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Oh yes, please, Oklahoma and Nebraska, let’s play that game.

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Attorneys general from those two bastions of grace and erudition announced Thursday they will sue the hell out of Colorado because voters here legalized pot, and residents in their states just can’t seem to get enough of it. They say, after doing research — please, hold your laughs a little longer — that all the life-sentences for the thousands of motorists caught driving Colorado’s premium weed into the state is breaking their government banks and turning their little corners of heaven into lands of sad dopers.

OK, now you can yuck it up.

So the lawyers that represent those states took their case to the U.S. Supreme Court in hopes of making us stop.

Now I kind of like the idea of suing other states to make them stop doing stuff that costs Colorado cash and consternation. And what better places to file counter-suits against than these two bulwarks of despair, states No. 37 and No. 46?

Let’s start with Nebraska, the thriving meth capital of the USA. This is a state that has so many trailers exploding from crappy meth labs gone bad that they pretty much welcome it because they don’t have to drag them to the state’s growing environmental nightmare landfills anymore. Think I’m making this up? Have you not heard the joke about knowing for certain the toothbrush was invented in Lincoln, Nebraska, because if it was invented anywhere else, it would be called a “teethbrush?”

And since when did anyone in Nebraska think there wasn’t an incredible crop of weed growing there long before Colorado voters went to the polls to end prohibition here? They only grow all that corn there so they can mask the rows of ditchweed raised all over the state. Marijuana actually grows wild in some parts of Nebraska because it’s been so over-planted. It’s not our fault they grow crap for pot and much prefer the strains cultivated in swank pot shops here in Denver.

This is a state that makes Runzas, and makes you eat them. If you have to ask, don’t. This is the home of Carhenge and rampant teenage drinking. This is a state that makes Wyoming look progressive. And Colorado is the place they come to clog the roads and get well again.

And if any or all of that isn’t bad enough, one word makes it clear that Nebraska needs to keep quiet and find something else to do to pass the time: Cornhuskers. ‘Nuff said.

And Nebraska’s partner in criminently for this lawsuit? Oklahoma is a state that just can’t hide its crazy. In fact, it doesn’t even try.

Talk about the cost of their doing monkey business in the world, Colorado residents and all others have long paid a high price for keeping the endless parade of elected Oklahoma nutcases traipsing back and forth to Washington D.C.

Where to start? Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe, the man who swears to God that climate change is the devil’s work and meant to drive all 15 wealthy Oklahoma businessmen back into the middle class.

The only place that regularly tops Nebraska as one of the worst states in the country to live, is Oklahoma. It’s a great place to escape from — not just because of red ants that hunt you in bed, or brown recluse spiders that are hardly reclusive, or the scorpions, or the rattle snakes, or the endless chemical toxins or the relentless dust caused by farming and unpaved roads or the crumbling bridges, or the rampant obesity or the skyrocketing teen birth rate or the constant smell of cigarette smoke or the horrifying heart attack rate or rampant racism. No, the real reason Oklahoma scares the hell out of me is because it sits on Colorado’s southern border and because of the bat-shit crazy politicians that hail from there. This is like the who’s who of people that would prompt you to walk home from Oklahoma rather than hitch a ride with.

Fighting for title of worst of the worst is state Rep. Sally Kern, the queen of snide and hate. She’s the lady who made Oklahoma famous when she said black people don’t work as hard as white people. She’s the one who said that homosexuality is a much bigger threat to America than terrorist attacks. “Homosexuality is not a civil right, it’s a human wrong,” she says to anything that will stand still or appear to listen, adding that gays are “lying” about being born gay.

For this woman, and so many others in Oklahoma, it’s all about putting the “Christ” back in “Christmas” instead of putting it back into “Christianity.”

This is the state that legislates human female eggs are people with rights, and even male sperm. Ack. This is a state that invites nut-case religious types to their state capitol to tell receptive folks that the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks was a warning from God and that schools ought to teach the story of Adam and Eve instead of insisting that Oklahoma children were “advanced mutations of a baboon.”

