin of nearly 3-to-1. Additionally, the petition to levy a ballot measure that would legalize marijuana needed just under 500 signatures, but organizers collected over 1,400.
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> By Stephen C. Webster > Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 -- 10:19 pm
> Voters in the ski resort town of Breckenridge, Colorado legalized > marijuana and marijuana paraphernalia by a nearly three-to-one margin on > Tuesday.
> It is the first municipality in the United States to allow paraphernalia, > such as pipes, bongs and bubblers.
This won't last long, since Obama's DEA will quickly put Breckenridge in its place. How dare the voters advocate states' rights, or in this case the rights of municipal governments? If the town of Breckenridge is permitted to set its own rules regarding recreational drug use, soon it will be expecting the right to set its own standards for local schools and even speed limits on local roads.
Everyone knows that the "states' rights" guaranteed by the 10th Amendment is just a code word for slavery and segregation. Fortunately, America is no longer the evil federation of sovereign states it was when it founded in 1776, but a more progressive federal dictatorship in which states are mere administrative provinces with no authority other than what the central government chooses to grant them. If we allow the state Colorado to legalize marijuana without federal permission, soon it will be practicing slavery.
On Nov 4, 7:39 am, "5265 Dead, 398 since 1/20/09" <d...@dead.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:04:53 -0800, Phlip wrote: > > On Nov 4, 3:30 am, Dänk 1010011010 <dank...@rocketmail.com> wrote:
> >> This won't last long, since Obama's DEA will quickly put Breckenridge > >> in its place.
> > You get back to us when that happens, k?
> Dankie is far more interested in his ideology than in any type of reality > that might appear before him.
So if Democrats are such big proponents of marijuana legalization, how many 'blue' states have legalized it?
During the 2000 campaign, someone asked Al Gore if he would be willing to legalize marijuana if elected, since he was a former (daily) marijuana smoker himself, and he replied that he would continue the current policy of marijuana criminalization.
And just a few months ago one of the potheads who voted for Barack Obama (who also used to smoke pot) asked him if he would support marijuana legalization, and Obama just laughed at him and said no.
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