Marijuana initiative could make or break Obama in Colorado

BandMaster wrote:

Everybody I know is pulling all their money out of the stock market because it sucks and Obama's big story is THIS?
What a douche bag. Democrats are douche-baggers.

No one important is pulling their money out of the stock market.
If you knew anything about trading, you would know that now is a good time to buy and that's what the billionaires are doing. Buying and holding for the LONG term. Apparently republitards like you only think in the short-term.

Nice try, though.

The raging alcoholics in Congress will never legalize pot.

Alcohol GOOD.
Pot BAD.

RIP: Common sense.

America needs to be growing huge crops of hemp!
Not pot ...

Yup wrote:

America needs to be growing huge crops of hemp!
Not pot ...

these ignoramuses don't know the difference.
(and you are 100% correct)

The growing and use of Cannabis is a GOD given Right that no government has the right to infringe:

Then GOD said,“Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so. The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And GOD saw that it was good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day. Genesis 1:11-13

"Let your moderation be known unto all men. The LORD is at hand." Philippians 4:5

The criminalization and demonization of cannabis is a recent invention:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sula_Benet

AND In Our country:

Since the Feds are hypocrites, liars and murderers (Fast & Furious), and since so many of Our People suffer harm, loss and imprisonment because of insane Cannabis/Marijuana laws, you should know that there is a simple way that We can fight this wrong:

Any jury in America may exercise their Right of jury nullification, and even though judges don’t mention it, when you serve on a jury, it's not just the defendant on trial. It's the law as well. If jurors think a law is unfair or think that applying it in their particular case would be unjust, then they do not have to find the defendant guilty, even if the evidence clearly indicates guilt according to existing law.

Until Congressional politicians reform marijuana laws, jury nullification is one of the only ways to avoid imposing cruel "mandatory minimum" penalties on marijuana users, growers and sellers who don't deserve and shouldn't to go to prison.

So, if you ever serve on a jury where the defendant is accused of a Marijuana crime, don't forget about jury nullification. Tell the other jurors you don't have to convict, even if all the evidence points to guilt, if you don't agree with the application of the law in this instance. And if you can't swing your peers to your way of thinking, at least you can cause the jury to return a hung verdict.

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"Jurors should acquit, even against the judge's instruction... if exercising their judgement with discretion and honesty they have a clear conviction the charge of the court is wrong." ~ Alexander Hamilton, 1804

"It is not only the juror's right, but his duty to find the verdict according to his own best understanding, judgement and conscience, though in direct opposition to the instruction of the court." ~ John Adams, 1771

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"Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded."

Abraham Lincoln (1809-65), U.S. President.
Speech, 18 Dec. 1840, to Illinois House of Representatives

Patriot wrote:

The growing and use of Cannabis is a GOD given Right that no government has the right to infringe:
Then GOD said,“Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so. The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And GOD saw that it was good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day. Genesis 1:11-13
"Let your moderation be known unto all men. The LORD is at hand." Philippians 4:5
The criminalization and demonization of cannabis is a recent invention:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sula_Benet
AND In Our country:
Since the Feds are hypocrites, liars and murderers (Fast & Furious), and since so many of Our People suffer harm, loss and imprisonment because of insane Cannabis/Marijuana laws, you should know that there is a simple way that We can fight this wrong:
Any jury in America may exercise their Right of jury nullification, and even though judges don’t mention it, when you serve on a jury, it's not just the defendant on trial. It's the law as well. If jurors think a law is unfair or think that applying it in their particular case would be unjust, then they do not have to find the defendant guilty, even if the evidence clearly indicates guilt according to existing law.
Until Congressional politicians reform marijuana laws, jury nullification is one of the only ways to avoid imposing cruel "mandatory minimum" penalties on marijuana users, growers and sellers who don't deserve and shouldn't to go to prison.
So, if you ever serve on a jury where the defendant is accused of a Marijuana crime, don't forget about jury nullification. Tell the other jurors you don't have to convict, even if all the evidence points to guilt, if you don't agree with the application of the law in this instance. And if you can't swing your peers to your way of thinking, at least you can cause the jury to return a hung verdict.
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"Jurors should acquit, even against the judge's instruction... if exercising their judgement with discretion and honesty they have a clear conviction the charge of the court is wrong." ~ Alexander Hamilton, 1804
"It is not only the juror's right, but his duty to find the verdict according to his own best understanding, judgement and conscience, though in direct opposition to the instruction of the court." ~ John Adams, 1771
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"Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded."
Abraham Lincoln (1809-65), U.S. President.
Speech, 18 Dec. 1840, to Illinois House of Representatives