And then there’s the infamous state Sen. Ralph Shortey, who sponsored a 2012 bill making it illegal to use aborted human fetuses in food products.

And the perennially jaded Gov. Mary Fallin, who would much rather see fellow Okies cheat on their husbands and mess around with state troopers, as long as they’re not gay husbands. This is a woman who not only preaches the Good Book, but can check off sins like some kind of bucket list.

More recently, Scott Esk, who was for running for a state house seat, insisted on his Facebook that the state has every right to stone homosexuals to death.

My personal favorite Oklahoma political whack, however, is Timothy Ray Murray who told everyone that his opponent, state Rep. Frank Lucas, was executed a few years ago and the man purporting to be Lucas was actually a lookalike. The guy got better than 5 percent of the vote in a Republican primary, and according to the Huffington Post, was angry because he couldn’t find a court to help him get Lucas’ DNA tested to clear up the matter.

The problem for us is that their nut cases incite our nut cases. Oh, yes, let’s just see whose internal state issues are costing folks more in worry and cash outside state borders. All this is aside from the fact that Colorado has been taking in refugees from both of these states for generations.

But if these two states insist on pursuing this, and obviously they have nothing better to do, than I say we offer them this deal. For every pot purchase made by someone with a Nebraska or Oklahoma driver’s license, we’ll add a $10 Sucks-To-Be-From-There surcharge. We keep half. They get half. We all get rich, and maybe decision makers in those great states will try a little premium bud themselves. The only other real option would be secession and creating their own country. I’m OK with that, too.

READERS: I rarely write post-scripts. Reader responses to this column called for it. I applaud those who live in places that are wrongly judged by hair-brained leaders who think they speak for everyone. Clearly, worrisome electeds in Nebraska and Oklahoma don’t speak for those who think before they act, and in many cases, simply think. READ HERE.

Dave Perry is editor of the Aurora Sentinel

73 replies on “PERRY: Don’t meth with Neb. and Okla. — counter-sue if they don’t hide their crazy”

  2. Great editorial by Dave Perry, but I’ll bet a dollar against a cold biscuit that the supremes won’t touch it.

  3. Please pardon my AG, he’s an ass. Noone here approves of what he’s doing; just more political grandstanding and a waste of our money.

    1. Which AG would that be? My AG is John Suthers, and he’s an ass, but he also is a smart ass, which means that he thinks the lawsuit has no merit and will defend the law to the death. I hope Colorado countersues and ask that the states set aside $50 million EACH to set up a border crossing for their states. Pretend Colorado is Mexico. And we’ll just laugh at you.

      1. Your AG is Cynthia Coffman. She is yet to say how she will handle this. Her husband, Mike Coffman is not cannabis friendly. A factor that we are all overlooking…

  4. Loved the article. Other states don’t get the CO vibe. Fierce individualism and love of the outdoors. No tolerance for dumb laws and a taste for good beer. Along with the love of good bud too!

  7. Thanks Mr. Perry! I laughed several times and I am from Oklahoma! Just for clarification, I have been working in political activism for 25 years, and sometimes I feel like giving up. LOVED the Inhofe comment!

    1. As another Oklahoman, who worked hard for some SANITY, I also applaud this editorial. Only it was too short. He could’ve/should’ve gone on for another 10000 words. Each of our states’ “leaders” has so much to offer to his superb descriptions. Soon I hope to be one of the refugees he rightly speaks of. Only I will be bringing my small business with me, and helping to grow Colorado. I came back here to Okieland because of Family. Now they’ve passed, and I am free to leave this forsaken place to the crazies . . .

