No, I read the OP. A few kids have got to their parents stash. none have died. all probably learned a valuable lesson. all the while, colorado is no longer ruining the lives of smokers by locking them up and giving them criminal records. I notice the first 3/4 of that article are positive, and at the end they mention a few kids who ingested edibles. No permanent effects (like a crimnal record) and no one died. using that as an argument against ending prohibition is grasping at straws. something your side is doing more and more of these days.

Show-Me Cannabis are frauds. They are delaying the legalization push in Missouri to 2016.

Pot infused alcohol won't do much for you. If you've already been smoking, you win't notice the effects. If you haven't, you get a slight high but the alcohol quickly outweighs it.

I put a quarter of some GDP in a fifth of tequila and let it soak for a month. So I've tested this thoroughly.

Oh sure. Decriminalizing it reduced crime. That does tend to happen...

Not completely harmless. Just the most harmless medicine/drug you can buy. We both know you can't sight one reputable scientific study that proves otherwise. People stand strong on an opinion and are to mentally immature/weak to change their opinion based on fact. How many deaths have they attributed to the pot law?

Though it's certainly a positive to see crime rates drop a bit, it's too early to tell for sure if there's any kind of causal relationship there. (Crime rates fluctuate from year to year all the time.) But it's certainly good to see that the chicken littles have been wrong about crime rates spiking.

If you are so worried how others view your state-maybe you should petition to change your state song.

In 2007, the Colorado legislature named "Rocky Mountain High" as Colorado's second official state song, paired with "Where the Columbines Grow".

One song brings to mind Pot and Columbine-always brings to mind school shootings and mass murder. Two things Colorado is unfortunately known for.

Maybe change "Mile High" while you are at it. That stadium will Always be known as that. Oh and take the "Mile High" plaque off the Capitol building-so nobody gets the wrong idea too.

Notice the "We are right, you are wrong." mentality.

What do any of those have to do with pot?

People generally tend to get HIGH on pot.


"Friends around the campfire and everybody's [B]high/B]
Rocky Mountain high, Colorado. Rocky Mountain high.
Rocky Mountain high, Colorado. Rocky Mountain high."

That's one interpretation, I suppose.

I tried some of that marijuana soda... it tasted delicious, but it is like 10 strong doses of marijuana. So like one swig and you're high. I didn't realize that until after the fact.

John Denver was a huge pot smoker.

It is Not about pot-I already knew that-but a majority do think it. Here is an interesting article.

Is John Denver's "Rocky Mountain High" about marijuana, or is it a big myth-understanding?
By Josiah M. Hesse Categories: Reefer Madness


Second only to "Mile High City," the title of John Denver's folksy classic "Rocky Mountain High" is the pun we're seeing the most lately in reporting about our state's legal weed. For the most part, Colorado has always been particularly proud of the anthem that celebrates our most treasured feature, so much so that we made it our second state song in 2007. And while legalized marijuana is slowly becoming a tourist attraction to rival our beloved Rocky Mountains, when John Denver wrote the lyrics "friends around the campfire and everybody's high," was he celebrating the plant that would give our state a new identity thirty years later?


Sorry to disappoint, but the answer is no, at least according to the songwriter himself. Just as the "Rocky Mountain High" lyric "fire in the sky" is not about an alien abduction, and "Why they try to tear the mountains down . . . more scars upon the land," was not about fracking, the double entendre about being high had nothing to do with cannabis, but about the organic elation that can be found in camping outdoors.

Though you'd be forgiven for thinking otherwise. Sporadic radio stations had banned the song throughout the first half of the '80s, fearing FCC retribution for playing a song that promoted drug use. During the Tipper Gore-lead witch-hunt against morally spicy music getting into the hands of minors, John Denver testified alongside Frank Zappa and Dee Snyder of Twisted Sister before Congress during the Parents Music Resource Center hearings. Attempting to set the record straight, Denver said in his testimony:

I am opposed to censorship of any kind. . . . My song 'Rocky Mountain High' was banned from many radio stations as a drug related song. This was obviously done by people who had never seen or been to the Rocky Mountains, and also had never experienced the elation, the celebration of life, the joy of living that one feels when he observes something as wondrous as the Perseid meteor shower on a moonless, cloudless night, when there are so many stars that you have a shadow from the starlight, and you are out camping with your friends, your best friends, and introducing them to one of nature's most spectacular light shows for the first time. This is obviously a clear case of misinterpretation. Mr. Chairman, what assurance have I that any national panel to review my music can make any better judgement?
In his 1994 autobiography, Take Me Home, Denver admitted to using marijuana (along with cocaine and LSD), and would go on to check himself into a rehab clinic for alcohol abuse. But when writing about "Rocky Mountain High," he reiterates that the song's inspiration sprung from when he first moved to Aspen at the age of 27.

"I remember, almost to the moment, when that song started to take shape in my head. We were working on the next album and it was to be called Mother Nature's Son, after the the Beatles song, which I'd included. It was set for release in September. In mid August, Annie and I and some friends went up to Williams Lake to watch the first Perseid meteor showers. . . .
At some point, I went off in a raft to the middle of the lake, singing my heart out. It wasn't so much that I was singing to entertain anyone back on shore, but rather I was singing for the mountains and for the sky... The shadow of the starlight blew me away. Maybe it was the state I was in. I went back and lay down next to Annie in front of our tent, thinking everybody had gone to sleep, and thinking about how in nature all things, large and small, were interwoven, when swoosh, a meteor went smoking by. . . .

I worked on the song -- and the song worked on me -- for a good couple of weeks. I was working one day with Mike Taylor, an acoustic guitarist who had performed with me at the Cellar Door and had moved out to Aspen. Mike sat down and showed me this guitar lick and suddenly the whole thing came together. It was just what the piece needed. When I realized what I had -- another anthem, maybe; a true expression of one's self, maybe -- we changed the sequencing of the album we'd just completed, and then we changed the album title."

My middle name is Jose. How you doing?