Denver marijuana initiative makes national news!

[bweizee]

Tie-Vert?? what an illiterate dumass report

[bpimley]

Denver councilmen Hancock-"I don't believe at all this thing will end up passing in the city of Denver. We have very smart, intelligent, informed citizens in Denver, and they'll do the right thing come November"....They sure did!

[platanaso1982]

And it passed..how bout now?? what do u got to say asshole??

[cletedawgthewalmart]

i love the army veteran pullin on a joint haha

[tatpalu]

The Denver Councilman says it'll be a waste of taxpayers money to pursue this initative and that under the current law, they prosecute those who choose to use marijuana. Those incarcerated because they were caught in possession of pot is more of a waste of taxpayers money. The councilman is so confident that the initiative will not pass, but what if it did? will he lose his elected position or stay and enjoy his salary paid for by the taxes of the very drug that he and his cronies are against.

[tatpalu]

The Denver Councilman says it'll be a waste of taxpayers money to pursue this initative and that under the current law, they prosecute those who choose to use marijuana. Those incarcerated because they were caught in possession of pot is more of a waste of taxpayers money. The councilman is so confident that the initiative will not pass, but what if it did? will he lose his elected position or remain and enjoy his salary paid for by the taxes of the very drug that he and his cronies are against.

[jetlagger1229]

LMFAO WEN THE VIETNAM VET PASSED THE J AROUND I SWEAR I MADE A GRAB AT IT FROM MY IPOD..whole time im about to light up..

[Snortemup]

Well seeing as I'm an Alcoholic and pot smoker it doesn't take a retard to figure out which is safer. People can say what they wan't but if you compare the two it's like saying what is safer Percocet or Pepsi. it originally started long before prohibition. This country is run by corporations. The average American thinks that because a Doctor prescribes something that it's safer. Think what you want but don't take my word for it find out for yourselves.

[CottonmouthMovies]

Why WHy Y wether its legel or not Im still Fireing the bich up Fuck you all.

[DomingoR07]

@CottonmouthMovies Fuck you

[rich2rock]

And how many decades of waste from the laws there now?

[stephmikie]

free the weed

[MichaeljMarus]

I bout to smoke a ounce... with my boys holler

[rthur4]

LOL omg that would be soo fucking great in houston

Someone please start a protest in houston i will help lol.

Id love to just chill out with people and smoke

[bnimph10]

lol they are smart and they did the right thing. Fucking morons are out of touch!!!

[airsoftsoldier82]

i moving to denver next week!!!!!!!!!!!!!1hahahahahaha­ha

[LordChrondor]

Fun fact; this did make it onto the ballot, and ironically, the law was passed in the city and county of denver with smething like a 10% margin. even more ironic still, somehow, our "leaders" found a loophole and you will still be arrested for ANY pot you have on you. Another fact t snack on, we give ppl post-op pain killers. These are derived from heroin. Hydromorphone=highly addictive

Marijuana=A slight risk of mental addiction.

Politicians=Do they keep us or wealthy drug companies happy...

[strateshootah]

Marijuana Kills Brain Cells....It Really Does!

[stoopidstoopid]

Possibly. Alcohol does too...as well as liver failure, brain damage, physical addiction...

[finerbiner]

cite the study that proves this.

[PhuckAllYouPeople]

@strateshootah

Cannabis does not kill brain cells, that study was done in the 70's where they put gas masks on monkeys and suffocated them with smoke and gave them no oxygen for about 10 minutes every day for a year or so.

Semi-severe brain damage occurs after only 4 minutes without oxygen, and since then cannabis has been proven to not kill brain cells in many studies.

If you want to see the effects of cannabis on the brain look up cannabinoid receptors.



[uninvitedhost]

iam a homosapien and all I do is think. Its my human rights to search for somthing that gets my brain working. I do not think in the box anymore. Im sitting on the world and its fucked up. Now I want to smoke and stay in the box lol.

[ampiet3]

it passed

[wika4wika]

what exactly does marijuana do. health wise, not the fact that it makes u "happy"

[xaviermockingbird]

It lowers the activity of cancer cells in the body , it helps cure nausea its a stress reducer um in ADD patients it helps with concentration I cant remember any other possitive effects aside from making you a bit dopey , temporarily reducing short term mememory and giving you red eyes there are no negative effects you may not experiance short term memory loss and it only affects you while your high your eyes may not get red and you can still function properly while stoned .

