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Idaho must get stoned
Oregon Live | Submitted by: mary jane
[Submitter notes: This will increase the value of my home. I will vote yes on this initiative.]
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From: reader57 [Rotten Reader]
Date: 2-Oct-2006 15:13
Well, there go the potato farms.
From: gargoyle1
Date: 2-Oct-2006 15:24
Hmmmm, instead of growing taters now they'll be growing African Tomatoes. Could end up being a hell of a cash crop.
From: rojas [SAUSAGEDISTRIBUTOR]
Date: 2-Oct-2006 16:02
im there man..im so there
From: studgerbil
[Stud]
Date: 2-Oct-2006 16:40
The SSC ruled correctly, for once. Anything can be put on a ballot, if enough signatures are gathered. Hardly matters if it's legal or not, since it can be challenged if it passes a popular vote. If the good people of Sun Valley, Idaho don't want this to be legal, they can vote against it. But the city was out of line trying to keep it off the ballot. Personally, I'm for lowering the voting age to 16 across the US, and creating a maximum voting age of 65. Fuck those blue-haired oldtimers.
From: daftmonkeyminion [of Bertrand Russell]
Date: 2-Oct-2006 17:36
Isn't democracy cool? Time to legalize; we're tired of being criminalized for the blessed herb. Won't you follow the sweet leaf? oh, yeah baby!
From: wimmpy
[wimmpy]
Date: 2-Oct-2006 17:37
I'll start to kill people if 16 year olds could vote. Hell 18 year olds are barely able to thing stright, but a 16 year old is just a dumbass.
From: elroy [Elroy Jetson]
Date: 2-Oct-2006 17:47
Easy there, people. This said that a ballot initiative was ordered to be considered. It's still a ways away from a vote, let alone legalization.
From: kareeshus [Okana]
Date: 2-Oct-2006 18:09
I was once in Boise. It was the only American city I've ever been in where I attempted but failed to buy marijuana. /Usually it's really not that hard. Pretend you're poor and from there. And white.
From: dadofautism [*****]
Date: 2-Oct-2006 18:22
Rotten? No. But it rhymes with augratin, which has to do with potatoes, so I guess it is an OK story. Idaho, guns and fascists, looks like they're stoned too. A dangerous combination.
From: facetious [smart ass]
Date: 2-Oct-2006 19:35
Looks like I'll have to leave utah thats why i left utah. just couldn't take it anymore.
From: rectum [Damn near killed 'em]
Date: 2-Oct-2006 20:14
Like Idahoan need anything more to make them more fucked up than they already are...
From: hawk3 [tritium]
Date: 2-Oct-2006 21:41
well, they'll stone you when your trying to be good they'll stone ya just a like they said they would then they'll stone you when your tryin to go home then they'll stone you when your there all alone but i would not feel so all alone everybody must get stoned
From: distortedfanatic [Distorted Fanatic]
Date: 3-Oct-2006 00:31
I take back what I said about the mid-western accent. Idahoans (is that right?) are way cool!
From: splittheatom
[Assless]
Date: 3-Oct-2006 06:04
The only problem with such laws is that, in the unlikely event that they are actually enacted, every stoner and his dog will show up at the place. That massive influx will cause problems just on its own. Then there's the inevitable assholes who show up "thinking" that because pot is legal then just about every other substance and "vice" is too. The increase in population and non-pot related problems/crime gets everyone pissed off and the hammer falls again. The Eagles were aware of this phenomenon: You call some place paradise, kiss it goodbye
From: rhag6942
[Kewl Han Dluke]
Date: 3-Oct-2006 08:17
I don't think of Idaho as a progressive forward thinking liberal state. More along the lines of an old clapboard farmhouse, screen door rusting off the hinges, a few car parts strewn around the yard and a mangy old dog looking for a place to lay down and die...... However, this new development provides some hope. 
