Posted on 09/27/2009 2:36:52 PM PDT by cakid1
Whether You Like it or Not - California Will Legalize Pot Next Year
(That seems to be the idea behind a new article out today)
According to a well known, and outspoken leader from the left it’s a good bet that the state will legalize Pot next year.
Part of the reason?
The state needs...
I think this is great. Maybe now all the Californians living in Arizona will go the hell home and take their communist politics with them.
I doubt that, how would they be able to afford it?
There is something called the Law of Unintended Consequences and this will be a great example of it.
Why don’t they just do an Omnibus Bill:
One that legalizes pot/same-sex_marriage/abortion_on_demand_up_to_age_13
Idiot. Why would people pay tax for something they are currently getting tax free?
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I’ve been asking pro-dope libertarians that for years. Why are liberaltarians so anxious to increase taxes and grow the government to even greater proportions?
Immoral dopeheads; the lot of ‘em.
whipee.
Won’t solve any of their problems.
Will it be illegal to grow it? I guess they’ll have to raid homes to stop that from happening.
“Great. Now every lazy, deadbeat, RAT voter will move here.”
Yes but think how that will help Republicans (hopefully conservatives) in the rest of the nation.
It will still be illegal to grow it. Probably only the state will be able to sell it legally.
Here, here. I’m in for that ...
“Fruits and nuts, your Hemp Bowl is calling you. Time to grift your way home.”
Don’t care. Any waste case who wants weed is already getting all he can use. The social harm from making it illegal outweighs any direct damage it causes. I want the Feds to keep their noses out of it too.
Doritos?
Legalize use is a stepping stone (no pun intended). Colorado already effectively legalizes. Grow rights should be the case by default but 1 step is better than 0 tolerance.
Okay...no more business with California, and eject all California refugees back to where they came from.
Wait until they see how much pot will cost them when they have to pay the tax on it. Growing your own will be illegal, and all new laws will have to be created and enforced regarding black market marijuana.
What about pot for the needy? Will there be pot food stamps?
Alaska has always had legal pot...something no one ever seems to remember.
I don't touch any drug except an occasional glass of wine, but I have worked in a psych hospital and seen the downside of every kind of legal and illegal drug.
The fact is that there is absolutely no comparison: Alcohol is far more dangerous and destructive than marijuana in every single way you can measure. Alcohol is probably the third or fourth worst drug out there (after PCP, amphetamines, and perhaps opiates.) I think that cocaine is in general not as dangerous as alcohol, and that even the opiates are running neck and neck with the booze. Marijuana is probably the safest strongly psychoactive substance known to mankind.
We have come to a societal accommodation with booze, taxing it and regulating it heavily, and we ought to be able to do the same with pot. Taxes will go up, but the overall cost of the material will go way way down, reducing the criminality associated with its production, distribution, and usage. Money that used to go to violent Mexican drug gangs will instead go to the state. With the stuff so much cheaper, there will be no need to commit burglaries or robberies to get enough money to buy it.
Moreover, with legalization there will be less pressure for draconian laws that rob us of our ancient Saxon liberties, pothead and teetotaler alike. All true conservatives should support this.
-ccm
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