Senator proposes bill to legalize marijuana

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

[ConservingFreedom]

Anyone who wants pot can get it already.

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

Given the current ease of procurement, any legalization-driven rise will be modest at best.

[anoldafvet]

We have enough stupid drivers here, we don’t need them high on weed too.

[ConservingFreedom]

He was like, gonna let everybody like, read the bill ya know, but

Where does the article say the bill can't be read? See the links at http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/15RS/SB79.htm.

[ConservingFreedom]

We have enough stupid drivers here, we don’t need them high on weed too.

People who formerly avoided using pot because it it was illegal will continue to not drive stoned because that will remain illegal - ergo, no rise in stoned driving.

[Wolfie]

Yeah, because jail and a criminal record is so much better.

[5thGenTexan]

Sigh. The same people who want to make tobacco illegal want to make marijuana legal.

No one loses their job due to their cigarette addiction. Smoking a cigar downtown make one forget their baby in in the bathtub and let’s it drown. No one decides to leave their wife and kids so they can smoke their tobacco pipe all day.

[Red Badger]

Dems doing what Dems do.....................

[5thGenTexan]

Do you believe that alcohol use did not increase with the repeal of Probibition?

[Red Badger]

Tobacco isn’t the numero uno cash crop in KY.................

[bassmaner]

A complete, restriction-less allowance would be better, but children would be at a horrific risk, then.

The 'for the children' excuse for statism. How 'bout the PARENTS play a more active role, and government a less active role? It's a much more Constitutional state of affairs.

[catnipman]

Too late for Avery Markham, but Loretta McCready is rarin to go!

[ConservingFreedom]

The same people who want to make tobacco illegal want to make marijuana legal.

I want them both to be legal.

No one loses their job due to their cigarette addiction. Smoking a cigar downtown make one forget their baby in in the bathtub and let’s it drown. No one decides to leave their wife and kids so they can smoke their tobacco pipe all day.

People have done all that under the influence of the drug alcohol - should that drug be banned?

[ConservingFreedom]

Given the current ease of procurement, any legalization-driven rise will be modest at best.

[jonrick46]

It looks like a jump to me:

[ConservingFreedom]

Avery Markham

In real life, criminalization is the gangsters' friend - see Al Capone.

[CptnObvious]

Of course a DEMOCRAT goes against the Will of the Parents of Kentucky. Who else, with Obama and Hillary, would want to do so?

[ConservingFreedom]

"Americans have become at least marginally more likely to say they have tried smoking pot, including a six-percentage-point increase in the latest poll. [...] the margin of sampling error is ±6 percentage points" - http://www.gallup.com/poll/184298/four-americans-say-tried-marijuana.aspx

[ConservingFreedom]

goes against the Will of the Parents of Kentucky.

You speak for the parents of Kentucky?

Note that 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). It seems that parents who want to keep pot away from their kids are being failed by all-ages criminalization.

[CptnObvious]

You speak for the parents of Kentucky?

Who else will? The Democrats and the RINOs sure won't.

[Organic Panic]

It's medicinal, man.