Chris Christie pledges to stop states from legalizing marijuana

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie pledged on Sunday that if he were elected president, he would end legal marijuana in Washington and Colorado.

Christie’s candid views on marijuana legalization came out on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” show in response to a question from host John Dickerson.

“If you were president would you return the federal prosecutions in the states of Colorado, Washington states?” Dickerson asked, according to NJ.com.

“Yes,” Christie stated, adding that he refuses to hide his positions for the sake of political pandering.

“I think there’s probably a lot of people in Colorado who are not too thrilled with what’s going on there right now,” Christie said, the Inquisitr reports. “You know the way you win any state? You go out and you tell people the truth and you lay out your ideas. And you either win or you lose. But I don’t believe that people just want to be told what they want to hear. I believe they want to be told the truth as the person who’s running sees it.”
Although illegal under federal law, the Obama administration has instructed the Department of Justice not to challenge states that move forward with legalization, so long as tight regulation accompanies a much looser stance towards the drug.

Public opinion polls place nation-wide support for marijuana legalization at around 53 percent, as indicated from Pew Research’s latest survey in April. This figure has risen by 20 percent in just a decade.

Christie has previously been a thorn in the side of efforts to legalize marijuana in New Jersey, arguing that marijuana is a gateway drug. When a coalition aimed at legalizing the drug launched in late February, Christie fired back that he’ll veto any proposals that pass through the legislature.

New Jersey already has a medical marijuana program, but New Jersey United for Marijuana Reform is interested in serious legalization alongside a regulatory and taxation framework, though Christie doesn’t think tax revenue is worth the costs imposed by the drug on quality of life. But proponents of marijuana reform are optimistic because Christie’s second term as governor ends in 2017, meaning that on the state level, his political blockades will drop, as he can’t run for governor again.

By the end of June, Christie said that he’ll decide whether to run for president as a Republican candidate.


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Is he really too dumb to know that it is a gateway drug only because the supply of it has been handed over to criminals?

 

That fat fuck only has a slightly better chance of getting elected president than me....

 

Food is his drug....

 

I agree. He is an embarrassment and has no chance in hell.

 

I posted this more as a comical piece, but it doesn't hurt to keep an eye on this scum lapping shit bag.

 

He is definitely eat up with the dumb ass, but the criminals that control a big portion of sales in America is the united states government. The CIA usually has a pretty good sales record.

 

I think that is a smart move. Many states would vote for him just to stop the in-pour of trafficking from bordering Colorado.

 

That is not a smart move money wise. Colorado is flush with cash from pot taxes, any state that doesn't jump on the wagon is a bunch of fucking retards. The dangerous scam isn't cutting it anymore , there is no reason to keep it illegal other than they profit more personally.

 

Flush???


The revenue from pot sales is less than 1% of the state's tax revenues. It costs the state more to police and administer the program, than they take in from it.

 

It's costing bordering states more to police as well.

 

Then someone is lying somewhere. If they want to piss it away trying to police for profit that's their problem. I don't see one percent revenue, that has to be bullshit if the tax rate on pot is what they say it is. Something just doesn't add up.

 

Drug legalization is libertarian. Taxes are liberal.

 

They should end the drug war completely. Its an epic failure and the police are killing far more innocent people than all the drugs combined. I don't use any kind of drug so i have no reason to want it legal from that perspective, but the drug war is the dumbest most dangerous and wasteful thing in all of America

 

The majority of rape perpetrators are on some kind of narcotic. THC is narcotic. There are strains of cannabis that are as strong as LSD and they are now legal.

 

Yeah when these crazy fuckers lace it with everything under the sun. Pure natural stuff doesn't do that from the research i have done

 

Colorado is about to be forced to give a refund to citizens from the taxes on marijuana, when they set the original estimate they in effect put a cap on what they would be allowed to keep by law.
http://money.cnn.com/2015/03/02/pf/taxes/colorado-pot-tax-refund/
That article is oddly worded in that it makes a statement that they did not make as much as thought but by year end (fiscal year) they will have made too much.
So how can that 1% line be correct. Please show a link to comply with the numbers given.

 

The majority of people killed by arrows are wearing blue socks, two very difference statements with about the same meaning. Just because the majority of any one sub group fits into a category it doesn't imply causation. The same as everyone wearing blue socks would not of been the cause with people dying from arrow attacks in my statement. Secondly, there is no such thing as a strain of cannabis as "strong" as Lysergic acid diethylamide in any sense of the word. THC is active in milligram amounts, LSD, in MICROgram amounts. LSD can induce visual distortions and a strong sense of ego death and other such psychedelic effects. THC produces none of those in any amount. So in no sense of the word could THC be considered as "strong" as LSD. Also while I'm on the subject I'd like to point out both LSD and THC have been proved 100% physiologically safe a thousand times over since the 60's.

I'd also like to make a point with this, that dealers will NEVER lace your drugs. That would cost themselves money and they'd be loosing saleable drugs for no reason.

 

Just goes to show you how Connie's are when it comes to push and shove. They are not for states rights except when it suits their political agenda.

Fuck them and their mothers.

 

You can smoke the THC in microgram amounts too. It's called wax and I did it in college and yes it was like LSD.