Posted on 02/09/2019 8:31:16 AM PST by tkocur
Go to the pot shop, look @ prices, $80/quarter oz. Twice Dealer McDope’s price. That’s government for ya, produce nothing, tax everything just to fatten their wallets...
This push to legalize marijuana is all about governments, state and federal, looking for more tax money. Plus, big tobacco companies moving to sell maryjane as the tobacco cigaret sales are dropping.
But will the money that comes in out balance the social costs of driving while impaired deaths/injuries, more people becoming stoners (missing work, sitting on their butts eating Cheetos or going from a gateway drug to hard drugs)?
The libertarians among us say the government should stay out of our lives. We conservatives want smaller government but also know people left unchecked often mess up to the point they become a drag on society.
I am a conservative but am willing to say marijuana arrests on small amounts should be a civil fine rather than a felony.
Laws should never be made for what we think is good for other people or what we think other people should be doing. And, most certainly, laws should not be made for the profitability of government to confiscate your property or to eliminate competition for an industry that purposely legalizes the most dangerous substances.
Now that’s what I call bipartisanship!
It’s a good idea. Let states decide this issue. Actually they are doing so anyway. No sense in having a law on the books that you’re not enforcing.
It’s amazing these very same people spent years and BILLIONS of dollars trying to get cigarettes and tobacco banned altogether.
This should be left to the states anyway. The fed should keep their filthy hands out of it.
Why did we lose the war on drugs? Look in the mirror.
Good. Better to reduce the police state than to keep crappy prosecutors locking up idiots for harmless behavior.
Marijuana is not a harmless substance while users may claim it is. It just ain’t. I’ve had very bad experiences when I had hires who use it perform worse than alcoholics. Colorado is having problems since it legalized it. Any entity considering doing so should take a serious look at the unintended consequences. Since its been legalized there adulterated forms are being smuggled in and sold with the result the tax revenue is not at the expected level and increased DO hospitalization calls .
“.. more people becoming stoners; missing work, sitting on their butts eating Cheetos or going from a gateway drug to hard drugs...”
And more likely to vote for AOC and her socialist madness.
Not to mention more stoners sitting at stop signs waiting for them to turn green.
But thank goodness for drug testing where I worked; I was able to work into my sixties because younger cheaper replacements came up hot since THC stays in the system a long time.
Not any longer. Most of us are retired.
Oh, and the Beatles, like the rest of us were victims of the emerging Main Stream Media that we all know and love. Blame people like Cronkite, Huntley, Brinkley, and Sullivan more than four British kids swept up in a boy band from the 60s
Not any longer. Most of us are retired.
Oh, and the Beatles, like the rest of us were victims of the emerging Main Stream Media that we all know and love. Blame people like Cronkite, Huntley, Brinkley, and Sullivan more than four British kids swept up in a boy band from the 60s
Apologies for the double post... that pesky arthritis strikes again. :-)
Victims of the birth of an expanding media???? lol!!!!
If you live here you should note, Ron Wyden (D-OR/NY) spends little time in Oregon away from his NY/DC home.
Portland Oregon, most atheist city in the US
Drinking alcohol is a vice
Smoking cigarettes is a vice
Smoking weed is a vice
We once tried to outlaw alcohol and the end result was organized crime used it as a catapult because even with alcohol illegal people still wanted to consume it.
IMHO weed is just cigarettes with the inebriation capability of alcohol. Pop culture has (like it or not) made it damn near mainstream.
I am fine with it being decriminalized and therefore taxed as cigarettes & alcohol are. And if some states or counties want to stay weed free like some are “dry”. It’s their choice.
Many HERE support the 17th Amendment.
Guess I should revise and extend my remarks to state that $80 price was seen online. Where, I don’t recall...
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