Posted on 07/02/2018 8:04:14 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
According the Devotes of the Pot Religion, anything to do with weed is Heavenly, grass actually improves driving, and by golly Its just wonderful...Praise Potty
There is a good reason why it is called “weed”. People have been planting it next to my parent’s property for so long that it comes back as a nuisance every year. My parent’s cows tromp all over it. Fortunately they do not eat it very much of the time. It makes them sick when they do.
The police used to take an interest, but since it was legalized they do not seem to care very much. Of course it encourages a bunch of nasty trespassers who leave the gates open and then the cows get out and wander onto a very busy four lane road where the traffic is typically traveling at 50 mph or more.
“So the government has become the drug pusher, oblivious to the ramifications of such a policy?”
State governments are supposed to regulate intrastate commerce per the Tenth Amendment. By your definition, the states are alcohol pushers, tobacco pushers and pushers of anything else that the states tax and regulate.
How’s it doing for drug addiction and homelessness compared to 5 years ago? Because they are weeded out of the employment statistics. /pun
That's Soros' plan.
Yes you are probably correct. I have seen too many of my friends lose their lives to marijuana to support its decriminalization. It’s a different animal. What is next, cocaine, heroin? Wait, we have that in certain states with resultant body counts. Yes, the liberty bell says “spread liberty throughout the land,” but liberty does not mean licentious drug use encouraged by the state for their revenue cut. The state has become the whore, oblivious to the moral consequences.
The estimated cost to serve a single chronically homeless person in Colorado Springs is $57,760 per
year.2
That number includes medical treatment, incarceration, police intervention and emergency
response. Research suggests that costs drop significantly – by as much as $30,000 annually
according to one study – when a person is placed in permanent supportive housing
“That’s Soros’ plan.”
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Candidate Trump speaking favorably about medical marijuana and leaving legalization to the states =>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWIQhDbs1g8
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President Trump supporting legislation letting states decide =>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M53XLBd54Y
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President Trump has done more to facilitate marijuana in the states than all of FR combined. Is he a dupe of Soros?
Soros, who declined to comment for this story, writes that “the drug problem as primarily a criminal problem is a misconception” and that “eradicating the drug problem is a false idea.”
“A drug-free America is simply not possible. You can discourage the use of drugs, you can forbid the use of drugs, you can treat people who are addicted to drugs, but you cannot eradicate drugs.”
So what would he do?
“I would establish a strictly controlled distribution network through which I would make most drugs, excluding the most dangerous ones like crack, legally available,” he writes. “Initially, I would keep the prices low enough to destroy the drug trade. Once that objective was obtained, I would keep raising the prices, very much like an excise duty on cigarettes, but I would make an exception for registered addicts in order to discourage crime.”
source: www.phoenixnewtimes.com/issues/1996-12-12
Years ago, I bought investment property about an hour north of Trinidad. Had never been to the region.
So I went out and spent three days traveling around that area of Colorado. Trinidad is a fairly unusual place. It would be like walking around Mississippi, and suddenly walking into Portland, OR. I won’t even say that the locals are liberal or such...it’s just that it’s a crowd that seem to have different views on life. I didn’t stay long enough to ask questions or figure out where this started.
As you run from Denver...southward....each one of these communities on the interstate has a unique character. Some more than others.
So all the cash flow does not go to schools does it. Interesting that the actual homelessness by head count goes up while the statistics go down.
Seem someone in government does not like anything getting in the way of the gravy train.
Well that idea will get votes from the addicts, but in real life what is being done is to imprison the affected involuntarily because it saves 30 grand a year.
The first 8 of the 9 states that legalized did so by ballot measures. That’s true for most medical mj programs, as well.
Fed and State governments are way out of step with the people on this issue. President Trump has wisely recognized this and taken the issue away from dems in the mid-terms. (See post #29)
As for body counts, I refer you to the following CDC graphic showing death rates from OD for each state between 2010 and 2016. The legalized states did better. OR, for example, was one of the few states that actually saw a decline, while WV and OH skyrocketed =>
https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/images/data/2010_2016DrugOverdose-Deaths-Graphic.JPG
Since you avoided my question, I can only infer that you do think President Trump is a dupe of Soros. You certainly didn’t deny it.
Sad.
Oh by the way I am very familiar with the lifestyle of an addict. I suspect I have smoked a quarter of a life away daydreaming with a buzz before I broke free from the pot vampire.
I never mentioned Trump. What are you talking about?
CO has lower welfare spending per capita than the national average, $556 vs $649.
https://www.usgovernmentspending.com/compare_state_spending_2018d40a
Which do you blame, pot or your own weakness?
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