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Congrats to all our CO and WA brothers and sisters...maybe the feds will ease back on Cali a bit now?
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icmag legalization party 2012. fuck ya
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Max Yields
Active member
FUCK YEAH!!! Now this is more like it! Lets keep kicking down these doors, cut the steel gates & tearing down the walls that have been put up and locked for years, one by one. It's time to break these chains that have been forged with our own rights & freedoms to be taken away from these ignorant, evil lawmakers & law upholders. After the first bricks & sections of this wall are destroyed, surely the rest will fall much, much easier!!! This is great news for the USA & cannabis users in my opinion. I'm sure there WILL be more states to follow soon afterwards...This IS a joyous occasion indeed! All those metal cages they have for us, need to be put to better use & filled with the deserving people. Jails should be overcrowded with the REAL criminals, not people who use or grow an extremely beneficial herb that hurts no one not even the user really (with responsible use), you CAN overdo it as is the case
with almost ANYTHING else, even then the effects are nowhere near as severe as most other substances, even LEGAL ones...
with almost ANYTHING else, even then the effects are nowhere near as severe as most other substances, even LEGAL ones...
Congratulations to CO and WA for this monumental achievement!! 
This is fantastic news! Now the rest of the nation needs to take notice and make similar pushes for marijuana legalization. The ground has been broken, now the road needs to be paved. Let us grow this movement forward. 
This is fantastic news! Now the rest of the nation needs to take notice and make similar pushes for marijuana legalization. The ground has been broken, now the road needs to be paved. Let us grow this movement forward. 
Blue Socks
Member
"Voters approve I-502 legalizing marijuana
Washington state voters made history Tuesday by legalizing the recreational use of marijuana."
Washington enthusiastically leapt into history Tuesday, becoming the first state, with Colorado, to reject federal drug-control policy and legalize recreational marijuana use.
Initiative 502 was winning 55 to 45 percent, with support from more than half of Washington's counties, rural and urban.
The vote puts Washington and Colorado to the left of the Netherlands on marijuana law, and makes them the nexus of a new social experiment with uncertain consequences. National and international media watched as vote counts rolled into I-502's election-night party in Seattle amid jubilant cheers.
"I'm going to go ahead and give my victory speech right now. After this I can go sit down and stop shaking," said Alison Holcomb, I-502's campaign manager and primary architect.
"Today the state of Washington looked at 75 years of national marijuana prohibition and said it is time for a new approach," she said.
As of Dec. 6, it will no longer be illegal for adults 21 and over to possess an ounce of marijuana. A new "drugged driving" law for marijuana impairment also kicks in then.
Tuesday's vote also begins a yearlong process for the state Liquor Control Board to set rules for heavily taxed and regulated sales at state-licensed marijuana stores, which are estimated to raise $1.9 billion in new revenue over five years.
Many legal experts expect the U.S. Justice Department, which remained silent during presidential-year politics, to push back and perhaps sue to block I-502 based on federal supremacy.
But Seattle City Attorney Pete Holmes said Seattle's U.S. Attorney Jenny Durkan told him Tuesday the federal government "has no plans, except to talk."
Initiative 502 ran a disciplined campaign with a tightly focused message, criticizing what it called the failed "war on drugs" without endorsing marijuana use itself.
A study, released late in the campaign, found more than 67,000 arrests for low-level marijuana possession in the past five years in Washington, with African Americans and Latinos arrested at widely disproportionate rates.
I-502 spent heavily, raising more than $6 million, including more than $2 million from Peter B. Lewis of Ohio, chairman of Progressive Insurance.
A broad group of mainstream leaders — including former top federal law-enforcement officials, the King County sheriff, the entire Seattle City Council, public-health experts, African-American leaders and the state labor council — backed the measure. John McKay, U.S. attorney in Seattle under the George W. Bush administration, became a public face of the campaign.
The initiative faced surprisingly little organized opposition. The Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs and a state drug-treatment-prevention group were opposed, but did not raise money to counter I-502's $2.8 million TV-ad spending in October.
At debates, police and treatment providers predicted I-502 would lead to marijuana use, especially among teenagers. "It is a grave social injustice to trade the right of a minority to get 'high' for the right of youth to grow up drug free," said Derek Franklin, president of the drug-treatment group.
The loudest opposition came from some in the medical-marijuana industry, who said they feared being ensnared by I-502's DUI law, which does not exempt patients.
The DUI law also sets a zero-tolerance level for marijuana for drivers under 21, significantly stiffening current law.
Initiative 502 does not change the medical-marijuana law, leading to allegations that opposition from the industry was self-serving.
Tuesday's result was quickly hailed by activists such as Keith Stroup, founder of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws. He called I-502 "the single most important thing in the marijuana legalization movement in the last 75 years," and predicted it will become a template for other states to confront the federal ban on marijuana.
"That's exactly what happened at the end of alcohol prohibition. I think that's exactly what's going to happen here," Stroup said.
Staff reporter Katherine Long and news researcher Gene Balk contributed.
http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2019621894_elexmarijuana07m.html
Washington state voters made history Tuesday by legalizing the recreational use of marijuana."
