Posted on 02/11/2017 9:07:26 AM PST by TaxPayer2000
I ran sex offender warrants with the Marshalls months ago and they were already planning nation wide raids on “illegal” pot distributors and growers “out West” beginning this summer. They knew that it didn’t matter if Hillary or Trump won, it was a go once Obama left.
Pro-pot fellas on this forum inferred that I was mistaken and that the issue “was settled.” Their naïveté was unfortunate. The Feds and the ATF and the Marshalls need money. And they now have a very simple way of getting it through confiscation and now they have an eager AG.
I said, hey, get Congress to change the law first or it’s not legal. Pro weed fellas were too eager to get stoned to bother with all that effort and work.
“Some guy” can still smoke a joint, eat Cheetos, and watch cartoons -—in the privacy of his home, even when marijuana is illegal; keeping it illegal is precisely what encourages him to keep it inside where the cops aren’t likely to see, and where his private behavior is constitutionally protected from unlawful search and seizure.
Legalizing it, on the other hand, virtually guarantees “some guy” will be blowing smoke in MY face while he camps out on the sidewalk, aggressively panhandles ME, and shares his wares with MY kids.
It also will guarantee his “right” to come to work stoned, and to sue ME into bankruptcy if I fire him for doing so.
There are lots of other reasons...but suffice to say, we should have kept abortion and sodomy illegal, too. The “people are going to do it anyway so we might as well legalize it” logic only ends up protecting the guilty while unleashing a sh!tstorm on those who otherwise would have remained uninvolved.
It’s a quality of life issue. Society at large has a vested interest in making distinctions between what’s permissible and impermissible, with an eye toward maintaining certain basic standards of civil behavior, at least in public.
How many freedoms are willing to give up to stop “some guy”?
Reading comprehension—it’s a skill.
My point is that “some guy” gets to do whatever he wants, anytime, anywhere, and ends up curtailing everyone else’s freedoms. What about others’ rights to be left alone? Others’ rights to breathe without getting an unwanted contact high?
Tolerance shouldn’t mean anything goes, but increasingly that’s what it’s becoming.
Keeping it illegal doesn’t stop it, it does not result in “fascism” as the potheads would have you believe. It just keeps it in the closet where it belongs.
So are you or your kids stoners?
I agree, but then again, I am not a pot head.
Hysterical nonsense - users of the legal mind-altering drug alcohol aren't sharing their wares with kids, nor do they have the right to come to work drunk or sue their employers for firing them if they do.
maintaining certain basic standards of civil behavior, at least in public.
By all means, let's extend current laws against public drunkenness to stonedness.
Have you lived in cities where marijuana is legal? Ever lived anyplace when a “medical” marijuana dispensary moved in on your block?
Ever been to an outdoor music festival? Did you take your kids?
I was in Seattle for a week - had no smoke blown in my face, and the panhandlers were less aggressive than Chicago's.
Ever been to an outdoor music festival?
Is that really "public"?
Yes. A music festival, or concert, where the “public” is invited to purchase tickets and attend, is indeed public. Sheesh.
I happen to love rock and roll, but I can’t go or take my kids, because of the likelihood of unwanted stoned-ness being inflicted upon us, and that’s a violation of our rights.
But stoners insist their rights are the only rights.
In cities where it’s legal, it’s everywhere, not just at rock concerts. Those cities have become unliveable.
The argument “people will do it anyway, might as well be legal” can be applied to any law, including homicide. People will drive too fast anyway; let’s take down the speed limit signs. How does that help?
No, that's the liberal thinking that says that restaurants and bars are "public" so it's within government's legitimate authority to ban tobacco.
In cities where it’s legal, it’s everywhere, not just at rock concerts. Those cities have become unliveable.
More hysterical nonsense - I've spent time in such cities and found that pot smoking was not everywhere and they were not unlivable.
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