Senator proposes bill to legalize marijuana

Bowling Green Daily News ^ | Dec 28, 2015 | JACKSON FRENCH

[Drango]

Dave’s not here.

[Publius]

So Kentucky Bluegrass will soon be able to compete with Maui Wowie (HI), Humboldt Skunk (CA), Crab Grass (NJ) and Lobster Pot (MA).

[proust]

It’s for the teamsters. A new one.

[ConservingFreedom]

'"Originally what inspired me was a group of retired Teamsters," Clark said. The Teamsters knew that using marijuana was a cheaper alternative to costly prescription painkillers they needed'

I don't imagine they're unique in that regard.

[grania]

The attempt to pass a marijuana legalization bill in OH was a money grab by a small number of designated providers to create a monopoly for themselves and have huge financial gains. In the process, the gov would have had even more control over people's lives.

Give OH voters a lot of credit. They saw this as a power and money grab by the gov and a monopoly, and voted it down! It wasn't even that close.

[Publius]

Oh, I forgot Rocky Mountain High (CO).

[ConservingFreedom]

The attempt to pass a marijuana legalization bill in OH was a money grab by a small number of designated providers

The Kentucky bill doesn't appear to follow that pattern.

[KC_Lion]

Ping for your Interests.

[HangnJudge]

If Kentucky goes...
So will Tennessee

[max americana]

“The Teamsters knew that using marijuana was a cheaper alternative to costly prescription painkillers they needed,”

[ConservingFreedom]

We can only hope.

[VAFreedom]

so they want the blue grass state to be just the grass state. fwiw, i heard it is the #1 cash crop there.

[fwdude]

I hope this fails. I can't even believe the idea is being floated in Kentucky, of all places.

Always, always, regulation of a recreational drug requires many times more onerous laws than an outright ban. Allowances for some use in specified ways invariably exposes children to the drug many times more than before a ban is lifted. Bureaucracies necessarily proliferate, leading to much more government and taxpayer expense that it involves.

Dopers like to tout "freedom," but what results is its antithesis. A complete, restriction-less allowance would be better, but children would be at a horrific risk, then.

[HangnJudge]

We can only hope.

45 Min. drive from where I live to the Kentucky border
They would make a killing on the cross border sales

[ConservingFreedom]

Always, always, regulation of a recreational drug requires many times more onerous laws than an outright ban.

Have nay evidence for your claim?

Allowances for some use in specified ways invariably exposes children to the drug many times more than before a ban is lifted.

Kids have been reporting for years that they can get illegal-for-everybody pot more easily than legal-for-adults-only beer or cigarettes (http://www.casacolumbia.org/download/file/fid/640).

[jonrick46]

I hope this rise in the recreational use of pot does not create an electorate too stoned to realize the state is taking away all their freedom.

[ConservingFreedom]

I hope this rise in the recreational use of pot

What rise? Anyone who wants pot can get it already.

[jonrick46]

When something gets legalized, there is always a rise in use.

[uglybiker]

He was like, gonna let everybody like, read the bill ya know, but he like, set it down so he could like, go get some munchies an' stuff and he like, forgot where he put it maaaaaaaaaaaaaan!