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Asking the Right Questions about Pot
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| Sally Zelikovsky
Posted on 01/12/2014 9:26:07 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: EEGator
And the more permissive and readily available, children, the most vulnerable, will smoke it too. No doubt.
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posted on
01/12/2014 9:56:49 AM PST
by
dhs12345
To: EEGator
A federal system is a great way for people across the country to see what works and what doesn't. If, over the next 20-30 years, Colorado does really well and produces about the same number of good citizens as any other state, then marijuana use won't be an issue. If, on the other hand, Colorado slides into decline, perhaps people may decide that this experiment was a mistake.
A federal system is supposed to be a system that allows experimentation, if the voters choose it. I have no problem with this.
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posted on
01/12/2014 9:59:31 AM PST
by
ClearCase_guy
(Anti-Complacency League! Baby!)
To: EEGator
Sorry. I am a bit of a zealot.
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posted on
01/12/2014 10:00:22 AM PST
by
dhs12345
To: dhs12345
I havent seen any alcoholics where their habit has destroyed their livesReally?
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posted on
01/12/2014 10:00:35 AM PST
by
muggs
(Hope and Change = Hoax and Chains)
To: umgud
You cant save the world, especially potheads. Why bother? Because the potheads might be your or someone else's sons or daughters and you love them.
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posted on
01/12/2014 10:01:48 AM PST
by
infool7
(The ugly truth is just a big lie.)
To: dhs12345
Kids already smoke pot. They wouldn’t be getting it legally anyway. There is an age limit for “legal” pot use.
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posted on
01/12/2014 10:01:52 AM PST
by
EEGator
To: ClearCase_guy
Hate that my state is the guinea pig. And it if turns out poorly which I predict.... oops, we f’d up. So sorry.
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posted on
01/12/2014 10:02:58 AM PST
by
dhs12345
To: dhs12345
It’s quite alright. I don’t drink or do any drugs. I just don’t care if other adults smoke pot.
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posted on
01/12/2014 10:03:20 AM PST
by
EEGator
To: ClearCase_guy
Oh please.
Let’s stop pretending that there was never any pot in Colorado before it was legalized. Or any other state, or country, for that matter.
It’s used, widespread, on a daily basis by a significant segment of the entire population, even people that work, and society hasn’t collapsed yet.
To: afraidfortherepublic
This is an interesting topic because I can understand it and argue it from both sides.
1. On the one hand, I can see why a government would maintain a public interest in protecting its citizens from destructive things like narcotics.
2. On the other hand, a government in a free nation has no business legislating what people can or cannot ingest into their own bodies.
I've finally just decided that I don't really care one way or another. If someone wants to get strung out on something, then that's fine with me -- as long as they show up for work on Monday morning and don't make themselves a burden on anyone else.
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posted on
01/12/2014 10:04:49 AM PST
by
Alberta's Child
("I've never seen such a conclave of minstrels in my life.")
To: ClearCase_guy
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posted on
01/12/2014 10:06:01 AM PST
by
EEGator
To: EEGator
Total bs. The point is MORE kids will smoke it.
And, ya ya ya.... it is illegal. Certainly didn't prevent people before. Only now MORE people will be using. The stigma is gone.
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posted on
01/12/2014 10:07:02 AM PST
by
dhs12345
To: EEGator
And kids?
But hey, its illegal for kids so the kids shouldn't be smoking anyway. /sarc
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posted on
01/12/2014 10:09:20 AM PST
by
dhs12345
To: afraidfortherepublic
Of the four dopeheads I knew from high school days, two died thanks to their “habit,” and the remaining two have become slow-witted dullards whose conversations are peppered endlessly with “uh...uh...uh’s” and harbor laughable delusions of great intellect.
But that’s America circa-2014 for you. A rotting, decaying nation of dopeheads and degenerates.
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posted on
01/12/2014 10:09:55 AM PST
by
greene66
To: afraidfortherepublic
If smoking cigarettes is deadly because it causes lung cancer, then smoking unfiltered joints is worse. There are tars in the pot and the pot smoker tends to hold the smoke in the lungs much longer than the smoker of cigarettes does. I would not use the example of cigarette smoking to bolster my claim that pot smoking is less harmful.
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posted on
01/12/2014 10:11:53 AM PST
by
FrdmLvr
("WE ARE ALL OSAMA, 0BAMA!" al-Qaeda terrorists who breached the American compound in Benghazi)
To: umgud
Because pot-heads can vote.
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posted on
01/12/2014 10:12:38 AM PST
by
FrdmLvr
("WE ARE ALL OSAMA, 0BAMA!" al-Qaeda terrorists who breached the American compound in Benghazi)
To: greene66
I have a theory — it is designed to pacify the population.
A drugged population is easy to manipulate and control.
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posted on
01/12/2014 10:13:32 AM PST
by
dhs12345
To: FrdmLvr
Exactly. Ironic how cities that ban cigarettes are considering allowing pot.
It should be interesting to see this play out and how the bureaucrats try to explain it away.
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posted on
01/12/2014 10:16:01 AM PST
by
dhs12345
To: afraidfortherepublic
So sad
reminds me of a semi-brother family friend Ive known all my life, so bright and witty as a kid, brilliant, really. Same story, only worse he ended up killing somebody when he was high on the stuff, and spent time in prison. Back out, but still high most of the time, cant drive, has to ride a bicycle. Clearly brain damaged, in his sixties, the bright young guy of old long gone, a different person, almost. And hes probably only smoked maybe one cigarettes worth of pot in his lifetime. His high was and is still legal; his crime is one of human weakness, the one that Christianity shows the path away from. Not government.
Republicans/limited government conservatives should be asking the right questions about government, not pot! *rolls eyes* I mean -- I think the new-age alcoholism is about the least of the problems facing us. Yeeesh.
Outlaw alcohol, outlaw pot -- outlaw guns on the same principle. Blaming pot or alcohol for somebody going totally sideways, is like blaming a gun for a shooting. The government has very, very little place in it
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posted on
01/12/2014 10:16:44 AM PST
by
Finny
(Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
To: dhs12345
You say more, I disagree.
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posted on
01/12/2014 10:21:15 AM PST
by
EEGator
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