Posted on 01/21/2014 4:29:12 AM PST by Kaslin
In twenty years urban areas in Colorado and Washington will be stoner wastelands with lethargic dopers lying about in the streets like the zombies in “I Am Legend”.
Cars with stoners at the wheel will sit immobile at stop signs while the drivers wait for the signs to turn green.
Schoolkids will be frisked for weapons, Bibles, & fudge brownies.
;^)
I don’t think it would matter if CA legalized it, I don’t think they could get much more stupid.
If it is to be legalized it has to be national and the borders must be secured to get the cartels out of the business. This certainly won’t happen under this regime.
The biggest hurdle I see though is driving; there is no good test for level of impairment. Yes there is a blood test but its results are questionable due to lots of variables in the plants.
On the up side it might make it a bit harder for kids to get it, but probably not much.
Marijuana is the first step to harder drugs. It makes it easy for someone who smokes it to justify using other drugs, rationalizing that it doesn’t bother them so maybe the other drugs aren’t so bad either. I watched an hour show on TV about marijuana and drug use. At the very end of the show, the moderator asked a DEA agent who sat quietly through the whole show if he thought marijuana was the stepping stone to harder drugs. His response was ‘I don’t know, but every drug user that I or any other agent arrested had started with marijuana’.
I have a friend who smokes the modern weed, it smells exactly like but WORSE than a dead skunk.
healthy dose of LSD.
Really? Didn’t know there was such a thing. Especially since what passes for acid is usually rat poison.
Actually there is a huge difference. Marijuana is nothing like LSD. The most likely effect of a marijuana “overdose” is the person goes to sleep and wakes up very hungry.
Cocaine, heroin etc. are illegal to make, possess, sell, transport and use in about 99.5% of the world. Yet virtually ANY middle school kid will tell you he can get ANY drug he chooses with little to no difficulty.
So....tell me again how making drugs, ANY drugs including MJ illegal has ANY effect on it’s use or availability.
Prohibition did not prevent drinking.
Vice squads and bunko squads have no effect on gambling.
Prostitution is illegal in all but 15 county’s in America yet it’s practice is rampant. So yes, making drugs in general and marijuana specifically illegal is pointless.
It does not prevent their use, it merely empowers evil people to destroy freedoms.
Conservatives think it is the job of the parents to properly raise their child, not a task for “society”.
The moral decay in America is neither caused by nor a product of drug use. Drug use is a symptom of that decay.
The disease of moral decay is a deliberate infection created
by “isms”....communism, progressivism etc. The enemies within are destroying us and the use of drugs is but a symptom of the decay and rot they are fostering.
The number one cause for America’s decline was the choice by many to turn away from the Christian values this country was founded on. THAT is the cause of the moral decay.
when I said I saw the elephant, you can take that too the bank. I don’t remember much of the 60’s so you know I was there.....
hash or strong grass brownies, that are consumed for the munchies effect without thinking about the amount consumed WILL put you on a trip that can be more intense than Lysergic Acid Diethylamide. Don’t doubt me.
Back several decades ago I was in the music business, and knew a lot of hard core druggies. Every one of them started on cigarettes, and still smoked long after they quit smoking pot.
There’s your real “gateway drug”.
Excellent!
Sounds like a back-drop for the movie “Idiocracy II”
I agree but do we have to try to raise our kids in a cultural toilet? Is it asking to much to keep weed illegal?
Most of them drank milk, too.
They won’t die but they have trouble functioning. And they are vastly entertaining to their classmates.
figure of speech...but of course you knew that
back in the 60s there would be a little evaporated dot on blotter paper, not enough for rat poison to do much damage.
what is out there today? I would not have a clue.
“I don’t remember much of the 60’s so you know I was there.....”
Hey, now that you mention it, I don’t remember you either.
My experiences differed.
I don’t know. Is it asking to much to make alcohol illegal? Or cigarettes?
Outlawing the moral “temptations” one faces in one’s life will NOT produce a decent, moral society.
It will produce a society with a lot of criminals. In such a society, one must worry not only about facing one’s conscience and one’s God when one succumbs to these temptations, one must be worried about being deemed a criminal, and having one’s life ruined by the state, for engaging in an activity which harms no one but oneself.
A society which cherishes individual freedom and individual self-determination should not fatten it’s legal code by making “crimes” out of activities which do not involve harming other persons.
Sorry.
...asking too much..
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