Larry Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 Nope. South Carolina is always last. I've been wanting to lobby the state to change the state motto to: South Carolina: First in succession, last in everything else. Now, now, now. I understand that Alabama was the last state to take the laws banning interracial marriage off their books. In 2000. 60% of the voters voted for removing it. (And 40% voted to keep it on the books.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Predicto Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 Now, now, now. I understand that Alabama was the last state to take the laws banning interracial marriage off their books. In 2000. 60% of the voters voted for removing it. (And 40% voted to keep it on the books.) Heck, the Alabama Constitution still requires segregated schools, and multiple efforts to amend it have been voted down by the electorate, as recently as 2012. Section 256 states that "separate schools shall be provided for white and colored children, and no child of either race shall be permitted to attend a school of the other race." This provision was struck down by Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, and has not been enforced since the 1960s. In 1956, following the Supreme Court decision, the state passed an amendment saying that it did not have an obligation for public education, leading to the support for private schools to evade desegregation. The continued existence of these provisions is seen by many as an embarrassment to the state. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Alabama#Outdated_provisions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tshile Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 I'm still waiting for news that these states have fallen into chaos. Just a matter of time. I support legalizing it, but I take that seriously. If the first few states to do this screw it up, it could mean pushing back legalization a lot. There's already some questions about where the money in Colorado is going. I have not, from day one, thought tax revenue was a good reason for this. There's so many reasons to legalize this could be revenue neutral in some ways so... We'll see. I hope they don't screw it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
No Excuses Posted March 2, 2015 Share Posted March 2, 2015 6 In 10 Young Republicans Favor Legal Marijuana, Survey Says http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/03/01/389966496/six-in-10-young-republicans-favor-legal-marijuana-survey-says While the Pew Research Center survey published on Friday shows a 14 percentage point gap between Republicans and Democrats under the age of 34, six-in-10 GOP-leaning Millennials still said they favor legalizing cannabis. Seventy-seven percent of surveyed Democrats in the same age group held that view. The survey on attitudes on marijuana legalization by political affiliation largely mirrors a survey Pew conducted a year ago concerning same-sex marriage. It showed that 61 percent of self-identified Republicans under 30 favored allowing gays and lesbians to marry, as opposed to 77 percent of Democrats in the same age group. Social conservatism is going the way of the dodo bird it appears. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Posted March 2, 2015 Share Posted March 2, 2015 6 In 10 Young Republicans Favor Legal Marijuana, Survey Says http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/03/01/389966496/six-in-10-young-republicans-favor-legal-marijuana-survey-says Social conservatism is going the way of the dodo bird it appears. Yeah, but young Republicans are only 10% of the party. And they're all Rand Paul kooks. (Have I shoveled enough stereotypes, yet?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
No Excuses Posted March 2, 2015 Share Posted March 2, 2015 Yeah, but young Republicans are only 10% of the party. And they're all Rand Paul kooks. (Have I shoveled enough stereotypes, yet?) It's a start. It will at least force more of a challenge in 2016. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Predicto Posted March 2, 2015 Share Posted March 2, 2015 6 In 10 Young Republicans Favor Legal Marijuana, Survey Says http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/03/01/389966496/six-in-10-young-republicans-favor-legal-marijuana-survey-says Social conservatism is going the way of the dodo bird it appears. Marijuana is only a small part of social conservatism. Young Republicans want to be able to smoke pot, but they still are pro death penalty, anti-immigration, and pro-life (unless their own girlfriend gets pregnant). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
No Excuses Posted March 2, 2015 Share Posted March 2, 2015 Marijuana is only a small part of social conservatism. Young Republicans want to be able to smoke pot, but they still are pro death penalty, anti-immigration, and pro-life (unless their own girlfriend gets pregnant). They've come around on SSM, pot and quite possibly prison reform. The rest will come eventually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visionary Posted March 17, 2015 Share Posted March 17, 2015 http://www.politico.com/story/2015/03/obama-snuffs-stoner-dreams-of-legalization-116125.html Obama snuffs stoner dreams of legalization In an interview with VICE News, Obama says he supports decriminalizing pot but stops short of endorsing legalization. Barack Obama may be the first acknowledged stoner to hold the highest office, but he continues to blunt the hopes of advocates for legalizing pot. Obama’s interview with VICE news – posted at 4:20 p.m. on Monday – is part of a stepped-up White House strategy to court millennials through non-traditional news outlets. But when VICE founder Shane Smith suggested to the president that legalizing marijuana would be “the biggest part of your legacy,” Obama’s response would harsh any mellow. “First of all, it shouldn’t be young people’s biggest priority,” Obama chided. “You should be thinking about climate change, the economy, jobs, war and peace. Maybe way at the bottom you should be thinking about marijuana.” As his administration prepares for a concentrated push on sentencing reform, Obama drew a distinction between his support of states’ efforts to decriminalize marijuana and reverse the crackdown on nonviolent drug offenders and actually encouraging drug use. It would be up to Congress, he said, to change pot’s legal status. “Legalization or decriminalization is not a panacea,” he added, questioning whether it would work for drugs like meth and crack. “There is a legitimate, I think, concern, about the overall effects this has on society.