Posted on 02/12/2015 12:13:17 AM PST by CharlesOConnell
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And they are. Lot of monied people moving from California to Colorado. They soiled the nest in California, so now they have to go ruin another state.
Locusts.
I never wanted to use hard drugs. Not at all.
If you regard preventing the destruction of society as a moral issue, then yeah.
In our nation's history, the word "Freedom" was never intended to comprehend drug abuse indulgence.
You can wag your finger at users, or you can support the legalization that would take the market away from the murderous drug cartels. Your call.
Something has certainly gotten into California in the last 30 years. They have lost their f***ing minds.
You and all your friends are potheads? Maybe you didn't escape it.
I think what many people are failing to understand is that different people have different reactions to the influence of various drugs. Some can maintain functionality, even excel, while others fall apart.
Those that can operate under the influence presume everyone else can as well, and so they come to places like here and go "Rah Rah Rah!" In favor of letting everyone get exposed to substances that don't cause *THEM* any troubles.
The idea that some people wreck their lives with this stuff just doesn't enter their minds.
The same God that created Jim Robinson...the “death cap” to liberals everywhere....and that was no mistake!
My horror story is pretty similar. Started at 18 in college, first full-time/salary job at 21 with no breaks in work until I left the corporate world and went on my own at 48. Made six figures at the corporate job my last 5 or 6 years, and also did $30-$60k most years doing side-projects. Still in my first marriage.
When I was 32 I went, on a lark, to a proctored Mensa testing session... not only qualified for Mensa, but also got into Intertel which has more strict requirements than Mensa.
Similar deal with my oldest sister... she retired from her one and only job a couple of years ago. She worked at MIT in the rocket engine lab... a rocket scientist. I can go on about other friends/relatives.
There's a huge difference between a recreational user and an addict.
We certainly are tsubmerged in a tsunami of tsupid ...
California money from their new inter state immigrants.
It's also why the state is trending Left.
The drug war has only destabilized Mexico, the US border, and militarized law enforcement. Your building yourself a cage to sit in, under the pretense of preventing the destruction of society. Legalize it all and let the market of ideas and capabilities straighten things out.
"The world needs ditch diggers too!"
Wow. That's some pandemic, there! Any news articles about all these young people with their brains cooked out? Anything you can cite other than your "Memoires from the ICU?"
Sounds like more phantasmagoric cucky-poo to me (to use the clinical term).
Used to know successful people who did coke. Perhaps we should legalize that too?
Uh dude, have you been watching Colorado for the last several elections?
Indeed, marijuana is a multi-billion dollar industry nationwide, and is providing jobs and generating revenue in CO.
And i'm sure the porn industry does as well, and like drugs, it probably doesn't cause any problems in the rest of society either.
Hey not everyone does go into harder drugs who smoke a little pot...but I work in an ICU where I see the aggregate numbers of those who did go into harder drugs. I hear the same stories over and over. Generally it is always a variant of “ I started doing a little weed with my buds...it felt great to relax, but soon I started trying other drugs...and so on and so on!.
Now I’m willing to be flexible. Some ‘legacy’ weed, grown from plants untouched by the designer hybridists probably won’t harm some one who does the end of the week Saturday night hang-out/unwind toke! The new designer stuff is dangerous, and the stuff being concentrated and made from such weed is totally harmful!
Folks who abuse cocaine regularly cannot be successful long term. The same is not true for pot.
There is no comparison, and your argument is not a strong one.
The same arguments you are making now about weed were made by the Abolitionists during Prohibition. If booze is legalized, the country will wither, the spines will warp, and the allies will lose the war!
Those who refuse to learn from history, etc.
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