3.5 grams.
The Dems still control the crack and heroin trade on the Hill.
So let’s take some of the laziest people on the planet and legalize ganja for ‘em. That should work.
3.5 grams.
The Dems still control the crack and heroin trade on the Hill.
Having lived around the region for a couple of years, I can say that three-quarters of the adult population on the east side of DC are at least once-a-week smokers. It really doesn’t change anything to say it’s suddenly legal. The challenge here....after you make it legal, and a guy puts up a store-front...to suddenly find out that with expenses and taxes...it’s NOT profitable. The street guy still wins.
Rush Limbaugh had a segment on this when a libertarian called in this week. Rush handled it fairly well, pointing out the wider implications of allowing pot use on an unrestricted basis, and how the government is itching to tax it severely.
Bear in mind, that for every pot user obtaining the substance through legal channels, the following benefits accrue:
1.) reduction in law enforcement assets toward searching, seizing, prosecuting, and incarcerating those who produce and use cannabis.
2.) standards that introduce an element of safety for those who use cannabis for health or recreation.
3.) an opportunity for revenue that inhibits overuse and abuse.
The downside, IMO, is a population stupid enough to vote for Obama and lazy enough to feed from the trough of those who expend labor and virtue in the interest of bettering all people. That’s a fairly big down side.
I’d like to take a toke now and then without fear of prosecution, and having no responsibilities in private. But those occasions are rare. I’m willing to undergo physical tests, psychological tests, and pay a small license fee if my fellow citizens are willing to allow me that occasion.
In a more practical vein, this is one area where conservatives, if they think about it, could make some compromise and very likely win a significant amount of support from people who want to relax a little and have decent heads on their shoulders in the way of conscience and reason; who abhor the notion of killing babies in the womb and abusing every bodily orifice in the interest of self-pleasure. I surmise that population is quite large.
No dice, they want legal pot, make them have to give the people legal guns first!
Pretty hard to have any credibility on the war on drugs/drug addiction when your nation’s highest leaders have made drugs/drug addiction legal in their own backyard.
” federal lawmakers have the power to quash any District law they don’t like.”
They have the power but would it be wise to do it? I don’t think so.
question will pot legalization create more Conservatives? The pot sellers will now have to deal with the IRS, taxes and govt regulations.
Since there aren’t any other pressing issues to take up their time.....
More useless POSs who lay about wasting away on uncles dollar. The dream of the dhimmicrat party.
Dope for the dopes.
DC is not a state and not really autonomous. They have a pretend congressional rep but she is just window dressing
Since federal law controls, the can legally be no pot in DC
It is just a matter of enforcement
The national marijuana legalization debate is moving into the backyard of a Republican-controlled Congress....
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Is this idiot unaware of the fact that all of the Republicans who prevailed in this week’s election will not take office until January?
Plenty of conservative pot smokers out there. Just ask most Nam and Post-Nam Vets to start with... Military institution of random urine tests in 1982 changed the logistics. A lot of bi-partisan military pot smoking going on before then. Testing just forced the smart ones to change their ways. I’m willing to bet that those people who were caught and discharged to this day are predominantly passionate liberals.
I think over the next decade, legal grass will be irresistable to state legislatures, just like casino gambling.
Politicians love to have money to spend to buy votes and the tax take is so appealing.