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Wednesday, December 5, 2012

2012 And Now a Word from the People Who Brought You Legalized Pot

Posted by Eli Sanders on Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 6:15 PM

Seattle City Attorney Pete Holmes, left, at the Seattle ACLU offices earlier today.

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Seattle City Attorney Pete Holmes, left, at the Seattle ACLU offices earlier today.

At a press conference earlier today, leaders of the effort to legalize marijuana in Washington State said pretty much what Cienna already said: Don't be dumb about the new law.

If you have questions about how much you can legally possess after tonight, whether an employer can still test you for pot use, whether you can legally smoke pot in public, or where the new government-run pot store is, the ACLU has answers. Also, Initiative 502 architect Alison Holcomb reminds: "Initiative 502 was not drafted as a celebration of marijuana use, but rather as a recognition of the failure of marijuana policy."

That policy of prohibition, Seattle City Attorney Pete Holmes said, "has made us the number one jailer nation on the planet, and it has made drug dealers very rich." The change in policy in Washington State, he continued, "is good government, and it is good government by the people."

Former University of Washington Professor Roger Roffman added that "marijuana use is not harmless," and cheered the fact that Initiative 502 will "finally adequately fund science-based education about what marijuana does." (And what it does not do.)

Holmes knows some smoke-ins and other celebrations have been planned for when the law goes into effect tomorrow, but said he's just happy to have a new law on the books. "I have better things to do with my time than test the limits of the law," Holmes said.

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Legal cannabis and marriage equality become reality in the same day, Holy Shite! Quite simply, I've never been more proud of my home state and my home town. Well done, people.

Posted by organicmechanic on December 5, 2012 at 7:34 PM

That's Roffman, by the way, not Rothman.

Posted by jt on December 5, 2012 at 7:46 PM

Translation: We snookered you people into coming to vote for things that have no real meaning or change in peoples rights, and now we're backpedaling like crazy to make sure you understand that it was all just a lure. Sadly, you didn't even get a free cell phone with a $10 credit.

Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe

on December 5, 2012 at 8:38 PM

@3 That comment is dumber than your normal off-topic blather. You ask yourself What connection does your comment have to do w/ reality? and the answer is None. None connected to reality.

I think there's some kids on your lawn, you should go yell at them.

Posted by Some Old Nobodaddy Logged In on December 5, 2012 at 9:23 PM

What organicmechanic said! Makes me wanna be a gay pothead for the evening.

Posted by gnossos on December 5, 2012 at 9:28 PM

Please don't feed Bailo.

Posted by sarah70 on December 5, 2012 at 10:02 PM

@1

You might want to take smaller hits off of your pre-celebratory bong, there, Mr. Mechanic: December 6th and December 9th are not the same day.

Posted by robotslave on December 5, 2012 at 10:20 PM

@4 I wish there was a way to block him, his comments are pretty useless.

Posted by watchout5

on December 5, 2012 at 10:27 PM

Don't drive drunk, stoned, or high on meds.

If you get gay married, let the limo driver do the driving.

Welcome to Freedom!

Posted by Will in Seattle

on December 5, 2012 at 11:21 PM

@7: you might want to head down to the King County Admin building, where in 21 minutes they will be issuing marriage licenses...and will be doing so for 18.5 hours. So yes, no marriages today...but that's kinda splitting pubic hairs, no?

Posted by gnossos on December 5, 2012 at 11:41 PM

@3: "Sadly, you didn't even get a free cell phone with a $10 credit."

"Q: Has the Obama administration started a program to use "taxpayer money" to give free cell phones to welfare recipients?

A: No. Low-income households have been eligible for discounted telephone service for more than a decade. But the program is funded by telecom companies, not by taxes, and the president has nothing to do with it."

You're a flaming goddamned retard as always, Bailo.

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