Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

On Eve of 4/20 Holiday, Congressman Says ‘Marijuana Has Gone Mainstream’
Fortune ^ | Apr 19, 2017 | Tom Huddleston

Posted on 04/20/2017 8:57:17 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie

click here to read article


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 41-6061-8081-100101-120 last
To: HiTech RedNeck

If God is not in your awareness your awareness lacks.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

No, if God is not in your awareness God’s awareness lacks. And all the cannabis you consume does not, and will not make any difference, all one does is cloud one’s awareness, and God’s as well.

Cloud God’s awareness and you will suffer the consequences, without exception.

Toke it up ! LOL.

Addle your awareness.

And when the hurt comes on, pray like an idiot. That’s freedom if that’s the way want to you define it.

Cannabis is nothing but the rule of mammon.


101 posted on 04/21/2017 4:34:10 AM PDT by Candor7 (i DO)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 84 | View Replies]

To: NobleFree

Glad you’re on board the freedom train.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Nice try to spin what I had posted:

There is no freedom without an equal amount of responsibility, with freedom comes that burden.

There is no freedom train without the caboose.

********************************************************

Legalize that $hit all you want.

1984 is truly here.

The more addle-brained idiots we have in America, the better for those who remain sane and highly motivated.

The not quite sharp knives in the drawer? Good luck to those puff and huff retards.They will need it.

**********************************************


102 posted on 04/21/2017 4:37:42 AM PDT by Candor7 (i DO)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 85 | View Replies]

To: factoryrat

If the stoners who espouse all of the benefits of smoking pot were serious, they would petition the feds to move pot to schedule two, and allow R&D into the useful compounds of the plant, and produce useful pharmaceuticals.

...

Testing compounds is relatively easy. Testing a whole plant as a medicine is almost impossible due to variations. That’s why it’s still Schedule 1.


103 posted on 04/21/2017 4:41:57 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: The_Media_never_lie

It’s no coincidence that many more are dying of heroin overdoses. Along with the acceptance of marijuana comes acceptance of other illegal drugs.


104 posted on 04/21/2017 5:01:52 AM PDT by DouglasKC
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Candor7

I used to hypothesize we were all God.

That failed miserably.

No! We are creatures.


105 posted on 04/21/2017 8:26:25 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 101 | View Replies]

To: DouglasKC

“The abuse of.”

Marijuana was long used as medicine. Heroin was invented to be a medicine.


106 posted on 04/21/2017 8:30:24 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 104 | View Replies]

To: Moonman62

They did it with poppies.

How many opiate derivatives are on the market today?

Hell, they have even developed drugs to counteract the effects of opiate drugs.

If they can do it with poppies, they can do it with hemp.


107 posted on 04/21/2017 8:49:57 AM PDT by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it. MAGA!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 103 | View Replies]

To: semantic

Spoken like a true stoner. It’s still illegal, and you can still lose your job and you can still go to jail for using it.

Instead of developing useful drugs from cannabis, you apparently would just prefer to spark up a bowl to get high, and kill off a few more brain cells.

Whatever floats your boat I suppose.

You may have that luxury, but most working people don’t.

If I tested dirty while at work, I would be fired immediately, be arrested, and fined by the federal government for not more than $112,500, on top of jail time for possession.

That, and I don’t want to work around anybody who may be stoned. My job has enough hazards, no need to add to them.


108 posted on 04/21/2017 9:04:35 AM PDT by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it. MAGA!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 73 | View Replies]

To: factoryrat

It is illegal to grow Papaver somniferum in the United States because the unripe seed pods contain the milky substance that is scraped out and dried to become opium, so possession of the plant can be looked upon as possession of the drug. Heroin, which currently has no medical use, is derived from opium and listed as a Schedule I drug. Morphine and codeine are also produced from this plant, contributing to the need for regulation.

http://homeguides.sfgate.com/legal-grow-poppy-flowers-77641.html


109 posted on 04/21/2017 10:06:19 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 107 | View Replies]

To: HiTech RedNeck

I used to hypothesize we were all God.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

No need to hypothesize.What you see is what you’ll get.

http://purifymind.com/GoodnessSin.htm


110 posted on 04/21/2017 11:10:09 AM PDT by Candor7 (i DO)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 105 | View Replies]

To: Candor7

No, illusions do not bend reality. Sorry! God is other.


111 posted on 04/21/2017 11:22:06 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 110 | View Replies]

To: Candor7

Can’t “purify” away truth.

The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all who suppress the truth in unrighteousness.

The reality of the other that is God will be forced on you in hell as eternal enemy unless embraced by you in heaven as eternal friend. Your choice. A zillion Buddhists do not truth bend an iota.


