Democrats Eyeing Marijuana as an Opiate for the Masses

Dignitas News Service ^ | September 28, 2014 | Paul M Winters

[Trapped Behind Enemy Lines]

Only a matter of time when they will let you buy it with EBT.

[SMARTY]

ANYTHING, so they can assure their stranglehold on ‘the people’.

[EagleUSA]

Yes, keep the masses stoned so they won’t care about much of anything. Instant useful idiots.

[dignitasnews]

Worse than that, no need to use EBT...they are going to hand it our free.

[The_Media_never_lie]

The city of Berkeley, CA recently moved to institute policy requiring "medicinal" marijuana outlets to allot certain amounts of their product to be distributed free to lower-income residents. Beginning next summer, anyone earning less than $32,000 per year and possess a prescription for medical marijuana will have the drug provided free of charge.

The democrats are the party of free food and free drugs. What's next, free sex? Will EBT cards work at a brothel?

[GeronL]

Look at Berkeley and Colorado where it was being away free to the poor and veterans respectively. You just know the libs will have it going to anyone and everyone and age soon won’t matter.

[Faith-Hope]

Is’t it a shame that we are standing by and letting our nation become a 3rd world country. We are not there yet but we are certainly well on our way.

[Trapped Behind Enemy Lines]

Yup....more goodies for the Dems to pass out to their voting base.

[PoloSec]

This is definitely an issue:

Several states have recreational marijuana use on the ballot. As it stands now, 12 states have proposed that they follow Colorado and Washington State’s lead and legalize recreational use of Marijuana. Medical marijuana is on the table in 16states.

More info at: http://americanlivewire.com/2014-04-08-many-states-recreational-marijuana-ballot/

[Buckeye McFrog]

Flash forward four election cycles:

“EEEEEEVIL Republicans want to take away your Dime Bag!”

[newnhdad]

pffftttt.. dude, legalize it and tax it man..

[ConservingFreedom]

By moving to offer free drugs to poorer residents, it furthers the belief of many critics who charge that Democrats are looking to dumb-down their constituency

The Berkeley policy is nonsense - but so is the above conclusion. Those who would qualify for free pot and want it are reliable Dem voters already. "Free pot for the poor" is simply libs being libs - which is insidious enough right there, no need to read illogical conclusions into it.

[ConservingFreedom]

It's odd that the map shows "[Current] Recreational", "Proposed Recreational", and "Proposed Medical" - but not "[Current] Medical". Could it be that the author (who makes a point of dragging in Soros) wants to soft-pedal the fact that medical marijuana is legal in 20 states?

[longtermmemmory]

CVS stopped selling cigarettes.

will they refuse to buy into the pot scam?

[ifinnegan]

“the left-wing has jumped on the marijuana bandwagon with such gusto and such a callous disregard for the possible negative consequences”

They are here as well.

I think a good term is dope trolls.

They push old rhetoric from Tim Leary or SDS slogans of the 60’s and want to have discussions about it.

[ConservingFreedom]

CVS stopped selling cigarettes.

will they refuse to buy into the pot scam?

Were cigarettes being sold or bought for their medicinal qualities?

[ConservingFreedom]

They push old rhetoric from Tim Leary or SDS slogans of the 60’s

Bet you can't link to even one such post.

[Mariner]

Outright legalization is the only reasonable answer.

[Mariner]

He can certainly invent some.

Many SoCons are unwilling to admit there is ANY basis to support legalization besides wanting to get high.

Not the militarization of the police, not the trashing of civil liberties...not the cost of enforcement and punishment.