Smoke That Pot Now, Chris Christie Tells Users in States That Allow It

[onehandle]

Source: Bloomberg

Residents in U.S. states that have legalized marijuana should toke up while they still can, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said.

“If you’re getting high in Colorado today, enjoy it,” Christie, a Republican campaigning for the 2016 presidential nomination, said Tuesday during a town-hall meeting at the Salt Hill Pub in Newport, New Hampshire. “As of January 2017, I will enforce the federal laws.”

At a time when a majority of Americans say recreational pot use should be legal, and four states have already made it so, Christie remains opposed. The former federal prosecutor said Democratic President Barack Obama has selectively chosen which laws to enforce.

“If you're getting high in Colorado today, enjoy it.”


Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-07-28/smoke-that-pot-now-christie-tells-users-in-states-that-allow-it

[OldHippieChick]

1. What a jerk

[uhnope]

65. he just went from clown to dangerous clown

and I don't even smoke pot. It's the mass incarceration issue

[RobertEarl]

2. Big government telling folks what to do?

How do they get away with claiming they want small government when they really want government all up in our business?

[bluestateguy]

3. I believe in jury nullification

And I will never, if seated on a jury, convict anyone on trial for a non-violent drug offense.

[Angleae]

42. But will you commit perjury to get on that jury?

One of the questions the prosecutors will throw at you will be about your belief in enforcing drug laws.

[wildbilln864]

49. absolutely! most people are unaware of jury nullification and some even believe it's illegal. n/t

[C Moon]

4. Guess who's bucking for the prison-system and alcohol bucks?

[bucolic_frolic]

5. The entire

GOP field seem oblivious to the unpopularity of their dour, reactionary,
controlling, austere, punishing mindset.

[NJCher]

11. Oooooh!

Good descriptive writing. Yes, that's them, all right!

But I should have guessed you're a wordsmith, based on your user name.

Signed,

English teacher,



Cher

[bucolic_frolic]

22. But

I don't have graphics

Like your looooooooooooooooooooooong cat!

Meow!

[Populist_Prole]

40. The people I know who are like that...

...Swear up and down they're actually the majority and are somehow being silenced by the "librul" media.

Tone-deaf is too kind. Crazy bastards is more accurate.

[Iliyah]

6. I'll say one thing tho, medical MJ is fantastic.

Grandpa a Vietnam Veteran who recently had "3" back surgeries and is taking morphine 25mg and Percocet 10 mg and still have much pain is now taking medical mj.

His spirits is up.

[RKP5637]

55. K&R! n/t

[SCVDem]

7. I just watched John Oliver's show

on Mandatory Minimums.

Go extinct you dinosaur!

[RKP5637]

54. Yep, Christie is a fossilized dinosaur, a relic of the past, that brought us much of the mess we

have today.

[TwilightGardener]

8. Think you're going to win Colorado with that attitude?

Even people who don't like pot legalization wouldn't tolerate some East Coast loudmouth telling them what to do. Ask Michael Bloomberg how it worked out when he tried to fund a push for gun control in Colorado.

[NJCher]

12. well...

I'm a New Jersey resident and I prefer "East Coast blowhard," but let's not quibble.

Earth to Christie: Marijuana is way more popular than you will ever be.


Cher

[George II]

9. That's the way to hustle votes, huh?

What are his rules on eating going to be?

[NJCher]

18. he has one rule on eating

It's on the taxpayer's dime.

Remember that $600,000 he doesn't have to account for? It was all food.


Cher

[Roy Rolling]

10. He forgot the punchline

"When I'm president".

I guess he's trying to distinguish himself as the biggest asshole within a field of the biggest losers in Republican political history.

Once again, the party of limited government really just wants a bigger government to put more people they don't like in jail.

[NJCher]

16. He's probably already cut a deal

with the prison industry. You give me $X donations and I'll give you X number of new prisoners.

He's such a disgusting creep. Remember when he vetoed the measure that would have made it possible for pigs to be raised in free-range conditions instead of little crates? Sick bastard. I loathe him like I loathed bush.


Cher

[Sunlei]

13. I read some private citizens in Co. are using the federal rico? law with success to force sale of

Co. pot businesses assets and the courts pay them triple 'settlement'?


here on google search you can see all the lawyers listed for rico law defense and to hire for offense.
I believe people already go after the businesses once they get several million to take away.

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=rico+law+in+colorado+springs

I believe if republicans could do it, they would jail thousands of people for state legal MJ.

jail to punish then deport 5-10 million persons without papers, even if they have lived here for decades or almost. all their life.

[MADem]

14. Tone deaf ass really does not want to be POTUS, apparently.

Hell, I know Republicans who want to smoke it and profit off it. He just shot himself in the foot!

[99th_Monkey]

15. Bucking the tide of history, when you're already running near dead-last

among 16 candidates, is a sure-fire strategy for victory.

Please proceed Gov. Christie.

[drm604]

17. Apparently he really doesn't want to be President.

Does he really believe this will gain him more votes than it loses?

