Posted on 04/26/2018 9:37:15 PM PDT by Simon Green
There are indoor pot barns going up everywhere in Oregon.
“... the way we treat cigarettes and alcohol compared to cannabis, as cigarettes and alcohol are much worse for the user, yet we legalized those after coming to the realization that individuals should be able to make their own choices about what to ingest.”
Are you saying that alcohol and cigarettes were illegal at the founding of this country?
Take some pot.
It inflates your excuse for a mind.
For your interest.
That's one of the reasons for the criminality.
Can a person drink a beer without getting drunk?
Can a person smoke a cigarette without getting high?
Can a person smoke a joint without getting high?
The US already has health and addiction issues with alcohol and smoking ... the US already health and addiction issues related to pot. So I am interested in your opinion exactly how is legal pot going to reduce its own health/addiction issues?
“...And alcohol causes far, far more issues than pot does...”
If pot were legal and alcohol were illegal, do you think pot would cause far more problems than alcohol? If “yes”, would you make the same argument that alcohol should be legal because pot causes more problems than alcohol?
Do you think legalizing pot would make it more acceptable and thereby increase the number of problems associated with it?
With regards to $50 billion cost war on pot, I am not familiar with the origin of that number. Are you sure it doesn’t include the cost of other illegal, “recreational” drugs enforcement? If the cost of enforcement for pot goes away, it should be expected that the cost will shift at minimum to dealing with increased pot health and addiction issues.
Not crazy about legal marijuana, but it is better than putting people in prison for it.
Gee, we didn’t have any problems with legal marijuana, or even opium before it was outlawed in the 1930s.
It's only been criminalized for 85 or so years.
How did we ever survive and thrive the eons before?
This boils down to your trust/faith in mans medicine. Edjumakate yerself about mans medical history. Every hundred years or so they look back and call them butchers and barbarians. But this era will be different. Einstein be damned.
Small quantity pot possession has been greatly decriminalized so the days of filling prisons with pot smokers seem in the rear view mirror. If you haven’t already, spend some time in a court room to watch low level cases get processed. The demeanor of many of those simple pot offenses indicate some real underlying problems. Pot may be the medication the person has chosen to address those problems. There is some real suffering going on in these fellow humans.
Gotta be the marijuana/ hippie nexus.
I use MJ to ease my crippling back pain.
It allows me to go to work and support my family.
It allows me to roll around on the floor and wrestle with my kids.
And let me state that I am so very conservative I make R. Reagan look like Stalin’s masseuse.
I just use pot, is all.
I am sure that is true, but they should even be arrested.
Besides, the Drug War is more dangerous than potheads are ever going to be.
I grow it in the back room in my garage, and lemme tell ya, it ain't free.
A bag of dirt alone costs $25.
(But it's really good dirt specifically created to serve this particular plant.)
But now that I think about it, dirt's really the only cost, besides electricity, which I calculate comes to $13 a month.
Another century to re-teach what Prohibition could not...Well, at least Prohibition was correctly done\passed.
That’s what I think also. It’s a police state thing. Also get the funding out of the criminal element supplying MJ.
Pot use is an indicator of a serious moral and social crises in our country. I’m not saying all marijuana users are welfare dopers munching pizza in Mom’s basement, but when you look at the common element in crime, welfare, higher taxes, lower educational levels, and a whole host of other social problems.....
You’ll see a joint in there someplace.
You want legal dope? At what cost to our society?
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Here’s a little bit of Ann Coulter on the subject (from a debate with John Stossel on his Fox Business show):
“Libertarians and pot!” says an exasperated Coulter. “This is why people think libertarians are pussies. We’re living in a country that is 70 percent socialist. The government is taking 60 percent of your money. They’re taking care of your health care, of your pensions, they’re telling you who you can hire, what the regulations are gonna be...and you want to suck to your little liberal friends and say, ‘Oh, we want to legalize pot. You know, if you were a little more manly, you’d tell the liberals what your position on employment discrimination is.”
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Really? IIRC, it’s the (L) platform to tell Fedzilla to FOAD.
(R)N(C) has had control of D.C. numerous times in my 40yrs of ‘caring’; only 1 or 2 in D.C. even LEAN (L).
What have we gotten from the party of ‘small govt’ and promises: DHS, TSA, NSA, Patriot Act, NCLB (v 1M), ‘revenue neutral *tax-cuts*’ (nothing perm), $1T+ deficits, no budget for AGES...
Why is the pot thing the ONLY thing people know? It’s the same MSM\’news’ that ONLY pushes that single narrative, not that the (R) will complain, to keep the ‘kooky’ (L) out of the debate.
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