Town of Breckenridge Likely to Legalize Marijuana this Coming Tuesday

Higher_Dimensional_Mathematician's picture
I don't know how THIS story flew under the radar. Breckenridge however, is likely to be the first place in the nation to actually legalize the possesion of marijuana for personal use. Of course it is just one town against a state, against the Feds (read DEAth). It sure is a step in the right direction though.
Colo. ski town could push marijuana legalization

BRECKENRIDGE, Colo. — Voters in the Rocky Mountain town of Breckenridge will decide next week whether to legalize pot for all adults at a time when the movement to allow medical marijuana is gaining steam.

A measure before Breckenridge voters in Tuesday's municipal election would legalize possession of smoking paraphernalia and up to 1 ounce of marijuana. Pot possession would still be a state crime, but town police officers would have to take users to the county sheriff's department to be cited.

Prospects look good for the measure. In 2006, a statewide ballot measure to make marijuana possession legal failed 59 percent to 49 percent. But among Breckenridge voters, that measure won almost 3-to-1.

MikeHuntsore's picture

YO, MATHEMATICIAN!

Could you please explain how the statewide ballot initiative failed 59% to 49%? Isn't that 108% of the voters? Did the prohibitionists get to vote more than once? Just asking.

Higher_Dimensional_Mathematician's picture

HAH!

So much for solid math skills eh? I didn't even notice that FUBAR math! And to think, I will soon be teaching your children this subject.

 

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MikeHuntsore's picture

Undoubtedly Josiah

was helping count the votes.

JosiahRivers's picture

Your not going near my children pothead

My son is a grown man with his own family, living in a state that still has decent values and laws regarding your kind. They still jail potheads for possesion the very first time there caught...with mandatory minumums...to protect the children. As the educational system is filled with potheads, druggies, and legalizers...my grandchildren are home schooled...so as not to be indoctrinated into immoral, illegal, or dangerous behavior. They are not allowed to watch television...my son threw theres away when the youngest was born...or associate with those who do. The same goes for music, the only radio station allowed in my sons home is a Christian station. My grandchildren are going to grow up to be moral upstanding citizens...unlike like those in Breckenridge.

I know i'm a locksmith. Think of the children!

Activist1's picture

Whoa.

No, they don't jail potheads for possession. Get your facts straight. No first time drug user is sentenced to jail time.

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt

Read what he wrote Activist1

He said they jail for first time possession. It's another state. You need to read correctly before you go off on someone.

Activist1's picture

No.

They get a slap on the wrist, and are free to re-enter our communities to reoffend. It's only after they have committed more crime and are finally apprehended that they may actually get sentenced to jail time.

JR is a plant.

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt

MikeHuntsore's picture

You're even dumber than you are obese LinDUH

Texas and the deep south still lock people up for as little as a single joint, five year minimum in some states.

Malcolmkyle's picture

Well spotted Sean!

MikeHuntsore's picture

YO! LinDUH! I'm bored!

Entertain me! 

                                      

Higher_Dimensional_Mathematician's picture

Yeah Weird huh?

You'd think that would have been at the top of everybodies hooray list these days. I have several Google news alerts coming in dealing with legalizing marijuana, and there it was waaay at the bottom of the list of one of them.

 

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MikeHuntsore's picture

Yes I know

this will get me banned (again). I don't care, I've got a drawer full of socks.

Higher_Dimensional_Mathematician's picture

Well, This is it!

A little bit of history will most likely be made today when marijuana is made legal in at least one small political entity in this nation! Go Breckenridge!

 

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ChristofferH's picture

Woo Breckinridge!

It will be interesting to see what happens next (i.e. if the gov't steps in)

Higher_Dimensional_Mathematician's picture

Some Boob Will Probably Make a Rap Video

I am sure if this thing passes that there will probably be some twit with potato chips for brains who will make a lot of money selling legal marijuana (at least legal in Breckenridge), and who will also flaunt it before the DEAth agency. They will make an example of him and he will spend the next 15 to 20 rotting in a cage...and all at the expense of us taxpayers. We can be sure the DEAth agency will be looking to make an example out of somebody.

 

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AqueousChemist's picture

Another fine day

How is everyone on the fine election day?

Higher_Dimensional_Mathematician's picture

I'm Good Chemist. Hope you and the chilluns are well.