[rocktivity]

19. I'm beginning to think he's really in it for the PAC money

what happens to it when a presidential campaign ends?


rocktivity

[roamer65]

20. You had better enjoy your freedom, Chris.

Because soon you will be in jail on corruption charges.

[FailureToCommunicate]

26. +1 YOUR freedom Chris.

[Backwoodsrider]

21. dinasour

I am a paraplegic in Oregon with a medical card and a much less painful life now that I can legally smoke herb. I hope him and Trump keep blowing their horns showing even the most loyal republican the party is either going to die or grow as human awareness expands exponentially, despite their backward attitudes.

[RKP5637]

56. I often think fools like Christie just don't get it that the rest of us (R, D, and I) talk and

communicate far more than in the past thanks to the communications of today. Christie and similar jerks get wider exposure now and, more and more people are seeing them for the fools they are. They are obsolete, relics of the past. The world is moving forward as these fools cling to the historic notions that never worked in the past.

I'm pleased to hear that the herb is helping you!

[byronius]

23. That'll win him some votes fer sure. Well, and lose millions, but still. A man of principle.

The Trump Effect continues to pay dividends -- over the edge the GOP goes.

[daleo]

24. Enjoy losing elections, loser

[packman]

25. Kitchen Wars - Little stout teapot threatening mild pot

[blackspade]

27. Ah, fuck you Christie, you piece of shit.

[bluedigger]

28. Christie enforcing Federal laws in 2017?

There isn't enough pot in Colorado to make me that paranoid .

And there is a LOT of pot here.

[Mnemosyne]

36. So has paranoia from smoking eased now or is it really an actual effect regardless? nt

[bluedigger]

45. I've never experienced it.

Just an urban myth as far as I'm concerned.

[Mnemosyne]

53. I've always felt that any paranoia was from it being illegal and legalization would end it.

Hope before my time is done that I get to find out!

[bluedigger]

58. It's not "paranoia" when the threat of arrest is real.

Come to Colorado - we'll hook you up.

[Mnemosyne]

60. Great point! And I have been seriously considering a move for some health issues that cannabis

can help.

[maxsolomon]

62. It depends on the strain you choose if you're susceptible to it

I am. I studiously avoid Sativas.

This is the kind of stuff you can learn IF CHRIS CHRISTIE ISN'T PRESIDENT.

[Mnemosyne]

64. He cracks me up thinking he stands any chance of becoming POTUS. I'm in a state that

you just take whatever you can find, usually what I consider overpriced. $100 a 1/4! Guess I was spoiled in the '70/'80s...

[Gregorian]

29. People making the most noise usually have something to hide.

Keyboard Confucius says so.

PS Can we get on with things that make a decent society function properly now?

[Reter]

30. Here are all the major candidates positions on drugs

http://www.ontheissues.org/Drugs.htm

Amazingly, Trump, Hillary, and Rand Paul appear to be the best.

[bluedigger]

46. Not sure I agree with your analysis.

Not sure that your source is up to date.

HRC's position seems to be, well, she'll let us know once she's elected...

Rand Paul (oh, Fuck Rand Paul!) supports continued criminalization of recreational pot, reduced sentencing.

Trump never used anything, including alcohol. But he'll fire YOU for it.

Sanders is open minded on it - not a lot of daylight between he and Hillary, but his voting record and general position on incarceration is encouraging. From a Time Magazine interview in 2014:

Q. Marijuana legalization in Vermont and indeed in the country is a trend. What do you make of it?

It is a trend, but I think it has a lot of political support from young people especially. It probably will continue to move forward. Colorado led the way. Other states I expect will follow. I have supported the increased use of marijuana for medical purposes, and I can tell you when I was Mayor of the City of Burlington, which includes the University of Vermont, I don’t recall that anybody was arrested for marijuana use. And I have real concerns about implications of the war on drugs that has. We have been engaged in for decades now with a huge cost and the destruction of a whole lot of lives of people who were never involved in any violent activities.

In Vermont right now we’re dealing with a very serious problem with heroin use and use of prescription drugs. We lost over 50 people as a result of overdoses of prescription drugs and heroin. So I am concerned about the overuse of dangerous drugs. And we’ll see what’s going to happen, but I think that debate will take place in Vermont.

Q. So you don’t support the recreational legalization of marijuana in Vermont?

I’m going to look at the issue. It’s not that I support it or don’t support it. To me it is not one of the major issues facing this country. I’ll look at it. I think it has a lot of support and I’ll be talking to young people and others about the issues. But there are two sides to a story.

Q. Have you ever smoked pot?

A couple of times when I was young.
http://time.com/13328/bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-2016/

[Thor_MN]

52. How disingenuous can you be?

BD: "HRC's position seems to be, well, she'll let us know once she's elected..."

BS: "I’m going to look at the issue. It’s not that I support it or don’t support it. To me it is not one of the major issues facing this country. I’ll look at it."

