Support for legalized pot hits all-time ‘high’
Is it still too late to save the Twinkie?
Earlier this month, voters in both Washington and Colorado approved referendums legalizing the use of marijuana, a decision that puts both states in conflict with federal law. The vote wasn’t close in either state, with the measures passing by a 10-point margin.
According to a new CBS News poll, the people in Washington and Colorado have a lot of company. For the first time since 1979, when CBS began asking the question, support for legalization equals opposition, and the trend line is clear, particularly when you look at the demographic breakdowns.
So far, President Obama has avoided taking a stance on the issue, which puts the federal government in conflict with an increasing number of states (18 have passed medical marijuana laws). Under U.S. law, marijuana is classified as a Schedule 1 drug, in the same category as heroin, morphine and LSD. But at some point in Obama’s second term, congressional action to address that conflict is probably inevitable.
– Jay Bookman
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Nero
November 30th, 2012
2:32 pm
Jay,
The only people provoking fights are your acolytes. They can’t tolerate dissention, so they resort to personal name calling and backhanded insults. Yet you say nothing to them because they succor your ego. If you can’t stand your supporters being called out on their ideological excuses for generational thievery, then maybe you shouldn’t have a public blog. Get thicker skin and tune out your butt hurt sycophant’s crying.
alex
November 30th, 2012
2:33 pm
Jay, NOW your playing favorites-NOT fair..Nero, jay doesn’t like you , your time on this blog is slowly eroding…Jay needs another hit..NO NO, NOT fighting…..
“fights” on an internet blog, how quaint….sheeesh
guy
November 30th, 2012
2:34 pm
More addicts,accidents,and deaths!
Nero
November 30th, 2012
2:35 pm
Thanks you alex. Jay’s double standard stands naked for everybody to see.
the cat
November 30th, 2012
2:37 pm
I am curious why people come to this blog to disparage our host and other bloggers. Makes me think of mittens bullying in school.
Nero
November 30th, 2012
2:39 pm
Mick,
Tell yourself whatever you have to excuse your generational theft. American indeed!
stands for decibels
November 30th, 2012
2:41 pm
What’s next, marrying an animal?
John? John Smoltz? Is that you?
Mick
November 30th, 2012
2:42 pm
nero
No, you tell it to anyone on social security. By the way, when your time comes are you going to refuse it? How is it theft if I’ve been paying in for close to 50 years now? Get some sense first before throwing your pipe bombs – they’re duds…
Keep Up the Good Fight!
November 30th, 2012
2:42 pm
Generational theft? The Bush tax cuts account for 60% of the deficit…
Joe Hussein Mama
November 30th, 2012
2:43 pm
Nero — “Jay’s double standard stands naked for everybody to see.”
Jay’s house, Jay’s rules.
If you don’t like it, Wordpress awaits.
stands for decibels
November 30th, 2012
2:43 pm
Jay needs another hit..NO NO, NOT fighting…..
oh, do knock it off. Jay is just as vigilant about lefties who name-call and pick fights; I’ve got the yellow and red cards to prove it.
East Lake Ira
November 30th, 2012
2:43 pm
I’m guessing Nero is some unemployed non-graduate of a third tier college with tons of loan debt and no prospects living with her parents.
alex
November 30th, 2012
2:47 pm
Jay: see Mick 2:36, I simply would not tolerate such ferocious language or as they say “thems fightin’ words”. We expect, NO, we DEMAND action, threats or a harsh word or 2 to discourage such succurolous attacks..Yes. yes we know this is YOUR opinion blog, but, but in the name of fairness, man…….lead ON..LEAD ON!!…..
mm
November 30th, 2012
2:48 pm
“Generational theft? The Bush tax cuts account for 60% of the deficit”
Something the cons just can’t seem to come to terms with. Throw in the 2 wars and Medicare Part D, and voila, it’s almost the entire amount.
Nero
November 30th, 2012
2:49 pm
Actually, I’m gainfully employed with a graduate degree from UGA and debt free. You shouldn’t project Ira. We don’t all turn out disappointments. Thanks for playing though.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 30th, 2012
2:51 pm
Nero, if you come here just to provoke fights, take it elsewhere.
YELLOW CARD!
East Lake Ira
November 30th, 2012
2:52 pm
And I’m a millionaire former professional athelete with a Playboy centerfold wife.
