More Signatures Needed for Colorado Marijuana Initiative

Anyone can understand this is coming to a head. Most people would say they see at least cannabis regulation coming. What I want to know is, what do the people that oppose regulation think is going to happen? Do they think that the movement to free cannabis is like a wave that one day will recede? That laws will get stronger and stricter for personal use, not lighter? That all of a sudden cannabis will stop healing people from horrible illnesses like Crohn's disease and cancer(*source,National Cancer Institute)? That people will start dropping dead or getting greatly ill from its use like they seem to be on synthetic marijuana? That it will stop helping cancer and aids patients with appetite stimulation needed for chemo treatments? That CBD, a non psychoactive, non toxic chemical in cannabis, won't prove to protect nerves and be anti-tumor? Look.. Smoke it, consume the oil of the plant or don't but let the freedom to choose be the people's. Regulate Cannabis

the repression of marijuana is because of its health properties and it can be used to run your car the big oil giants do not want ethanol also the fed govt at the highest level are nothing but stooges who do the bidding of their financial masters and wants to create social conflict to keep everyone under tryanny stress and turmoil while they plunder the worlds wealth and resources//their day is done do not be afraid to be part of the solution

The war on drugs is a losing battle...the government can make alot of money by legalizing it..no more neighborhood corner pushers...this will also hurt the cartels who rely on it to make their money

Good luck Colorado. I hope this passes so that others see that nothing will change if it's legal. Everyone who wants to is already smoking it, might as well stop putting them in jail for it.

GO COLORADO!!!!!

The big liqueur/beer & big pharmacy companies will take this as an act of war, and will not spare any expense and tactic to crush any law/change that will put a huge dent in their profits.
Watch your backs people, they will stop at nothing to protect their gigantic profits!!!!!!

Investing in keebler stock and moving to Colorado.

It wont matter if six billion signatures come in, it will be "some conveniently rounded number showing they didn't count them at all" short.

Always thought Colorado was a beautiful place, visted there then i was a teenager... thinking of goin back for a visit... or a stay... who knows :)

The free market is the best solution to the issue of marijuana and that is coming. by the end of this year about 30 states will have some form of medical marijuana legalization. Many more are decriminalizing it and a few are in some form of legalization measures. the federal government is out of touch with the people on this issue; medical and scientific research is proving more and more every day; the safety and benefits of marijuana use. Only the uninformed and those who profit from prohibition support this crime against the american people. Read up on Harry Anslinger and William Randolph Hearst's involvement in prohibiting marijuana. It was filled with racism,fear,yellow journalism and greed. it had nothing to do with medical,scientific or government hearings; and nothing to do with protecting people from a dangerous drug. In 1937, it looks like racists held a lot of power in our nation and marijuana prohibition is a fossil of that time. The history books are full of accounts of racism in sports, the military and throughout our society up until things began to change after world war II. The prohibition of marijuana is perhaps the last remnant of a time of national ignorance. It needs to end.

On youtube legalize it, don't criticize it

the feds need to wake the f*** up. legalize pot. its way less dangerous than alcohol, or cigarettes.change the way that testing is done,just because a person smokes a bowl,or joint, doesnt mean they are high the next day when they go to work.just like booze. legalization would create much needed, revenue. and also save billions fighting the drug war that hasnt worked at all.it also would create jobs,growers, trimmers, etc. legalize,regulate, tax. prohibition does not work.not in the 30s , not now.

Hey wait a minute! I own stock in that company that makes prisons and I get paid for every stoner sent to my new state of the art facilities and I want to keep the public stupid and uninformed so that I can get your tax dollars and keep paying off the supreme court. You think Scalia and Roberts come cheap?

