# Colorado legalized it! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 7, 2012, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colorado-legalized-it/640185 "2012-11-07T06:42:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colorado-legalized-it/640185/41 "2012-11-07T23:27:15Z")
> [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](#): > > I asked the same question in the Elections Forum thread about the same subject, and a Colorado Doper(!) said that the law won’t be in effect until one year from yesterday, although I am not 100% convinced that is actually factual and/or accurate. > > Any WA state residents know how long it will be until someone (will it only be for sale to legal WA residents, or to anyone of age?) can walk into a storefront on Denny Way and walk out with a fattie ounce of the ol’ skunky, savage roscoe? Looks like the alcohol board of Washington has one year to get their stuff together regarding weed sales, so it’ll be a bit yet. 🙂 [http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/What-does-pot-law-really-mean-4016743.php](http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/What-does-pot-law-really-mean-4016743.php) > [@](#): > > I-502 requires the state Liquor Control Board to create a structure through which marijuana distribution and production are licensed and taxed. > Marijuana could then be sold to customers over 21. Restrictions written into the initiative would prevent pot retailers from opening near places where children congregate, block advertising on public transit and provide recourse for local governments unhappy with Liquor Control Board licensing decisions. And now, along with the Washingtonians hopping the Oregon border to shop tax-free, now Oregonians \ will be making the run for weed 🙂 If there’s a bridge twixt Wash and Oregon…and I’m sure there are several…they should make a bundle by making them toll roads, hehe. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colorado-legalized-it/640185/42 "2012-11-08T04:13:07Z")
> [@monavis](#): > > I have often wondered :why do people need a drug to be happy, why not find pleasure in small things,like seeing the smile of a small baby, beautiful sunset etc. To me seeing others happy is feeling good about life and I try every way I can to do this. One can grow by going outside of one’s own self and like an old song: Accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative, and don’t mess with Mr in-between! Totally serious question, if I may. Whatever on that list makes you happy; I would do anything in my power to make it so for you. I want you to be happy. Seeing others smile makes me happy. If smokin a little bit of a plant makes _me_ happy, what’s it to you? Please? ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colorado-legalized-it/640185/43 "2012-11-08T05:50:07Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Totally serious question, if I may. > > Whatever on that list makes you happy; I would do anything in my power to make it so for you. I want you to be happy. Seeing others smile makes me happy. If smokin a little bit of a plant makes _me_ happy, what’s it to you? Please? To be fair, he didn’t say you shouldn’t be allowed to do it. He merely reported his very unworldly and naive confusion over why someone ever would. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colorado-legalized-it/640185/44 "2012-11-08T05:57:56Z")
And what the heck, i’ll try to clear his confusion: monavis, some people “need” a drug because of an addiction problem. That can come from a variety of psychological/physical issues. Some people enjoy the “buzz” of a drug in the same way you enjoy a sunset. What’s so strange about the fact that some might enjoy a sunset, a joint, both, or neither? ---
**Author:** ![firstname](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7ab992/32.png) [@firstname](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/firstname)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colorado-legalized-it/640185/45 "2012-11-08T07:39:40Z")
> [@monavis](#): > > I have often wondered :why do people need a drug to be happy, why not find pleasure in small things,like seeing the smile of a small baby, beautiful sunset etc. To me seeing others happy is feeling good about life and I try every way I can to do this. One can grow by going outside of one’s own self and like an old song: Accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative, and don’t mess with Mr in-between! Why must people threadshit? ---
**Author:** ![monavis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e0b2c6/32.png) [@monavis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monavis)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colorado-legalized-it/640185/46 "2012-11-08T12:37:49Z")
> [@Crazyhorse](#): > > In that case you should definitely visit Colorado or Washington. You will see millions of very happy people. If you mean happy on drugs, that is not true happiness. True happiness is knowing what you are doing at the time and not ruining your health or the chance of harming others! Being happy is temporary, pleasure is long lasting and causes no harm to others. Just as a sadist has joy in harming others it isn’t true happiness. ---