112 posted on 04/21/2017 11:27:32 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 110 | View Replies]

To: factoryrat
So, you associate intelligence with being stoned? My my, you are a fine specimen of a dolt.

I've got a question for you: do your lips actually move when you read? For some reason, mouth breathers are oddly fascinating to me.

Perhaps, because of the element of danger. You known, lazy, slow and quick to anger. You probably don't reason that your type was given the right to vote so that you would support whoever felt like jerking your chain, right?

Now, jump!

113 posted on 04/21/2017 11:35:14 AM PDT by semantic
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 108 | View Replies]

To: vladimir998
So we should ban alcohol?

No. Drinking alcohol does not necessarily lead to intoxication. Smoking pot leads to intoxication. [...] I drink alcohol. I do not get intoxicated.

So you’re saying you experience no mental effects whatsoever?

No. [...] I enjoy it for what it is: a great glass of wine with dinner, a refreshing cold beer on a hot July day after doing yard work.

Even in my hard-drinking days I could always feel the very first beer.

You must be a lightweight. It might also be partly genetic.

So because SOME amount of alcohol is non-intoxicating to SOME people, it makes sense for alcohol to be legal while marijuana is not? Your premise is laughably far from supporting your conclusion.

114 posted on 04/21/2017 11:47:10 AM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 99 | View Replies]

To: semantic

Dodging God leads to these conundrums of having no guide to distinguish abuse from use.

We are selfish fallen creatures from birth. We dodge God.

Me too. I’m not an exception. But I met and now know a Friend like no other. Would it were all America knew this Friend. It would free from the dangers of prohibition and the dangers of abuse simultaneously.


115 posted on 04/21/2017 11:49:41 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 113 | View Replies]

To: vladimir998
So we should ban alcohol?

No. Drinking alcohol does not necessarily lead to intoxication. Smoking pot leads to intoxication.

So then you would be OK with outlawing the consumption of alcohol once it leads to the point of intoxication, right?

Technically that’s already the case on the roads and in public.

So, are you saying you are OK with marijuana use so long as someone does not drive or use it in public?

No. That is not what I am saying. [...] learn to make proper distinctions. [...] Principles? Yes.

You jumped from one disconnected "principle" to another with every post, the result being a dog's breakfast that can't be dignified with the term "argument."

116 posted on 04/21/2017 11:50:40 AM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 99 | View Replies]

To: Candor7
As in all things, moderation is the key. But the problem? Like alcohol, some people cannot be moderate with cannabis,

So, like alcohol, marijuana should be regulated - but not banned, which serves only to enrich and motivated violent criminals, again like alcohol.

and the young are especially vulnerable.

Since the young have been reporting for many years that they can get pot more easily than beer or cigarettes, it appears that the most effective available policy for keeping things out of youth's hands is to legalize those things for adults (thus giving the sellers economic incentive to not sell to youth).

There is no freedom without an equal amount of responsibility, with freedom comes that burden.

From which it follows that we should ban both alcohol and pot - or neither.

117 posted on 04/21/2017 11:52:42 AM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 102 | View Replies]

To: NobleFree

From which it follows that we should ban both alcohol and pot - or neither. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

No. There is not9ing to celebrate, when Americans have enough clouding their awareness , this simply represents one more layer of obscuration and lies that inform the masses.

Juat the MSM spin and lies ALONE MISDIRECT America.

ADD A COUD OF GANGE TO THAT AND YOU HAVE AN ENTORELY MANIPULABLE POPULATION.

No, there is nothing to celebrate. It is an underwhelming exercise of “freedom.” Like kids having a shoot out over a candy store and many of them die.


118 posted on 04/22/2017 2:14:26 AM PDT by Candor7 (i DO)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 117 | View Replies]

To: semantic

Now that is funny.

Okay, using your logic, it’s okay for me to start growing my own poppies, coca, and ephedera, and manufacture and sell heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamine to whoever?

Thanks for the idea. Seeing as how you’re either growing, smuggling, or using, you won’t m8nd if I steal some of your customers.

Oh, and I can grow some real awesome weed too if I wanted to.

If you want to make your drug of choice legal, all of them have to be made legal. Drop your lame excuses.


119 posted on 04/22/2017 9:03:24 AM PDT by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it. MAGA!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 113 | View Replies]

To: Candor7
From which it follows that we should ban both alcohol and pot - or neither.

No. There is not9ing to celebrate

Who said anything about "celebrating"? The arguments for pot being illegal apply at least as well to alcohol - or more, inasmuch as alcohol is more addictive and more toxic.

120 posted on 04/22/2017 10:55:39 AM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 118 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 41-6061-8081-100101-120 last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson