Pot is A Dangerous 'Recreation'

Canada Free Press ^ | 01/02/18 | Katy Grimes

[humblegunner]

HELL YEAH!

[BlackAdderess]

I’m totally good with decriminalizing and just fining people who are annoying about it or stupid. I’ve known a few people who are paranoid as hell now, who spent their teen years smoking weed.

[gdani]

On the other hand, the War on Drugs has been a complete failure for 4 decades + the Fourth Amendment is barely functional or recognizable.

I cast my lot with small government & states' rights.

[usurper]

Legalize it. Tax it. Treat it like Alcohol and Tobacco.

The thing I like best about it is that it completely defunds the cartels and all their employees all the way down to the street dealers.

They have been reaping great profits for generations, now they get nothing and they are not happy about it.

I have a suspicion that the cartels are the ones running these ridicules stories.

[Magnum44]

CA is lost beyond hope. I have a friend in the DEA who was explaining to me recently that they were working in a rotation with local and other state authorities in bust operations to clean up certain neighborhoods. When the local or state agencies were up on the rotation they would make like one arrest over two days. The DEA folks wanted to help so they came in and efficiently made about 14 dealer busts in 2 days. Not small time pot dealers or users sharing with friends; real meth lab, cocaine distributing dealers. When they reported in to the local prosecutors, the prosecutors started screaming that the DEA folks were making the other state folks look bad and that they only wanted to prosecute 1 of the 14 arrests. The DEA lead told the CA authorities that they weren’t going to waste resources if CA wasn’t going to prosecute, so the DEA task force was sent off on different assignments. CA wants to live in its own feces.

[Wolfie]

Put some ice on it.

[Magnum44]

The thing I like best about it is that it completely defunds the cartels and all their employees all the way down to the street dealers.

BS. It institutionalizes self destructive habits and dependency. Now instead of paying the cartel, your paying the state. Institutions that are supposed to be acting in public interest are acting in their own corrupt interest. The cartel is now your government.

Some people are always going to do immoral things. Prostitution, drugs, crime are all immoral and destructive. Just because they are made legal doesn't change that.

[Robert DeLong]

So is alcohol. In fact alcohol may be even worse.

[dware]

I heard that it makes people write cheesy blogs and excerpt them to get hits.

So, you illustrate that you 1. have NO idea what the Internet is about, and 2. have a sincere disdain for capitalism.

[marron]

the only reason in the uptick of legalization is govt’s fingers into the tax $$ cow

Yes. And the potheads are fine with the expansion of the social state as long as pot is legal.

[humblegunner]

If you say so.

I’d be interested in hearing about the logic leap that brought you to that conclusion.

[dware]

I don’t like potheads at work. Some may be funny but they are slow, lazy and screw stuff up.

Don't tell my boss that. He's pretty happy that I get regular bonuses for high performance, and has commented on my drive and initiative many times. But hey, keep pushing that propaganda nonsense!

[DiogenesLamp]

Abusers of anything aren’t the problem, the problem is the state committing the productive classes sweat equity to coddle and care for them when their life decisions come home to roost. If the productive class had free reign to defend themselves and allocate the vast majority of their resources as they see fit this would be a self correcting problem (along with most everything else deemed problems by the state).

True of a lot of issues. Good point.

[DiogenesLamp]

On the other hand, the War on Drugs has been a complete failure for 4 decades

This is incorrect. It has been quite successful at doing what it is supposed to do, which is to simply hold the existing conditions in place.

The drug war isn't being fought to be won. It's being fought to keep things from getting worse. Nobody wants to fight it to win it.

[DiogenesLamp]

The thing I like best about it is that it completely defunds the cartels and all their employees all the way down to the street dealers.

That is naive.

[gdani]

It has been quite successful at doing what it is supposed to do, which is to simply hold the existing conditions in place.

It hasn't even done that. Most illegal drugs are easier to find & all are cheaper than ever, especially when inflation is factored in.

[1Old Pro]

The libs had a fit about the dangers of (BIG) tobacco on health. Apparently non-filtered doobies present no problems for your respiratory system, heart, etc.

[Responsibility2nd]

Dittoes.

To think that legalized dope will put the cartels out of business is stupid thinking.

Drug Cartels are a billion dollar industry. And illegal weed will always undercut and be cheaper than taxed dope.

See New York City and it’s War on Cigarettes as a comparison.

As more idiot states legalize dope, the War on Drugs will continue merrily along.

Yay.

[TianaHighrider]

It irritates me that so many who claim to be Republicans and Conservatives seems to jump on the Big Government Federal over-reach bandwagon whenever it comes to marijuana. Nearly every argument given against marijuana can be used against alcohol. Regardless of personal likes or desires to control another person, control of what a person consumes should not be controlled/dictated by government.

[dforest]

It isn’t propaganda. I actually worked with them. First hand experience.

I don’t care if you smoke dope. I was just saying what I didn’t like and I am sticking with it.

Most of them were fired after sporadic drug testing.