San Francisco all but completely legalizes marajuana

[Rage187]

Originally posted by: HeroOfPellinor

Originally posted by: alien42

Originally posted by: notfred
Link to article

Basically, if you want to smoke weed on private property, the police are officially supposed to not give a crap and ignore it.

good for them, now they can concentrate on real crimes

Like people being shot during marajuana deals.

roflmao, I hope you don't think thats true.

 

[MaxDepth]

Originally posted by: NFS4

Originally posted by: Lonyo
Legalizes use of it, but not selling. There is a big difference.

You can't sell on public property. Says nothing about a dealer coming to your house and selling.

So...is that Avon or Skeez calling?

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: NFS4

Originally posted by: Lonyo
Legalizes use of it, but not selling. There is a big difference.

You can't sell on public property. Says nothing about a dealer coming to your house and selling.

Girl Scouts realize that cookies aren't profitable enough. So they now go door to door selling "cookies", wink wink.

 

[Shortcut]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Wow, something good finally comes out of Northern California...

true, but it was offset with a ban on styrofoam boxes for take-out restauraunt orders!

Linky

 

[thejackal1]

Its a good step.

 

[wheresmybacon]

Originally posted by: HeroOfPellinor

Originally posted by: alien42

Originally posted by: notfred
Link to article

Basically, if you want to smoke weed on private property, the police are officially supposed to not give a crap and ignore it.

good for them, now they can concentrate on real crimes

Like people being shot during marajuana deals.

Great point. Pot users are some of the most violent people I know. :roll:

 

[Tangerines]

Originally posted by: Estrella
I do not care what people do as long as it does not hinder job performance, cause long term health problems, impedes on the health of others by direct consumption or under the influence thereof.

Have at it.

So I take it you're against the legalization of marijuana?

 

[Injury]

Originally posted by: Injury
Wouldn't state and federal laws supercede this?

no answer?

 

[Fingolfin269]

Originally posted by: Ryan

Originally posted by: Feldenak
Good for them, I suppose...then again I guess they forgot that federal laws trumps state/local laws.

But it doesn't obligate local law enforcement to give two sh!ts. I have a feeling that local law enforcement greatly outnumbers the number of federal officers in place at any given time.

It does if they want federal money.....

 

[Tab]

Marajuana is already pretty much decriminalized in California, smoking in public parks is pretty common and will rarely get you busted. California's additude reguarding this has been like this for the past several years, if the federal government wanted to take away money they would have done it already.

Also, it's not so much that law enforcement has better things to do or that if it was legal we could make so much in tax revenue. It's that smoking pot isn't something that should be a crime at all.

 

[Tab]

Originally posted by: Injury

Originally posted by: Injury
Wouldn't state and federal laws supercede this?

no answer?

Only Federal law enforcement agencies will deal with it. They only bust big time dealers and growers who have pounds of the stuff.

 

[SammyG]

:thumbsup:

Yeah I had my fingers crossed for the CO, NV, and SD mj legislation, maybe next time...

Me if I lived in SF: :Q:laugh:

Oh well, long way to Baltimore... :laugh: Oh well...

 

[OutHouse]

humm SF legalizes pot AND the school board bans JROTC in the high schools.

this is proof that drugs are bad, mmmmmkkkkkkk.

 

[clamum]

I don't smoke, but props to them for actually dealing with the issue intelligently. :thumbsup:

 

[miniMUNCH]

Originally posted by: crownjules

Originally posted by: Netopia
What will probably happen is that the Feds will pull federal funding from the state and tell them that unless they get their cities under control, they will not be getting the funding back. They'll make the state enforce the rules and use money as the power to get them to do what the Feds want.

Joe

I know this is what the Feds will likely do should things get out of control and/or they don't come to realize the advantages of this, and that pisses me off. The people of the country (or city or state), by an obvious majority, vote to implement something and then the Feds say "Too bad, tough luck, we don't like it so screw you and change it back to the way it was or else."

This is why the drinking age is now 21. It used to be 18. But then the Feds pressured all the states into raising it to 21 or else they'd cut highway funding.

Sad but probably true...and not the way the US was originally construed... but the civil war fvcked that over.

Any state should have the right to write it's own laws without reference to federal policy in the instance where the law in question has little or no impact on other states.

 

[j00fek]

Originally posted by: notfred
Link to article

Basically, if you want to smoke weed on private property, the police are officially supposed to not give a crap and ignore it.

:thumbsup:

 

[chambersc]

Still a federal crime.

 

[Alex]

Originally posted by: alien42

Originally posted by: notfred
Link to article

Basically, if you want to smoke weed on private property, the police are officially supposed to not give a crap and ignore it.

good for them, now they can concentrate on real crimes

:thumbsup:

 

[fitzov]

Originally posted by: Netopia
What will probably happen is that the Feds will pull federal funding from the state and tell them that unless they get their cities under control, they will not be getting the funding back. They'll make the state enforce the rules and use money as the power to get them to do what the Feds want.

Joe

Then hopefully CA will be the first state to say they don't need any federal money anyway...wait, that will never happen.

 

[zoiks]

I'm not sure what SF has up its ass. The city emphatically banned people from smoking on the piers out in the bay but they allow folks to smoke pot?

 

[zoiks]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Wow, something good finally comes out of Northern California...

But the sh!t stays where it is in Southern Cal.

 

[Vic]

Originally posted by: Injury

Originally posted by: Injury
Wouldn't state and federal laws supercede this?

no answer?

Who enforces the law in the city of SF? There's your answer.

 

[zoiks]

Originally posted by: Tangerines

Originally posted by: Estrella
I do not care what people do as long as it does not hinder job performance, cause long term health problems, impedes on the health of others by direct consumption or under the influence thereof.

Have at it.

So I take it you're against the legalization of marijuana?

I am. I wouldnt support it as a casual drug. Though I would not be against medical uses of it.

 

[Horus]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: HeroOfPellinor

Originally posted by: alien42

Originally posted by: notfred
Link to article

Basically, if you want to smoke weed on private property, the police are officially supposed to not give a crap and ignore it.

good for them, now they can concentrate on real crimes

Like people being shot during marajuana deals.

:laugh:
Yeah, that happens all the time.

"Wait, why was I mad at you again? Man, let's go get a burrito!"

 

[FelixDeCat]

San"France"isco just banned ROTC training :roll: and now they are taking steps to let potheads roam free. Nice.

No, we cant have clean cut, disciplined, well dressed, unifomed people running around - we need potheads!! :laugh:

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