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Washington passes measure to legalize, regulate and tax marijuana
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it's the beginning of the end...
Yes it is!
It will be interesting to see what big pharma and the others who have been benefiting from the war on cannabis will do.....I expect them to act harder and faster than before as they now know that when a majority of the middle class across America approves the recreational use of cannabis, their war will be lost. Don't underestimate just how low they will go.
Yes it is!
It will be interesting to see what big pharma and the others who have been benefiting from the war on cannabis will do.....I expect them to act harder and faster than before as they now know that when a majority of the middle class across America approves the recreational use of cannabis, their war will be lost. Don't underestimate just how low they will go.
So glad my home state (MASS) passed Question 3 for mmj. looks like im gonna be moving back to my home state and getting legal there too. But before that all goes down i gotta visit some friends in CO and have a serious smoke out celebration. Congrats to CO and WA!
For all you people that want to be a buzz kill kiss my ass. I am the happiest I have been since arriving in this country in 1994. I have always loved Marijuana and felt that as an adult I have the right to possess it. Thank you all for finally agreeing with me on that one thing.
Yeah lets not get all Giddy just yet.. i remember when prop 215 passed. thinking it will be a domino effect. which it is happening. 4 steps forward, 3 steps back. As long as we are making progress!
VOTING DOES WORK IF YOU WORK IT
Oh hell yeah!!!
Very good news indeed.
Ojo
Very good news indeed.
Ojo
Have any of the people posting here actually read the contents of the Washington state bill? It has many many bad features! Apparently there is no provision for people to GROW THEIR OWN! You must buy from a licensed vendor. If I'm wrong let me know.
Also they're going to add marijuana to the DUI checks.
If you read it you will agree it's OVER-REGULATION! Too many rules, considering it's supposed to LEGALIZE cannabis...
Also they're going to add marijuana to the DUI checks.
If you read it you will agree it's OVER-REGULATION! Too many rules, considering it's supposed to LEGALIZE cannabis...
Hi Skip
, Thats why i posted the text lots of little lines and loopholes.
Its Regulated and Tax Act. So Regulation is all a part of it. It was kinda similar to the California Ballot. We will just have to see how things pan out. There can be future Ballot measures amending this one, making it possible to grow.
Now colorado, which is not far away, allows 6 plants. Also, has LEGALIZED HEMP PRODUCTION FOR BIO FUEL and other things. this is HUGE, and in my honest opinion. one of the biggest reasons, why a lot of people want marijuana legal. For hemp production, as hemp can make so many things as you so well know. It can possibly stop deforestation, and create oils, to get off foreign oil.
Regardless, consider these Test.. To see how things go. We got 2 states. Washington, may not had legalized it, or even gotten on the ballot for voting.
I agree some things on there scare me. But the benefit out weighs the negative.
EXCEPT. They mention getting DUI's with THC test. Seeing how much is in your system. I dont see how this will be possible, as if i eat cannabis 3 days ago. i got enough in my system to get a elephant high. So they are going to have a hard time figuring out HOW MUCH marijuana can be in someones fat cells.
Doobie Ninja
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I agree, This law is supposed to regulate marijuana LIKE alcohol. Last I knew you are allowed to hobby brew and have as much alcohol as you like. With I502 you cannot grow any amount or posses over one ounce. My biggest disappointment with I502 is the DUI addition. Last week my spouse and I went and got tested for blood THC content and lets just say that after 48 hours of no smoking neither of us can "legally" drive.
I502 passing.... DOES NOT change anything already in place we the MMJ laws in WA
http://www.newapproachwa.org/sites/...Backgrounder - Medical Marijuana - 073012.pdf
http://www.newapproachwa.org/sites/...Backgrounder - Medical Marijuana - 073012.pdf
Gregoire Asks Justice Department About Marijuana
By Bruce Ramsey
Source: Seattle Times
cannabis Seattle -- Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire has met with James Cole, deputy U.S. attorney general, to discuss the decriminalization of marijuana under Initiative 502. The initiative was passed by voters Nov. 6, and is to be certified Dec. 6 and go into effect Dec. 9. On its face the decriminalization here and in Colorado conflicts with federal law, specifically the posting of marijuana under Schedule 1 of the Controlled Substances Act.