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 Supreme Court may decide on Colorado marijuana legalization case The U.S. Supreme Court may be nearing a decision on whether to hear a case brought against Colorado by two neighboring states over marijuana legalization. Supreme Court justices were scheduled to meet privately Friday to discuss the case, which was filed in 2014 by the attorneys general in Nebraska and Oklahoma. The justices won't have decided at the meeting whether to upend legalization in Colorado, as the lawsuit requests. Instead, the justices must decide first whether even to take up the case. Their decision could be announced as early as Monday. Click on the link for the full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chump Bailey Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 Absolutely should be decriminalized across the board - cannabis oil all of it should be made available for those to pursue without fear of prosecution. Ridiculous the amount of time we waste on marijuana and punishing folks who use it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sacks 'n' Stuff Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 I want some of that legalized marijuana. Haven't had any of the illegal stuff in a decade though. Moving to TX this summer. They seem like the type who will legalize it soon, right? Right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d0ublestr0ker0ll Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 I want some of that legalized marijuana. Haven't had any of the illegal stuff in a decade though. Moving to TX this summer. They seem like the type who will legalize it soon, right? Right? I'm in Oklahoma, a 10 hour drive to the nearest rec pot shop in Colorado. Unfortunately there are no shops on the eastern side of CO, have to drive all the way to the south-central town of Trinidad. That's where you'd want to go if you're within driving distance in Texas. Been devising a plan to take a trip there and bring some back. 20 hour drive though? Yikes. Apparently there are sometimes signs on the side of the interstates in neighboring states that say "Drug Checkpoint Ahead". They never actually have the checkpoints on the interstate, and instead have exit ramps that lead to nowhere, with a bunch of cops waiting at the ends of them. Those who take the exits-to-nowhere have their vehicles searched. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visionary Posted June 3, 2016 Share Posted June 3, 2016 http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/05/what-works-colorado-denver-marijuana-pot-industry-legalization-neighborhoods-dispensaries-negative-213906 The Marijuana Industry’s War on the Poor Denver’s booming pot industry may be trendy, but it’s giving poorer neighborhoods a headache. Take a stroll past the gray stucco-clad building in northeast Denver and it’s not hard to figure out what’s going on behind the bright green doors. On a recent afternoon, outside Green Fields Cannabis Co., a sweetly pungent, slightly skunky odor filled the air before a light rain began to rinse it away. Just a block south on Brighton Boulevard, past a salvage yard and a Mexican grocery, the smell of what’s growing inside Starbuds is sometimes noticeable before you arrive in front of the medical and recreational marijuana chain’s original location. Even drivers whizzing by on Interstate 70 catch a heady whiff of Denver’s hottest new product as they zip across town. But they don’t have to live here. In working-class neighborhoods like Elyria-Swansea, Globeville and Northeast Park Hill there’s a growing sense among residents that they have been overrun by a new drug trade, legal but noxious all the same. These communities once offered plentiful jobs in the city’s smelters, meatpacking houses, brickyards and stockyards, but those industries are mostly gone now, along with Denver's cow town image. In the past few years, the city's newest growth industry has moved in—and not in a subtle way. In Elyria-Swansea alone, more than three dozen businesses are licensed to grow and sell marijuana and another dozen companies manufacture edible pot products. To the people living in the modest homes near the grow operations that supply the dispensaries and shops in better-off parts of town, the smell is not only an inconvenience but a reminder of their lack of political clout. “One of the things that we thought was going to happen when [recreational] marijuana was legalized was that drugs would be taken out of our community,” said Candi CdeBaca, an education and community activist whose longtime family home is steps from a commercial grow operation in Elyria-Swansea. “What happened was that the drugs stayed—and the drug dealers changed.” Two years after legal sales of recreational marijuana began in Colorado, the biggest fears that once preoccupied Denver city officials—higher crime, more drug use among teens and a drag on tourism—have not come to pass. Instead, the expanded industry, with 21-and-over recreational sales joining a longer-sanctioned medical marijuana trade, has pumped millions of dollars into government coffers. It's swathed the city in a trendy glow that likely attracts as many outsiders as it repels. But in lower-income neighborhoods of Denver, the explosion of smelly commercial cultivation operations, which crank out tons of high-priced weed for sometimes-chic, sometimes-earthy dispensaries in more fashionable parts of town, has rekindled long-standing grievances about being ignored by City Hall. And residents are beginning to demand big changes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Posted June 4, 2016 Share Posted June 4, 2016 Wonder why they're growing the stuff in cities. Wouldn't it be cheaper to perform agriculture in, you know, rural places, where the land is cheaper? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chew Posted June 4, 2016 Share Posted June 4, 2016 the I-70 corridor in northeast Denver is one of the poorest parts of town...which is probably why the city gave permits to nearly half the grow houses in the metro area all along the highway. it REEKS of marijuana all along I-70, whether you're walking around or in the car. but then again, downtown usually smells like weed too often times. Far as the writer of this article, cry me a river if working class folks are being pushed out to Aurora. Denver is the second hottest housing market in the country, they cant build apartments and housing developments fast enough to keep up with demand. Denver metro rentals are at 96% capacity Park Hill & Swansea were the most ghetto neighborhoods Denver had, and they're close proximity to downtown. So no wonder blacks and hispanics are being pushed out by well-to-do whites. Ever heard of gentrification? it happens. DEAL. A lot of educated, well-paid millenials and hipsters are moving to Denver and they all want to live in the city. Unfortunately, the poor folks gotta make room. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PokerPacker Posted June 4, 2016 Share Posted June 4, 2016 Apparently there are sometimes signs on the side of the interstates in neighboring states that say "Drug Checkpoint Ahead". They never actually have the checkpoints on the interstate, and instead have exit ramps that lead to nowhere, with a bunch of cops waiting at the ends of them. Those who take the exits-to-nowhere have their vehicles searched.Who needs the 4th amendment, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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