Posted on 06/04/2007 11:35:52 AM PDT by cryptical
Cigarette smoking is evil and should be banned and criminalized.
Marijuana is cool and good and should be legalized.
You can grow it at home and they can’t tax it.
If the goobermint could guarantee a taxable revenue stream, it would be legal. Just like alcohol and cigarettes.
Perfect. Add: Cigarette smokers are exiled while marijuanan smokers are socially adept and welcome in the crowd (this smoke doesn't choke any of them). Really grates on the brain.
They always threaten the higher potency of MJ these days, but then frame the issue as an "it's for the children" one---patently forgetting that the high-potency grass is probably out of the typical yute's price range.
Conservatives who support the Insane, Racist War on (Some) Drugs are a big part of the problem.
Illegal use of race card-- ten yard penalty.
APf
Nah I think he’s right. The drug laws aren’t based on the actual danger of the substances, they have more to do with when the substance was introduced to popular culture and which ethnic group brought it here.
Not in this context, unfortunately. Your call's over-ruled.
No one believes that.
Shoot, we paid $30 an oz for Columbian. The cops didn’t care about it when it was cheap.
“patently forgetting that the high-potency grass is probably out of the typical yute’s price range.”
I’ve been around a bit and the only time I have ever smoked the good stuff was when I was hanging with wealthy adults at some occasion or other. Always preceded by the comment, “I’ve been saving this”, just like one would a good bottle of wide or scotch.
Kids who drink Milwaukee’s Best aren’t likely to buy an $800 oz of weed. Establishing a contact for “the kind” is no easy task in itself. There simply isn’t enough to go around, hence the price.
No way you can get an 8th for 20. Not even dirt weed. Coupla grams will cost you 50...er, according to information I read somewhere.
“Illegal use of race card— ten yard penalty.”
LOL! 99 times out of 100 you’d be right. Unfortunately, history tells a different tale here.
I’ve got a couple of friends that are total weed snobs. Always fun to hang out with those guys. I’m not that picky.
Most quit smoking marijuana by their late 20's, early 30's. Even among marijuana users, these clowns are oddballs.
If they just made 50’s and 100’s one time use like
traveler’s checks. The drug war would be over.
They could catch drug dealers just by pulling over the
suspicious semi trailers full of 20’s.
Couldn’t make much money selling small deals. And, would need
some way of unloading warehouses full of smaller bills.
“Among them: a couple of lawyers, a couple of city administrators and an arts administrator...”
In other words, a bunch of Democrats.
We can’t arrest 12 million illegal immigrants, but we’re somehow gonna round up 50 million potsmokers. Go figure.
“Marijuana-related emergency-room visits increased from 45,000 in 1995 to 119,000 in 2002, the most recent comparison available, federal drug officials say.”
And how many Alcohol related ER visits were reported last year? Hmmmmmmmmm?
They would not have a problem with that. Have you read the medical studies on just how dangerous marijuana is to the lungs, heart and how it increases schizophrenia and bi polar illnesses? I think it's a little more complicated than the dollars and cents of taxing it!
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