Posted on 09/06/2022 6:59:39 AM PDT by whyilovetexas111
If weed fails in the Senate, and no one hears, does it make any noise? On July 21, 2022, the three most ambitious U.S. senators ever to pay attention to cannabis sheepishly launched federal cannabis legislation into the future, with the introduction of the Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act.
The landmark announcement drew surprisingly little fanfare. Senators Schumer, Wyden, and Booker seemed resigned. The cannabis cognoscenti immediately denied the infeasibility of the timing and the impossibility of getting to 60 votes in a bitterly divided U.S. Senate.
Then, the seas started to change in Washington. After months of gridlock, Congress passed, and the President signed, four major laws – including Democratic shibboleths like gun control, prescription drug reform, and environmental policy. Instantly, the priority level for cannabis reform rocketed toward the top.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
Only problem I see is we’re not going to walk back any of the Bill of Rights damage we’ve done on behalf of the WOD. No knock raids, OMNI asset confiscation, probable cause, and all that other crap will stay. I still want to see the WOD end, but the damage is here to stay.
The 18th Amendment, 1919. It closed 177,790 saloons. It closed 1,755 breweries. Crime decreased 54%. The death rate due to liquor decreased 42%. Of the existing 98 “Keely Alcoholic Clinics”, 77 were closed. Insanity decreased 66%. When the amendment was repealed in 1933, drunkenness increased 350% and major St. Louis hospitals alone recorded a 400% increase in alcoholic patients.
We're already seeing serious side effects of this poison. Numerous threads have been posted on FR about the severe mental illness accompanying (today's) pot smoking. Educate yourself.
So do major parts of Shitcago.
I'm so glad I live way outside that craphole and in a community where almost everyone is 55+ and no one smokes that crap.
I’m aware, but the psychoactive affects are similar at that level.
I can't say I agree with that. Current THC products have caught up and can do great harm in a very short period of time. Most alcohol issues take a while to show permanent damage other than the obvious stupor antics.
It doesn’t matter whether it’s a good idea or not. This is about one thing only, tax revenue. Same as booze, cigs and gambling.
There’s a lot of money to be collected, so it WILL be legal. All other arguments are just gilding the lily.
Yuval Harari, an Israeli philosopher who serves as an advisor to the World Economic Forum (WEF), has frequently warned of a growing class of “useless people.” According to the WEF advisor, the rise of artificial intelligence will give rise to billions of “useless people” who humanity will have to “deal with.” In order to address the growing number of so-called “useless people”, Harari suggests keeping them docile with drugs and video games.
https://nationalfile.com/wef-advisor-yuval-harari-ponders-how-world-will-deal-with-useless-people
So rape, car crashes, and death via street fights isn’t a big deal?…
My friend was 41, organs shut down…dead.
Thomas McDermott, mayor of Hammond, Indiana and the Democrat nominee for the U.S. Senate, is actually running on this. A campaign ad has him crossing the border into weed-legal Illinois and lightning up a joint. (Rumor has it he likes harder stuff too.) The good news is that Indiana is a safe Republican seat.
Saying “with respect” means nothing when what follows is disrespectful.
I’ve been on those threads, and we disagree. I don’t tell you you don’t know what you’re talking about.
I know multiple people dead from alcohol, zero from pot.
I’m not endorsing pot use, just alcohol is worse.
So ... before 1937, the US was a nation of burned-out stoners?
Much as I despise the left in DC I agree that cannabis should be legal to have, grow & use to all adults over the age of 21.
I’ve been using it daily since 2015 with zero downside to help with sleep. Works beautifully for me & I have no complaints save for the cost.
The great thing about today’s cannabis being so much more powerful as the weed of the 1960’s is you don’t have to use as much to achieve the desired effect. Naysayers will continue to whine & moan but it is time we stopped the criminalization of all plants, period.
And how much is consumed is a factor. The super-potent argument grows tiresome.
Yup, why one of them dang kids smoked a reefer and kilt his ma with a rubber fryin’ pan!
Alcohol: About 25% of Americans have a drinking problem. Innocents die on our roads, killed by drunk drivers. Alcohol has many known bad health effects and kills its heavy users over time, which can be as little as a few hours at a frat party.
Tobacco: 400 Americans a day die from cancer related to tobacco. That’s the equivalent of a jumbo jetliner crash every day of the year.
Gambling: Don’t know that stats but we know people become addicted to gambling and we know the House always wins and the customers always lose over time.
The bad health and life effects of these things don’t matter. All that matters is the money that flows from the various businesses to the govt by way of taxation, and the profits that flow to influential people who run the large operations.
Health arguments are meaningless and not even part of the equation. If people/govt cared about health, none of the above would be legal.
If you want one of these things to be illegal due to health, you should want them ALL to be illegal.
Tobacco is No. 1 of the group in deaths and should logically be the first one to become illegal. But logic has nothing to do with this, and neither does health.
If FedGov cared about health, there would be no sugar subsidies!
That’s probably the number one thing that could be done for overall health in this country that’s actually somewhat effective is stopping sugar subsidies.
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