Posted on 01/07/2014 2:37:38 PM PST by nickcarraway
Wait until the government gets money for drugs. If you thought the Zetas were bad, wait until pot is legalized, and the government gets money from it...
Read it.
All I have to go by is my experiences during the latter days of the Carter administration, and it’s permissive attitude towards drugs: “amnesty boxes” for drugs and paraphernalia in barracks. Areas of the ship where officers could not go because “a party” would be in progress. Basement areas of federal office buildings “off limits” to security personnel, for the same reason. Carrier pilots crashing on deck. Subsequent autopsies revealing marijuana and cocaine in their systems. Accident and death rates at work sites across the nation at an all time high due drug use..., but no it won’t be the end of the world or this country as we know it. Yes, there will be a high price paid for the party. And, I suspect we will once again have to learn the hard way why the stuff was made illegal in the first place.
I have a better question: if china nukes that fever swamp on the Potomac during the state of the union show, would the appropriate response be a full retaliatory nuclear strike, or should we just send them a thank you note with a nice fruit basket?
Well first of all, I would need to see the studies that supposedly show how it led to a decrease in consumption of alcohol. It would be hard to find trustworthy studies given the extent to which alcohol consumption during prohibition was done under the table and that those who were selling alcohol during that time were not exactly open about publishing their sales records.
And as for alcohol’s effects, well even if the science behind its effects were not as exact as they are now, the effects of alcohol, and the horrific damage it can do if used incorrectly, were widely known for centuries around the world and yet it remained legal. Which is why I don’t think one could assume that if it was discovered now and people knew its effects it would necessarily be outlawed. And if it was, we would likely give up on it in due time for the same reasons we did during Prohibition.
The money from pot isn't a drop in the government bucket.
/johnny
Even so, that something does not help you be more productive clearly does not justify making it illegal, waging a war on it and sending people to years in jail for simply possessing small amounts of it. You may be entirely right but that much should still be self evident.
/johnny
Unfortunately, the history of it is such that the reasons it was made illegal in the first place probably had more to do with the personal ambitions of bureaucrats than with an objective assesment of the drug itself.
Who is Harry Anslinger for $200?
/johnny
Comparing Western Civilization’s thousands of year relationship and use of alcohol, has nothing to do with using pot, and the part of the world that preferred pot and hashish.
Comparing Western Civilization’s thousands of year relationship and use of alcohol, has nothing to do with using pot, and the part of the world that preferred pot and hashish.
America: land of dope and degeneracy.
No doubt in my mind that this is another step in America’s total cultural rot and decay into oblivion.
Somebody will take advantage of America’s demise. Will it be China? Possibly. Or some other country. Some power will fill the vacuum.
Not to the people who think it is worth living in a police state to prevent people from smoking it.
Because with or without marijuana they would be the same way. It's the multitude around you that you have no idea about (because they are adult about it) that would floor you.
Second hand tobacco smoke will start infants and children (and other adults) on the road to cancers and other health problems.
Second hand pot smoke will mess up the brains of infants, children, and other adults in close proximity.
I guarantee there will be babies testing positive for pot, and I don’t know how much inhaled that way would be lethal to a baby, but I bet it wouldn’t take very much.
I haven’t heard anyone except O’Reilly asking liberal pot-supporters about it - they can’t guarantee that their babies and young children will not be in the same room as the pot smoker.
They will be, count on it. And if they survive, they will permanently damaged, just the way Obama and his band of libs wants our future generation of janitors to be.
The middle east ancient and now did not consume marijuana the way the west does. They beat the crap out of the plant to knock off the trichom’s and smoke the “hash”, a far more potent “manufactured” drug at that point. Smoking the flower itself without condensing it’s by-product is something different entirely and just smoking a plant.
LOL, legal pot, the cure for police states.
Gee, that was simple.
Where are the laws passed that will keep the second-hand drug smoke out of the lungs and brains of infants and children?
You can’t quarantee that won’t happen and neither can any of the now-legal recreational pot smokers, many of whom will have families.
A generation of stoned children. That’s what liberal America is bent on producing. I don’t give a damn if it is additive or not or whether it leads to harder drugs. Well, I do, but if anyone defends ‘legal pot smoking’ and doesn’t take into account the families who live in the same apartment, including small children, they are shortsighted - or liberals.
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