Anyone else see this: Gathering yesterday at CU promoting Marijuana? N/C

[RSC]

I found this link today?  Gathering at University of Colorado yesterday promoting legalization of Marijuana?  Unbelievable, close to 10,000 people smoking pot and no tickets!  Would be tough to control a gathering that large!

Link: http://www.dailycamera.com/news/2009/apr/20/420-cu-colorado-boulder-marijuana-pot-smoke-out/

I'll bet some of the Parents of the kids in that Video are extremely proud!  To those that say it's harmless need to watch some of those people!

What a recruiting video for CU! <party>

Tony

 

[knabe]

I found this link today?  Gathering at University of Colorado yesterday promoting legalization of Marijuana?  Unbelievable, close to 10,000 people smoking pot and no tickets!  Would be tough to control a gathering that large!

Link: http://www.dailycamera.com/news/2009/apr/20/420-cu-colorado-boulder-marijuana-pot-smoke-out/

I'll bet some of the Parents of the kids in that Video are extremely proud!  To those that say it's harmless need to watch some of those kids!

What a recruiting video for CU! <party>

Tony

maybe that would be an example of president axlerod would label as not harmless.  on the whole, though, alchohol and automobiles and a variety of other causes that are avoidable cause more death than pot.  pot , just like alchohol is basically job security for police, jails, judges etc.  like i've said before, christians, or whatever group that claims a link to founding this nation have lost their ability to educate their own children, or assimilate people who emigrate here.  the rate of change is the only issue.  obama just seems to be doing it faster than bush.  there is relatively little diffence between obama and bush.

more amazing to me than this pot rally is a new term has been added to the lexicon by cooper at CNN for all our children to snicker about.  axelrod used the term as well in interviews on sunday.  the left is completely sick, but get used to it, it's the new normal.  those on the right are now viewed as deviant.

 

[steer-guy]

Unbelievable!!!    And NO ONE was arrested....

Well, I wonder if Willie was there?!   

 

[RSC]

Unbelievable!!!    And NO ONE was arrested....

Well, I wonder if Willie was there?!     

I guess if they Legalize it, I might have a use for my dry lots once the cows go to Grass.  I wonder if Dekalb or Pioneer would handle Hippy Lettuce Seed?  (lol)

Tony

 

[GoWyo]

Imagine the junk food sales a few hours later when 10,000 people got the munchies <party>

 

[Davis Shorthorns]

This is absolutly rediculus!!!!  I dont care how many people it is it is still ILLEGAL!!!!!  Writing tickets for the venders instead of the potheads is lunicy that is just telling eveyone that it is ok to come there and smoke.  Whats next 4:20 is the new day to go and kill people???  Wrong is wrong and they should treat it like that. 

 

[RSC]

This is absolutly rediculus!!!!  I dont care how many people it is it is still ILLEGAL!!!!!   Writing tickets for the venders instead of the potheads is lunicy that is just telling eveyone that it is ok to come there and smoke.  Whats next 4:20 is the new day to go and kill people???  Wrong is wrong and they should treat it like that. 

I totally agree! However, how do you ticket 8,000 plus people without the risk of a riot?

A few more links to the event!

Link: http://www.dailycamera.com/news/2009/apr/20/cu-boulder-colorado-420-smoke-out-pot-marijuana/

Link: http://www.dailycamera.com/news/2009/apr/19/national-forum-marijuana-420-cu-boulder-norml/

Link: http://www.dailycamera.com/photos/galleries/2009/apr/20/photo-gallery-420-cu-boulder-campus/

Tony

 

[beefy08]

You must admit, high people are funny.  ;D

 

[farwest]

I think they should legalize pot.  As knabe said, i'd much rather deal with a high person than a drunk behind the wheel.  Think of the profits it would take away from the dealers if it was legal.  We'd only have to go after the bigger fish smuggling across the mexican border.  Not waste time and money on the potheads, go after the hard crap.  Come on Tony, don't lie to us and say you never smoked a joint in college. (clapping) O0

 

[Dave]

He didn't inhale though. lol

 

[farwest]

One other note, a person would have to realize how liberal of a town boulder is to believe this..

 

[farwest]

He didn't inhale though. lol

If you would be around him much dave you would have to say he is inhaling now..lol (clapping)

 

[knabe]

Think of the profits it would take away from the dealers if it was legal. 

think of all the jail space freed up and less officers, judges, prison guards, district attorneys to pay salaries, health care and retirement too.  think of less government union representation for the government for your tax dollar.

now, what would all that money do?  we could give half to the government and half to the taxpayer in the form of lower taxes.

of course that won't make the government happy, they will want it all.

of course liberals and conservatives will create more crime with more legislation to rationalize their numbers.

 

[farmboy]

You must admit, high people are funny.  ;D

agreed

 

[jlingle]

10,000 people gathered in Boulder to all smoke pot together, and no one missed a single day of work.  :

I'm taking a class at the local vo-tech here, and there's 4 guys in the class that're straight stoners.  Brilliant individuals those guys are, I'd be pretty excited to line up against those reefer monkeys to apply for a job.  They can't remember working a whole day in their lives, heck it's all they can do to go to votech class, much less go to work for an 8 hour day.  (clapping)

 

[OH Breeder]

As someone who had to deal with DRUNK college students who mixed much more dangerous substances. GIVE ME A POTHEAD anytime. We could order a meal tray and knew they would go to sleep and not be a problem. Rarely did the kids that were high go out and cruise around. It was the ones who had a case of bud light and decided to throw some ecstasy in the mix with some Viagra maybe a little crystal meth. Now you got problems. I could tell you story's. Pot is harmless and if you remove the criminalization of something it removes the criminal element.

