Can you imagine how much tourist money Las Vegas would bring in NOW?! the rest of the US should take notice when this happens. Fer cryin' out loud, its only weed. It makes you lazy and gives you the munchies! It ain't crack! Nevada to vote on legalizing mar1juana CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Voters in Nevada, which up until last year had the nation's strictest mar1juana law, will decide in November whether to let adults legally possess small amounts of the drug. State officials said Tuesday that a petition drive to put the measure on the ballot had narrowly succeeded with about 75,000 valid signatures. Under the proposal, mar1juana would be sold in state-licensed shops and taxed like cigarettes and other tobacco products. A distribution system would also be set up to provide low-cost pot for medical uses. To become law, the change needs voter approval this year and in 2004. But whether it could ever actually take effect is unclear. Federal law bans mar1juana possession, and the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last year that states cannot make exceptions for medical use. The new proposal would let adults have up to three ounces of mar1juana. Driving under the influence would still be illegal, as would using mar1juana in public places. "The success of our petition drive provides solid evidence that most Nevadans think it's a waste of their tax dollars to arrest people for small amounts of mar1juana," said Billy Rogers of Nevadans for Responsible Law Enforcement. Law enforcement groups in Nevada are expected to oppose the ballot measure. "Three ounces is quite a bit," said Lt. Stan Olsen, lobbyist for the Las Vegas police. "If we legalize it, what is next? A lot of people don't use drugs now because they are illegal and they stand to lose in their personal or professional lives if they use." Until last year, puffing on a single mar1juana cigarette in Nevada was a felony punishable by a year or more behind bars. But the stiff penalties were rarely imposed. Lawmakers have since made possession of less than an ounce a misdemeanor. In 2000, Nevada voters approved the use of medical mar1juana.
Hmm... "The success of our petition drive provides solid evidence that most Nevadans think it's a waste of their tax dollars to arrest people for small amounts of mar1juana," said Billy Rogers of Nevadans for Responsible Law Enforcement. Next sentence... Law enforcement groups in Nevada are expected to oppose the ballot measure.
That's it, I'm moving to Beatty, Nevada! My last name is Beatty, by the way. I once broke down for 12 days in Beatty. Hilarious, isn't it.
Waste of time, California voted to legalize mar1juana, but the feds said it was still against the law, so you can still be arrested for it.
How could the Nevada gaming industry double its income on blackjack tables? Let the players smoke some dope. Of course, this plan is not fool proof. The casinos will have to figure out a way to coax the players out of the all-you-can-eat buffets.
Those all-you-can-eat buffets are getting pricey. Hydra's right. Californians legalized mar1juana for medicinal purposes, but the Feds still said it was illegal. I wonder if that would change with a liberal Supreme court and congress...
imagine the swell of enrollment at UNLV if this law passed! every college kid in the country would want to go there! they would get so many applicants that they would have to make restrictions to enter so severe, that it might become one of the toughest schools to get into in the entire nation! all b/c of some pot! i know, i know, i'm stretching... but imagine the possiblities... UNLV, as tough to get into as Harvard! - albeit for all the wrong reasons
Legalized Dope and Prostitution? THE RUNNING REBELS ARE BACK BABY!!!! THE TARK IS BACK BAY BEEE!!! Rocket River
Excuse me rockHEAD, but I am mocking the slow thinking of mar1juana smokers here. This is very different from encouraging young people to smoke pot, so they can- get arrested lose their driver's license get kicked out of school hang out with the most unsavory people in our society- drug dealers waste precious time experience life in a dim-witted stupor etc..........
this is the interesting point of this case to me, too. but if you're lamenting the loss of states' rights, i think you lost that battle back in the Civil War...and then again with New Deal legislation and the Supreme Court (at that time) upholding anything and everything under the Commerce Clause of the Constitution.
States can't arbitrarily decide to overturn federal laws. We can't vote to make it okay to rob a post office, import large amounts of goods without paying tariffs, etc. Why should federal drug laws be treated differently?
i agree...today. but this wasn't always such an easy question to answer in this country...a lot of people died over this question.
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/campaigns/wh2000/stories/bush102299.htm Bush and states' rights for mar1juana.
