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But it is a harmless weed and the state will collect big tax money! And some pols might snag a license for their bum brother-in-law, getting him out of their basement.

Money will pour in for education and more for the children.

Plus having a legal supply will dry up all the illegal dealers/ or perhaps not.

1 posted on 05/11/2023 4:12:14 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
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2 posted on 05/11/2023 4:14:05 PM PDT by algore
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In high school, you could just about always see the change when someone started using cannabis, it was a sudden and dramatic change.


3 posted on 05/11/2023 4:19:52 PM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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“ cannabis use disorder.”

Why cant they just say “addiction.”

Thats what it is.


4 posted on 05/11/2023 4:21:39 PM PDT by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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Since the 60s I’ve known weed as a dropout drug. I saw it in college, as a parole officer and as a HS teacher/coach.


5 posted on 05/11/2023 4:23:56 PM PDT by Migraine
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My beautiful, brilliant son destroyed his mind with marijuana. It is not harmless and it should not be legal.


6 posted on 05/11/2023 4:26:47 PM PDT by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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Have seen many a pothead in my time.

Not a one of them had ambition, or were successful in life.

At all.


10 posted on 05/11/2023 4:40:21 PM PDT by simpson96
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Y’all shouldn’t watch “Reefer Madness”. Probably take it for a documentary from some of these replies. Jiminy Christmas. Yet another example that republicrats LOVE big government, as long as it’s THEIR big government.


11 posted on 05/11/2023 4:43:52 PM PDT by dware (Americans prefer peaceful slavery over dangerous freedom)
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This study is badly flawed.

At least one half of USA adults who commit suicide are addicted to alcohol and-or recreational drugs.

Marijuana is a gateway drug - just like wine and beer are gateway drugs.

If marijuana is banned, a large percentage of teenagers will just switch to wine and beer.

If marijuana is banned because of addiction risk, then wine and beer need to be banned, too.

13 posted on 05/11/2023 4:52:22 PM PDT by zeestephen (Trump "Lost" By 43,000 Votes - Spread Across Three States - GA, WI, AZ)
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They have new ways to smoke it as well, take a look.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnczQ6-esXM&t=31s


14 posted on 05/11/2023 5:05:11 PM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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Highly recommend everyone taking up all of your children’s and grand kid’s time. Church, sports, activities, weekend outings. If you don’t take up their time... some else will. Having roamed California as a latch key kid... I am lucky to be alive.


18 posted on 05/11/2023 5:33:53 PM PDT by WinstonSmith1984
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“cannabis use is implicated in 30% of cases of schizophrenia among men aged 18 to 30.”

Got to ask, what about the other 70%?


19 posted on 05/11/2023 5:38:08 PM PDT by Neverlift (When someone says "you just can't make this stuff up" odds are good, somebody did.)
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These statistical correlation studies only show the mentally ill are more likely to self medicate and become addicts. Twin studies have shown no measurable differences among twins from even the heaviest cannabis abuse.

Alcohol abuse was actually shown to create direct structural changes in the brain in this twin study while cannabis abuse did not. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33726938/

The correlation of mental illness to tobacco is actually FAR stronger than cannabis yet few are claiming it MAY cause mental illness like these reefer madness rags. 80% of schizos smoke cigarettes versus 12% of general population. Far greater than this 30% cited for cannabis.

https://www.webmd.com/schizophrenia/schizophrenia-smoking-the-link#:~:text=Most%20people%20who%20smoke%20don,a%20day%20compared%20with%20nonsmokers.


23 posted on 05/11/2023 5:53:06 PM PDT by varyouga
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Drugs like pot messed up some of my relatives.

But so did crummy parents, and professional modeling, so...


26 posted on 05/11/2023 6:10:08 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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It is obviously not a harmless weed. Maybe if potency was like it was 40 years of that may have been true, but not now.


31 posted on 05/11/2023 6:41:58 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (It's science and therefore cannot be questioned!)
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Impossible! Pot is a harmless drug.


36 posted on 05/11/2023 7:40:01 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Procrastination is just a form of defiance.)
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its harmless and it only makes you mellow and hungry...so I'm told....

it has no effects on mentation...so I'm told....

I knew it was a mistake to legalize it or decriminalize it....

but like the scamdemic and the poisonous vaxx, people just do not really think...

41 posted on 05/12/2023 1:10:50 AM PDT by cherry
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And, who didn’t really know that pot was bad? All along. But, all the dope fiends wanted their fix, no matter what it did to the people all around them. I have people tell me all the time that pot is not addictive, and then when I say,”Good! Then you will have no problem putting the stuff down for the next 12 months!”, it is like panic city in their eyes.

“What, a whole year without my dope???”

Stupic, frigging dope fiends!!!


42 posted on 05/12/2023 1:45:23 AM PDT by Penelope Dreadful (And there is Pansies, that's for Thoughts. +Sodomy & Abortion are NOT cornerstones of Civilization! )
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I dabbled a bit in college, but soon I began to notice that everyday potheads were some of the most useless & annoying assholes around. And I just didn’t want to be among them.


49 posted on 05/12/2023 3:49:02 PM PDT by mumblypeg ("Give me Stalin or St. Paul. I've seen the Future, brother; it is murder."--Leonard Cohen)
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