Yeah, but it keeps the addicts happy. And hungry.
Just another way to control the masses...first welfare, then make healthcare unavailable through the collapse of Obama care, indoctrination and lack of education in the schools to create non functioning citizens....and dope them up with weed and drugs.
Bus them to the polls...Progressivism succeeds!
Since legalization in Colorado I have seen many drivers smoking pot while driving. They usually are driving banged-up cars. Probably a lack of prosecutions adding to the pot-smoker car condition.
Loss of federal funding for marijuana arrests?
“He also said they’ve seen an increase in homelessness, underage use, crime and death. There’s also been a 62 percent increase in car fatalities involving marijuana.”
Well who could have foreseen this? /s
The concept of “legalizing” things is total BS.
We must not be a society that relies on permission, but one that aims to avoid consequences.
I reside in California. I have not smoked pot in over 35 years and have not had a drink of alcohol in nearly 23 years.
We have semi-legalized pot. It is a misdemeanor ticket.
That said, I find minimal harm in it. Does pot do long term brain damage? Probably. We know alcohol can, in excess. Tylenol can kill you.
I can’t get excited about continuing the “war on drugs” if it means putting pot smokers in prison.
I did not know Arkansas was considering legalization but told someone just this week they would be next.
Arkansas is fast becoming a haven for left wing nut jobs. The closer to NW Arkansas and Fayetville you get the more you find.
“”It has not been properly studied by the FDA to be able to say it’s safe and effective,” Gerhardt said.”
IIRC this is so because current federal law prevents the FDA from doing proper studies. To this person I would point out the stats showing where cannabis is legal prescription opiate use is down.
Vote Trump 2016
So, a kid trespasses and tries to steal something that doesn't belong to him and gets himself killed. In this case, it was marijuana plants, but that doesn't mean it's the fault of the legalization.
Cars are legal, and get stolen all the time. Same for jewelery, TVs, tools, etc. Should we be making all this stuff illegal to own so people don't get themselves killed trying to steal them?
Weed users-losers bump for later...
>>”It’s not a good thing for a community to do something like this,” Jerry Peters, former president of the the Colorado Drug Investigators Association, said.
Peters said legalizing medical marijuana will only lead to legalization for recreational use like it did in Colorado and other states.
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I have no experience with MJ, wouldn’t even recognize it if I saw it.
That said, Jerry Peters and his ilk make me vomit. They represent the establishment Gov’t Nanny State that thinks they know better than people themselves how best to live their life. They are the arrogant elite that Jefferson wrote about so long ago.
In a Free Republic, NO ONE should have the legal right to restrict another person with regard to whatever they wish to do with a plant: Plant it, Grow it, Harvest it, Smoke it, Make oil from it, Eat it, whatever.
It’s a plant. God made it. If we are a free people, (which we aren’t, thanks to arrogant power people like Jerry), we have a right to do with a plant as we wish.