**Author:** ![monavis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e0b2c6/32.png) [@monavis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monavis)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colorado-legalized-it/640185/47 "2012-11-08T12:40:49Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > I hear a beautiful sunset can be even more pleasurable when you’re high. You heard wrong! Your not in your right mind on any drug that alternates your thinking, and the way it can affect your health in the long run or even harm others negates that! Unless of course one has sadistic tendencies! ---
**Author:** ![monavis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e0b2c6/32.png) [@monavis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monavis)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colorado-legalized-it/640185/48 "2012-11-08T12:48:11Z")
> [@Gedd](#): > > Baby smiles and sunsets are only available at certain times of the day. Other things that can make you happy (chocolate, sex, humor, pot etc) are often found more on-demand. It is the consequences of how one gets the feeling of happiness, that makes it temporary or lasting. Chocolate can cause a good feeling for awhile but if it is too much it can have bad results,sex can be pleasurable if there are no consequences after that, I know many people who had illicit sex and the regretted it later on, some were men who now had to support a unwanted child. Humor is great but doesn’t last long, pot can lead to one’s not being able to think straight, get in an accident( if driving) and end up harming others and even going to jail. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colorado-legalized-it/640185/49 "2012-11-08T12:49:42Z")
[QUOTE=monavis] I have often wondered :why do people need a drug to be happy, why not find pleasure in small things,like seeing the smile of a small baby, beautiful sunset etc. To me seeing others happy is feeling good about life and I try every way I can to do this. One can grow by going outside of one’s own self and like an old song: Accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative, and don’t mess with Mr in-between! [/QUOTE] > [@firstname](#): > > Why must people threadshit? That’s not a threadshit. > [@monavis](#): > > If you mean happy on drugs, that is not true happiness. True happiness is knowing what you are doing at the time and not ruining your health or the chance of harming others! Being happy is temporary, pleasure is long lasting and causes no harm to others. Just as a sadist has joy in harming others it isn’t true happiness. _That’s_ a threadshit! > [@monavis](#): > > You heard wrong! Your not in your right mind on any drug that alternates your thinking, and the way it can affect your health in the long run or even harm others negates that! Unless of course one has sadistic tendencies! And this is pure assholery. ---
**Author:** ![Crazyhorse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crazyhorse/32/31_2.png) [@Crazyhorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crazyhorse)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colorado-legalized-it/640185/50 "2012-11-08T12:50:22Z")
> [@monavis](#): > > If you mean happy on drugs, that is not true happiness. True happiness is knowing what you are doing at the time and not ruining your health or the chance of harming others! Being happy is temporary, pleasure is long lasting and causes no harm to others. Just as a sadist has joy in harming others it isn’t true happiness. Oh I think I understand it now, let me try one: Just as someone feels a sense of wisdom in their belief that they know what is right for everyone else based on their own limited perspective and the dogma that’s been shoved down their throat, that isn’t true wisdom. Amiright? ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colorado-legalized-it/640185/51 "2012-11-08T12:54:40Z")
**monavis** , there are more deserving windmills to tilt at. Besides, you’re harshing our buzz. Accept this: besides your own, there are upwards of 7 billion other minds on this planet at any given time. First, try and grasp the concept of the number: 1 million. Then multiply that by…well a lot in order to get to a billion. That’s a lot of ddifferent views on the world, none of which are exactly like your own. You don’t get something? Great, fantastic, nobody will EVER understand everybody. So to disparage someone else’s perspective is at best simply rude and the height of egotism. ---
**Author:** ![monavis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e0b2c6/32.png) [@monavis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monavis)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colorado-legalized-it/640185/52 "2012-11-08T12:56:44Z")
> [@MegaBee](#): > > Are you high? Is this some silly question? I am not high in the sense that I need a drug to dull my senses, I can find pleasure in many things that don’t require a drug. I have children, grand children, and great grandchildren and can find pleasure in just thinking of them, and enjoying going to their plays, or holding them on my lap, or hearing about their accomplishments. I have fun with my friends just going out to lunch and laughing along with them. I even have pleasure in doing a job well done, I was taught this when I was 13 by a great lady I lived with and worked my way through high school, she taught me the pleasure of a job well done. I am forever grateful for her teaching me this. ---
