January 02, 2011 09:15 PM UTC

Polis Pushes to Decriminalize Marijuana on the Fed Level!

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• by: Whiskey Lima Juliet

Once again, my favorite Congressman is showing leadership. True Leadership.

http://www.denverpost.com/sear…

I would like to call out Congresswoman Diana DeGette whose district has benefitted greatly by the Medicinal Marijuana industry by the creation of jobs and money.   Congresswomen, time for you to take a stance!

871 licenses for MMJ centers or legal grows throughout the state.  Take approximately 7 employees per on average and you have created over 6097 jobs without one penny from the government.  

Then let’s look at all the new business around MMCs.  Realtors making money, insurance companies making money, the convention center and hotels making money, print shops making money, security companies making money and Colorado benefitting in a time of the worst recession in history.

And before anyone starts, there is no more crime at dispensaries than any other pharmacy. And no teenagers are not smoking more pot or turning into meth heads as AG Suthers would like you to all believe.  If that were true, then most of the graduating class of 1986 from CU would all be meth heads!

I would like to call out Congressman Ed Perlmutter who I understand gets this, but is nervous about what happens to his seat if he comes out for it.  Congressman, time for you to take a stance!

I would suggest that elected officials worry more about what will happen to their seat if they don’t come out for decriminalization.

The momentum is huge and the people supporting are not just hippies and unemployed slackers.  They are lawyers and entrepreneurs, you know the people that support your re-election campaigns!

Go on Jared!  You Rock Hard!