Posted on 04/20/2017 8:57:17 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
This Thursday, April 20, marks the annual unofficial holiday celebrated around the world by marijuana users. And this year, "4/20" will be observed while America's burgeoning legal cannabis industry sits at a crossroads. Public opinion polls indicate that support for marijuana legalization is at an all-time high in the U.S., and November's election saw four new states vote to legalize recreational cannabis while another four states legalized medical pot. As a result, a majority of the U.S. population lives in a state with some access to legal marijuana. However, cannabis remains illegal on the federal level, and the new administration of President Donald Trump has sent several mixed messages
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I’ll drink to that!
It’s certainly gone mainstream for politicians pandering for likes/retweets from Millennials, anyway.
Medical, yes. Recreational, no. My sister was helped during chemo to not be nauseous.
So has bi-polar disorder
But it does mean they are safe since they will live in moms basement forever
Actually, it's the voters who are legalizing marijuana, undoing a prohibition we never voted for in the first place.
Whut?.....................................
Since when do “the voters” exclude leftists? Especially the voter fraudsters?
Marijuana was functionally legal in the city of Los Angeles when I lived there from 2002 to 2015. The state legalization combined with the incompetence of the city bureaucracy meant that the city never managed to pass an enforceable law regulating medical pot clubs, which resulted in there being over 1000 of them, operating basically Wild West style. Anyone who wanted to buy and smoke pot legally had only to walk into a “doctor’s office” and say that they needed to.
The most striking thing to me that I would urge people to realize is that it made very little difference. Now and then there were isolated occasional small-scale conflicts over the location of the clubs, but in general, you need to understand that almost nobody makes their decision about whether to smoke pot or not based on whether they can do it legally. On both sides, those who do and those who don’t, whether it’s legal or not won’t change their mind.
I’m beginning to think that marijuana destroys the part of the brain where common sense originates. That is why liberals are the way they are. On the other hand, they could just be self hating idiots out to destroy the country.
Still a schedule one drug. Still illegal at the federal level.
The feds can crack down on this any time they like.
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.
Otherwise, you’re looking at stoners and drug dealers who want to make money and get high.
So has homosexual marriage, "transgenderism" and Rioting. All are signs of a breakdown in society.
There are plenty of vices that are legal. Vice is “bad”, by definition, but fighting it with harsh police and judicial policy creates a lot of other “bads” on top of it, and has also obviously not been very effective in stopping people from smoking pot. Time for a new plan.
But it really is bad for you, I smoked enough as a yoot to know that for sure.
You don't have to be a leftist to prefer legalized marijuana over an unconstitutional drug war that has shredded the Fourth Amendment.
“Marijuana has gone mainstream”
So have Social Security Disability and Foodstamps.
Marijuana is certainly not harmless. It robs youth of initiative, coping and cognitive skills. Leftists seem to want to push it upon the whole country.
Marijuana is certainly not harmless. It robs youth of initiative, coping and cognitive skills. Leftists seem to want to push it upon the whole country.
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