Posted on 04/20/2014 6:04:41 PM PDT by mgist
“People are going to smoke pot whether it’s legal or illegal”
That is the crux of the matter.
Smoking kills more people every year than pot ever has. I don’t see why cigarettes should be legal when pot isn’t.
Pot is bad for you, and in a perfect world no one would use them, but let’s be real. It’s as prevalent as alcohol during Prohibition at this point, and we all know how well that turned out.
The way I see it, if laws banning cigarettes and marijuana could stop trafficking entirely I would be all for it. But we’ve been trying for decades to stop trafficking, and it’s been just as successful as the last time we tried during Prohibition.
So legalize it, tax it to oblivion, and stick health warnings all over it. Make the best out of a bad situation, because almost anyone in America could get access to marijuana now, despite it being illegal in most states.
Yeah that'll stop illegal drug dealing. /s
Yet the white race as a whole has rejected it's use as an intoxicant, and looked down on it, for thousands of years, from the time of the Greeks.
That was hyperbole. I meant tax it heavily but lower than what the cartels can bring in from Mexico.
Because that freedom for adults to chose what to ingest is just too dangerous.
I grow my own tobacco because of prohibitionists and statist tax freaks.
/johnny
“Yet the white race as a whole has rejected it’s use”
Really??? You must live in a different country than I do.
What has race got to do with it, first of all, and second of all, there are any number of things that people “look down on” - many of them are perfectly legal. People look down on spending all your money buying crap from those late night home shopping networks for example.
You mean recent decades, when I was speaking of thousands of years?
Did I say white, I should have said “Western Civilization”, and Cannabis as an intoxicant was looked down on in the West for thousands of years, that is why it’s use as an intoxicant never became common in Western Civilization.
I actually had some pot head on here the other day arguing that pot actually makes you drives better!
I only hope when one of these pot heads hits someone, it’s someone these guys love and not someone innocent.
Good observation. They say correlation is not causation, and maybe they're right. But I believe you can find a lot of evidence with correlation. For instance Paul McCartney's (a huge dope champion) production after the sixties was mostly garbage. He wasn't the only big name, dope-smoking rock and roller who did all their best work early, and then produced crap later. Is there a correlation between heavy dope use and dulling of the creative senses? Maybe.
Poll: Coloradans happier than ever with legal pot
03/20/2014
A new poll by Raleigh-based Public Policy Polling shows that more Colorado voters support legal pot than when they passed Amendment 64 in 2012. The breakdown is now 57 percent in favor of legalization to 35 percent opposed. In 2012, voters legalized pot 55-44.
http://dailycaller.com/2014/03/20/poll-coloradans-happier-than-ever-with-legal-pot/
Glad to see you qualified your earlier statement.
I guess we could parse the words of this post as they are somewhat contradictory...but why bother over something neither of us of endorse.
Do you mean using white instead of Western Civilization?
NOTE TO SELF: When in Colorado selling 30 round AR and AK magazines out of the trunk, DO NOT eat prepared food! Bring your own.
Yes
Remember that not everyone is fully conditioned in using euphemism’s imposed by the modern left of the last 40 years, I’m glad you approve of mine as sufficient.
Referring to my libertarian side, this seems like a problem that solves itself... but, the (no doubt soon to be) number of inadvertent or deliberate underage or unknowing victims will be absolutely unacceptable.
Your sarcasm is appreciated...and amusing.
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