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05 Nov 2014, 7:21 pm

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Voters in the blue state of Oregon and red state of Alaska have joined the fledgling green column of the U.S. political map by choosing to legalize recreational marijuana . . .


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The Oregon and Alaska measures will legalize recreational marijuana possession and usher in state-licensed retail pot shops similar to those that opened this year in Washington state and Colorado, which became the first to allow cannabis use for pleasure under 2012 voter initiatives.


I hope this trend goes north. :D



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05 Nov 2014, 7:39 pm

How is marijuana enforcement where you live?

Here in NYC, there are many arrests for marijuana possession and sales--frequently in what are considered "bad" areas.

The big problem for those who are convicted is not the punishments received for convictions--they're usually minor. Instead, it's the fact that a conviction even for a violation (not a misdemeanor) preclude one from benefitting from student loans.



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05 Nov 2014, 7:52 pm

It is enforced. You have to be discreet about it. It's everywhere but nowhere. And convictions make it hard to get jobs.



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06 Nov 2014, 12:18 am

Don't forget our nation's capitol! DC voted overwhelmingly for it, that's gotta count for something symbolically

2 years from now Arizona is suppose to have legalization on the ballot, the same folks who passed these will be working on it here and other states like California, Montana, Maine, and Massachusetts.

The momentum is on our side



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06 Nov 2014, 5:54 am

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Under a voter-proposed measure, known as Initiative 71, residents and visitors age 21 and older will be allowed to legally possess as much as two ounces of marijuana and to grow up to three marijuana plants at home. Leading candidates for mayor and the D.C. Council have vowed to quickly sign the measure into law.


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The twin measures will become law, as District bills do, unless Congress vetoes them and the president agrees that the local measures should be halted. That complex layer of federal oversight could thrust Congress ? which on Tuesday flipped to Republican control ? and President Obama into the middle of a rapidly evolving national debate.



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06 Nov 2014, 10:14 am

How come the Federal government hasn't cracked down on it?



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06 Nov 2014, 10:36 am

Dillogic wrote:
How come the Federal government hasn't cracked down on it?

They might now.

In Canada it looks like there might be a national referendum with the next federal election. I hope so.



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06 Nov 2014, 10:39 am

Those referendums really are good for legalizing marijuana--they always pass.

I'm not a smoker, personally, by the way.



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06 Nov 2014, 5:10 pm

I don't smoke pot, but congratulations to Alaska! :)

Question: Does anyone know how marijuana began to be called pot in the first place?


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07 Nov 2014, 2:47 pm

AnonymousAnonymous wrote:
I don't smoke pot, but congratulations to Alaska! :)

Question: Does anyone know how marijuana began to be called pot in the first place?


http://blog.dictionary.com/pot-marijuana/

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Actually, the origin of pot has nothing to do with the culinary tools. The word came into use in America in the late 1930s. It is a shortening of the Spanish potiguaya or potaguaya that came from potación de guaya, a wine or brandy in which marijuana buds have been steeped. It literally means ?the drink of grief.?



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08 Nov 2014, 7:23 pm

How can anyone be happy; the results of the US midterm elections are a disasters!! ! Sure, sure marijuana has been legalised, whic is a good new for some. (Though doing that without a governmental public campain saying how much it's dangerous is really stupid in my opinion.) But now the senate is republican and the EPA top position may well be held by someone who consider that the EPA should not exist. The GOP is full of peoples denying what science is saying about global warming, wish there were no regulation anymore beside what happened with Deep Horizon and wish more unregulated coal power plants beside what we see concerning smog in Beijing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR8d1PZvYRI&list=UUgFP46yVT-GG4o1TgXn-04Q
This is the worst that could happen!! ! Humans are stupid and are running toward the end of their civilisation. So no... No celebration should happen from the results of the election, even from the good news. Marijuana legalisation is just something that draw peoples attention off the real issues. This is bread and circuses, bread and circuses.



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10 Nov 2014, 8:23 am

I'm quite pleased with the results of the midterm-election especially since I live in the "high desert" area of central Oregon. It technically isn't legal until next July though, but at least it's happening.



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18 Nov 2014, 2:15 pm

Dillogic wrote:
How come the Federal government hasn't cracked down on it?


A few years back, Obama made a statement that he would rein in federal enforcement for legal state marijuana usage. That is when the DEA stopped raiding legal medical marijuana facilities.


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18 Nov 2014, 8:08 pm

I look forward to growing some plants. Maybe White Widow, it's always been my favorite. You should be able to buy female seedlings. I'm going to save like $2,500 a year on pot!