Nero
November 30th, 2012
2:52 pm
mm,
I’m not talking about the deficit. I’m talking about the national debt. I can see where you can get confused. You probably don’t pay your bills as well.
Aquagirl
November 30th, 2012
2:52 pm
to discourage such succurolous attacks
Some of y’all need to fire up and relax. Good grief. And what the hell is a succurolous attack? It sounds really violent. I always miss the fun around here.
Mick
November 30th, 2012
2:52 pm
alex
See nero at 2:24, who’s provoking whom?
BRW
November 30th, 2012
2:53 pm
I told you not to feed the goading leech, er, uh, troll.
Nero
November 30th, 2012
2:53 pm
Thanks for the update sport! Go cry a river to Jay some more. It suits you.
Nero
November 30th, 2012
2:55 pm
Ira,
Rec softball isn’t a professional sport. Kam, you wanna chime in on this? You seem to be the resident sport expert.
Fred ™
November 30th, 2012
2:56 pm
Nero
November 30th, 2012
2:35 pm
Thanks you alex. Jay’s double standard stands naked for everybody to see.
++++++++++++++++++++
That’s a forking lie and if you have read here like you claim for a while, you know it. Jay dogs the lefties, the righties and the independents all equally when they cross his line. The hypocrite is Kyle.
Hell, if there is ANYONE on this blog that has been banned more than me I don’t know who it is, and I agree with Jay more often than I disagree with him. He is ALWAYS in my butt lol.
So lighten up Frances and save the rhetoric for Kyles. Those folks (and Kyle) play that crap. Jay doesn’t
skipper
November 30th, 2012
2:58 pm
From the Mission-Mountain Wood Band who played at Legion field at UGA many years ago (and unfortunately, many of them were killed in a plane crash later.)
“Let us all remember, what we cannot forget,
Strike a match and light a marijuana cigarette!”
Nero
November 30th, 2012
2:59 pm
Says Mick with his 2:20 post. But then he immediately tones it down after Jay’s post. Hypocrite much?
Jack ®
November 30th, 2012
3:00 pm
Let’s legalize pot, crack, same-sex marriage, prostitution, gambling and everything else that might take away from one’s sense of nirvana. Let’s party. To hell with responsibility.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 30th, 2012
3:02 pm
Tick…tick…tick….
Just sayin’.
Fred ™
November 30th, 2012
3:02 pm
Jack ®
November 30th, 2012
3:00 pm
Let’s legalize pot, crack, same-sex marriage, prostitution, gambling and everything else that might take away from one’s sense of nirvana. Let’s party. To hell with responsibility.
++++++++++++++++++++
Thank you for once again reminding us of the utter stupidity that the talk radio/FOXBOTS exhibit on any and every possible chance.
You post has not one shred of reasoning or logical thought in it. There is nothing of any value to it. I want the 3 seconds of time it took me to read your drivel back.
Nero
November 30th, 2012
3:02 pm
Fred,
We’ll agree to disagree. Jay if definitely selective. However I did a spit take and LOL’d at your butt comment. Well played sir!
Nero
November 30th, 2012
3:03 pm
sport..sport..sport
just sayin’
Keep Up the Good Fight!
November 30th, 2012
3:04 pm
But then he immediately tones it down after Jay’s post.
Hmmm… so the complaint is that a yellow card has an impact on tone for some but probably not all. Sounds like a typical nonsensical whine.
Fred, you may have the numbers…but there are only a few who really go down in flames…I remember this one who demanded to meet Jay’s bosses.
weetamoe
November 30th, 2012
3:04 pm
Will the democrats allow us to grow our own? Betcha if it is legalized, which it should be, the dems will demand the right to pass a whole buncha regulations along with it.
Mick
November 30th, 2012
3:05 pm
nero
What’s your game anyway? Did you not make the connect that I was kidding about blazing and nero? Talk about thin skin? You provoke then whine, that’s I expect but why go after people who have worked their whole lives paying into social security and have the gall to call it theft? Graduate degree? You’re missing something from that program…
Pussy Galore
November 30th, 2012
3:08 pm
End the drug war and legalize all drugs! End the sex war and legalize prostitution. End the war on gambling and legalize casino gambling and video poker. Legalize it all and free the cops to fighting real crimes with real victims like murder,robbery,and rape!
