Posted on 12/16/2017 6:32:14 AM PST by Kaslin
It’s very simple. Because recreational mj growing is now “legal” - if permits and licenses are obtained, with certain rules and restrictions, now the illegals growers have not only come out of the closet, but like locusts, come from all over the place, and figure there are too many for LE to take care. Which is the fact. Legal growers have to have their dope tested for excess ag etc chemicals, only sell to OR licensed sellers, pay taxes, etc. So few want to go that route when they can - so far - just grow illegally without any repercussions.
How can a tiny Sheriff’s office take care of way over 1000 illegal grow ops, many run by regular criminals, MX, Russian, Bulgarian etc gangs? Ha ha - doesn’t happen.
They refuse to see even the slighteet downside to legal dope/dope use.
No, “It’s All Good”.
A point that occurred to me - just as with legalization of sodomy and homos wanting just “tolerance” and to be left alone, but now it’s mandatory fagdom in everyone’s face, kindergarten, sensitivity training, transpervs in mil, hatespeech, criminal cake bakers and all the rest - so the mj legalization if it continues and spreads, will immediately usher in the Libertarian wet dream of ALL drugs legal. That’s the LP platform - ALL drugs legal.
The stoned out Eloi utopia.
George Soros is the source.
He sets it up and bankrolls all of it.
You want to ban alcohol?
flee to other topics.
Projection - YOU'RE the one fleeing YOUR topic of the "liberty to fry your own brain", which legal alcohol fits to a T.
No, that's the voices in your head. I readily acknowledge that non-use is the best choice with regard to marijuana, or alcohol, or tobacco. As for legality: alcohol Prohibition should have taught us that the cure of banning is worse than the disease of use - it does more to enrich criminals (with all the ills that follow) than to reduce use.
Yet you want it legal so more and more people will get stupid. The argument that “booze is bad so we should legalize mj which is just as bad”. Yeah, makes sense not/! Of course mj is worse than booze, and this is something no pro-dope person will ever admit.
Wherever mj is legal, use goes WAY WAY up, especially with young people such as teenagers, so their lives can get ruined early on.
Only someone who uses mj would think that is a good idea.
Another fact that dopers refuse to acknowledge.
No one is free to do that. No one is free to harm another. We have laws against that, and we have laws against driving while intoxicated. You seem to be a prohibitionist and don’t understand how that hurt the country before.
So your theory is that many people who before legalization were responsible enough to avoid breaking the law, will after legalization be so irresponsible as to smoke themselves into chronic stupidity? Can you provide any reason to accept this dubious theory?
The argument that “booze is bad so we should legalize mj which is just as bad”.
That's your straw man. The real argument is that booze is bad yet legal and that's the right choice (because alcohol Prohibition showed us that the cure of banning is worse than the disease of use - it does more to enrich criminals, with all the ills that follow, than to reduce use) and that the same logic applies to marijuana.
Of course mj is worse than booze
Nonsense - alcohol is more addictive, and is the only one of the two that can cause fatal overdose.
Wherever mj is legal, use goes WAY WAY up
False. In Colorado between 2003 and 2014 (the year of legalization) monthly pot use percentage went up by 0.87%/year among 18-25 year olds and 0.59%/year for 12 and older; after legalization those rates dropped to 0.48%/year and 0.50%/year.
Believe it or not, I have many things going on in my life that prevent me from playing in a verbal tarpit with dopers.
Have fun with your bong!
Yes, I don't doubt that you view facts and logic as a "tarpit." Expect more of the same every time you post your baseless BS claims.
“Believe it or not, I have many things going on in my life that prevent me from playing in a verbal tarpit with dopers.”
Translation: I have enough time to make wild baseless claims but not enough time to deal with your facts.
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