I hope you and yours are well also brotha. I'm just sitting here churning out integrals until my rear end hurts from it. I both curse and marvel at the raw ingenuity of great mathematicians who figure out how to do amazing things with math. I mean, to even come up with the questions they come up with is amazing. But then to go and find a solution is even 'amazinger'. Still though, I can't even wait to be done with all of this, and get to working a full time job again.

Not much to do with voting though eh?

 

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ae's picture

Breckenridge passes...

this by a margin of 73% to 27% (with 96% of precincts reporting) to legalize the adult possession of marijuana.

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and FYI, on the other side of the country...

Question 5, the Maine Medical Marijuana Act, was leading comfortably in early unofficial returns Tuesday night. With 22 percent of precincts reporting as of 10:15 p.m., the initiative was winning 62.3 percent to 37.7 percent.

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Thanks for Reporting AE

I was trying to find numbers, but couldn't find them. It is probably a largely symbolic gesture, but is a sign for certain that times are a changin'. Those who hide behind fortified walls of children as their justification for shoving their puritanism down other's throats, had better start getting out of the way, or you will certainly be swept aside into irrelavency as the months and years continue to tick.

Have fun with that.

 

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JosiahRivers's picture

Hiding behind children is a dirty Hamas trick

to try to get rightfuly enraged Israeli soldiers to fire on them...killing the children...making Israel look like the Beast! Anti-druggie crusaders do not hide behind the children...we shield them...from myopic druggie loosers like you!

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ae's picture

if you were...

really John English this would be more fun.

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northbound's picture

inspirational!

cheers to true democracy!

Higher_Dimensional_Mathematician's picture

What Happened to John English?

A couple of us were in correspondence (the core group who daily responded to his rants at the Examiner), and were worried about his mental state. Near the end, he seemed like he was genuinely losing it. There had always been a few aliases he posted under, such as Finn. Then in the last week or two before he dissapeared he started responding to posters as Finn/English. His writing became really angry sounding. I am seriously wondering if he is compassionately bound in a padded room somewhere sort of drooling...gently bouncing his head off of the wall, and quietly muttering about the druggie legalizers.

One of the posters called it Stockholm syndrome, but in spite of how idiotic his rants were, I started to have a strange sort of affection for the man. I love his story (which he told with great contempt) about how he approached Ken Kesey to query him, and found to his great own disgust, that he actually liked him. He asked Kesey if he regretted his life in any way. Kesey's response was: "Wanna wrastle?! I bet I can whoop yer ass!"

John's commentary on the story was "Oh! real intellectual Ken!". It sort of reminded me of "Back to the Future" when George McFly says to Biff, "Reeeeeeall mature Biff, reeeaaallll mature!".

Anyway, he just fell off the face of the planet (at least in terms of his 'writing'). I just hope he is ok. If anyone runs into him standing alone in a field, with his fist raised high ranting about something. Let me know. It will give my heart a happy little flutter.

 

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JosiahRivers's picture

AE, I have never claimed to be John English

John was weak...he could no longer handle the pressure...Finn told me so...Charles backed him up. John let the druggies get to him...I won't! Now if you'll excuse me I need to confer with Lonnie...then make breakfast before I go to work. John may have been retired...for me such a luxury is many years away...a locksmiths work is never done.

Iknow I'm a locksmith. Think of the children!

Malcolmkyle's picture

JRivers;


how many more millions do you think we'll have to lock up before we win the drug war?
northbound's picture

The Botany of Desire

Mr. Rivers I thought you may enjoy this mini documentary

 

The Botany of Desire

 

Malcolm, any chance you would spread the knowledge of how to embed video here?

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Malcolmkyle's picture

Sure thing northbound!



northbound's picture

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Activist1's picture

Must be the drugs.

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt

Malcolmkyle's picture

Here's part one;



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northbound's picture

Care to help out oh wise

Care to help out oh wise hive queen?

 

Also, how do you feel about the pharmaceutical advances in anandamide manipulation?

MaraQ's picture

Breckenridge...

I cant’ t believe that majority in Breckenridge voted for marijuana legalization. It’s 72% to be exact. It is legal to possess up to an ounce of pot. However, in areas outside the area, jurisdiction still prohibits the sale and carriage of the said drugs. Unless, it is for medicinal purpose and you’re having a prescription. This won’t do much, but it is the start. If states were to follow the example of Breckenridge, it might mean debt relief for the justice system.