  8. I HATE that my state, Oklahoma, is so dumb! Sorry, Colorado! I am but a blue dot, in a sea of red, but I try like hell, to change hearts and minds! I completely support legalization, and your right to sell, smoke, grow, eat, drink, prescribe and whatever else, marijuana!! I didn’t vote for these idiots, here! They make MY life miserable, too! Please accept my most sincere apologies. 🙁

    1. Um, Colorado is a Sea of Red too. The only reason some Dems want legallization is to have more control over the individual and build a bigger government control grid. We the people are libertrians, it’s just that some people haven’t figured that out yet.

      2. Every word of what you said is balderdash!
        I work for the election board and registered dems out number registered pubs 5 to 1. Location, location, location. Counties were there are 3-7 resident per square mile are usually red. Counties where there are 5000-10000 are 98% blue. But keep on puleing stats out of your ass… the libertarian way.

        1. I have NEVER understood why metropolitan areas are so damnably dem strong, does everyone who lives in a large city have non-functioning brains? The republicans are bad in their own way, both parties want to control the lives of everyone else, they just have different areas of the lives of others over which they want control. Libertarians do not want to control ANYONE’S lives but their own, we see the heavy taxation favored by dems to be armed theft, we see the wars favored by BOTH parties as vile aggression, we see the unconstitutional statutes passed by government that try to control our choices of mate or intoxicant or herbal medicine or family planning, or what kinds of light bulbs we want to use or what size the water tanks on our toilets are, etc., etc., etc. as null and void (you want to limit your own ability to make choices in your own lives, go right ahead, but don’t you DARE try to limit MINE with your unconstitutional statutes!)

          Since the statutes that criminalized those things and more are totally unconstitutional (the fed gov was NOT empowered by the Constitution to ban any plant or ingestible substance, or interfere in or rule over the daily lives, homes, and businesses of the people), those statutes are ALL null and void, and were so the moment each was passed, even before the presidents (beginning with FDR) illegally signed them, therefore, NO ONE is required to obey them, according to the SCOTUS:
          The general rule is that an unconstitutional statute, though having the form and name of law, is in reality no law, but is wholly void, and ineffective for any purpose; since unconstitutionality dates from the time of its enactment, and not merely from the date of the decision so branding it.
          An unconstitutional law, in legal contemplation, is as inoperative as if it had never been passed. Such a statute leaves the question that it purports to settle just as it would be had the statute not been enacted.
          Since an unconstitutional law is void, the general principals follow that it imposes no duties, confers no rights, creates no office, bestows no power or authority on anyone, affords no protection, and justifies no acts performed under it . . .
          A void act cannot be legally consistent with a valid one.
          An unconstitutional law cannot operate to supersede any existing valid law.
          Indeed, insofar as a statute runs counter to the fundamental law of the land, it is superseded thereby.
          No one is bound to obey an unconstitutional law and no courts are bound to enforce it.
          – Sixteenth American Jurisprudence, Second Edition, Section 177. (late 2nd Ed. Section 256)

          Put THAT in your pipe and smoke it!

          1. Simply stated, “WOW.” Tell me more…
            It is wonderful to read there are a few, proud Americans, that actually take the time, use their brain and think for themselves. A vast majority, believe what they have heard, read or told, to be written in stone without doubt or question.
            If Truth be told, as it should be, America would be The Land of the Free and the home of the Brave.
            I say, “Speak the Truth, Live & Let Live and stay out of My Backyard, unless you want me, in yours.”

      3. Dave you have no clue what you are talking talking about, Colorado is a blue collar state. Unlike Oklahoma we do not allow people just to sit around and make babies all day long and collect welfare. Unlike Oklahoma our prison system is not over crowded like Oklahoma. Should I go on oh wait did i forget to mention that tulsa has the highest in meth manufacturing in the nation or oklahoma is in the top ten for human trafficking. I tell you, tell you fellow oklahomans who support the law suit against colorado. Keep your garabage out of our state and we will keep our medicine to ourselves.

        1. Educate me…what’s a blue collar state? Would that be Democratic? Are there not more democratic people on Welfare because they feel entitled to things that they are not willing to work for?

