American Amsterdams

[resinman]

Nevada Conservatives Against the War on Drugs

News: If passed, a fall ballot initiative with some unlikely supporters could turn Reno and Vegas into American Amsterdams.

By Sasha Abramsky

August 11, 2006


Conservatives Against the War on Drugs???

Voters have been losing their taste for the war on drugs lately; in the past few years, states from Arizona and Alaska to California and Hawaii have moved toward making marijuana, in particular, a low priority for law enforcement, with first-offense possession cases often dismissed with small-time fines and medical-marijuana measures on the books in several states. But the initiative voters in Nevada will be considering this fall goes much further: The

[capt carnuba]

Damn straight John Wayne.

[suzy cremecheese]

How do I register in Nevada?

Seriously. Can everyone pleases set up residence in Nevada and Vote this in?

[Alaska]

Nevada here I come.... I'll let you guys know when my shop is up and running

Alaska

[ndnguy]

Pretty big words ,I give the guy credit for what he believes in but just as Cali now nevada will get hammered by the feds also. Got to start somewhere but Cali already has the bills passed and are in perfect position to do what Nevada says it will do down the road I guess the question is what is Cali doing ?? Everything getting shut down, sick people getting busted, why would Nevada fair any better??? :confused2:

[Lothar of the Hill People]

Nevada is great! Personal choice and personal responsibility are pillars of the state character. And no state income tax, either!

[The Cannarchist]

Choice and resposibility were always our OS

Next?

[Stevus]

Denver legalized it..
Then the state law came in and said, "Hey, you can't do that". State law supersedes municipal law. Your right, even if the state does let it fly, the Federal government will be all over it...
Damn those Nazi's
However, even if the Fed's do shoot it down, people are going to start realizing that there are a lot in favor of legalization. Everyone cross your fingers, and if your in Las Vegas, for heaven's sake vote!

[Reverend Budbreath]

I guess the question is what is Cali doing ?? Everything getting shut down, sick people getting busted, why would Nevada fair any better???

From my angle, California is a huge success story. Yes there have been setbacks here and there, but look how far we've come... it's amazing. Most of us have ZERO to fear from the state/local and very little to fear from the feds. Word in No CA is that unless you are over 1,000 plants (say 500 to be safe!!), the feds aren't even going to be interested in you. If NV acheived that it would be a huge success, and NV being NV I think the feds would have even more hesitation to oppress people there than in CA, since NV as a state is a lot better at telling the feds to fuk off than even CA is.

[Stevus]

Fuck the feds.

[suzy cremecheese]

Fuck the feds.

Easier said than done with that stick up their ass.

[Stevus]

Easier said than done with that stick up their ass.

True.

[ViRedd]

Muth runs a conservative networking organization named Citizen Outreach. Inspired by a course designed in Newt Gingrich’s office that he took in Washington, D.C., in 1996

“Live and let live,” says Muth. “If I’m not bothering anyone else, don’t bother me.” The politician he most idealizes is Barry Goldwater, another Republican who took on his party’s sacred cows.

that the war on drugs will likely be undone (if it ever is) in the red states, by conservatives like Muth, his friend Grover Norquist (the conservative guru at Americans for Tax Reform), writer William F. Buckley, Jr., economist Milton Friedman, and former Secretary of State George Shultz,

At last year’s Conservative Political Action Conference, Drug Policy Alliance director Ethan Nadelmann got enthusiastic applause when he called on Republicans to move away from the lock-’em-up approach as a drug-prevention strategy.

Now if only the Democrats would get on board! :teeth:

Vi

[Carpet Muncher]

my only hope regarding the dem high tide is that our gen is growing up.