From: lesscalina [boobalina]
Date: 3-Oct-2006 09:09
From: tricky359 [Patricia] Date: 2-Oct-2006 15:59 what's the deal? Why must america be so fucking numb? Enough already. --- Because life is hard. And "Comfortably Numb" ain't just a song.
From: yukovalis [Chris]
Date: 3-Oct-2006 09:40
Nope hope it doesn't pass, nor ever and stays illegal for many years to come. That's my opinion deal with it 
From: aeon
[aeon]
Date: 3-Oct-2006 10:02
it's not going to happen. whenever a local court/legislative process decides to do anything but actively criminalize marijuana, the feds always kill it.
From: udontknow [Jack]
Date: 3-Oct-2006 10:57
I forget, is pot a red state or a blue state issue? "Since 1973, 12 state legislatures -- Alaska, California, Colorado, Maine, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, New York, North Carolina, Ohio and Oregon -- have enacted versions of marijuana decriminalization. In each of these states, marijuana users no longer face jail time (nor in most cases, arrest or criminal records) for the possession or use of small amounts of marijuana. Internationally, many states and nations have enacted similar policies." http://www.norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=3383#us_studies
From: majyka [Rosy]
Date: 3-Oct-2006 11:16
This same issue was on the ballot in Denver last year, and got voted in. This year, this exact same issue is on the ballot again, but has stretched to be all inclusive to the entire state. I'm voting yes, because then I won't have to pay $110 a year for my prescription. Fuck yeah!
From: gamesnake [jamesbong]
Date: 3-Oct-2006 11:55
I support the legalization of marijuana. If you want to go anywhere, Alaska is the place. It's not found to be illegal to smoke in your own home
From: kwijibo
[A fat, balding north-american ape]
Date: 3-Oct-2006 13:26
I blame George Bush for this. One side or the other, he's definitely involved. And have you noticed how gas prices in the US have been coming down before the election? Coincidence? The man and his Halliburton buds are into everything in a vast right-wing conspiracy.
From: teratomarty
[Self-made man]
Date: 3-Oct-2006 13:28
From: yukovalis [Chris] Nope hope it doesn't pass, nor ever and stays illegal for many years to come. Well, now we know what pays your bills, don't we? Out of curiosity, how much would a bunch of stoners be able to raise real estate prices? I've never met an independently wealthy pothead. On the other hand, if the noble weed is still illegal in the rest of the US, then Sun Valley will become the next Chicago, centre of a booming bootleg trade. Idaho organized crime as a major problem of the 21st century- I like it!
From: teratomarty
[Self-made man]
Date: 3-Oct-2006 13:39
If you want to go anywhere, Alaska is the place. It's not found to be illegal to smoke in your own home States with no population growth and real estate that you have to pay people to live on could attract residents by legalising weed! I wonder if potatoes and weed would grow well in the same field; if so, you could get rich by selling them something that causes the munchies, and something that cures same. Selling the cause and the cure is a venerable capitalist tactic. Also, I know you get pot brownies; howzabout pot-ato chips? Like sourcream-and-chive, only with leetle sprigs of weed rather than chive.
From: greenleaf78 [JingleHymerSmith]
Date: 3-Oct-2006 14:17
State laws are superseded by the Federal Government, so people will still be arrested for it...they well never legalize pot for the simple fact that it is too hard and costly to have our cops looking for people who actually do harmful drugs. Pot heads are model prisoners because they aren’t criminals, and they have money to pay for the fines. Once FINALY the conservative christian movement puts the final nail in their own coffin, will there be oppurtunity for true freedom.
From: greenleaf78 [JingleHymerSmith]
Date: 3-Oct-2006 14:29
teratomarty - your thinking of the 60's version of a pothead, and needles to say, times change over a matter of 46 years. I know of many very wealthy to just over broke potheads, and you would never guess they smoke weed looking, or talking to them. So to answer your question, yes, not only would the property value increase, but if the city was smart about it, and put a tax on pot, the city itself would be among the wealthiest in the nation...not to mention, it would probably have the lowest crime rate in the country.
Updated: 9-Oct-2006 13:32
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