[Deadlywaterboy]

Exactly

[xaviermockingbird]

I was high last time and forgot to say its also a painkiller which is one of the things I use it for with great results cancer patients use it to increase their appitites (increase hunger ) , the uncooked seeds have some essential vitamins I think , it was something thats very important to your diet that cant be obtained from anything else but I cant remember exactly what it was either a vitamin a protien thats all of the positive affects I know of any other negatives I didnt list are lies .

[CrackedHalo]

What kinda of question is this ?? With your logic, .... what exactly does alcohol do. health wise not the fact that it makes u "Drunk"

.... what exactly does drinking coffee do. health wise not the fact that it makes u "Wake"

Moron

[ampiet3]

no worse for you than a big mac and we feed those to our kids.

[universalsheep]

somebody want to serve him back his words?

[xaviermockingbird]

Serve who back his words?

[NinetiesYouth]

Ohh it's Anchorage, Alaska. Interesting.

[NinetiesYouth]

Which was the first city to legalize adult marijuana use?

[xaviermockingbird]

Well you cant realy say which was the first because at first it was legal then it became illegal so if your asking in this country which was the first to end prohibition im pretty sure it was Sacramento but thats only to medical patients .

[pxxner]

if your citizens in denver were informed it would be legal.

[spoketwister]

NIGGERS!!!

[HarryJAnslinger]

"They will do the right thing come November"

So true...so true.

[carl1223]

that was my exact thought.

stupid fucking jiggaboo

your supposed to like bud man.

get with the program

were in the 2000's man. wtf?!

stop sqauting over the ways of the new generation. no one stopped your sixties life of alcohol and intense warfare and domesticity values. so dont try to supress our hackysack, music, and marijuana peace loving ideals and lifestyles.

[carl1223]

its funny cause this is the first balck guy ive seen for keeping weed illegal its usually old white men but hey theres always gonna be uncle toms so eh...

oh yea and let me add im a BLACK man so i can say it so dont give me shit about being racist its about being right!

[dorito818]

LEGALIZE IT

all states in the U.S. should Legalize

[jrapidfire]

Haha "right thing" my ass. thats why it passed in november and all those "smart, intelligent and informed citizens" are just those stupid fucks who havent grown out of their diapers yet and like to believe all the bullshit lies we heard in elementary school DARE programs. who the hell are they to say what the right thing is or not? We all have our own mind and way of life. WE MUST ALWAYS HAVE THE FULL EXTENT OF OUR LIBERTY AS THE CONSTITUTION CLEARLY SAYS. FUCK THIS CORRUPTED BULLSHIT. GO SAFER!

[aprilmarco]

Every black person i know smokes, I think its just a tan

[KIMBOSLICE66666]

stupid nigger

[fockmenofocku]

thats the lamest black dude in the world!

[crassisdead]

Fuck fox news

[thegrandmoosie]

yeah.......

[tarzan060989]

i know right there fuckin liars.they said weed can kill u.wat load of shit

[skater251993]

FOX is Republican so everyone else can fuck off

[crassisdead]

That made no sense at all. Republicans are clueless blood thirsty assholes whose only solution is violence, dipshit

[skater251993]

yeah cuz what you said makes a shit load of sense. yeah I'd love to fuck up all the al-qaeda pieces of shit but who wouldn't? if you had a heart you would too. here's a lil quote from your savior obama, "CHANGE! *mumbles* is all you'll have left when I'm through with you" I'm sorry I actually want a good economy

[crassisdead]

I'm an anarchist, dumbfuck. Republicans are just stupid assholes who think they're right. And everybody has a heart, if they didn't they would be dead. If you want someone to die just because they've killed people makes you no better than them. Capturing them is one thing, but killing is bullshit.

[budmanonetwo123]

Its the states fucking choice, why is federal government so powerful/trying to be too powerful as it is right now.

