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struggle4progress

(120,357 posts) Thu Dec 6, 2012, 07:29 PM Dec 2012

Pot smokers enter legal limbo in Washington, Colorado

By Alan Duke, CNN
updated 12:31 PM EST, Thu December 6, 2012

... But a legal haze still engulfed pot smokers Thursday, when possession of up to an ounce of marijuana by adults become legal, though growing and selling it remains a crime ...

"It begs the question, if they can't buy it through a medical marijuana shop, which only people with a prescription and medical marijuana license can, how do they get it?" Washington State Liquor Control Board spokesman Brian Smith said Wednesday.

Growing and selling marijuana will still be prosecuted as a felony, King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg told CNN.

"So I'm not sure where you're suppose to get it," Satterberg said. "If you stumble across some on the street or it falls from the sky, then you can have it. Otherwise, you are part of a criminal chain of distribution" ...

http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/05/us/washington-marijuana-legalization/?hpt=us_t2

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Pot smokers enter legal limbo in Washington, Colorado (Original Post) struggle4progress Dec 2012 OP

Geez, so are they really too stupid to amend their mmj shops to legal Lionessa Dec 2012 #1

Looking Skyward SoCalMusicLover Dec 2012 #2

Seems to me the Authorities would have a problem charging someone that has it though. teddy51 Dec 2012 #3

I found a dime bag on the sidewalk in NYC once. tridim Dec 2012 #4

Lionessa

(3,894 posts)

1. Geez, so are they really too stupid to amend their mmj shops to legal

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Thu Dec 6, 2012, 07:37 PM

Dec 2012

distributors. Now that the public has spoken, one would think the state legislature can remedy this without much hassle at all. Just amend the one to be all inclusive, shops are already set up and licensed, everything is in place except the term medical needs to be removed.

SoCalMusicLover

(3,194 posts)

2. Looking Skyward

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Thu Dec 6, 2012, 07:40 PM

Dec 2012

I'm on my way to Washington, hoping I stumble across some ganja on the street.

Or perhaps it will rain down from the sky. They get lots of rain in Seattle, so you never know. God might start helping out.

teddy51

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3. Seems to me the Authorities would have a problem charging someone that has it though.

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Thu Dec 6, 2012, 07:50 PM

Dec 2012

How do they prove where they got it?

tridim

(45,358 posts)

4. I found a dime bag on the sidewalk in NYC once.

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Fri Dec 7, 2012, 08:12 AM

Dec 2012

Really good stuff too!

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