Posted on 08/02/2017 1:30:53 PM PDT by cll
Basing your economy on growing drugs is the key to economic prosperity. Just ask Afghanistan.
Pot is the new miracle answer to fiscal irresponsibility—replacing casino gambling.
Someone here recently used the term, "The doper class". I think I'm going to start using that term. :)
In Oregon, they’re planning for a 40% increase in pot sales during the eclipse.
Legalized hallucinogenic drugs are about as viable an alternative to solving an economic crisis as using gasoline to put out a house fire.
Try hanging murderers & rapists after short trials.
Try sending major lawbreakers far away from their homeboys to hard labor with no appeal or parole.
Try giving minor lawbreakers a dozen lashes and a boot out the door instead of a 6 month ordeal in court and county lockup that doesn’t deter sh!t and costs an arm and a leg.
Try cutting taxes and regulations.
Try enforcing your nation’s borders.
Try requiring implantable birth control for those on welfare and under 40.
Try offering cash incentives for those below the poverty line to get their tubes tied.
Try treating flag burning and other open displays of treason as the lethal threats to national security they are.
There are literally HUNDREDS of things to try before considering this lunacy as a ‘solution’.
Most of your suggestions would be tied up in the courts for years, so no, maybe there aren't.
I guess William Shakespeare said it best “FIRST WE KILL ALL THE LAWYERS”.
Judges are just lawyers in robes so we get a twofer.
They would work far, far better than surrendering to mass drug use and trying to catch a few pennies in new taxes. If we as a society are too yellow to implement anything better...that ain’t my problem.
Dr. Thomas Sowell.
I think Puerto Rico is confusing itself with Jamaica. Tourists looking for ganja are already going to the island 400 miles to the left.
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Big mistake their making ,, MJ is illegal in Jamaica... and there is almost as much crime there as in PR.
So the economic “solution” is for workers to waste effort and resources on growing and selling a drug that’s suitable primarily for selling to others to waste THEIR money on so that they can demotivate themselves into drug-induced stupors in lieu of productive work.
yeah, that’s gonna solve all their economic problems!
Idjits!
“Pot is the new miracle answer to fiscal irresponsibility—replacing casino gambling.”
and waterparks ...
Jamaica already has them beat in this area.
“MJ is illegal in Jamaica.”
Not so much.
And statehood should be out of the question. I know there is a law that gives Puerto Rico the option, if they vote for it. That law should be repealed.
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