[0skawesome]

that's why i voted for bob barr

[hopelessim]

looks like they did the right thing...it pasted

[dabdoub420]

Well,

It PASSED!!!!!!!!!!

blacky

[ridebananas]

ha ha

[pjicleanair]

i smoke marijuana on a daily basis and i will tell you why it will never become legal..........this "machine we have created"..prisons...guards...c­ounseling..police.....municipa­l state and fed agencies...... allll supported upon the presecution of marijuana related "crimes".. they generate so much money on it being illegal if they took that money out of play the machine couldnt go on and that is sad

[angusandjagr]

someone please tell me why it is better for us to pay huge amounts of money in taxes for someone to sit in jail because he or she God forbid deals pot. Give me a fuckin break. But yet you can be drunk out of your mind kill a family in your car and get supervision/probation.(first time offense) are you kidding me??

[wonworld]

i dont know y colorado people are so concerned about marijuana, Cocaine is way more of a problem anyway

[JesseMSmits]

smoke weed, smoke weed, smoke weed

[DoctorBudd]

Let me highlight one more thing and then I'll shutup! I presented my opinion; assuming that you are a cannabis smoker that knows a little bit about how certain industries (Gas, drug, alcohol) fear the fact cannabis would become an even more efficient commodity then their own. Effectively making it's competition (the industries') obsolete. And besides, no drug ever in the history was ever been outlawed for a medical reason! Racism...hmmm...government...m­oney...kinda suspicious huh?

[DoctorBudd]

People innately like short and easy answers. And politicians being backed by drug, petroleum and alcohol companies, like to manipulate that little fact for their own perverted gain. I mean drugs are not easily understood. It's about that whole seeking the quickest/easiest solution thing again that the masses want. It's easy to say that drugs are bad. But it isn't easy to know why, how, when and where are they either good or bad. That is why cannabis may never be legal. Like it or not. Done.

[DoctorBudd]

And the general population is easy to manipulate when one holds political power. Why? It's because they know that as a whole, people are not going to rigorously pursue the truth. They know that the easy answer is the most appealing, that being cannabis is very detrimental to society as opposed to the fact that it really isn't. Whenever cannabis is defended, it's not gonna be very popular because it isn't as easily understood as, "Cannabis is bad!"...continued in next post.

[DoctorBudd]

Man I hate to say it, but dumb people are too powerful! Like politically, because there is just too many of 'em! It'll be very hard for cannabis to ever become legalized, because no matter how much research confirms that it is not as bad as it is portrayed, the dumb close-minded politicians will continue to push their and the industries agenda. It is disguised as a bad drug when it is actually very beneficial. And the general population is very easy to manipulate...continued in next post.

[Fastlan3]

GO HERE!! sign it, and send!

H.R. 5842: The Medical Marijuana Patient Protection Act

H.R. 5843: The Personal Use Act

(dot)mpp(dot)org(slash)legisla­tion

[olliejat]

r0fl, "pot" n00b reporter, also all the clips they show of people smoking have handlebar mustaches, the are all winners

[JoeCfb]

I'll bet that councilman felt like an idiot when it passed.

[refuckulate420]

lol dumb negro guess what it passed! its the first step and a small catalyst for future laws.

[LostLikeYou]

wow we didnt vote george bush in office but the electoral college nudged him in. people vote to legalize marijuana and the electortal college strikes again or what? give the people what they want. and what that guy meant by smart informed citizens is dumb repeaters of what theyve heard in dare scaretactics. oh, they'll do what weve told them to do. they dont think for themselves they do what we tell them. yea, well they didnt so fuck you cops, go eat some more dick!

[pisscunt]

That guy more or less called the legal process a waste of tax payers money. No, throwing people in prison for something that really isn't a crime, is much more of a waste of tax money.

[pisscunt]

I hate how all the law officials and news casters say pot and marijuana.

[flipperboy]

"smart, intelligent, educated ppl who will do the right thing" damn straight they gonna say yes to weed if they really are that intelligent

[xShadowheart13x]

they proved a great point here that i think everyone should know

and that is alcohol is more harmful then marijuana

i mean really how many car crashes...murders and shit like that have been involved with marijuana

comman sense people

USE IT

[Socalplyr213]

these tv show's are entertaining but not all real

these guyz look like actors lol

[UnfocusedAnakin]

Lol but it did pass

You know what is just north of Denver, Boulder, CO, ALOT of hippies in that town, and they all vote.

