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Tue Sep 25, 2012, 07:08 PM

Panasonic (2,921 posts)

Tom Tancredo Backs Legal Weed: 'Marijuana Prohibition Has Failed Us'

Source: Huffington Post

Tom Tancredo is many things to many people: a conservative firebrand, staunch anti-immigration activist, a 2010 Colorado gubernatorial candidate, a former Republican congressman, but last week he took on another provocative title -- marijuana legalization advocate.

Tancredo, a surprising ally of the progressive movement to legalize marijuana, wrote a column for The Gazette on the "pro" side of a marijuana legalization debate. Colorado Attorney General John Suthers served as the "con" point of view for the piece. Tancredo writes:

"I am endorsing Amendment 64 not despite my conservative beliefs, but because of them.

Throughout my career in public policy and in public office, I have fought to reform or eliminate wasteful and ineffective government programs. There is no government program or policy I can think of that has failed in such a unique way as marijuana prohibition."

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/25/tom-tancredo-backs-legal-_n_1913192.html

The tide is turning, gents..

If Tancredo can support marijuana, then so can all of us - and marijuana can easily help the state's coffers especially in education and public trust.

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22 replies	Author	Time	Post
Tom Tancredo Backs Legal Weed: 'Marijuana Prohibition Has Failed Us' (Original post)	Panasonic	Sep 2012	OP
That surprises me that he	gopiscrap	Sep 2012	#1
Prohibition always fails, Tom...	Agnosticsherbet	Sep 2012	#2
As the saying goes...	kag	Sep 2012	#3
I wouldn't be surprised	Panasonic	Sep 2012	#4
Probably not.	earthside	Sep 2012	#7
I have tinnitus as well	Panasonic	Sep 2012	#9
my thoughts as well. It relieves the symptons of narrowmindedness,	olddad56	Sep 2012	#11
Cool! He can blaze up with Pat Robertson!	KamaAina	Sep 2012	#5
Lots of Pubs do dope	musiclawyer	Sep 2012	#6
This message was self-deleted by its author	bupkus	Sep 2012	#10
Downgrade to schedule II?	brazil	Sep 2012	#12
Not likely.	Le Taz Hot	Sep 2012	#22
Kicked and recommended, pass it on.	Uncle Joe	Sep 2012	#8
Jesus Christ on a trailer hitch	Canuckistanian	Sep 2012	#13
Must've realized how much money can be made off of it..	Alamuti Lotus	Sep 2012	#14
Consider	oldsarge54	Sep 2012	#15
Be still my heart	duhneece	Sep 2012	#16
No government program has failed as badly as war spending	Kolesar	Sep 2012	#17
Most sane thing he's ever said	Samjm	Sep 2012	#18
Support for legal mj must be strong in Colorado, still	RainDog	Sep 2012	#19
It's polling well in Colorado, but not as strong as Washington state.	Comrade Grumpy	Sep 2012	#21
Say no to Nixon drug war	rks306	Sep 2012	#20

Response to Panasonic (Original post)

Tue Sep 25, 2012, 07:09 PM

gopiscrap (2,400 posts)

1. That surprises me that he

would advocate that...good going!

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Tue Sep 25, 2012, 07:15 PM

Agnosticsherbet (1,218 posts)

2. Prohibition always fails, Tom...

Always.

It's good to see some sense break out over there.

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Tue Sep 25, 2012, 07:20 PM

kag (942 posts)

3. As the saying goes...

Even a broken clock is right twice a day. Tancredo is a moron.

When I read this aloud to my sixteen-year-old son, he came up with the most plausible explanation for why this idiot is doing something right:

"He probably smokes it."

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Tue Sep 25, 2012, 07:25 PM

Panasonic (2,921 posts)

4. I wouldn't be surprised

if he does in fact smoke it.

Republicanism is a mental illness, and the only cure apparently seems to be marijuana.

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Tue Sep 25, 2012, 07:41 PM

earthside (4,634 posts)

7. Probably not.

Tancredo has tinnitus -- he does a radio commercial for some doctor that helped him.

A quick Googling of tinnitus and marijuana seems to indicate that marijuana use may actually make tinnitus worse.

Which is kind of surprising because the medical marijuana industry (and we have that in Colorado) makes it sound like marijuana cures just about everything.

Still, I'm glad Tancredo is public in his support for Amendment 64, maybe this will make it easier for other rightwing nuts to vote 'yes'.