          1. A “blue collar state” is a state where the majority of its citizens are “blue collar,” e.g. working class people. It has no relation to the term “blue state.”

        2. Hacker Dave Perry is all METH up. He and Dan Oates edited some pretty evil words for viewers to read to only make themselves look really cute bullying citizens like us. We plan on a Civil Suit against Perry, once the DA involved states that we have a great case.
          The last joke will be on you PERRY.
          Hey, get a job with Perry in MB with Oates.

        3. We’ll gladly keep our medicine. Instead of being ignorant and trusting only big pharm maybe you should come meet the hundreds of children still alive because of cannabis. Oh and Over 70% of our reps are republican. That’s a red state dummy

      4. Libertarian is just dogwhistle speak for closet racist these days. If you’re about personal liberties, you go out and get the job done. You don’t come on comment sections and throw the term around when your reference point for it is posers in the year 2014.

        2. You don’t know a thing about libertarians, I know you have never ever gone to the LP’s main site to read the mission statement, that is obvious from your ignorant comment. Perhaps you should go there and educate yourself because what you just wrote makes you look like an idiot.

          1. Mission statements are easy to write and are a dime a dozen. What they say they are, or what they think they should be, has nothing to do with who they are and what they do. As everyone should have learned by adulthood is : Actions speak louder than words. By definition, they should support states’ rights, legal marijuana, a woman’s right to choose, gay rights, and separation of church and state. They don’t.

          2. And Libertarians support every single one of those things.

            You’re just on here trolling @disqus_hO7ZV78CGC:disqus

          3. Actually, we DO support all those things, not only support but fight for and try like hell to educate others to support them, too. I have no idea what kind of false libertarians (prob those GOPers who claim to be libertarian, but they are not, just like dems/libs/progs, their actions are always moves toward MORE and bigger government.

            Real libertarians want a government so small it will fit back inside the Constitution, and we an-caps would prefer no government at all, we want a truly voluntary society where no interaction between people is coerced or forced and no laws (and no other people) violate our unalienable rights to pursue the lifestyle we choose for ourselves. We do NOT want to tell anyone else how they should live their lives and we don’t want anyone else telling us how we must live ours. If some want to live in a socialist type community we would leave them alone to do that as long as everyone in that community was there voluntarily, if some wanted to live in a religiously ruled community we would leave them alone, again as long as everyone participating in that community were there voluntarily, etc. that is how an anarchist world would work, do you thing but don’t force your thing or your beliefs on ANYONE else in ANY way.

  9. Yes yes yes!
    I can’t wait to get out of Oklahoma!
    Note to editor:
    Mary Fallin also struck down a petition to put tornado shelters in schools (remember the kids who perished in the latest Moore tornado) because it would be “interfering with God’s plan. ”

  11. Please don’t believe everyone from Oklahoma is like this, we are just vastly outnumbered, and please don’t add $10 to my pot purchase……… I am surrounded by idiots here.

  12. Please note it is the POLITICIANS in the state, the people support legalization of medical by an overwhelming majority and we support full out legalization by a small majority. We have the young people of this state to thank for NOT voting!!!!!!!

    1. They CAN’T vote! By the time they reach voting age they’ve all been made felons thanks to “the answer is throw them in jail” judicial system in this state…

      1. Actually Alan, We set county records for voter registration this year! We know we signed up 49,000 new voters before the election. I think they were just so disappointed that we didn’t get cannabis on the ballot, they just didn’t want to get out and vote. But NOW they know how they could have changed to outcome in the Governor’s race!

        1. I was being facetious…but there is some truth in it too. I’m utterly amazed at how many young people I run into everyday that you’d never dream were convicted felons…and most for penny ante bullshit…I’m too used to California, I guess. The prisons aren’t an “industry” out there, to be kept full at the behest of CCA and Geo’s lobbyists 🙁

  13. That sound you just heard is the hammer hitting the nail squarely on the head! And I grew up in Oklahoma. I license plates use to read “Oklahoma is OK”. It seems no one in the state legislature could agree on the spelling of “Mediocre”

  14. Great article. Love the title! You could also have mentioned the loss of state sovereignty this lawsuit creates, not only for OK and Neb., but all 50 states. Appealing to the general gov’t that the states created and per the 10th amendment, are Dominate over.
    What a terrible precedent!