[patman2112]

Legalize it!

[SPID73]

Im moving to denver hahahaha Aspen is nicknamed snow mountain for obvious reasons. Im from the states and live in england I think the stupid shmuck politicians need to visit amsterdamn and maybe that will open their eyes lol...I would like to see al franken and bill oreilly high together too that would be funny as hell lol...

[Fockersnextdoor]

wonder if the citizens who voted for the common sense legislation will now put the council memebers out of a job if they refuse to support the choice of the majority?

[eliazarfernandez]

fuck u

[Socalplyr213]

bitch ass nigger

against the herb

[SarahR131]

13 of 13 city counsil members didn't want it. That's awesome cuz they got it!

[Lev08e39M5]

WTF why didnt i know about this?!?!

[msbsevensixseven]

FUCK THE DEA. Smoke it anyway, just be smart about it. 18 million Americans smoke daily; we're an unstoppable fucking force.

[LinePoison]

Respect my friend

[msbsevensixseven]

true dat. It's time to go to war wit these mofos.

Smoke it, grow it, and teach other people how to do it.

WEED IS LESS DANGEROUS THAN ALCOHOL!!

[trippyfuck911]

what is the other city they legalized it in?

[BlaazNglory]

haha wroonge lololololololol omg that was funny rofl. Guess what It Did lolololol ooh shit that was like a big slap in the face. haha i laugh n ur face

[Toastercrumbs]

1:34

wrongggggggg

[LILKURUPT21]

when did  this happen????

someone??

[weedyjen123]

IM MOVING THER!

[therealOG328]

and the right thing is to vote marijuana legalization, otherwise your pretty much...stupid

[dlion30]

FUCK THE DEA and the 1937 Marijuana Tax Stamp. Weed became illegal in America in 1937 because of pure American racism against the Mexicans mostly in Texas. They baned marijuana to drive the Mexicans back into Mexico. THATS FUCKED UP! The same thing happened to the blacks in the very early 1900s with cocaine. The United States racism has lead to making marijuana against the law. FUCK THE DEA!!!

[trufiend138]

@dlion30 Marijuana because illegal because of big corporations as we were gearing up to go to WW2...DuPont chemical corp most notably...

[fatwallet08]

@trufiend138 learn you history. Btw it's cannabis in english and marijuana in spanish, just to clear that. anyway's cannabis became legal during WWII to fund the war. just some cannabis fun facts there :)

[alternatea2b]

The Power of the people is really at the local level; in our hometowns. But it is a struggle.

[entrepreneurialMex]

i dont give a fuck what any news says IT IS YOUR CHOICE TO SMOKE AND ONLY YOURS if you dont like it dont smoke it if you like it then smoke it simple like yes or no

[949883]

american news are pathetic, they show images of ppl smoking weed to take your atention away from what the pro marijuana guy's sayin

[swishersweets2008]

i wish i lived in denver. Alcohol has destroyed many lives.

[DiddleySquatt]

It's nonsense about "state prosecutions." The arrests were being made by city cops. This referendum (it passed) blocked that. Good thing it did, too. :-)

[bannedfromy0utube]

it passed, once again.

hancock was wrong.

LOL!

[poisonice69]

All I have to say is, Michael Handcock

lol

[crazyjak87]

you know guys they keep showing people smoking pot in this interview and how calm and nice they are to their fellow pot smokers, now if they were showing people binge drinking at a club you would see some violence and other aggressive behavior. our country does not give two shits about our opinions and they know damn well that marijuana is safer.

[TheRavi1]

Ron Paul for President 2008. Legalize it bitches!!!

[Jakeak74]

Agreed

[damanwidtheplan]

hmmm seems everyone else knows whats good for me except me lol, nannystate and all, if the goverment says its bad for me den it damn sure is :). they are trying to stop the people...who put them in their positions from voting on something that affects them...how retarded, i hope weed becomes legal cultivation of 5 plants legal. id be happy :) grow monster pound tree's :)

[NortherNLuv14]

WOOOOO!! Mason Tvert for president! an ounce IS legal here now BITCHEZ!! Get mad all you want! Only thing u can do now is go smoke a bole! hahaha! I love my city! GO MASON TVERT!! I love that dude!

