Posted on 01/09/2019 10:03:03 AM PST by Kaslin
I agree
PS
How much time and effort was spent by how many “do-gooders” to get me and millions of other “recreational tobacco users” to quit for our health and their health and to save money in the health care system?
And these same BOZOS want us to smoke marijuana, containing even MORE harmful chemicals?
GEDOUTTAHERE!
Seriously?
The same people who argue pot is far less harmful than alcohol. If that is true, then by default - they argue that smoking pot around you children is OK.
Want to lower rampant drug use? Get rid of welfare including free medical care.
“Pot driving fatalities in Colorado are up 151 percent!”
We deal with this on a daily basis. Last night coming home, there was a car parked on the shoulder of the freeway. Just as we got up to it, they pulled out in front of us without signaling and I had to slam on the brakes to barely avoid hitting them. When I tried to go into the left lane to get around them, they pulled in front of us again without signaling. We then were going down a section of Hwy 18 called Peasley Canyon just before you go into Auburn, WA. They slowed to under 50mph and other cars were passing on the right, so we couldn’t safely get around them.
Our car was filled with the now familiar skunk like odor of marijuana. I was very happy when they went back into the right lane and exited the freeway in Auburn. In the years since marijuana was legalized here this type of thing happens all of the time.
The primary reason better statistics are not available about the hazards these idiots create is that the police do not have the tools necessary to determine how much pot is in these morons bloodstream without an arrest and an order from a higher authority to take their blood.
Weed hasn’t exactly been hard to get for the past 30 or so years, and I doubt we’ll see a huge spike in those things after legalization.
The taxes from it will help offset those social costs - which today are borne by taxpayers alone. It will also free up law enforcement and legal/prison resources to focus on bigger crimes.
We get the kind of laws we demand and regulation of alcohol is the closest model we have. Prohibition didn’t work.
As part of legalization, I’d like to see strict testing and heavy penalties for impaired driving, and mandatory screening for certain jobs. And significantly harsher penalties for more powerful drugs.
Denver was on the fast track to $h!thole status in the 70s and 80s. I dont think this has helped its trajectory.
Yea, and those ten states-— wonder if they would link Tobacco smoking with not owning a gun? Have been shot down several times by unbelieving FReepers that Big Tobacco is ALL OVER this legalization crapola— for an even worse carcinogen generating PLANT— (101 known carcinogens in pot, and counting— many at much higher doses than tobacco, with or without additives).
And WHO is behind cannabis lobbying-— that drunk moron, tavern owner’s punk (with a daughter married to a Jamaican Posse former (wink) member druggie)— RINO John Boehner— BOEHNER. That’s right!! What a jerk. Dino Rino. Not taking any information from the clinical professionals and plastering it over with “pots better than alcohol” argument. One could add to being a commode hugging drunk (or for the academes here- a 7 martini a night drunk)— being a stoner on pot “cigarettes”. All for the oh so needed “revenue” from our ever expanding government. No thanks.
And the same actors all the way from former DNC National Treasurer— Dick Reynolds (of RJ Reynolds— yes, that Dick Reynolds the original sin-tax marketer for our liberal dem pals and all they wrought from LBJ and before).
Big Tobacco:
April 2018, IBD: https://www.investors.com/news/marijuana-business-soars-big-tobacco-opportunities-vaping-cannabis-inhaler/
From 2014 (they’ve been at it awhile, as they are losing cigarette smokers and Zimbabwe imported tobacco instead of US grown): https://mic.com/articles/80067/did-phillip-morris-just-release-a-new-marlboro-marijuana-cigarette-here-s-the-full-story#.lPcqlXtJg
As part of legalization, I’d like to see strict testing and heavy penalties for impaired driving, and mandatory screening for certain jobs. And significantly harsher penalties for more powerful drugs.
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Great. I get your point. But just so ya know - the War on Drugs continues.
I know you were not making the point either for or against the WOD, but it bears mentioning that legal weed only adds to laws, taxes, regulations and penalties regarding marijuana.
Especially taxes. The primary reason for states to legalize pot is for more taxes. And we all know that more taxes equals more spending.
Again, who?
Name someone or an organization.
There is and will be an entire generation or two of kids who have their still developing brains stunted by pot. It’s why leftists ALWAYS push pot.
Pinging the usual suspects.
See my conversation with Sue.
Anyone claiming pot is less harmful than alcohol?
Sue here denies this is true.
pg. 189; para 2.: This calamity has a proximate cause: the addictions of twenty-five million Americans who buy $25-40 billion of illegal narcotics each year, most of it coming in through the southwestern border. Writer Charles Bowden has cleverly labeled this as a case of supply and demand. Every time someone in the United States snorts a line of coke, or courts the muse by smoking a joint, or a group of teens score meth on a dare--each one of these individual acts fuels the cartel machine and resonates back along the supply chain to the borderlands. From the Mexican perspective, America's insatiable demand carries a greater responsibility for the drug wars than Mexico's admittedly imperfect law enforcement and criminal justice systems. And they have a great deal of right on their side.
Actually, I simply questioned your assertion that people argue that it is okay to smoke pot around children.
Alex Berenson author.
Alcohol and marijuana react differently in the brains receptor center.
You don’t think it’s OK to smoke marijuana in fron of your children??
Why not? Is it OK to drink alcohol around children? Yes? Then if pot is safer than booze, then why not smoke it in front of your kids?
You don’t worry about second hand smoke and that stuff do you?
And you are an idiot!
I would not advise drinking or smoking of anything around children.
Pot makes POC rape white women too. I saw it on Reefer Madness.
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