    1. The legalization of cannabis in CO is an amendment to CO’s own Constitution, no other State nor the fed gov have the legitimate power to alter any State’s Constitution. This lawsuit should be an exercise in futility, let us hope that it IS an exercise in futility.

  16. Do any of you believe for one second that an economy centered on cash register justice and incarceration would survive legalization. Fallin has made a fortune for CCA/GEO and continues to do so, but if you have to stop incarcerating “druggies” and have to take care of rapists, murderers, arsonists, and child molesters well not many want that job. It’s those job numbers ” private prisons” that have seen a real growth don’t let Washington fool you. Check out how much money CCA spent lobbying Congress last year for harsher sentencing it’s in black in white read it for yourself on Wikipedia. CCA/GEO stock has climbed a bit since it was first traded on Wall street in 1992. Fallin signed a contract to keep the prison population at 90% so that CCA would take over the day to day operations…better check your local state. You may have been sold out too!

  17. What an outstanding bit of editorial. If you pity us from Colorado, imagine what it is like being trapped in Oklahoma because you can’t afford to escape. I used to tell my students (yes, retired teacher on medical retirement because of my job) that if they wanted a proper definition of Okie they needed to read the novel “Dune” by Frank Herbert, and pay attention to the Feydkin. If you can survive Oklahoma, you can survive anywhere, because this is “Gods testing ground” and only the strong survive and prosper.

  18. I, too, am an Oklahoman. I laughed at everything you said about my state, because if I didn’t laugh I would cry. It’s all true! When I saw that our attorney general, the one who argued that state’s rights should prevail and Oklahoma should be allowed to keep its ban on gay marriage, sharia law, and every other unconstitutional law that’s been approved by my ignorant fellow Okies, was suing Colorado to basically nullify an actual state’s rights issue I was appalled. Was I surprised? Not even a little bit. I find myself apologizing a lot for my state. I have had a lot of people ask me why I stay if I am so disgusted by my elected officials, I’ve even had plenty of my supposed friends tell me to leave if I don’t like it. I will not leave the only home I’ve ever known because of ignorance, I will stay and fight for what I believe is right. One day the stagnant ideas of a not so great past will be gone, and the voices of those that think like I do, that believe in equality, tolerance, and compassion will be heard. Until then, we’ll do what we can to change the hearts and minds of those that are open minded enough to listen.

  19. I have the wonderful distinction of being the person on whose facebook page Scott Esk decided to air his final solution to the gay issue, and I’d just like to thank Mr. Perry for this piece.

    It’s not hyperbole people. Oklahoma really is run by these goons.

  20. On behalf of sane Okies(we do exist, I promise), we’re sorry. 80% of our numbnuts populace couldn’t be bothered to get out and vote, leading to the parade of idiots you see before you. Half of the actual human beings in this state are chewing any ass we can find over this grandstanding, ridiculous maneuver.

  21. You forgot to mention how awful the rag-weed is here in Oklahoma. Don’t come here in September if breathing is important to you.

  22. You should discount our pot purchases of we’re from Oklahoma- because you know we need it to survive as Blues in a Red state!

  23. WOW…that is a mouthful, I would like to add to that Mr. Perry another reason to be scared of oklahoma is the corrupt legal system there. Where they can a child molester five years but give a pot smoker 2-life prison sentence.

  24. From Oklahoma myself,and I liked the James Mountain Inhofe comment,yes that is his middle name,and just the politicians in OKlahoma are dumb!

