Posted on 06/29/2017 8:21:31 AM PDT by rktman
Fueled by one of the world’s largest tourism industries, Nevada is preparing to do the same on July 1. A May report published by Gov. Brian Sandoval’s task force on marijuana estimates that up to 63 percent of recreational buyers will be tourists.
“Everything we know shows that millennials are very pro-marijuana, and that’s the new marketing push,” said Nevada state Sen. Tick Segerblom, a longtime marijuana advocate. “This is a game-changer for Las Vegas and tourism here as far as I’m concerned.”
“Amsterdam on steroids,” he added.
(Excerpt) Read more at lasvegassun.com ...
Precisely right.
You notice that the two Taliban leader-like responses I get accuse me of being either stoned or leftist????
LOL
“That was a false argument,”
Actually it’s a fact that 71% of voters in Florida decided there is a medical benefit to cannabis & people should be able to use it. None of your spin will change that fact.
“...how many of those 71 per centers actually used it for medicinal purposes as opposed to those who wanted it for recreational purposes?”
I can only speak for myself just as only you can speak for yourself. I voted yes & I use cannabis medicinally. I’m sure of that 71% there were cannabis users & non-users voting yes on Amendment 2. Our conservative governor, Rick Scott signed the bill last Friday that implements the medical cannabis program.
“And because of this abuse of medical integrity, he is also free to grow it in his back yard................”
Good for your friend. Everyone should be able to grow & use cannabis if that’s what they want to do.
“So tell me Stickman, how prevalent do you think this fraud is in comparison to the opioid epidemic going on in this country?”
1st off, I don’t have a clue how much fraud is going as cuz’ I’m not in the fraud business. 2ndly, I don’t accept your story as evidence of anything more than anecdotal. I’m also willing to bet you’re not a medical integrity expert either. You strike me as someone trying to blow smoke up a mountain with a desk fan’s worth of air to push it.
I grew up in one of those small West Virginia towns that is now overrun by heroin. (I did a count at one point and listed 25 people within 5 years of my age who are dead, in jail, in rehab, or strung out on heroin).
How heroin took over Appalachia is actually pretty simple. Going on Disability was a major career choice in that part of the country. To do that, you needed an injury. To treat that injury, doctors gave you endless supplies of Oxy. We suddenly figured out that Oxy is problem and cut off tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of people from their addiction. Heroin is chemically the same as Oxy, is cheaper, and is abundant.
And here we are.
Drugs are drugs are drugs are drugs. Alcohol, marijuana, opiates, cocaine....it’s all the same story.
Only if it helps.
Casinos are in a quandary: they operate in part as banks, and so they don’t want to risk any violations at the federal level, pot sales and pot possession being some of those violations.
But on the other hand, any self-respecting casino looks at the self-destructive brain-addled potheads stoned out of their minds at their tables and see a 5% increase to their top line.
Can you say, “Yo, pothead, you’ve got two 10s and the dealer shows an ace: split ‘em then double down on both. You can do it, pothead, do it!” And the pothead slowly and meekly complies.
They should comp the braum-addled potheads. It’s like shooting fish in a barrel. Smart business against self-destructive customers.
The same corporations that own the casinos also own the nightclubs and restaurants: they'll make a killing off of the weak-minded potheads.
Gun. Fish. Barrel.
Paranoid potheads see threatening things in words that are simply not there. Keep up the Good Fight, ifinnegan!
You are a preachy prude for your smelly-assed gad the pot leaf. Clueless hypocrite.
pi$$ off.
Not quite - marijuana is by a substantial margin the least addictive of the four, and no lethal dose of marijuana has been established (they've tried and failed to kill larger lab mammals with it).
posted by Vision Thing (You see the depths of our hearts, and You love us the same...)
No comment.
Stickman, you know I am anti-drugs, and you are one of my favorite FReepers AND pro-pot people. You argue well with very little ad-hominem. But don’t feel sorry for us on the other side of the aisle. We feel sorry for most of those on your side because they are all about weakening the self and the spirit.
One of the truisms I live by is “the greater the need, the weaker the man.” So people who willingly subsume their life and liberty to a fleeting feeling are the epitome of weak slaves.
Clee1 is feeling upset.
In response, clee1 is feeling the urge to quell that unpleasant feeling with something more pleasant.
Clee1 cannot help it
The urge is too strong.
Soon, very soon, clee1 will submit.
Clee1 cannot help but submit.
Clee1 is not free to say no.
:)
No blunt is free.
NubileFree is feeling upset.
Rut roh. That must feel so unpleasant.
Eventually you will be so disquieted by the unpleasantness, and you will start to search for something to make you feel more pleasant.
Yes, you know what exactly that is.
You will soon feel the urge for it.
Soon, very soon, you will simply be unable to resist submiting to it.
You cannot help it.
You are not free to say no.
You will submit.
You cannot help but ignore your lack of freedom and you will meekly submit.
You cannot say no.
You just can’t.
:)
LOL
Yup! I took a chance in posting that to you because from what you’ve written so far, you don’t seem to smoke. So my posting may not even apply to your situation. :-D
Anyways, glad I was able to give you a good laugh.
I’m just trying to present original ways to fight for my side of the aisle on these pot threads. Hope to get your side to see things in new ways, too.
Btw: I love Vegas!
Then you should be opposed to the Drug lord that is really behind this and that includes powerful politicians and bankers.
Personally I have had one illegal drug when I got drugged in a bar in San Diego, never seen pot in any form to my knowledge but drank my firs moonshine at 13.
I have never seen anything good come from any of it.
You can pretend to be a conservative and promote perversion all you want but you know who you are. Look to Chicago where the law is quite severe and yet they are the second most unsafe area in the world because the government is in on the deal, de facto legalization.
The Constitution grants the legislature the power to make laws that do rule over these issues, you seem to leave that part out.
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