The sight of a bunch of pot heads roaming the streets with the munchies scares me.

anneutral wrote:

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I guess it still surprises me that so many are so grossly misinformed of the actual facts.
it's a little pathetic.

Well, there are real facts and then the ones they get from the Faux News Ministry of Disinformation.

obama is already broken ...

Sheik Yerbouti wrote:

As usual; the anti cannabis crowd fails to provide science based evidence to back up their position! These vermin would lock up people for smoking a harmless plant.

Fact: puting any foreign substance in your body makes your body react as it is being attacked hence the antibodies and white cells. Putting any kind of smoke in your lungs is harmful to your lungs. If you can prove otherwise........have at it.

Mykro wrote:

<quoted text>Well, there are real facts and then the ones they get from the Faux News Ministry of Disinformation.

more mindless twaddle from the spam-o-gram are us boy.

Yup wrote:

obama is already broken ...

yep

Romney Net Worth Remains Near $250M, Obama after 4 years of lies and 6 trillion in added debt........worthless.

FLASH: THIS JUST IN........Obama campaign says unemployment would be far worse with out Obama's policies..........but couldn't state which policy's of Obama's gave them this illution.

Le Jimbo wrote:

<quoted text>Fact: puting any foreign substance in your body makes your body react as it is being attacked hence the antibodies and white cells. Putting any kind of smoke in your lungs is harmful to your lungs. If you can prove otherwise........have at it.

yawn.
http://copd.about.com/b/2012/01/11/study-find...

The study took multiple lung function measurements in over 5,100 pot-smoking men and women during a 20-year study period. What they found surprised even them -- that some people who smoke pot may actually see a slight improvement in lung function.

HUSSEIN OBAMA is a pot-smoking homosexual.

The May 21, 2012 issue of TIME magazine blazened HUSSEIN's mug on its front cover, with the headline:

THE FIRST HOMOSEXUAL PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

TIME reluctantly dug up his past and discovered he has numerous homosexual relationship, including his long-time lover by the name of Sinclair.

America Is Not The Same wrote:

Pot slowely kills brain cells.
WE don't need a zombie nation

Especially a nation filled with Teabaggers, who are already short on brain cells.

Papillon wrote:

HUSSEIN OBAMA is a pot-smoking homosexual.
The May 21, 2012 issue of TIME magazine blazened HUSSEIN's mug on its front cover, with the headline:
THE FIRST HOMOSEXUAL PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
TIME reluctantly dug up his past and discovered he has numerous homosexual relationship, including his long-time lover by the name of Sinclair.

Congratulations, bug! You have just won the Topix A'hole of the Day Award! Your shit-seeking missile will arrive shortly.

Papillon wrote:

Why are you prepubescent boys so fixated on other people's sex lives?

Grow up.

x0x0x wrote:

<quoted text>No one important is pulling their money out of the stock market.
If you knew anything about trading, you would know that now is a good time to buy and that's what the billionaires are doing. Buying and holding for the LONG term. Apparently republitards like you only think in the short-term.
Nice try, though.

A lot of people are pulling their money out of the market because we are about to go into another recession.

LARRY MOE and OBAMA wrote:

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YUK YUK YUK UNK UNK UNK

You most intelligent post yet.

LARRY MOE and OBAMA wrote:

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Did he inhale?

No, but you inhaled enough Kock Bros jiz to sink the Titanic.

Irascible Infidel wrote:

Legalizing weed would make it a little more difficult for the DEA to justify their
$2,000,000,000.00 budget.

Yes Sir!!!