Don Abernethy
November 30th, 2012
3:08 pm
Those who chose to legalize pot will end up without a pot to pee in.
alex
November 30th, 2012
3:09 pm
provocation gone wild, clocks on the internet,,,use of “sport”..oh the humanity….best of the weekend….
Aquagirl
November 30th, 2012
3:09 pm
Nero types are why I stopped calling myself libertarian in any sense. I don’t have the energy to stay that angry 24/7.
bman.
November 30th, 2012
3:10 pm
Along with pot, alcohol should also be illegal.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 30th, 2012
3:11 pm
Shorter alex: BOO-HOO-HOO
Keep Up the Good Fight!
November 30th, 2012
3:11 pm
alcohol should also be illegal
Because that went so well the first time it was tried?
Jay - you should still read...
November 30th, 2012
3:12 pm
…Kyle Wingfield’s column today – you and Fred just might learn something…
Nero
November 30th, 2012
3:12 pm
Mick,
nero=zero must be that wicked sense of humor that you’re sporting.
East Lake Ira
November 30th, 2012
3:13 pm
Talk about your war on Christmas!
http://asia.si.edu/Sackler25/
bman.
November 30th, 2012
3:13 pm
“Because that went so well the first time it was tried?”
No. Because (according to MADD) every 52 minutes, a person is killed in a drunk driving crash.
Nero
November 30th, 2012
3:14 pm
Aquagirl,
That’s ok. I still believe in your inalienable right to smoke anything you want.
Mick
November 30th, 2012
3:15 pm
Kind of funny that if you read an opinion columnist like jay bookman and agree with most of his perspective, then you are a sycophant?
No, please crack a dictionary.
I certainly don’t troll around on krauthammers blog looking to insult his readers, better things to do, in fact it’s friday and time to get this party started with a blaze!!!
St Simons - he-ne-ha BOOTAKOOK 2014
November 30th, 2012
3:16 pm
of course republicans are against it. Of course they are. duh
when you’re high, you can see over the wall, you can see the scam.
that’s what they tell me anyway, mon.
alex
November 30th, 2012
3:18 pm
succurulous is an old greek term for butter pecans, closely related to “frageely” as in the major prize box in “the Christmas Story”…Come on , don’t you guys know anything……..
East Lake Ira
November 30th, 2012
3:19 pm
They blowed up the tree!!
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
November 30th, 2012
3:19 pm
JAY
Now this is a topic I can really get my lips around. Unfortunately, my party daze are over but I voted for the guy that wanted to legalize pot nationwide…too bad all the rest of you have silly priorities..
Twist you later..
Nero
November 30th, 2012
3:19 pm
Mick,
A broken clock is right twice a day. I’m sure Jay and I agree on a few more things. Despite out little spat, I’d be more than willing to share a smoke with you.
Aquagirl
November 30th, 2012
3:20 pm
That’s ok. I still believe in your inalienable right to smoke anything you want.
Nero nobly defends my right to smoke Aunt Jemima pancake mix. Now that’s a true ‘Merican.
Nero
November 30th, 2012
3:21 pm
What’s your favorite flavor?
Keep Up the Good Fight!
November 30th, 2012
3:21 pm
bman, 268 people are shot each day too….. unfortunately. We can likely do more to prevent drunks from driving cars than to stop the insanity of current gun regulation failures and the stupidity of the Stand Your Ground law.
Joe Hussein Mama
November 30th, 2012
3:22 pm
bman — “No. Because (according to MADD) every 52 minutes, a person is killed in a drunk driving crash.”
Solution: Be like JHM and install a bar in your home.
Advantages:
Drinks are as strong as you want them to be
No tipping
Only the floor can announce last call
Nero
November 30th, 2012
3:22 pm
Aquagirl,
Hell yeah!
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 30th, 2012
3:24 pm
I still believe in your inalienable right to smoke anything you want.
That is most kind of you,sport.
I have a pork shoulder in the freezer and I plan on doing just that.
Provided that the weather will cooperate next week.
alex
November 30th, 2012
3:24 pm
Right on St. Simons, Medical Pot will now become a republican capitalist enterprise to ensnare unsuspecting dems into the drug underworld so that they will meet loose men AND women and forget to vote…don’t you know nuthin’…? MON !
