Posted on 05/29/2016 1:06:16 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Up until 1914 marijuana was legal in all 50 states. It was through the socialist President Wilson and his desire to imprison blacks that it was outlawed.
For your interest.
Heh, heh, now tell us what you really think about dopers!
But be careful, lots of THC libertarians on FR. Been doing weed since age 15, and it hasn’t changed them a bit.
Now they will just sit at a stop sign waiting for it to turn green.
;^)
at what cost? Pot smoking leads to mental retardation. It causes people to vote have think liberal. It is intrinsic clear & present danger to our nation that are people, our future
If I recall all the Lottery money was to go to schools. Never happened.
We have a summer place in southern Colorado in the San Luis valley. Beautiful 14’s there. However people are moving in and squatting all over the place. Everyone wants a piece of the action. Wonder what all these extra people are actually costing the state. How much of the windfall is going to the schools, the food, the medical these people require.
The sloth, crime and heartbreak that emanates from the weed-b-gone community is not a fair trade.
I believe marijuana can bring out psychosis in someone with a genetic tendency and many have these tendencies. It’s scary. My only personal experience with such a patient has been a girl who heard voices like your son, but once getting perfectly clean (she wasn’t only using pot, other drugs were involved as well) the voices did stop. She accidentally got pregnant and decided to be a good mommy (at 21) and cleaned herself up good. She’s working and her mom helps her raise the child. And the voices stopped.
I find it curious that at least where I live many pot smokers are staunchly anti-gmo activists as well. yet they fail to seem to recognize that some of the most popular strong and tasty strains of ganja are actually GMO modified, from the Netherlands .
And belladonna. And poppies. And for your next weenie roast, use a couple of nice, straight oleander sticks to hold your hot dogs over the fire.
Natural!
Organic!
Free Range? Maybe not.
“Spending every dime of their “windfall” and then some...”
They salivate at the money they think they’ll make and have been making promises to spend it like crazy.
And these panhandlers were all over the main intersections in Colorado Springs.
This is just the beginning and all the other horror stories of how it effecting people. And this is not even discussing the Heroin epidemic in MI, OH, MA and so many other states.
These municipalities are short sighted, what will they do when it bites them in the arse with addiction issues get out of control...
It doesn’t offset the lost productivity of those who now sit at home stoned, don’t go earn more money or do more to help family out.
There is a reason dystopias drug people into complacency and describe it as a good.
Like alcohol or cigarettes, it is not for those under 18-if you are an adult and want to roll a joint or light the bong, go for it-I haven’t had a toke in years, but I like to kick back with a glass of wine and a cigarette now and then. If an adult wants to let their pleasures turn into addictions-whether it is pot, alcohol, tobacco, a dozen chocolate eclairs or promiscuous sex, I really don’t care, as long as you don’t harm or bother anyone, or try to make it anyone else’s problem-if you are becoming addicted, go for therapy instead of whining to be given tax money by claiming your choice is a “disease”...
! Thessalonians 5:
5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation. (KJV)
Your analogy fades quickly, since hemlock is poison and marijuana isn’t. It’s legal here in Washington State, by a vote of the people - as it should be.
As apposed to the drunk driving right through the stop sign and killing a family of four.
Any reason given for why marijuana should not be legalized can be directly pointed at alcohol for the same reasons.
Until one is ready to prohibit alcohol, again, their arguments against marijuana are hypocritical.
Nope, TX lottery money is why illegals are tolerated: they spend half their pay on scratch-offs and quik-picks. I know, I’m the one in line behind them all just trying to buy gas and a slurpee.
Ar there any before-after articles? What about http://www.forbes.com/sites/travisbradberry/2015/02/10/new-study-shows-smoking-pot-permanently-lowers-iq/ ?
Interesting comment in light of your screen name. :-)
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