So, even the Stoners stayed home...

[kpete]

“So … is anyone voting today?”

It wasn’t as if no one in the room was interested in politics; for an hour they had been arguing over tax, policing, municipal regulation, the difference between Democrats and Republicans, and what the Founding Fathers intended when they wrote the US constitution.

It was just that the patrons of Club Ned were high up in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains – 8,420ft above sea level, and way above the clouds. And they said they were not going to vote for anything that didn’t involve marijuana.

The owners, Cheryl Fanelli, 47, and her husband David, 57, have dedicated their lives to politics; campaigning for – and sometimes drafting – more relaxed cannabis laws, an effort that reached its climax in Colorado this year when the legalisation of recreational marijuana came into force…

Yet without a cannabis-related measure (or candidate) in the state on the ballot on Tuesday, neither were prepared to drive the 16 miles down the mountain to Boulder to their nearest polling station.



http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/nov/04/colorado-cannabis-cafe-midterm-election-vote

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

1. 16 miles to their polling station?

I'd be a hell of a lot more likely to blow off voting if I had to go 16 miles too.

I had a 3 minute walk to my polling station. We've got to find a way to make it so everyone, everywhere, can simply vote by mail.

We shouldn't be forcing people to spend 20 minutes driving each way to get to and from polling stations, or standing in lines for hours.

[ellie]

2. Colorado had mail-in ballots this year

so no, theses people did not have to drive 16 miles to vote.
Typical slacker bullshit.

[liberal_at_heart]

3. mail in ballots. Voting in WA is so easy. I love it.

[GusBob]

4. Too stoned to think, drive, or vote

too bad. Sometimes you have to put down the bong and do something productive

right?

[seabeyond]

7. stoned on one of those colorado roads, wouldnt be pretty. fall right off a 15,000 ft cliff. nt

[otohara]

18. Mail Ballots

besides there was a report that the whole driving while stoned thing ... that too didn't pan out. No one is driving off cliffs.

Get so sick of these lame generalizations about marijuana.

[seabeyond]

20. ok. firstly. they are too dropping off cliffs. i asked during my traumatization drivng to silverton.

and no, not a chance in hell i could/would/should drive that road stoned. i know. cause i do stoned too.

secondly.

i was teasin'

third.

damn straight if i get put on one of those mountains i need mail in cause i am not coming back off. lol

lighten up. or not. i say in jest again, cause my big issue is one i am often told to lighten up, and i respond with a fuck you.

[Autumn]

5. Obviously dropping their ballot off in the mail box where they live was a wee bit too hard.

Stupid asses, they got theirs.

[liberal_at_heart]

6. ah, another group we can throw under the bus. That's helpful.

Millennials and stoners are evil.

[seabeyond]

8. and women. what is this throwing under the bus, when addressing who did not bother

to vote? i do not get it.

[Bluenorthwest]

14. Did you miss the OP that blamed LGBT people?

It was amazing to behold.

[seabeyond]

17. i did not see that. i have not been on the board much. i understand oregon mostly went dem, or

went all dem.

they also had pot up for vote. my son is getting very much into politics and discussing with me, the last year. this is something we discussed. why the dems didnt go out, who, the millinium, women, and the white men that did go out.

we did not do it in accusatory, just the why of it. it has been very interesting looking at it, and a truth.

it also keeps us grounded in the relaity that progressive beliefs is the majority view held, regardless of mid term elections.

but no. i did not see that OP. i do know there is different ways to address this issue. and sometimes how people address it is attack, be it blacks, women, our youth, or gays. i have seen that. but, i do not think it has to be that way, to simply address the issue.

[belzabubba333]

9. if they dont vote who needs them

[seabeyond]

10. we do. if they do not vote, yet do work elsewhere, they are still doing the work elsewhere. AND

we still need them to vote, evidence of this last election.

[n2doc]

11. Well, if we get repub control of all 3 branches, say goodbye to their legal pot n/t

[Bluenorthwest]

12. Oregon had 70% turnout. Legalized cannabis, elected Democrats. So, um.....what of that?

The legalization bill passed by a good 10% margin.

[seabeyond]

21. ya, well. and i read that. so, we get a really popular law on there every election to get people

there

business strategy.

yes. we took note of that. even my 27 yr old. he was the first to bring it up. we are looking ot move to wa, colo, or oregon. we are looking at their govt since we live in texas, and we want to pick and choose what we do and do not want.

that was his first. colorado swept repug. bummer. they probably have the best laws in some repspect, aca, tax, ect...

then wa, with minimum wage increase to 15.

oregon was lagging. though we liked that state the best. so we were watching the election a little differently. and yes. oregon went liberal cause pot pulled them out of their houses.

[spanone]

13. not this one...oops!

[Waiting For Everyman]

15. They disgust me.

That, right there, that attitude is why so many elections were lost yesterday.

I hope the Rethugs crap all over whatever matters to them -- all of them, who can't get off their smarmy asses to go and exercise the right that they have just proven they don't deserve.

[hobbit709]

16. ALL the stoners I know voted, including me.

[kpete]

19. me too hobbit709

I have voted in every election since 1972

It wasn't pretty, but I do not regret my vote for McGovern

Still waiting for that promised pendulum swing.....



peace,
kp

[HockeyMom]

22. 57% Yes in Florida

If that was for a Candidate instead of an Amendment requiring 60%, they would be calling it a landslide and not a defeat.

[dilby]

23. The what have you done for me lately people.

But it's a prime example of a large portion of voters, the ones who only vote when it directly affects them in the right now. This is why I am a firm believer in getting important measures on the ballot every election. An excellent measure we had here in Oregon besides the marijuana one was measure 89 or equal rights for women. This was purely a symbolic measure but it was effective for getting people who support equality to vote.

[seabeyond]

24. right on.... lol.