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Tue Sep 25, 2012, 07:59 PM

Panasonic (2,921 posts)

9. I have tinnitus as well

Have to lay off the caffeine then it reduces itself..

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Tue Sep 25, 2012, 08:37 PM

olddad56 (2,831 posts)

11. my thoughts as well. It relieves the symptons of narrowmindedness,

which most republicans suffer from.

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Tue Sep 25, 2012, 07:32 PM

KamaAina (45,241 posts)

5. Cool! He can blaze up with Pat Robertson!

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Tue Sep 25, 2012, 07:34 PM

musiclawyer (2,052 posts)

6. Lots of Pubs do dope

Not surprising. he probably has some land that will be a very nice grow area. Heck, he probably has investors for commercial hemp. Both are much needed adrenaline for the economy. As I have said many times here, if even one of these measures passes, the war on drugs begins to wind down. POTUS and DOJ can't afford to fight in a court of law because they will lose and they know it! There is an avalanche of scientific evidence in favor legal weed and hemp. They don't want to be buried by it. I think the crackdowns in CA are happening now as a last gasp attempt to confiscate property for revenue. Plain and simple. They undertand the jig is up.

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Tue Sep 25, 2012, 08:46 PM

brazil (88 posts)

12. Downgrade to schedule II?

I wouldn't be surprised to see a downgrade to Schedule II magically come about before election day, if it looks like the ballot measures might win.

That way, it would still be a controlled substance, and the DEA might stand a fighting chance of keeping the genie in the bottle.

They could then say to voters, "no need to legalize it, just get a prescription..."

Though I think that rescheduling at this point in time would be too little, too late for the DEA.

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Wed Sep 26, 2012, 04:17 AM

Le Taz Hot (14,432 posts)

22. Not likely.

Read it and weep:

"Feds target 71 medical marijuana dispensaries in L.A county"

http://www.nasdaq.com/article/russia-suspends-import-use-of-genetically-modified-corn-20120925-00065

Obama's views on cannabis are EXACTLY the same as Richard Nixon's and Mitt Romney.

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Tue Sep 25, 2012, 07:49 PM

Uncle Joe (24,997 posts)

8. Kicked and recommended, pass it on.

Thanks for the thread, Panasonic.

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Tue Sep 25, 2012, 09:09 PM

Canuckistanian (42,197 posts)

13. Jesus Christ on a trailer hitch

I'm all for MMJ and decriminalization, but...

But Tom freakin' Tancredo as an advocate?

Talk about cats and dogs living together....

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Tue Sep 25, 2012, 09:10 PM

Alamuti Lotus (2,679 posts)

14. Must've realized how much money can be made off of it..

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Tue Sep 25, 2012, 09:19 PM

oldsarge54 (582 posts)

15. Consider

Stoned conservatives might be more mellow than those wanting to control everyone's lives.

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Tue Sep 25, 2012, 09:29 PM

duhneece (1,700 posts)

16. Be still my heart

I feel little hearts in my eyes...and I know I can't stand this guy, but the idea, the concept, the sheer fact of his stand makes me happy.

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Tue Sep 25, 2012, 09:40 PM

Kolesar (29,324 posts)

17. No government program has failed as badly as war spending

Marijuana prohibition is locking people up unfairly, but the warmongers are looting our treasury and killing millions.

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Wed Sep 26, 2012, 12:25 AM

Samjm (319 posts)

18. Most sane thing he's ever said

Tancredo is a hack, but this may be the only thing I agree with him on. Ever. I'm in CO, and I'll be voting yes on this Amendment.

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Wed Sep 26, 2012, 12:41 AM

RainDog (24,223 posts)

19. Support for legal mj must be strong in Colorado, still

and the libertarians must outnumber the panty sniffers among Republicans.

Hopefully this is a good sign that Colorado will be the first state to legalize.

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Wed Sep 26, 2012, 02:34 AM

Comrade Grumpy (3,372 posts)

21. It's polling well in Colorado, but not as strong as Washington state.

In Washington, they're around 57%, in Colorado it's around 50%, but still with a 10-point lead over "no."

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Wed Sep 26, 2012, 01:36 AM

rks306 (112 posts)

20. Say no to Nixon drug war

The drug war has been a failure. Other countries legalize drugs and tax them. They don't have drug epidemics in other places.

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