Cannabis' utility goes far beyond its possible psychoactive effects. Cannabis may have astounding medical potential and it can do most of what trees, cotton, and fossil fuels can do, but usually in ways that are friendlier to the environment. Though more research is needed (but hindered due to Drug Prohibition) Cannabis may have the potential to treat, prevent, and/or cure many diseases. According to research that can be retrieved from the database at PubMed.gov; the list of diseases, for which, Cannabis may be indicated includes (but is not limited to) various cancers, chemotherapy- and radiation-induced organ damage and nausea, diabetes and its complications, stroke and stroke damage, traumatic brain injury, MS, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, prion diseases, Lou Gehrig's disease, Crohn's disease, colitis, IBS, GVHD, lupus, fibromyalgia, migraine, asthma, psoriasis, atherosclerosis, osteoporosis, addictions to opioids, stimulants, and depressants, PTSD, anxiety, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, glaucoma, epilepsy, Tourette's syndrome, neuropathy, arthritis, alcohol-induced organ damage, muscle spasm, HIV and vascular dementias, and depression.

The US Federal Government patented cannabinoids as antioxidants and neuroprotectants in US Patent #6,630,507; it mentions CBD, a non-psychoactive cannabinoids that can block or attenuate THC's effects. There are low-, and non-, psychoactive strains of Cannabis. While Prohibitionists have been proclaiming that Cannabis has become stronger, their duplicitous control system has hindered the availability of less psychoactive strains of Cannabis.

Though Cannabis can be ingested in ways that bypass smoke, like vaporization and tinctures, smoking Cannabis has not been linked to either lung cancer or COPD, according to researchers at UCLA. Tobacco is raised with radioactive phosphate fertilizers, and tobacco contains the pro-carcinogen nicotine; Cannabis also contains cannabinoids, flavonoids, and terpenes which have been thought to have anti-inflammatory, anti-carcinogenic, and expectorant properties.

Drug Prohibition causes much more problems for society than Cannabis ever could. LEAP (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition) can give one more information why Drug Prohibition is more dangerous for society than the drugs that are proscribed. The police use drug dealers as informants, seize assets from drug offenders without needing convictions by using civil asset forfeiture laws, and create a permanent underclass of drug offenders, as they will not be able to gain meaningful employment due to their stigmatizing drug records. The billions wasted every year enforcing ineffective drug laws should go towards fighting real crimes. Many successful people have been associated with Cannabis, like Carl Sagan, Steve Wozniak, Richard Feynman, Richard Branson, Stephen Jay Gould, Francis Crick, and Kary Mullis. The only honest and (more) effective way to deal with drugs entails using education to reduce their harms and treating addiction medically, not criminally. We can either have a society that is free from Cannabis, or a society that is free; we cannot have both.

Could it be that finally common sense will prevail as it relates to marijuana? One can only hope. Continuation of the absolute failure of 70 years of prohibition cannot be justified either legally or morally. Since 1937, when marijuana was banned by Congress based on a lie on the floor of the Senate, millions upon millions of people have been arrested for marijuana possession or sale and have been denied jobs because of its use. It only took our government 13 years to realize the abject failure and folly of alcohol prohibition. With marijuana it's been more than 70 years and they still haven't learned. I wonder why that is? The fact is that there is not one recorded incident of someone dying from an overdose of pot, as in "it has never happened" - this admitted by none other than FBI Director Robert Mueller in questioning by a senate panel in 2009. When you compare that to alcohol, prescription drugs or even driving, why is marijuana still illegal? Do we, as a society, really get off that much on putting people in jail? Oh, I forgot, the United States LEADS THE WORLD in per capita incarceration.

Sounds like progress, but where in the U.S. Constitution do the federalis get the authority to regulated what i eat and drink? Both should be regulated by that lost species, the PARENT.

Fax it to me, I'll sign it

#$%$..I wish I lived in Colorado. I would sign this for sure! Every other state in this nation needs to do the same thing. It is WAY past time for the prohabition of marijuana to end.

Lets get it done, and move straight, i mean forward

does it matter? if it passes the federal govt just trumps the state law. the govt has disdain for the american people, no respect for the will of the people. not saying i exactly advocate the use, but when its voted and passed by the people, end of story