Posted on 10/28/2016 2:50:17 PM PDT by fwdude
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All those that want this illegal should submit to a personal tax to pay for the jailing and prosecution of anyone caught smoking this plant, that happens to not be tobacco.
Which for some reason is ok to smoke, but we have to waste billions chasing down people that smoke the other?
I think Colorado already turned. That’s why leftists in charge legalized marijuana.
There are no tobacco or booze cartels.
Seems like a lot of Moral Grandstanding.
If people want to get high, who cares?
Do you support the authority of states rather than fedgov to make the decision, per the 10 Amendment?
It was a joke...
I don’t think anyone would argue that most people are better off not smoking dope. The question for me is: What is worse, smoking dope, or the measures taken by government to stop it? The answer for me is clearly, the WOD is MUCH worse than people getting high. Civil forfeiture, jails filled to the brim, questionable prosecutions based on faulty field test kits, the involvement of organized crime. This stuff affects everybody in the county. Did we learn NOTHING from prohibition? IMHO alcohol is a much worse drug. Everyone knows someone who becomes an angry drunk when they have a few. But no reasonable person would want to go back to prohibition. I don’t care how you look at it, the WOD, especially as it concerns marijuana, is immoral and indefensible and it needs to end. Now.
Now I will sit back and wait for morons to accuse me of being a “pothead” or something. Their accusations are a badge of honor. Thank you.
You might as well argue that there are no competing markets for goods in demand.
Please.
Been there, done that, got the t-shirts. They don’t fit anymore.
Anyway, this is a really bad idea. And I do know of what I speak.
You want to be an apathetic vegetable, knock yourself out. Move somewhere else! and or forfeit your right to vote. Because you’re stupid.
How about: Allowing recreational sugar consumption would hurt not only those who buy it-it also hurts children and society as a whole. As a country, if we encourage and profit from this vice, we will be undermining the very foundations of our government.
It is not the government's job to tell people what they can ingest.
What so-called conservatives miss here is a very solid, eternal conservative economic principle they have somehow forgotten: Their is a COST for every change in public policy. Yes, even for “legalization” (that word does not mean what you think it means) of previously universally forbidden activities.
“Their is a COST for every change in public policy. Yes, even for “legalization” “
So keep something needlessly illegal, because of a one-time cost?
Like what is the obsession with some people on the right to need this to be illegal while they rail against “anti-smoking Nazis” and laugh at the idea of Prohibition?
The Prohibitionist mind seeks to take shortcuts with Liberty. Once "normalized", such shortcuts are invariably used by every nanny-state authoritarian, so that they can impose their pet Tyranny on their fellow man.
No thanks.
If George Washington were alive today, by growing a field full of hemp, just as he did back then, he'd be subject to life imprisonment. For possession of the wrong plant. One of God's own plants, I might add.
And, in the true Statist tradition of Tyranny, it wouldn't even matter that the hemp wasn't for smoking, and had no recreational value whatsoever!
Nope. In the modern authoritarian's mind, just like his ideological predecessors, the Law is the Law and Justice be damned.
No-knock warrants? No Fourth Amendment? No Right to Privacy? Asset forfeiture? No probable cause?
F--k Prohibition. F--k Contraband Law. F--k Arbitrary Law! It's the tool of the Tyrant, or will become such.
The Revolution is ON!
Vote Trump!
So, collect all the kiddie porn you want, right?
I agree with you but I think Trump came out against states legalizing weed..
Legalization means Regulation...Alcohol and Tobacco are “legal” but heavily regulated. Legalizing marijuana means another govt agency. Also alcohol and tobacco are “standardized”-alcohol percentages and “proofs”, tar and nicotine levels, packaging, ingredients. There are no standardized THC/CBD levels on marijuana.
Thank you! I was just going to begin that very discussion.
If a complete ban means 500 pages of laws, “legalizing” marijuana will mean 50,000 pages of NEW laws and a whole new, multi-billion dollar bureaucracy to oversee them, on the taxpayer dime.
So are you for honoring the 10th Amendment and leaving intrastate pot regulation to the states, yes or no?
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