What is going to happen in Washington and Colorado with the legalization of marijuana?

[youngchew]

Life is good out here in the mile high. I've been pretty mellow lately.

[John224]

Less speeding tickets for one. The two states would be a great place for hostess to start a comeback.

[Stadium-Armory]

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/apnew...ge-us-pot-laws

SEATTLE (AP) — An effort is building in Congress to change U.S. marijuana laws, including moves to legalize the industrial production of hemp and establish a hefty federal pot tax.

While passage this year could be a longshot, lawmakers from both parties have been quietly working on several bills, the first of which Democratic Reps. Earl Blumenauer of Oregon and Jared Polis of Colorado plan to introduce Tuesday, Blumenauer told The Associated Press.

Polis' measure would regulate marijuana the way the federal government handles alcohol: In states that legalize pot, growers would have to obtain a federal permit. Oversight of marijuana would be removed from the Drug Enforcement Administration and given to the newly renamed Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Marijuana and Firearms, and it would remain illegal to bring marijuana from a state where it's legal to one where it isn't.

[Prosperity]

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/apnew...ge-us-pot-laws

that's surprisingly...ummm not completely stupid way to deal with this

[GoSkins561]

Well, kids sure ain't wasting any time in exercising their new freedom to legally use dope. This wasn't predictable at all...

"Air Academy student hospitalized after eating pot brownie"
http://www.denverpost.com/breakingne...ng-pot-brownie
Sucks to be a dumbass

Hospitalized for what though? The plant is completely harmless, especially in brownie form.

[youngchew]

Hospitalized for what though? The plant is completely harmless, especially in brownie form.

He laughed so hard he tore an abdominal muscle...?

[Special K]

Hospitalized for what though? The plant is completely harmless, especially in brownie form.

I really don't know.

I suspect it would be something along the lines of teachers and administration implementing the CYA policy and sending this kid to the hospital once they observed visible symptoms???

[Stadium-Armory]

Eating brownies that are made with butter that was cooked with marijuana will make one very high. Its much more intense and it is not uncommon for experienced smokers to get 'too high' from eating it. This happened to kids when I was in high school and in college, resulting in trips to the ER because they were wasted and didn't know what else to do. Well before any state legalized anything.

[elkabong82]

Hospitalized for what though? The plant is completely harmless, especially in brownie form.

She could have gotten too much of the effect and had someone take her to a hospital out of paranoia, or got nauseous from it, which can happen. She was 14 so it was probably an overwhelming effect for her. School staff took care of her and contacted police, which is the reason for the hospitalization. Worse thing that could have happened was she threw it up and was nauseated for the day.

[Larry]

Was in the Doctor's office, today, reading a Time. Just going from memory, but they had an infographic in there that I think claimed that the pot legalization is estimated to cost Mexican drug cartels $1.4 Billion, this year.

[Predicto]

Everyone looking to Obama to resolve this problem is looking in the wrong place. Congress made pot illegal, and Congress needs to fix the problem. The Executive can set enforcement priorities, but it can't just say that "pot is legal" like some people seem to think that it can.

[pjfootballer]

On the NFL Honors show, Alec Baldwin stated they now know the reason how Peyton Manning got through his rehab after 4 neck surgeries.

[China]

Well, in answer to the thread title question, here's one thing that's happening:

Colorado pot accidents spur call for childproof packaging

From early 2005 to late 2009, Children's Hospital Colorado had exactly zero emergency-room visits by kids who had ingested marijuana. In the following two years, when medical marijuana became legal in Colorado and federal officials backed off prosecution, it had 14.

Pioneering studies of ER charts by Colorado doctors show looser pot laws leading to childhood poisonings, often from mistakenly eating tantalizing "edibles" like gummy worms or brownies.

Those doctors are now helping lead the charge for mandatory safety packaging as Colorado gears up for even broader legal sales of pot with recreational-marijuana stores.

"We've seen a dramatic increase in pediatric exposure," said Dr. George Wang, a Children's ER doctor who also works with Denver Health's Rocky Mountain Poison and Drug Center.

Calls about potential marijuana exposure at all ages have doubled since 2009 at the poison center.

Click on the link for the full article

[Bang]

Safety packaging makes sense.

~Bang

[RVAbrendan]

Safety packaging makes sense.

~Bang

Most definitely. I see nothing wrong at all with safety packaging.

I'd like to hear what became of those 14 ER visits, though. As another poster said, ingesting THC in an edible can have much stronger effects on somebody, especially if they don't smoke often, or at all. My old roommate, who used to partake once every couple of months, ate 2 or 3 brownies once. she had to force herself to go to bed because she was freaking out and began to cry.

But, it's all mental. I wouldn't think they would be physically injured.