Nero
November 30th, 2012
3:25 pm
Alex,
It’s a major award! FRAGILE, it must be Italian.
Erwin's cat
November 30th, 2012
3:25 pm
bman – No. Because (according to MADD) every 52 minutes, a person is killed in a drunk driving crash.
then we should outlaw gravity as well since 22 deaths a day are attributed to “falls”
Nero
November 30th, 2012
3:26 pm
C’mon Kam! That’s just dirty pool making my mouth water.
the cat
November 30th, 2012
3:27 pm
Something to ponder. Has anyone else noticed all the republicans have no chins? Erick Erikson (what a stupid name, his parents hated him), Mitch McConnell, Saxby, etc.
Aquagirl
November 30th, 2012
3:27 pm
I have a pork shoulder in the freezer and I plan on doing just that
Boy, that must produce some nasty bong water.
Corbin Sharpe. I think, therefore I am...I think
November 30th, 2012
3:28 pm
I’ve always supported the legalization of pot. I have often wondered why the “religious” among us have not. as it says in their Bible…”God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, AND OVER ALL THE EARTH, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.”
—Genesis 1:26″
God put it there for us to use so let it be so. After all, who would you trust. Plants given by God or booze made by man. I think that maybe God knew what He was doing….
Wait a minute
November 30th, 2012
3:28 pm
Mr. Dylan was speaking about being stoned as in stonings that used to take place the Bible, etc. (and still do in Islamic countries).
Can’t believe we are wasting time on this issue while the Anointed One is doing NOTHING about the cliff. $160 billion a year in tax increases, additional stimulus spending. Yep, that will close a $1 trillion plus annual deficit. Can someone simply be impeached for ‘not being too bright’? Legalize pot and tax the heck out of it, and if someone commits a crime under the influence of pot, prosecute the heck out of them. There will be plenty of room in prisons after they let those go that are in prison/jail for possession alone.
And, of course, Go Dawgs!
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
November 30th, 2012
3:33 pm
I support the legalization of marijuana for personal use.
If purchased, not grown at home, tax it like alcohol and smokes.
.
.
.
Many years ago, I came close to getting busted…Fortunately, the small amount I had was being carefully ground and slipped into empty lipton
tea bags for the daughter of a friend who did not survive her cancer.
I saw how it helped her….
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
November 30th, 2012
3:35 pm
cat
it’s inbreeding….
skipper
November 30th, 2012
3:38 pm
“Roll-roll-roll a joint,
take a sip of wine.
Take a toke and blow the smoke
and blow your frickin’ mind!”
Nero
November 30th, 2012
3:38 pm
Does that include “Nostrils” Waxman?
St Simons - he-ne-ha BOOTAKOOK 2014
November 30th, 2012
3:44 pm
you have to ’start’ (i was going to say put the needle down on the record)
of ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ at the same time the MGM lion roars.
not that i would know, that’s just what they tell me, mon.
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moonbat betty
November 30th, 2012
3:45 pm
Is it happy hour yet?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_96cCukoklc
Aquagirl
November 30th, 2012
3:46 pm
Sorta related to this morning’s topic…Bobby Jindal’s Jeebus Rode A Dinosaur skoolz are unconstitutional.
Lotta wingnuts depending on those diverted tax dollars are gonna need a big phatty tonight.
http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/La-Judge-says-Gov-Bobby-Jindal-s-private-school-4081341.php
Corbin Sharpe. I think, therefore I am...I think
November 30th, 2012
3:46 pm
Wait a minute
November 30th, 2012
3:28 pm
You obviously know nothing about Dylan’s “Rainy Day Women” or the effects of being stoned. You might commit a crime for a bag of Doritos but that would be about all. In fact, if pot was legal, I’d bet the farm the crime rate would go way down…
moonbat betty
November 30th, 2012
3:48 pm
“it’s inbreeding….”
No Granny aka Helen Thomas, it’s called age.