[bluedigger]

59. Speaking of disingenuous, I also said there was little daylight between their positions.

You forgot to quote that, I guess - it must not have fit your paradigm. I just know which one has been more consistent, generally, and which one I trust.

[Thor_MN]

68. I saw that quote, it highliites your agenda

There isn't much difference in their published opinions, yet you choose to attack one of them. I'm not yet supporting either and will vote for the nominee.
If you can't see the hypocrisy in your post, we are not going to find a common ground.

[LiberalLovinLug]

67. I wouldn't call that "disingenuous"

We can't forget they are politicians. I can forgive, to a point, non-commitment to such a black and white question (recreational legality), especially so far from the election. As we saw with gay marriage, things can shift rapidly with sudden mass approval when a tipping point is reached (I know there is a word for that).

The Clintons, and even Obama, went on record opposing gay marriage...before they were for gay marriage. But I can accept the reality that even IF their inner belief was marriage equality, they had to reflect the majority of Americans and probably most Democrats in swing states, in order to get to a position to help pave the way for it to happen years later. Its a little sleazy, but politics sometimes is.

That's why Christie's ultimatum is not only against the tide, but stupidly politically corners him so far from any hope of taking office.

[Thor_MN]

70. You missed my point.

The other poster attempted to draw a distinction between two virtually identical positions. It is disingenuous to claim that one is a negative for one candidate and the other is a plus, when basically both candidates have said they don't have a position.
When they do come out with a position, we can compare and contrast. Until they do, attempting to distinguish is mindless propaganda. I like Sanders' statements, but am starting to dislike the mindless Bernie-bots.

[LiberalLovinLug]

74. Fair enough

I thought you were applying the word "disingenuous" to one or both of the two candidates, but it was to another poster.

I agree they are both equally evasive.

Here in Canada we are gearing up for our own federal election any day now. The Liberal Party leader has already proclaimed he would legalize pot nationally if he was elected. But that is still a risky move, even up here in Canada.

There you have a much more rabid right wing media machine that will pounce on any position they deem they could turn into a wedge issue, so I don't blame any candidate's caution in this matter.

[killbotfactory]

31. Because making it illegal was the only thing keeping people from smoking pot before.

and totally isn't a lame excuse for law enforcement to harass minorities.

[SmittynMo]

32. What an idiot

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Now wait, it appears that the country wants to go in the opposite direction there, Chris. At this point in time, I firmly believe we will see it legal in all 50 within the next 5-10 years. And even with all this information, and the fact that its really what the people want, another Republicant wants to go against the grain, and ignore "The people" once again. And they wonder why they can't win. Stupidity at it finest.

I think Christy needs to roll one up, and chill out.

Then have a bucket of chicken 2 hours later.

[restorefreedom]

33. glad to know his priorities are in order. nt

[MiniMe]

34. Because nobody ever smoked pot when it was illegal

Get real crispie

[MrModerate]

35. States' rights, anybody? n/t

[phleshdef]

37. Someone needs to take him to task for the fact that is known to drink alcohol a good bit.

[alcibiades_mystery]

38. Ma che cafone

[Solly Mack]

39. A losing platform from a loser.

[Blue Owl]

41. Chris Crusty = Captain Buzzkill

n/t

[beevul]

43. Rip van crispy?

Were you asleep when other states besides CO legalized it?

A novel strategy, that one, giving multiple states away with one sentence.

Good job.

[tomm2thumbs]

44. Not from his couch, holding a bucket of chicken, watching a Democrat get sworn in he won't...

Poor thang. Hope he bought extra tums for the heartburn he's going to feel after losing badly in the GOP field across the board.

[elias49]

47. Seriously.

The guy's in lala land.
Haha! A bucket of chicken Love it.

[jomin41]

48. He just can't be that stupid or contrary/tone-deaf, can he?

It's got to be MONEY, or some other political consideration. I'll bet he has a wealthy patron with a very narrow world-view. He's going nowhere, appropriately.

[Javaman]

50. what a sanctimonious jerk. nt

[RKP5637]

51. This guy Christie is such a damn fool! Words pale to describe him! n/t

[HFRN]

57. said the man who seems to have a lifelong case of the munchies nt

[Taitertots]

61. Christie: "a chicken in every pot and a federal agent in every driveway

How has he proposed to stop millions of legal marijuana users?

[uncle ray]

75. a bunch of orange cones and a couple of construction workers in front of each dispensary is my guess

it's a proven plan.

[maxsolomon]

63. The cat's out of the bag, big guy.

Seriously, he should visit a dispensary in Seattle and WTFU. Grandmothers are in there.

[brooklynite]

66. Headline: CHRIS CHRISTIE ENCOURAGES LAW-BREAKING

[Beauregard]

69. OK, Chris, I'll stock up.

How many kilos should I get?

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

71. He's toast. Even republicans partake.

[nirvana555]

72. WTF?!?! My God I hope he just gets smeared. Who does he think he is?!? N/T

[AllFieldsRequired]

76. Still mad that the cool kids in school wouldnt let him smoke with them.