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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsChris Christie VOWS that he will CRACK DOWN on the evil "gateway drug," MARY J WARNER. You HIPPIES!
Chris Christie vows to 'crack down' on marijuana as president
By Z. Byron Wolf, CNN
Updated 2:21 PM ET, Thu April 16, 2015
Hewitt: Right now, we've got the states of Colorado and Washington flaunting federal law by allowing people to sell dope legally. If you're the President of the United States, are you going to enforce the federal drug laws in those states?
Christie: Absolutely. I will crack down and not permit it.
Hewitt: All right, next ...
Christie: Marijuana is a gateway drug. We have an enormous addiction problem in this country. And we need to send very clear leadership from the White House on down through the federal law enforcement. Marijuana is an illegal drug under federal law. And the states should not be permitted to sell it and profit from it.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/16/politics/chris-christie-marijuana/
By Z. Byron Wolf, CNN
Updated 2:21 PM ET, Thu April 16, 2015
Hewitt: Right now, we've got the states of Colorado and Washington flaunting federal law by allowing people to sell dope legally. If you're the President of the United States, are you going to enforce the federal drug laws in those states?
Christie: Absolutely. I will crack down and not permit it.
Hewitt: All right, next ...
Christie: Marijuana is a gateway drug. We have an enormous addiction problem in this country. And we need to send very clear leadership from the White House on down through the federal law enforcement. Marijuana is an illegal drug under federal law. And the states should not be permitted to sell it and profit from it.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/16/politics/chris-christie-marijuana/
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Chris Christie VOWS that he will CRACK DOWN on the evil "gateway drug," MARY J WARNER. You HIPPIES! (Original Post)
Miles Archer
Apr 2015
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notadmblnd
(23,720 posts)1. Let's talk about your addiction Chris. Care for another doughnut?
I think he's just afraid all the pot heads will beat him to the bags of Doritos
RKP5637
(67,104 posts)2. He's a damn blustering bully and a fool! n/t
tabasco
(22,974 posts)3. It's about time somebody stepped up to the plate to fight the deadly scourge
Last edited Sun Apr 19, 2015, 06:00 PM - Edit history (1)
of communist reefer weed! It is known to cause INSTANT PSYCHOSIS and murderous rage!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
nolabear
(41,959 posts)4. He's such a smug, ill informed bastard.
I hope he makes this a major plank in his platform. It'll cost him the election.
dballance
(5,756 posts)5. My gateway drug to coke and meth was alcohol.
I never used MJ. Beer was enough to get me using coke then meth. The "Gateway Drug" argument is pure BS.
Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)6. Just got back from 9 months in Colorado Springs
"Recreational" marijuana was allowed only at one location, "Maggie's Farm" in Manitou.
"Medical" marijuana was EVERYWHERE, shops on pretty much on every other street corner.
I posted about it at the time, but former supporter of Mitt Romney for President and owner of the Garden Of The Gods Trading Post Tim Haas didn't like the fact that the hippies were down at Maggie's buying weed instead of spending their money at his store buying t-shirts, coffee mugs and keychains...so two months after Maggie's "recreational" store opened, he paid to get a measure on the November ballot to have them shut down.
He got his ass HANDED to him, 3 to 1.
In the first two months of operation, the Maggie's Farm recreational store alone kicked back $200,000 in taxes to Manitou.
No crime spikes, no increase in traffic, and "hippies" have LONG been a part of the town BEFORE weed was legalized. It's a real melting pot of all kinds of people and from what I could see in the nine months I was there, no one's life was ruined.
Except for maybe Timmeh.
That's Tim, at the mic, below. His candidate lost.
"Medical" marijuana was EVERYWHERE, shops on pretty much on every other street corner.
I posted about it at the time, but former supporter of Mitt Romney for President and owner of the Garden Of The Gods Trading Post Tim Haas didn't like the fact that the hippies were down at Maggie's buying weed instead of spending their money at his store buying t-shirts, coffee mugs and keychains...so two months after Maggie's "recreational" store opened, he paid to get a measure on the November ballot to have them shut down.
He got his ass HANDED to him, 3 to 1.
In the first two months of operation, the Maggie's Farm recreational store alone kicked back $200,000 in taxes to Manitou.
No crime spikes, no increase in traffic, and "hippies" have LONG been a part of the town BEFORE weed was legalized. It's a real melting pot of all kinds of people and from what I could see in the nine months I was there, no one's life was ruined.
Except for maybe Timmeh.
That's Tim, at the mic, below. His candidate lost.
Taylorz
(53 posts)8. It'll be a LONG time before I step into the Trading Post.
I love the Gardens of the Gods, and try to make an occasional visit when I'm in Colorado.
Trillo
(9,154 posts)7. Shades of Nixon, even a slight resemblance