Posted on 01/17/2014 7:57:35 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
Several Nevada municipalities are issuing moratoriums on medical marijuana dispensaries, but Harry Reid really thinks they should be moving in the opposite direction – toward making medicinal pot legal.
“If you’d asked me this question a dozen years ago, it would have been easy to answer – I would have said no, because (marijuana) leads to other stuff,” the Senate majority leader told the Sun today. “But I can’t say that anymore.”
“I think we need to take a real close look at this,” Reid went on. “I think that there’s some medical reasons for marijuana.”
Reid, who is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is not one who normally rushes to embrace controversial substances.
“I’ve never tried it,” he initially joked, when the topic of marijuana was raised in today’s interview.
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Not suprised.
Heard the real reason for legalizing pot: If it is legal, it can be taxed just like cigarettes. Appraently that is the argument being used in the Maryland Legislature to get legalization passed here in this progressive, socialist and communist dictatorship of the democraptic party.
Any drug which kills brain cells is perfectly suited to create more Democrat voters.
Now I know what it is.
Reid is a pothead!
Lots of illegals in NV, they re-elected him.
They will soon find out that pot is a lot easier to grow than tobacco, a lot easier to process and a lot harder to tax.
IRONY:
Whem Liberals take time out from demonizing cigarette smokers to lobby for the lgalization of dope.
Yep. Its all about the taxes. I read where Colorado is taxing dopes who use legal dope some 37 per cent.
His brain is fried...that would explain a LOT.
“I’ve never tried it,”
How can you be a member of a church and never try it.
Also the difference between Dirty Harry and a libertarian is that libertarians have principles.
Well if it’s safe enough to give for pain control and nausea it’s probably safe enough to smoke and eat too.
Reid went on. “I think that there’s some medical reasons for marijuana.”
There are medical reasons for morphine and cocaine to you F’n idiot! Doesn’t mean we should make it more accessible and over the counter...My God, the left’s stupidity is only outdone by their false rationale.
I have always wondered how Reid can be a Mormon and a Democrat at the same time. Doesn’t the LDS Church require Republican Party membership?
it is all BS.
the “medicinal” elements of pot are TOTALLY available in pill form at the pharmacy today. A legitimate Dr. perscription is the only problem. This includes glacoma patients.
As such effort should include mandatory medical suspension of any DL license and a complete CDL prohibition.
{Medical} Caregivers, they note, can sell marijuana to medical patients at the 2.9 percent tax rate, while recreational pot carries a 25 percent state tax, in addition to local taxes.
That doesn’t make him a libertarian. If he had suddenly become fiscally conservative, I might have said “maybe”. The man’s a statist authoritarian of the type who wishes to pacify the populace with Soma (a Huxleyan rather than Orwellian, at least thus far).
If he does belong to that church I do not want any part of it..He is the devils half brother and is a disgrace to humanity..
I for one have never taken any illegal drugs or smoked pot..I do however believe if pot can help people with their pain it would be alright for them to us it..Not make it legal to everyone like they did in Colorado..
My position on legalization of marijuana has always been, if it is legal, set the taxes on it at least as high as the tax on tobacco. And for the same reason.
Not to raise revenue, but as a hammer to bring down on those who would sell pot outside the legal and authorized channels, as that is tax evasion, and subject to severe penalties. Untaxed marijuana is in the same category as untaxed moonshine whiskey. And like cigarettes, very high taxes are a strong incentive to discontinue use. The penalties on tax evasion should be harsh enough to discourage the smuggling in and black market distribution of untaxed pot.
The flow of revenue shall not balance any budget, nor should it be directed at some unrelated subject. Like gasoline tax was ORIGINALLY intended for the construction and maintenance of a network of highways, the revenue from the taxes on pot should, must, be directed at educational efforts to STOP the use of pot, and for its application to rectify the damage caused by its use.
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