Washington enthusiastically leapt into history Tuesday, becoming the first state, with Colorado, to reject federal drug-control policy and legalize recreational marijuana use.
Initiative 502 was winning 55 to 45 percent, with support from more than half of Washington's counties, rural and urban.
The vote puts Washington and Colorado to the left of the Netherlands on marijuana law, and makes them the nexus of a new social experiment with uncertain consequences. National and international media watched as vote counts rolled into I-502's election-night party in Seattle amid jubilant cheers.
"I'm going to go ahead and give my victory speech right now. After this I can go sit down and stop shaking," said Alison Holcomb, I-502's campaign manager and primary architect.
"Today the state of Washington looked at 75 years of national marijuana prohibition and said it is time for a new approach," she said.
As of Dec. 6, it will no longer be illegal for adults 21 and over to possess an ounce of marijuana. A new "drugged driving" law for marijuana impairment also kicks in then.
Tuesday's vote also begins a yearlong process for the state Liquor Control Board to set rules for heavily taxed and regulated sales at state-licensed marijuana stores, which are estimated to raise $1.9 billion in new revenue over five years.
Many legal experts expect the U.S. Justice Department, which remained silent during presidential-year politics, to push back and perhaps sue to block I-502 based on federal supremacy.
But Seattle City Attorney Pete Holmes said Seattle's U.S. Attorney Jenny Durkan told him Tuesday the federal government "has no plans, except to talk."
Initiative 502 ran a disciplined campaign with a tightly focused message, criticizing what it called the failed "war on drugs" without endorsing marijuana use itself.
A study, released late in the campaign, found more than 67,000 arrests for low-level marijuana possession in the past five years in Washington, with African Americans and Latinos arrested at widely disproportionate rates.
I-502 spent heavily, raising more than $6 million, including more than $2 million from Peter B. Lewis of Ohio, chairman of Progressive Insurance.
A broad group of mainstream leaders — including former top federal law-enforcement officials, the King County sheriff, the entire Seattle City Council, public-health experts, African-American leaders and the state labor council — backed the measure. John McKay, U.S. attorney in Seattle under the George W. Bush administration, became a public face of the campaign.
The initiative faced surprisingly little organized opposition. The Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs and a state drug-treatment-prevention group were opposed, but did not raise money to counter I-502's $2.8 million TV-ad spending in October.
At debates, police and treatment providers predicted I-502 would lead to marijuana use, especially among teenagers. "It is a grave social injustice to trade the right of a minority to get 'high' for the right of youth to grow up drug free," said Derek Franklin, president of the drug-treatment group.
The loudest opposition came from some in the medical-marijuana industry, who said they feared being ensnared by I-502's DUI law, which does not exempt patients.
The DUI law also sets a zero-tolerance level for marijuana for drivers under 21, significantly stiffening current law.
Initiative 502 does not change the medical-marijuana law, leading to allegations that opposition from the industry was self-serving.
Tuesday's result was quickly hailed by activists such as Keith Stroup, founder of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws. He called I-502 "the single most important thing in the marijuana legalization movement in the last 75 years," and predicted it will become a template for other states to confront the federal ban on marijuana.
"That's exactly what happened at the end of alcohol prohibition. I think that's exactly what's going to happen here," Stroup said.
Staff reporter Katherine Long and news researcher Gene Balk contributed.
http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2019621894_elexmarijuana07m.html
growbig789
Member
in both states, just as many or more people as a percentage voted yes for the marijuana initiatives as voted for Obama. So if Obama considers his election a mandate and the voice of the people, his administration better damn well respect the voice of a solid majority that passed these reforms... these didn't just squeak by, 55% to 45% in both cases is pretty incredible when you think about it..
level heads prevail.
with two outta three states passing, i'm ecstatic.
way to go people!!!
cannacoffeshops anyone?
with two outta three states passing, i'm ecstatic.
way to go people!!!
cannacoffeshops anyone?
woke up today in a good mood because all you good washigton, and colorado citizens. ty. you have made the usa a better place.
Bud buster
Member
One giant leap for mankind.
^This is how all growers should feel right now.
^if they are in grad school
Awesome stuff. Love to see the states (the people) revolting against the central government.
Congrats to CO and WA tokers!
Congrats to CO and WA tokers!
junior_grower
Active member
Congratulations USA pot is now more legal than in Canada. I hope this helps revers the stupid course we have seen our own government take. Can wait to go ride Colorado
Man, think about how many young kidz... you know old nuyff ;-) who will be able to sneak some of dads bud outta his bud closet and experiment with that instead of alcohol. Thank God.
Ive got a few friends whos lives would be changed if they coulda gotten into cannabis when young teenagers instead of starting a long hard road with alcohol.
Cannabis is better then booze. Finally some sense in this crazy world.
Ive got a few friends whos lives would be changed if they coulda gotten into cannabis when young teenagers instead of starting a long hard road with alcohol.
Cannabis is better then booze. Finally some sense in this crazy world.
