CO Legalization Initiative in 2012 | Give Input

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Originally Posted by copobo

I have to wonder why the legalization effort isn't aimed at giving all 21+ Coloradoans medical status. No more Dr. recs required (unless maybe for edible count recs?)

If they are going to give it to the DOR anyway, it won't cause a need for a whole new kind of dispensary and regs and confusion.

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It's a good question.

Should one of these pass are you envisioning that the medical marijuana center will exist along side recreational marijuana centers?

It seems that the propositions have been designed to make it a somewhat seamless transition from regulating medical to recreational.

Yet the medical benefit of cannabis does and always will exist so it would be strange to draw a black and white line between med and rec if it is legalized for adult use.

Our MMJ program is a good thing, compassionate and just in its own right, but I've always seen it as our Trojan horse for legalization of recreational use. After a ten year siege, we're inside the walls. It's time to open the trap door, pour out of the horse and sack the city.

Accepting all 21+ Coloradoans into the medical marijuana system would be a better alternative to any initiative I've seen so far. It also would remove the BS with redcards and doctor recs, etc. It would be the least complicated way to legalize here in CO, given the current framework. I bet it would be the easiest thing for the average Coloradoan to understand as well.

There would be no need for a new class of dispensary or a new set of health and labeling regs. Why go through all that BS again? What is going now is working, somewhat, it seems..

EDIT: It would also eliminate a whole new set of local battles. AND the feds would likely have an easier time swallowing expansion of a medical program over out and out legalization..

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Originally Posted by DenverRelief

It's a good question.

Should one of these pass are you envisioning that the medical marijuana center will exist along side recreational marijuana centers?

It seems that the propositions have been designed to make it a somewhat seamless transition from regulating medical to recreational.

Yet the medical benefit of cannabis does and always will exist so it would be strange to draw a black and white line between med and rec if it is legalized for adult use.

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It was strange and hypocritical from the beginning to draw the line you refer to between "medical" and "recreational" use. It still is. What's more, the same is true of EVERY other drug, from amphetamines to caffeine to morphine. It is also an immoral distinction for the government to make with respect to what one puts into one's own body.