**Author:** ![monavis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e0b2c6/32.png) [@monavis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monavis)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colorado-legalized-it/640185/53 "2012-11-08T12:58:03Z")
> [@Barking\_Dog](#): > > I tried to get high on life, but eventually I built up a tolerance. Before I knew it, I was siezing two days, three days, a whole week just to cop the same buzz. You have my sympathy! ---
**Author:** ![monavis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e0b2c6/32.png) [@monavis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monavis)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colorado-legalized-it/640185/54 "2012-11-08T13:06:15Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Totally serious question, if I may. > > Whatever on that list makes you happy; I would do anything in my power to make it so for you. I want you to be happy. Seeing others smile makes me happy. If smokin a little bit of a plant makes _me_ happy, what’s it to you? Please? I don’t care if the legalize Pot any more than beer or any drink is legal. People are free to do what is legal, and if they want to harm themselves that is their problem ..not mine. If they want to risk their health or suffer the consequences like smoking and dying of cancer later on ( and I did watch the agony a sister of mine went through when she died of cancer) that is a risk they take. It just is not for me. I don’t try to live other people’s lives, I am too busy living my own. I just wonder why they can’t be happy without a drug, not saying they can’t use it. I am not their keeper. ---
**Author:** ![Trom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@Trom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trom)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colorado-legalized-it/640185/55 "2012-11-08T13:30:17Z")
> [@monavis](#): > > If you mean happy on drugs, that is not true happiness. True happiness is knowing what you are doing at the time and not ruining your health or the chance of harming others! Being happy is temporary, pleasure is long lasting and causes no harm to others. Just as a sadist has joy in harming others it isn’t true happiness. I’ve played ice hockey since I was 5 years old. Over the years, I have personally suffered long lasting harm, and caused long lasting harm to others. Yet, _unbelievably_ myself and others still think playing hockey makes us happy. I guess it doesn’t. Thanks for clearing that up. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colorado-legalized-it/640185/56 "2012-11-08T14:02:04Z")
> [@monavis](#): > > I just wonder why they can’t be happy without a drug,… Happiness and contentment come to some people as readily as breathing. Others find happiness and contentment through adventure and novelty and that sometimes contains a particle of risk. Others entirely lack the capacity for happiness and contentment and instead live to find ways of simply lessening the horrific agony of depression and physical pain. Wonder at it all you want, but perhaps you could work on your tone because you sound judgmental as hell. ---
**Author:** ![Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8c91f0/32.png) [@Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bam_Boo_Gut)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colorado-legalized-it/640185/57 "2012-11-08T19:00:45Z")
> [@monavis](#): > > I don’t care if the legalize Pot any more than beer or any drink is legal. People are free to do what is legal, and if they want to harm themselves that is their problem ..not mine. If they want to risk their health or suffer the consequences like smoking and dying of cancer later on ( and I did watch the agony a sister of mine went through when she died of cancer) that is a risk they take. It just is not for me. I don’t try to live other people’s lives, I am too busy living my own. I just wonder why they can’t be happy without a drug, not saying they can’t use it. I am not their keeper. Do you drink tea? or coffee? or use sugar? ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colorado-legalized-it/640185/58 "2012-11-08T19:25:31Z")
> [@Inigo\_Montoya](#): > > So to disparage someone else’s perspective is at best simply rude and the height of egotism. Especially when one proclaims to not even understand it. ---
**Author:** ![Diamonds02](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5a626/32.png) [@Diamonds02](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diamonds02)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colorado-legalized-it/640185/59 "2012-11-08T20:30:59Z")
Testing! Testing! ---
**Author:** ![Diamonds02](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5a626/32.png) [@Diamonds02](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diamonds02)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colorado-legalized-it/640185/60 "2012-11-08T20:32:26Z")
> [@Diamonds02](#): > > Testing! Testing! Yay, I’m not banned! This is the most awesome thing to happen in the Midwest! I wasn’t expecting this from Colorado. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colorado-legalized-it/640185.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colorado-legalized-it/640185.md?page=4)