  25. Thanks for the Laughs Mr. Perry. I also live in Oklahoma. I moved here in the mid 70’s and have on many occasions regretted that move or the fact that I did not convince my husband that we should move to another state many years ago. Unfortunately, some if not all our politicians do appear to be wearing blinders and seem to think they are the pillars of morality. The fact of the matter is, they are only fooling themselves. It was as much a surprise to Oklahoma citizens as it was to many others that our legislators, and especially AG Pruitt chose to take taxpayer dollars to file a suit against Colorado. Our AG and State legislators really should stop and take a look at the actual benefits it would bring to Oklahoma by legalizing Medical marijuana and for recreation as well. The revenue alone would be a big boon that could be put to much better use in our schools to provide MUCH better lunches, fix our POTHOLE ROADS, and any number of issues we have. Apparently, yet again, we have gotten blind and deaf legislators. The talk about what they will do but when it comes right down to the wire, they don’t do anything that does not benefit their wallets or bank accounts. I wish Colorado the best in fighting against Oklahoma and Nebraska. Please be kind to our families and their children that are coming there for what this upside down state is currently refusing them.

  27. As someone who lives in Oklahoma, this was an entertaining read. Just one quibble, the personhood act didn’t pass, and the “sperm” one was a joke by a legislator who was trying to point out just how stupid personhood bills were.

    However, if you really want some great legislative moves, this year they had bills introduced to rename Native American Heritage Day to “Redskin Day,” bills to both end the ban on whaling (because whales are a problem in our lakes, yo!) and provide money for promoting the state as a whaling destination, and a bill which bans the President of the United States from being able to enter the state. Believe me, there were others just as stupid.

    1. I am always amazed at how voters will usually elect the craziest people to office, foregoing the sane ones, what the hell is up with that? Just like sociopaths are attracted to policing for a career and the longer they are cops the meaner and more corrupt they become, the crazies who want to run everyone else’s lives are attracted to politics and the longer they are in politics the crazier and more corrupt they become.

  29. This is a response to the post script article Dave Perry wrote:

    I read your other piece, @EditorDavePerry . If you take out the
    ridiculous generalizations and knocking Oklahoma’s rattlesnakes and
    spiders (wtf does that have to do with stupid politicians?) you would
    only have about two paragraphs.

    While I side with your opinion,
    that these two states should not be threatening the sovereignty of
    another state, you seem very dim. You have a valid point that some OK
    and NE politicians are zealots. Attacking fuggin spiders and snakes to
    create a more wordy article doesn’t give it any more substance though.
    Painting ALL citizens of the states as racist meth heads prompted this
    add on article. What that portrays is, that in the end, you realize you
    were wrong in publishing a Sophmoric article in the first place. While
    you think you have performed a commendable act in showing there are some
    sane people in OK(Mandi from Tulsa) with this article you should have
    been a little more tactful in your first article. Maybe that’s the
    tactic? Write a poorly thought out article and that forces you to write a
    follow up.

    Again, I agree. States should not impede on the
    sovereignty of another but it appears as if you would choose to demean
    people to advance your beliefs whether you were a writer or a
    politician. A tactic of yours, it’s clear, is to make all Okies and
    Cornhuskers seem dumb so that you appear smarter. This article shows
    that you are trying to mitigate that but the existence of your first
    article demonstrates you are like someone who acts first then thinks.

    Like
    Fox News, SOMETIMES they get the facts of a story right but they are
    still buffoons in the way they present it or frame certain argument
    within the piece. We like to call them Faux News but there isn’t any
    catchy name I can think of for the Sentinel. Maybe it too is just faux
    news.

