{"id":183055,"date":"2015-03-25T22:24:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T03:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/03\/25\/our-fed-up-drug-policy-colorado-edition\/"},"modified":"2015-03-25T22:24:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T03:24:00","slug":"our-fed-up-drug-policy-colorado-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/03\/25\/our-fed-up-drug-policy-colorado-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Our F%$#ed Up Drug Policy, Colorado Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Medical Marijuana users in Colorado have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2015\/03\/medical-marijuana-users-in-colorado-turn-to-recreational-pot-to-avoid-federal-scrutiny\/\">taken to buying pot recreationally to avoid appearing in a registry that the DEA might access<\/a>:<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Though sales of recreational marijuana are increasing swiftly, medical marijuana sales in Colorado fell during 2014, GreenWave Advisors calculated, along with the number of new medical cardholders, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/102515590?__source=yahoo%7Cfinance%7Cheadline%7Cheadline%7Cstory&amp;par=yahoo&amp;doc=102515590#.\">CNBC reported<\/a>. Many medical users in the state have begun to purchase on the recreational side <b><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-variant: small-caps;\">despite a lower tax rate<\/span><\/b>. <\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs long as Medpot is illegal on the federal level no one wants to register for a pot card for fear the feds now know who and where they are, knowing fully the feds could and would come bust them on a federal charge,\u201d wrote Jeffrey Moab in a comment attached to the CNBC story. \u201cPeople are willing to pay extra bucks to remain invisible to the feds.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We need to take pot off the schedule 1 registry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medical Marijuana users in Colorado have taken to buying pot recreationally to avoid appearing in a registry that the DEA might access: Though sales of recreational marijuana are increasing swiftly, medical marijuana sales in Colorado fell during 2014, GreenWave Advisors calculated, along with the number of new medical cardholders, CNBC reported. Many medical users in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1013,1020,1074,982,983],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drugs","category-legislation","category-medical","category-stupid","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183055"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}