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To: RoosterRedux

And, specifically, where are the inaccuracies? Need chapter and verse.

Seems to me that there are now TWO organized crime syndicates controlling weed - the “legal, state run” crime syndicate and the criminal crime syndicate.

Yes, I have read extensively about this poison! Said research and my experience of life have convinced me that legalizing marijuana is a VERY BAD IDEA!

I was a Navy drug and alcohol abuse counselor on the early 1970s. To coin a phrase, “It was bad shit then, and it is bad shit now!”


50 posted on 09/18/2022 9:15:18 PM PDT by Taxman (SAVE AMERICA!)
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To: Taxman
Just out of curiosity are you a recovering person?

I am. A recovering alcoholic. I wouldn't support a return to prohibition.

55 posted on 09/18/2022 11:20:17 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots. )
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To: Taxman
First of all, thank you for your service. As a former addict, I agree that drugs are a very dangerous problem.

But as to organized crime, I think you are incorrect. I suggest that you might have a confirmation bias in that you are letting your righteous hatred of drugs color your perception.

Exactly why would organized crime be involved in any "legal" activity (except perhaps the way the mafia is also in the pizza business as a front for tax purposes)?

Why is organized crime involved in "legally" growing weed as an illegal activity?

To your other point, I agree that the state acts like a crime syndicate, but that isn't the issue here. The issue here is the illegality vs legality of weed and why organized crime syndicates would be involved.

You can do your own research, but there have been many cases showing exactly the opposite. Legalizing weed takes the criminal out of the equation because it is no longer illegal.

Now I realize that weed grown in one state can be shipped "illegally" to another state. But there are laws to enforce that. Whether or not such laws are enforced would be beyond the scope of the argument of legalized weed, wouldn't it?

57 posted on 09/19/2022 2:41:40 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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