    1. You’re completely entitled to your anti-opinion on the methods of comedic observation used in this piece, but I think you’re taking his expressions of anger a bit further than intended. It’s not the intent of the article to paint ALL Oklahomans/Nebraskans as meth-using raged out racist idiots, but I completely understand why as a resident of OK you would take offense to the description, which is why he posted the follow-up article pointing out Mandi’s opinion. The point of his (comedic) jest is to essentially point out that OK/NE clearly have problems of their own that they need to address, not that all of the citizens in those states are a problem. To waste state tax dollars filing a fruitless lawsuit is abhorrent, especially when those same funds could be used to combat the very real problems faced by OK/NE (i.e. meth production and abuse, institutionalized racism, environmental destruction, questionably funded political campaigns, lack of representation, and yes, scorpions/rattlesnakes/spiders). It’s the absurdity of this observation that makes the piece shine, not suck, and though again I’d understand why a native would take offense, I’m sure his intent is more to underscore problems within those states that should be receiving attention versus painting all of the citizens as products of those problems.

  30. I guess I read this lawsuit a little differently. Oklahoma, Nebraska and Kansas don’t want Colorado pot to find its way to their states. I feel this a reasonable position. I thought that under Colorado pot laws and regulations, the state of Colorado was to control and track pot from the grow stage right through the retail stage. If Colorado is not enforcing our pot laws, then other states have grounds for a lawsuit. The Feds have said that they would be watching how well Colorado controls the pot they are growing; and as long as Colorado controls pot, the Feds will leave Colorado pot businesses alone. However, the Feds have already swooped in and shut down pot businesses because Colorado isn’t doing their job in enforcing Colorado laws. If Colorado wants to be left alone regarding their legalization of pot, then they need to close down rouge grow businesses and bring the pot industry under control.

    1. I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that this isn’t the responsibility of Colorado Law Enforcement, and it would be almost entirely impossible to enforce anyway. The Governments (though I’m sure they just barely qualify) of these two states are primarily complaining about the smuggling of large quantities through state borders, and the large majority of those amounts are not tightly affiliated with the large-scale medical/recreational grows that ARE tracked responsibly in accordance with the law. Granted, there ARE dispensaries/grows out there that operate outside the law and sell off parts of their crop yields to third parties, but even bigger than that, it is legal to cultivate your own weed for any citizen and law enforcement hasn’t (And shouldn’t) make it a priority to crack down on private citizens exercising these rights. Because of that, any amounts of weed that make it out of state could be a part of the private grow-ops, and there’s really no way to institute a system to track the product of an independent, non-licensed grower. Weed is weed…let it grow 🙂

    2. Maybe OK and NE should focus their energies on the rampant meth problem that infests both states and probably spills over into Colorado. As drugs go, pot is pretty G-rated, versus mind-rotting meth.

  32. I don’t read this paper too often, but I’m glad I did this time. Bravo on a well written article.

  33. This is absolutely hilarious. I live in Aurora, and don’t even smoke marijuana. But I support it 100%, and think Nebraska and Oklahoma are incredibly ignorant for doing this. Great article.

  35. Born and raised Oklahoman here. While your comments are a healthy dose of truth, I struggle to find the humor. It’s painful to vote election after election and never have hope for change. I eventually registered republican, thinking voting in primaries would give me an opportunity to at least help elect moderate republican candidates, but instead I’ve found there aren’t any moderate candidates in Oklahoma…… I wish I was exaggerating. What you and other outsiders looking in see as a humorous situation of “crazyland USA” I live it. I love the gorgeous vistas of our wheat fields and rolling prairie. I am home here, but I am battling political isolation, religious zealots, and tolerating the sheer destruction of our education system and infrastructure. You laugh, but the American Taliban will come from a place like this. Where ignorance is thrust upon the masses, and our government is sold to the highest bidder, or most violent force. Help us. Stop laughing at us. Start speaking up for those of us affected by this real life threat to democracy, labor, civil rights and American prosperity. Please help us. Push for National Popular Vote, so we can all have a voice. Support campaigns for ballot access reform. If you don’t have a cause in Colorado to support, give to a cause in Oklahoma that will help us. I’m legitimately begging you to be a part of the solution.

  36. I’m as pro-legalization as you can get and this story sucks. It’s not what the movement needs. Grow up and write a more adult-oriented fact-based article.

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