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Billboard Features Evangelical Leader Endorsing Marijuana Legalization

by KREX News Room
by Cori Coffin

Story Created: Jul 17, 2012 at 12:33 AM MDT

Story Updated: Jul 17, 2012 at 9:19 AM MDT

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo.- Advocates for regulating marijuana the way alcohol is regulated are taking their fight from Denver to Grand Junction. A billboard was recently put up depicting right-wing televangelist Pat Robertson endorsing the legalization of marijuana.

The billboard, located just west of the east intersection of the I-70 Business Loop and Main Street, reads, "Pat Robertson would vote yes on 64. Would you?"

"There's a lot of folks who pay attention to him and respect his opinions," said David Cox, the Western Slope coordinator for The Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol.

In an interview, Robertson told the New York Times, "If people can go into a liquor store and buy a bottle of alcohol and drink it at home legally, then why do we say that the use of this other substance is somehow criminal?"

Cox says Robertson doesn't know his likeness is being used in Grand Junction, but the group is confident he wouldn't be opposed to it, given the religious leader's public stance on the issue.

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Floyd said on Friday, Jul 20 at 4:11 PM

Anybody read where this billboard was put up under false pretenses? What the MJ crowd won't do to push a bad idea.

Western Slope said on Wednesday, Jul 18 at 8:22 AM

Floyd, just as I thought, if you were around with the end of alcohol prohibition you can't get your head around the legalization of marijuana due to your age and 70 years of unfounded lies surrounding marijuana. Doesn't matter, you will never understand or even want to. Just another old fool wanting to stand in the way of progress.

tater said on Tuesday, Jul 17 at 10:29 PM

Joey is right. Enough is enough. Alcohol is the most harmful drug on the planet.

Floyd said on Tuesday, Jul 17 at 7:44 PM

WS, everything you have been saying about how good it will be to legalize MJ was the same thing they were saying about legalizing alcohol. The reason history keeps repeating itself, is because people like you never learn from it.

Joey said on Tuesday, Jul 17 at 3:45 PM

There is nothing more anti Christian than putting innocent people in prison for "crimes" that aren't real crimes. We have all been fooled. Marijuana is safer than beer, safer than cigarettes, safer than energy drinks, if you are free to sit down and have a beer, your neighbor is free to smoke a joint. I've looked up to pat for a long time, its nice to see him come around. We have wasted over a trillion dollars, destroyed millions of lives, ripped apart thousands of families, and all for a harmless plant. Enough is enough.

Western Slope said on Tuesday, Jul 17 at 9:52 AM

Hey Floyd, why don't you just except the fact that your world of prohibition is crumbling before your eyes! No one is forcing you to vote for legalization, so if you don't want to move forward on this issue that's fine. However Floyd your dementia claim is baseless, we all know that pot is safer than booze everyone that is except for you. I think you may be the one who has the old-timers problem.

Anonymous said on Tuesday, Jul 17 at 9:44 AM

Robertson is a goober.

Floyd said on Tuesday, Jul 17 at 7:34 AM

Pat Robertson suffers from dimentia and won't quit his show, leave it up to the likes of the MJ crowd to take advantage of someone who isn't what they used to be just to push an agenda that has more potential than alcohol to destroy lives. If he was in his right mind, he wouldn't vote for it.

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