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I don't have any personal stake in this — I've never used pot and have no particular urge to. But looking at the excessive costs of anti-pot policing, vs. the marginal gain, treating it as anything worse than alcohol is just foolish. #ddtb Reshared post from +Breaking News Colorado asks DEA to reclassify marijuanaDenver, Colo., … Continue reading “Colorado asks for a pot break”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,9,371,8],"tags":[117,107],"class_list":["post-24910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-politics-law","category-war-on-drugs","category-zt-pc","tag-coloradocolorado","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":31252,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/06\/going-to-pot-in-colorado.html","url_meta":{"origin":24910,"position":0},"title":"Going to Pot in Colorado","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 6-Nov-12 9:38pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Well. This should be interesting.Plus, hemp production.I foresee some interesting butting heads with the Feds, and lots of role reversals over how federalism is supposed to work.Reshared post from +The Denver PostUPDATE: An amendment that would make it legal in Colorado for individuals to possess and for businesses to sell\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":49433,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/30\/pot-may-be-a-money-maker-for-colorado-citizens.html","url_meta":{"origin":24910,"position":1},"title":"Pot may be a money-maker for Colorado citizens","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 30-Jan-15 5:53pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Because of our zany TABOR Amendment (\"Taxpayers Bill of Rights\"), some of the excise taxes collected on marijuana sales in Colorado may end up going out as refund checks to the citizenry, rather than being used for the purposes previously discussed when it was legalized. 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