[tijlover]

Colorado and Washington recently approved the legal use of recreational marijuana, and I just got done reading the threads on those state's forums. About people saying they're going to now consider retiring to one of those states or vacationing there as a result of it.

Yes, the Feds may say: Do that and we'll cut off your funds. What funds? The country is broke!

I see this as a potential embarassment to our famous Sin City label! But that's not the first embarrassment created here, nor the last.

What do you think?

[swagger]

I think that people who have made marijuana such a major part of their lives that they'd be willing to relocate to another state just to use it recreationally are addicts that should consider a twelve step program instead of a moving truck.

[tijlover]

Originally Posted by swagger

I think that people who have made marijuana such a major part of their lives that they'd be willing to relocate to another state just to use it recreationally are addicts that should consider a twelve step program instead of a moving truck.

Please! There are lower class, middle class, and upper class working adults that all use it recreationally, and they may only want the freedom to light up after a stressful week of work, without the worry of neighbors smelling it and calling the police!

There are those moving here from still-dry counties in the Deep South, who look forward to drinking a beer, walking down the Strip with it, buying liquor 24 hours a day in Wal-Mart/Grocery Stores, that should be in a 12-step program as well.

[ScoopLV]

Keeping this on topic, I think YES this will cost us some business. But in no case has a state decriminalized without the DEA cracking down on the retail outlets. Cannabis is still federally illegal (because of the Marihuana Tax Act of 1933, pot's equivalent of the Volstead Act).

I have a feeling the only way it's going to be legalized is through constitutional amendment. And we haven't done that in a long time.

[Buzz123]

Originally Posted by tijlover

Colorado and Washington recently approved the legal use of recreational marijuana, and I just got done reading the threads on those state's forums. About people saying they're going to now consider retiring to one of those states or vacationing there as a result of it.

Yes, the Feds may say: Do that and we'll cut off your funds. What funds? The country is broke!

I see this as a potential embarrassment to our famous Sin City label! But that's not the first embarrassment created here, nor the last.

What do you think?

How is what goes on in Colorado going to embarrass Las Vegas?

Don't believe what people say about moving. Alec Baldwin was going to move to Europe if Bush was elected. Did he go? Besides, who cares?

I don't even like to smell my BBQ when it smokes, but I would guess that you can go anywhere in the U.S. and in ten minutes find some weed ...just as you could find illegal gambling, and prostitution ...anywhere.

IMHO, (and I'm very much against using drugs of any kind) I think marijuana, and other drugs, should be legalized everywhere so it can be taxed and controlled; and to get the criminals out of the drug business. Only then can we start to handle addiction for real. The only reason it isn't already is that it would cost politicians votes from the ID-10-Ts who haven't thought this issue, or any other issue, all the way through.

[thecuse]

Originally Posted by Buzz123

How is what goes on in Colorado going to embarrass Las Vegas?

Don't believe what people say about moving. Alec Baldwin was going to move to Europe if Bush was elected. Did he go? Besides, who cares?

I don't even like to smell my BBQ when it smokes, but I would guess that you can go anywhere in the U.S. and in ten minutes find some weed ...just as you could find illegal gambling, and prostitution ...anywhere.

IMHO, (and I'm very much against using drugs of any kind) I think marijuana, and other drugs, should be legalized everywhere so it can be taxed and controlled; and to get the criminals out of the drug business. Only then can we start to handle addiction for real. The only reason it isn't already is that it would cost politicians votes from the ID-10-Ts who haven't thought this issue, or any other issue, all the way through.

agree 100% on everything you just said. will happen someday and hopefully sooner than later. I never saw a guy get so stoned that he punched his girlfriend or drove off the road.

[tijlover]

Originally Posted by Buzz123

How is what goes on in Colorado going to embarrass Las Vegas?

I don't even like to smell my BBQ when it smokes, but I would guess that you can go anywhere in the U.S. and in ten minutes find some weed ...just as you could find illegal gambling, and prostitution ...anywhere.

The embarrassment comes from advertising it to the skies, we're Sin City! The expectations that visitors, particularly new visitors who have visited the truer sin cities of the world, have when they come here! Gambling, that sin, can be found all over the country today! So what other sins do we offer our visitors today they can't find elsewhere?

Go anywhere in ten minutes and find some weed? I've been living here 16 years and I'm still clueless as to where to find it, if I really wanted to smoke some tonite, tomorrow. Go down to lower Fremont Street and find someone who "looks" like a drug dealer, and that "drug dealer" may turn out to be a police decoy?

And where would a visitor begin to find it?

[von949]

When I think of "sin", I think of things that are illegal and immoral.

Gambling
Drinking
Prostitutes(Pahrump)
Drugs
Partying
Strip clubs
Sex shows


For the state of Nevada, only one thing on that list is illegal. Everything else can be considered "immoral". So people flock to this town for their "immoral" fix.

Imagine if they could come for their "what's illegal in the rest of the country" fix.





Sent from cell...

[StaggerLee22]

Originally Posted by tijlover

Go anywhere in ten minutes and find some weed? I've been living here 16 years and I'm still clueless as to where to find it, if I really wanted to smoke some tonite, tomorrow. Go down to lower Fremont Street and find someone who "looks" like a drug dealer, and that "drug dealer" may turn out to be a police decoy?

And where would a visitor begin to find it?

Well...then your looking.
Not looking AT ALL.
If you wanted it, you'd find it.
With little to no effort.
Take the strip for starters.

[njkate]

Well not going to base my vacation choice on if I can smoke pot legally...a glass of wine works just as well imo...if that was the case would have spent all my vacations in Amsterdam and saw nothing of the rest of the world