[rjhall316]

I believe the other city they were referring to is Seattle

[shanedeisel07]

that dumass black man didnt kno shit im glad it passed its way safer than alcohol ,alcohol kills ppl weed makes you happy... wtf???

[pdrnsalazar84]

Why Lou Dobbs Should Support Marijuana Legalization Check it out on the search engine great info!! you should be able to a debate about marijuana prohibition with anyone and hold your own! legalize marijuana!!

[lostorfound19]

funny how even after it was past, dickheads like that guy where compleatly downplayed the public reaction

[yarnell2122]

He's right, citizens where smart enough to pass it.

[Alyssasboy08]

im moving to denver.

[bonitamatt]

fucking football sixties alcoholic dickhead dea pricks! fuck off man. learn about some natural rights and a governments only right in having power over a republic.

[bonitamatt]

that was my exact thought.

stupid fucking jiggaboo

your supposed to like bud man.

get with the program

were in the 2000's man. wtf?!

stop sqauting over the ways of the new generation. no one stopped your sixties life of alcohol and intense warfare and domesticity values. so dont try to supress our hackysack, music, and marijuana peace loving ideals and lifestyles.

[MiClLC]

Dumb nigger

[kurtwashere111]

hahahahaha It did pass, looks like the councilmen doesnt even know his own city.

[thefakeyeti]

I hate when this fuckers do this..

Denver would be the second city to do this. WHAT WAS THE FIRST CITY MOTHER FUCKER! Aquiring pothead minds want to know!

[lostorfound19]

thefakeyeti

L M F A O!

while i cant find any menton of the other city, i would assume said city would be much smaller than denver. toronto is the only other north american city i know of with pro pot laws.

then again canada is mostly pro pot anyway. atleast thats my understanding of it, be dammed if an american can get decent news coverage from anyplace but youtube!

[Bredac]

i was thinking the same god damn thing...they don't want us to know

[mikec8604]

its funny cause this is the first balck guy ive seen for keeping weed illegal its usually old white men but hey theres always gonna be uncle toms so eh...

oh yea and let me add im a BLACK man so i can say it so dont give me shit about being racist its about being right!

[blahinhawaii]

Many people don't realize that racism was used to criminalize marijuana in the first place. Anslinger, the son-in-law of the Secretary of the Treasury who headed the bureau of narcotics, campaigned by telling people MJ "makes darkies think they are as good as white men." The political establishment in Denver and Colorado apparently wants to continue the war on other cultures, races and lifestyles while they drink their wine and beer.

[NikoKun]

How foolish can someone be... so blindly against marijuana, even though it's safer for you than caffeine... at least the public was smarter than him... XD

[ynotlex]

OWNED!! HAAHAHHAHA

that guy was convinced it wasn´t gonna pass

[jnweclipse33]

The U.S Gov makes more money by having alcohol legal which causes so many problems making for so many things to cost money to the people who abuse it. If weed was legal and more people used it than alcohol that same number of problems would go down, so they decided to blend it in with all of the poisinous substances such as LSD, Extacy, and Heroin, while at the same time alcohol is molded into the American lifestyle so much that most people don't even see it as a drug.

[dwmarc]

Typical Fox News--- They cut off Mr. Tvert more than once and gave the councilman the floor for this interview.... Too bad the truth never really makes it out eh?

[SoulProfit]

Too bad indeed.

[blahinhawaii]

Michael Hancock, Charlie Brown and the other 11 members of the city council and city attorney are history. It is political suicide to thumb your nose at the majority's vote. Every day more elderly die and more teens reach voting age. It's a matter of time before the people are truly represented in Denver and the country.

[blahinhawaii]

"of the 13 council members, not one of us is in touch with nor do we give a damn what the majority of the people we claim to represent want. That they would go out of their way to sign a petition and then show up and vote for the people's will means nothig to us. All 13 of us on the council know these idiots will re-elect us anyway. We will not respect their votes, or their laws, and will continue to criminally prosecute them and their friends while we drink the mayor's booze."