Gregoire, a former state attorney general, has been a cautious supporter of marijuana liberalization. She was for medical marijuana, but she vetoed much of the medical marijuana bill of 2011, sponsored by Sen Jeanne Kohl-Welles, D-Seattle, out of worry that federal agents would arrest state employees. In 2011 she petitioned the federal Drug Enforcement Administration to reclassify cannabis as a Schedule II drug, which would allow doctors to prescribe it as medicine and pharmacists to sell it.
She didn’t support 502 but the voters did, and she has a duty to go to bat for them. And she has.
Her spokesman, Cory Curtis, said she told Cole the state of Washington is going ahead with Initiative 502, first working with Washington State Patrol on enforcement of the driving under the influence law, for which 502 set a new standard. That is the smaller effort; the big one is the work by the Washington State Liquor Control Board to decide how to license and regulate cannabis growers, processors and retailers. This is to be done by December 2013 and is estimated to cost the state $17 million.
Her question was the attitude of the Justice Department toward all this. “There was nothing definitive from them,” Curtis said.
He said Gregoire told Cole she hoped the federal government would come up with some decision on state marijuana legalization sooner rather than later, before the state of Washington spent the full year, and the $17 million.
One of the things the federal government could do is act on her petition to reschedule marijuana under the Controlled Substances Act. But to satisfy Initiative 502, the rescheduling would have to be much more thorough than merely to post it under Schedule II, which includes such drugs as cocaine, opium, methadone, oxycodone, morphine and dexedrine. Under Initiative 502, which turns cannabis into an over-the-counter commercial product available to anyone over 21, marijuana should probably be delisted entirely.
By Bruce Ramsey
Source: Seattle Times
cannabis Seattle -- Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire has met with James Cole, deputy U.S. attorney general, to discuss the decriminalization of marijuana under Initiative 502. The initiative was passed by voters Nov. 6, and is to be certified Dec. 6 and go into effect Dec. 9. On its face the decriminalization here and in Colorado conflicts with federal law, specifically the posting of marijuana under Schedule 1 of the Controlled Substances Act.
Gregoire, a former state attorney general, has been a cautious supporter of marijuana liberalization. She was for medical marijuana, but she vetoed much of the medical marijuana bill of 2011, sponsored by Sen Jeanne Kohl-Welles, D-Seattle, out of worry that federal agents would arrest state employees. In 2011 she petitioned the federal Drug Enforcement Administration to reclassify cannabis as a Schedule II drug, which would allow doctors to prescribe it as medicine and pharmacists to sell it.
She didn’t support 502 but the voters did, and she has a duty to go to bat for them. And she has.
Her spokesman, Cory Curtis, said she told Cole the state of Washington is going ahead with Initiative 502, first working with Washington State Patrol on enforcement of the driving under the influence law, for which 502 set a new standard. That is the smaller effort; the big one is the work by the Washington State Liquor Control Board to decide how to license and regulate cannabis growers, processors and retailers. This is to be done by December 2013 and is estimated to cost the state $17 million.
Her question was the attitude of the Justice Department toward all this. “There was nothing definitive from them,” Curtis said.
He said Gregoire told Cole she hoped the federal government would come up with some decision on state marijuana legalization sooner rather than later, before the state of Washington spent the full year, and the $17 million.
One of the things the federal government could do is act on her petition to reschedule marijuana under the Controlled Substances Act. But to satisfy Initiative 502, the rescheduling would have to be much more thorough than merely to post it under Schedule II, which includes such drugs as cocaine, opium, methadone, oxycodone, morphine and dexedrine. Under Initiative 502, which turns cannabis into an over-the-counter commercial product available to anyone over 21, marijuana should probably be delisted entirely.