They BOTH suck
November 30th, 2012
3:48 pm
moonbat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7v0V58V3Uw
Nero
November 30th, 2012
3:49 pm
Nonsense. Big Pharma would have been all over it from the start. Good story bro.
alex
November 30th, 2012
3:49 pm
NOW we’re at conservatives MAY lack chins and Granny (of the tea bags) agrees,is that before the beach or after, …
They BOTH suck
November 30th, 2012
3:49 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJwjx16d0ew
Corbin Sharpe. I think, therefore I am...I think
November 30th, 2012
3:50 pm
The Cuervo Gold
The fine Colombian
Make tonight a wonderful thing …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipc9pL27krs
moonbat betty
November 30th, 2012
3:52 pm
Cheers, TBs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H33vSYapNNs
Erwin's cat
November 30th, 2012
3:55 pm
it may quell the violence on the border and damage MX cartel revenues, as well as thin our over crowded jails and reduce incarceration costs
JamVet
November 30th, 2012
3:55 pm
Don’t bogart that joint, my friend…
There is no legitimate reason to continue criminalizing possession.
Reefer Madness went the way of McCarthyism…
alex
November 30th, 2012
3:56 pm
@ eating cannabis oil..: are you a good witch or a bad witch?
Jethro Bodine
November 30th, 2012
4:00 pm
Yes to legalization!!!. Free market system; more jobs etc.. Bring back the family farm!!! Another cash crop!. God Bless America!!!!
alex
November 30th, 2012
4:02 pm
…pass it over to me….roll me another one …just like the other one…
Corbin Sharpe. I think, therefore I am...I think
November 30th, 2012
4:06 pm
alex,
“Are you a good witch or a bad witch?” The Wizard of OZ has to be the ultimate chick flick…two women fighting over a pair of shoes…
curious
November 30th, 2012
4:07 pm
Never happen.
The illegal drug suppliers will energize their lobbying arm headed by Ralph Reed to stop it.
The privatized correctional (?) system will hire Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity to oppose legalization.
Finn de Siècle (The System isn't Broken; It's Fixed)
November 30th, 2012
4:07 pm
We need to leave Colorado and Washington alone to see if this experiment works. If so, good. If not, well, we tried it.
indigo
November 30th, 2012
4:08 pm
It’s difficult to know just exactly what these morons are thinking of. Our roads are already filled with too many impared drivers intoxicated on alcohol and drugs. Legalizing pot will only put even more stoned drivers on the roads and will produce even more injuries and deaths.
When behavior directly threatens public safety, civil rights must take a back seat. After all, you don’t yell “fire” in a crowded theater.
Erwin's cat
November 30th, 2012
4:08 pm
Chocolate Sheetz!
Regnad Kcin
November 30th, 2012
4:11 pm
“The Cuervo Gold
The fine Colombian
Make tonight a wonderful thing …”
Say it again…
Laprencilla
November 30th, 2012
6:18 pm
Can anyone even remotely imagine marijuana usage being legalized in Georgia? Thinking back on the trauma we experienced over the vote to legalize Sunday package sales, the holy rollers had us all going straight to hell for buying a beer on the sabbath.
Roadhound
November 30th, 2012
6:21 pm
I’m 64 years old, I’ve been toking for about 40 years. I toke about 30 to 40 times a year, so much for the addiction thing. I seriously doubt that I’ll change in a few months when I turn 65. Pot enables you to cram the most relaxation into the shortest amount of time, it’s as simple as that. Pot would have been legal years ago if it wasn’t for the high paid lobbyist of the big drug companies. Lots of very expensive prescriptions will not be needed if pot is legalized.
independent thinker.
November 30th, 2012
8:42 pm
Get Grover to agree we can tax weed instead of the rich as well as money going to his terrorist clients and the GOP’s problems are solved. Legalize it nationally and the deficit will come down.
Joel Edge
December 1st, 2012
6:01 am
Sure, why not. Legalize it. In a about a decade or so you liberals can blame the conservatives for it. “Look at all the suffering, we should spend boatloads of money on treatment.”
Or some other stupidity.
Bob Dobolina
December 1st, 2012
9:14 pm
Ha! Someone launched a pot music radio station in Denver. http://pot1071.com
Jose
December 1st, 2012
9:45 pm
Georgia is paying more money to lock up marijuana growers/users than it is for the Hope Scholarship. It is time for the Bible thumpers in Georgia to grow up and learn what it is really like to be in the service of God starting with the Baptist hypocrites.
Fred Garvin
December 2nd, 2012
2:33 pm
“Marijuana Prohibition is the most racist, destructive and dysfunctional social policy in America since Slavery”