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TexasTowelie

(117,584 posts)
Sun Mar 4, 2018, 01:21 AM Mar 2018

Legal pot: Problem or panacea? Is Colorado, The Centennial State, becoming The Stoner State?

Legal pot is either a problem or a panacea, depending on your perspective.

The Marijuana Accountability Coalition and Smart Approaches to Marijuana hate it and want it gone. They say they're trying to prevent another marijuana version of Big Tobacco.

The Coalition hosted an event on the Colorado Christian University campus to warn Colorado about continuing down the cannabis causeway, including claims that marijuana among youth is rising.

"We should not live in a state where marijuana companies have a financial interest in hooking as many people as they possibly can," Marijuana Accountability Coalition speakers said in opening their event.

Read more: https://www.vaildaily.com/news/marijuana/legal-pot-problem-or-panacea-is-colorado-the-centennial-state-becoming-the-stoner-state/

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Legal pot: Problem or panacea? Is Colorado, The Centennial State, becoming The Stoner State? (Original Post) TexasTowelie Mar 2018 OP
Gawd! This could have been written by my Mother! cbreezen Mar 2018 #1
For me, it could have been written by father. TexasTowelie Mar 2018 #3
I forgot to put the other appropriate smilies cbreezen Mar 2018 #4
just make it really legal, grow your own, no sales, no taxes, just a free and available msongs Mar 2018 #2
"continuing down the cannabis causeway"? How far down that 'causeway' is there a liqueur store? YOHABLO Mar 2018 #5
Or a convenience store. Because snacks. n/t kedrys Mar 2018 #6
Exactly! mountain grammy Mar 2018 #8
oh thanks for the reminder.. its SENIOR day at the pot store today!!! samnsara Mar 2018 #7
Love my senior discounts. mountain grammy Mar 2018 #9

TexasTowelie

(117,584 posts)
3. For me, it could have been written by father.
Sun Mar 4, 2018, 02:35 AM
Mar 2018

It's still interesting (and amusing) to read though.

msongs

(70,287 posts)
2. just make it really legal, grow your own, no sales, no taxes, just a free and available
Sun Mar 4, 2018, 02:06 AM
Mar 2018

thing. let people control it themselves

 

YOHABLO

(7,358 posts)
5. "continuing down the cannabis causeway"? How far down that 'causeway' is there a liqueur store?
Sun Mar 4, 2018, 04:12 AM
Mar 2018

samnsara

(18,306 posts)
7. oh thanks for the reminder.. its SENIOR day at the pot store today!!!
Sun Mar 4, 2018, 08:34 AM
Mar 2018

...need...more...indica....

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