Cannabis Legalization Initiative Will Be Filed In Washington Jan. 26

they are gonna have a real hard time getting that through with 18

 

Really waiting to see my state vote on this, unfortunately I can't vote because I am only a Permanent Resident.

 

Oh my god please legalize Marijuana in Washington. I will..OHMEHGAWD.

 

It will be 21 not, 18.


Citizen initiative would legalize pot in Washington state

 

if this passes good things are in our states future.

 

What kind of a self respecting 18+ year old would smoke on their parents dollar? If you can join the army and die for your country at 18 why cant you puff on reefer at 18?

 

thats a year old, the latest piece is for 18 and older

plenty, dont kid yourselves. also the people on the fence may vote no because of the 18 limit being too low, you have to think like the fence voters. 21 just looks better on paper and will get you more votes... i haven't seen anyone who isn't 21 or close to 21 complain about it either, just the people in that gray area

 

Hope to god this passes this would change alot in this country

 

lower the drinking age to 18, so when we start introducing marijuana laws with 18 and over limits it wont look weird.

 

NORML.ORG US WA: Bill Proposes To Sell Pot Through State Liquor Stores

Its 21 years old.

 

http://apps.leg.wa.gov/documents/billdocs/2011-12/Pdf/Bills/House Bills/1550.pdf

Here is the actual (other) bill that everyone else is talking about, in regards to the 21 age limit. This is a House Bill by the way, I 1068 is an initiative.

Specifically Sec. 60 is where it states that it will only be for sale for people over 21.

I think 1550 is really the bill to look at this year. 1068 was the bill they tried to get signatures for last year here in Washington, but it was shot down because of the age limit being eighteen, Sensible Washington not having enough volunteers and money (Donations, contributions from organizations, ect.) to get the petitions around to get the req'ed signatures, and thus did not get enough votes to be on the ballot (Along with a lot of alleged tampering and petition seizures by some of the local drug agents here ). I haven't even heard anything about it here in Spokane this year. Which on the other hand I have been hearing much more about 1550, and reading the bill it seems much more reasonable than 1068 in regards to getting passed. (Which the precursor bill for 1550 last year did not make it to ballot either)

Pretty much it is whatever bill actually (hopefully) makes it on the ballot this time will be the one that people will actually vote for. I just hope we actually get to vote on the issue this year, it seems like the ball has been rolling for so long now, and that every time we get close to a real piece of positive legalization legislation, instead of breaking through that metaphorical door, its like one side of the ball suddenly decides try to roll violently the opposite direction, effectively stopping us right before we hit.

 

Any idea if someone who works a government based job will be allowed to smoke and purchase marijuana if this manages to pass?

 

^I would like to know this too for future reference

 

As far as I know the current guidelines for Washington state employees is to abide by the federal Drug Free Workplace Act from 1988, and in both of bills it does not have any specific language regarding governmental employees (That I can see, I may have skipped over it, reading bills is draining).

I do know every state job I have had, at state schools, post office, liquor store. That you are required to abide by Federal and State law, and that even if MJ is legalized here in Washington most state/government run agencies are probably still going to abide by Federal laws, since even in mmj states that is pretty much still a reality. Until more states get legalized or the government changes their official scheduling stance on MJ I can't really see State or Government based jobs abandoning the drug testing system set in place so far.

Edit: Or somebody challenging this through a lawsuit perhaps, but only if the person who is employing you has ambiguous language pertaining to that. And most applications I have had state directly on them that they abide according to federal guidelines and the Drug Free Workplace Act. As a governmental employee, you would want to figure out your employers policies in regards to state and federal law, and hope to god they are willing to accept the state law instead of insisting federal law trumps state law.

 

why are they going to sell it through state liquor stores.... another hurdle for the writing of that bill

now you'll have opponents saying people can buy pot and alcohol from the same store (not that we care, but we care about their mindset, we want their vote!)

 

So nice bro wats up... now....nice post whichis written by on this topic...but one thing bro...
The US war on drugs places great emphasis on arresting people for smoking marijuana. Since 1990, nearly 5.9 million Americans have been arrested on marijuana charges, a greater number than the entire populations of Alaska, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont and Wyoming combined. In 2000, state and local law enforcement arrested 734,498 people for marijuana violations. This is an increase of 800 percent since 1980, and is the highest ever recorded by the FBI.

As has been the case throughout the 1990s, the overwhelming majority of those charged with marijuana violations in 2000– 646,042 Americans (88 %) - were for simple possession. The remaining 12% (88,456 Americans) were for “sale/manufacture”, an FBI category which includes marijuana grown for personal use or purely medical purposes. These new FBI statistics indicate that one marijuana smoker is arrested every 45 seconds in America. Taken together, the total number of marijuana arrests for 2000 far exceeded the combined number of arrests for violent crimes, including murder, manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery and aggravated assault.

 

7-11 wouldn't be the place to propose for it to be dispensed either