Fooled... maybe. Laws are made by men, and are as such therefore fallible, as are all works of men. That was said by someone who was trying to place the christian bible above all other works of men, and failing. There is a very healthy conservative movement in this country- and in Colorado. Ignoring them, belittling them and/or calling them stupid or otherwise underestimating them is at the very least self-limiting, and at worst creates the same hatred and bigotry we all publicly line up to decry... just before we find ourselves acting just like them and adding hypocrisy to the list.
The conservative movement has for many decades insisted upon being the moral arbiter of what is acceptable 'free' behavior; going to church qualifies, as does foreclosing on your neighbor after screwing him out of his pension. Yet, somehow, smoking the dried flowers of a plant doesn't? These people don't live by 'logic'; therefore any attempt to define or argue with them logically is doomed to failure. This Amendment 64 debate is really missing a more basic point; does any group within our nation have the right to decide what the rest of us may or may not morally or legally do?
Here is the real reason I voted the way I did; to be heard on the side of freedom. Freedom to do something I want that others may or may not approve of. If I don't hurt those people or their land or livelihood while I'm doing what I like... fuck 'em. It was a vote against moral tyranny- a vote AGAINST the idea that Christians- or Jews, or Muslims, or anyone with a big mouth for that matter, can tell me what I can and cannot do as an independant adult, as long as I'm not hurting anyone else.
The amendment didn't change my ability or willigness to smoke- all it did was affect the legal circumstances of the act. I smoke because I am free, and I like it. If someone else doesn't like it, they are perfectly within their rights not to smoke... but when they try to tell me that I can't, wellllllll... that's one step too damned far, pardner. Treat me with respect, and stay the fuck off my rights.
