Pot Legal in Colorado and Washington for Recreational Use

[BWillie]

So how do ppl buy the pot? Is it just legal to have 1 oz in your possession but nobody can sell it? That defeats the whole purpose of legalizing weed in the first place. The point of legalizing weed is to eliminate the drug violence and black market of it....a majority of which is run by Mexican Cartels perpetuating violence.

[DRU]

Originally Posted by BWillie007

So how do ppl buy the pot? Is it just legal to have 1 oz in your possession but nobody can sell it? That defeats the whole purpose of legalizing weed in the first place. The point of legalizing weed is to eliminate the drug violence and black market of it....a majority of which is run by Mexican Cartels perpetuating violence.

You can grow your own, for one, and that's only one point to be made by this. It'll be regulated and sold/taxed very similar to alcohol, so not only will tax dollars be wasted prosecuting non-violent criminals, but they'll generate a mountain of new tax dollars as well.

Hemp production will be a huge part of all this, too, which I think people have mentioned already.

[DaFace]

Originally Posted by BWillie007

So how do ppl buy the pot? Is it just legal to have 1 oz in your possession but nobody can sell it? That defeats the whole purpose of legalizing weed in the first place. The point of legalizing weed is to eliminate the drug violence and black market of it....a majority of which is run by Mexican Cartels perpetuating violence.

You clearly haven't walked around Denver recently. It was already 90% legal here anyway under the guise of medical marijuana. It'll be 2014 before "recreational" shops are set up here, but it'll basically be the same as a liquor store setup (but probably with more regulations).

[BWillie]

Originally Posted by DaFace

You clearly haven't walked around Denver recently. It was already 90% legal here anyway under the guise of medical marijuana. It'll be 2014 before "recreational" shops are set up here, but it'll basically be the same as a liquor store setup (but probably with more regulations).

Nope, that is good to hear then. As long as there are many legal options to obtain marijuana this is a great thing.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by DaFace

You clearly haven't walked around Denver recently. It was already 90% legal here anyway under the guise of medical marijuana. It'll be 2014 before "recreational" shops are set up here, but it'll basically be the same as a liquor store setup (but probably with more regulations).

This new measure is going to absolutely destroy the medical marijuana industry. I predict that 100 percent of medical marijuana dispensaries are going to close down.

Offsetting that, of course, is the fact that recreational marijuana stores with the same name, same ownership, and same customer base will open up in the same locations. So I guess the only real damage will be to the unethical doctors who wrote up marijuana prescriptions.

[Brock]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

This new measure is going to absolutely destroy the medical marijuana industry. I predict that 100 percent of medical marijuana dispensaries are going to close down.

Offsetting that, of course, is the fact that recreational marijuana stores with the same name, same ownership, and same customer base will open up in the same locations. So I guess the only real damage will be to the unethical doctors who wrote up marijuana prescriptions.

The MMJ industry will just become the MJ industry. Time did an article on this last month and these businesses are already for sale for huge money.