 

[Doc]

As someone who had to deal with DRUNK college students who mixed much more dangerous substances. GIVE ME A POTHEAD anytime. We could order a meal tray and knew they would go to sleep and not be a problem. Rarely did the kids that were high go out and cruise around. It was the ones who had a case of bud light and decided to throw some ecstasy in the mix with some Viagra maybe a little crystal meth. Now you got problems. I could tell you story's. Pot is harmless and if you remove the criminalization of something it removes the criminal element.

Gonna have to disagree with you on this. Pot is NOT harmless. If it was harmless ,do you not think it would have been legalized a long time ago. There are a lot of medical reasons not to smoke pot. A high driver is not any safer on the road than a drunk driver. And to talk about someone drinking a case of beer & in the same sentence say "maybe they do a little crystal meth" is stretching it a lot. You will be more likely end up with someone doing "meth" that has been smoking weed , than someone who has been drinking beer. Of course this is from what I've read , because I've never smoked any weed in my life, heck I've never even smoked a cigarette. I have drank some beer in my time though & didn't do any crystal meth. I geuss I was lucky.

 

[OH Breeder]

As someone who had to deal with DRUNK college students who mixed much more dangerous substances. GIVE ME A POTHEAD anytime. We could order a meal tray and knew they would go to sleep and not be a problem. Rarely did the kids that were high go out and cruise around. It was the ones who had a case of bud light and decided to throw some ecstasy in the mix with some Viagra maybe a little crystal meth. Now you got problems. I could tell you story's. Pot is harmless and if you remove the criminalization of something it removes the criminal element.

Gonna have to disagree with you on this. Pot is NOT harmless. If it was harmless ,do you not think it would have been legalized a long time ago. There are a lot of medical reasons not to smoke pot. A high driver is not any safer on the road than a drunk driver. And to talk about someone drinking a case of beer & in the same sentence say "maybe they do a little crystal meth" is stretching it a lot. You will be more likely end up with someone doing "meth" that has been smoking weed , than someone who has been drinking beer. Of course this is from what I've read , because I've never smoked any weed in my life, heck I've never even smoked a cigarette. I have drank some beer in my time though & didn't do any crystal meth. I geuss I was lucky.

Well I invite anyone who is bored and wants to see what college kids do in their spare time to go to an ER and sit on a Saturday night. I am not looking for agreement or disagreement. I am stating facts. Statistics as knabe alluded to support more alcohol related fatalities than other substances.There is a host of drugs mixed at parties and if you think crystal and beer in the same sentence is a stretch then you haven't been to a frat party these days. I grew up in a college town and worked in a 70 bed ER not too far from Ohio State University with 60,000 students. We were a trauma center and got a lot of head injuries. Most of the MVA's were drunks not pot heads. Most of the pot heads did not mix there drugs. GHB, viagara, cold meds, mom's pain killers, oxycotin, you would be surprised. Alcohol as well as other drugs can reduce your inhibitions and believe me pretty much any substance that can be smoked or inhaled happened at a college campus and we would get them post "party". You can feed a pot head and they go to sleep, the other substances take more time to deal with. If you have never smoked weed then the post pot munchies is forgein concept that will sound strange to most.

 

[knabe]

the prohibition of pot began as black field workers in the south smoked it.  at the time, it was obviously a lot more dilute than now.  the reason things become more concentrated, is that shipping is more cost effective, since it became easier to move buds around than bales and you had to smoke less to avoid the task master.  then it moved on to other sectors of society who had no experience with the dilute form and, again, human nature took over and it became fun to be counter.  there a lot of medical reasons to not do a lot of things.  coming from a family that has extensive alcohol abuse problems, it's pretty apparent to me, the medical reasons to not drink exceed that of marijuana.

disclaimer.  i drink beer, wine, tequila, not much of any.  i smoked pot and cigarettes when i was younger, but no longer, dabbled in other stuff but was too busy with other stuff.  it became apparent rather quickly that the more you did, the less you did.  somehow i woke up.  others didn't, some function at a very high level doing pot, and ALL the others that did alcohol at abuse level, can not function.  obviously, there are lots who smoke that don't function either.  for me, i just don't find any that excel on alcohol.

remove the stigma from both and just compare stats, and it's pretty apparent alcohol is far worse. again, it's all about refusal to look at causes on a spreadsheet, rank them and do something about it.  instead, we for some reason, go for the rare and the exception, fooling ourselves.

to me, we don't spend enough time giving our kids choices to do stuff as opposed to just consequences for doing wrong thing.

 

[farmboy]

my brother was a drunk in denial before he got sent to jail for 200 days. drunks are more dangerous than pot heads any day. if you've experienced either at the same time, you would know. tweeders want to sit on the couch and watch tv and eat cheetohs . drunks want to fight, drive, argue, throw up and did i say fight? not to mention you can get a good laugh out of the smokers