tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225570644228196036.post983330847308252524..comments2024-02-24T05:11:30.646-06:00Comments on The Director's Desk: Price of potTom Casadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03188041481309059441noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225570644228196036.post-81611382872824536212015-01-10T12:45:08.041-06:002015-01-10T12:45:08.041-06:00Well as I have been saying for 30 years, legalizat...Well as I have been saying for 30 years, legalization will come when the Baby Boomers get into office.<br />You will NOT stop people from smoking pot, EVER. Why not let Nebraska make money and produce more jobs? MJ is not a horrible thing unless it is laced with other bad chemicals. What about cigars and cigarettes. Talk about chemicals. <br />I am not a smoker but I do believe it will take us out of the deficit yesterday if we do legalize it.<br />Denise.....<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225570644228196036.post-40305914456869809152015-01-09T14:44:32.523-06:002015-01-09T14:44:32.523-06:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01870948446970990449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225570644228196036.post-3836319848673385032015-01-08T06:21:54.548-06:002015-01-08T06:21:54.548-06:004:36,
Well, yes, it would be a preemptive warning...4:36,<br /><br />Well, yes, it would be a preemptive warning if there were actually such a proposal on the table. For now, though, I just want to make it clear that regardless of what justifications you might use for legalization, reducing the burden on the police is not la very good one from what I've seen. I would anticipate more, not less, resources being consumed in my corner of the system.Tom Casadyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03188041481309059441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225570644228196036.post-52637430335321628032015-01-07T16:36:06.737-06:002015-01-07T16:36:06.737-06:00They're not getting your point, Tom, which is ...They're not getting your point, Tom, which is clearly a pre-emptive warning of a big unfunded mandate on local law enforcement for all the regs that go along with legalization--exactly what the locals are trying to cope with in Colorado. <br /><br />If you're going to legalize weed, you've got to send a fair share of all that new tax revenue back down to the people who really have to deal with it at the local level.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225570644228196036.post-52551580282592965712015-01-07T12:25:32.265-06:002015-01-07T12:25:32.265-06:00Even if it does increase the resource burden to po...Even if it does increase the resource burden to police (which I think would be a wash anyway), it would be FAR outweighed by the tax revenue and new economic commercial stream. It's a whole new crop for farmers to grow.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225570644228196036.post-21649064738419429162015-01-07T12:21:34.020-06:002015-01-07T12:21:34.020-06:00the rationale for legalization is to not have the ...the rationale for legalization is to not have the people that choose to smoke weed be criminals, we want our freedom if it means more laws for the police to enforce, then so be it! <br /><br />I'd rather have a legal mechanism for selling and distributing weed than the system that we have now, when you are already committing a crime selling weed, do you care that your customer is only 15? that your money spent is going to some third world country to finance corruption, theft, violence? or that your rental house got destroyed by someone setting up a grow room? <br /><br />the police work for the citizens of this country, all of us, doing the peoples bidding the whole us vs. them attitude some in the police career field have is a problem and certainly doesn't help you do your jobsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225570644228196036.post-66833805495499577612015-01-07T08:03:52.831-06:002015-01-07T08:03:52.831-06:007:51,
You and a couple other readers seem to want...7:51,<br /><br />You and a couple other readers seem to want to turn this into a discussion of the merits of legalization. That's fine, but not my point. I'm simply saying this: if the rationale for legalization is to reduce the resource burden on police departments, I think that is quite unlikely. I am concerned that we will instead be handed an entirely new regulatory scheme and expected to execute that, without the resources to do so. That seems to be one of the chief complaints of Colorado agencies. Tom Casadyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03188041481309059441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225570644228196036.post-90562073873755431162015-01-07T07:51:29.302-06:002015-01-07T07:51:29.302-06:00"BTW, the math would be different if you go w..."BTW, the math would be different if you go whole hog and decriminalize the manufacture and sale of marijuana, and possession of large amounts, as those felony-level cases are more labor intensive."<br /><br />that's why we want it legalized, to put those people out of business and get this economy off the black market and into the public coffers there is also the fact that when it's illegal you tend to fear the police, attitudes toward the police may change as less will have something to hide, not to mention that there may be a pothead or twenty out there that could all of a sudden be a GREAT candidate to become an officer or firefighterAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225570644228196036.post-89872423853263113742015-01-06T21:54:17.930-06:002015-01-06T21:54:17.930-06:00So why didn't the alcohol bootleggers etc. swi...So why didn't the alcohol bootleggers etc. switch to something else like pot ? Marijuana was completely legal before 1937. Legal, then prohibited just like alcohol. Alcohol causes murder(by car or other), assault(physical/sexual), and overdose as well as many other ills associated with physical addiction.There is no legal alternative. Marijuana is only mentally addictive, which may occur with just about anything (sex, chocolate) including simple actions. Marijuana is safer than alcohol, so why are they driving us to drink? I can't/don't think when I drink. Lincoln citizenAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225570644228196036.post-55590543708240314152015-01-06T18:42:11.792-06:002015-01-06T18:42:11.792-06:00Still apples and oranges. Still apples and oranges. 11:14noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225570644228196036.post-59311953086584903292015-01-06T13:06:21.508-06:002015-01-06T13:06:21.508-06:0011:14,
You might want to do some research on the t...11:14,<br />You might want to do some research on the timeline of when MJ became illegal. If I remember correctly it had been legal up until about 1930(?) but I'm not sure. Someone made a movie called "Reefer Madness" in the early 1900 somethings. Shortly after that movie came out MJ was made illegal.<br />I may not be totally accurate so I hope someone with more time can do the googling.<br />Gun NutAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225570644228196036.post-10066851754321419792015-01-06T11:14:52.791-06:002015-01-06T11:14:52.791-06:00Everyone compares legalizing pot with doing away w...Everyone compares legalizing pot with doing away with prohibition. The big difference is alcohol was legal before it was prohibited so people were more used to being able to legally partake. <br /><br />I don't really have a point other than that. I'm not a robot.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225570644228196036.post-6401246896346645672015-01-06T09:59:08.970-06:002015-01-06T09:59:08.970-06:00So if it isn't really such a big deal and the ...So if it isn't really such a big deal and the state already has relaxed laws on about it then why not just decriminalize small amounts like a eighth of a ounce or under? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225570644228196036.post-81008530384181395582015-01-06T09:45:44.150-06:002015-01-06T09:45:44.150-06:00Director,
I see the whole idea of "legalized&...Director,<br />I see the whole idea of "legalized" pot as a lesser of two evils. We faced similar problems when the Volstead act was passed bringing about Prohibition. The big difference in legalizing Pot and legalizing Alcohol is that back in the bootleg booze days Alcohol was the MAJOR recreational drug and there were few choices.<br /><br />Today even if we legalize Pot there will be other drugs the recreational users will do instead. Ending Prohibition and legalizing Alcohol put Al Capone and other bootleggers out of business So even if Pot is legalized the criminal element involved in getting Pot to the street will just switch to something else.<br /><br />Personally I would prefer to be around a person high on Pot rather than a drunk. It has been my experience that Potheads are usually mellower than drunks. Ideally nobody would use either Alcohol or Marijuana but we don't live in a perfect world.<br />All JMHO<br />Gun NutAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225570644228196036.post-6751864713771719092015-01-06T06:26:04.575-06:002015-01-06T06:26:04.575-06:00BTW, the math would be different if you go whole h...BTW, the math would be different if you go whole hog and decriminalize the manufacture and sale of marijuana, and possession of large amounts, as those felony-level cases are more labor intensive. Tom Casadyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03188041481309059441noreply@blogger.com