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Michael Bloomberg on marijuana: Legalizing 'another addictive narcotic' is perhaps 'stupidest thing anybody has ever done'
Newsweek ^ | January 23, 2020 | Tim Marcin

Posted on 02/09/2020 7:15:56 PM PST by Trump20162020

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To: Trump20162020

I agree with him.

As long as we have a social safety net that covers pot heads for their drug use, I am against it.

And any crime committed under the influence should be considered premeditated.

We should also have a torture penalty.


61 posted on 02/09/2020 7:53:39 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: Trump20162020

Bernie’s people are going to be furious about this.


62 posted on 02/09/2020 7:54:18 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (BLACK LIVES MAGA)
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To: Gay State Conservative
Started smoking pot and soon quit a 15 year cig habit. Also quit drinking. I'm respected and not part of a vague group such as the one you sort of cite.

If you want to nip inebriation in the bud then arrest five year old girls for spinning around. (All female pot addicts started out on the gateway high known as dizzy.)

63 posted on 02/09/2020 7:55:37 PM PST by coaster123 (XLV-MMXX)
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To: frank ballenger

Well, California legalized pot a few years ago, and it hasn’t stopped his insipid advertising dump 24x7 out here.

A hypocritical politician? Oh, the horror!


64 posted on 02/09/2020 7:56:24 PM PST by Ratman0823 ("Worry less about who you might offend and care more about who you might inspire" - Mike Baxter)
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To: Robert DeLong

The people in my circle were all working. Including two math professors.


65 posted on 02/09/2020 7:57:11 PM PST by olesigh
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To: ALASKA
Correct, it is not a narcotic.

The term narcotic originally referred medically to any psychoactive compound with sleep-inducing properties, and euphoric properties as well. In the United States, it has since become associated with opiates and opioids, commonly morphine and heroin, as well as derivatives of many of the compounds found within raw opium latex.

But sometimes it has a narcotic like affect on some people.

I no longer support the usage of pot as I once did. From what I have read, pot is much different now than it was back when I imbibed. The THC content has increased significantly.

66 posted on 02/09/2020 8:02:17 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: Trump20162020

That cost him millions of votes.


67 posted on 02/09/2020 8:14:55 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Our president is now serving Democrats the hemlock tea, they ordered up with a smile!)
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To: Trump20162020

Well, he just lost the Youth Vote.


68 posted on 02/09/2020 8:15:41 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Trump20162020

The erf just stopped rotating. One thing I can agree with him on.


69 posted on 02/09/2020 8:21:14 PM PST by Sequoyah101 (We are governed by the consent of the governed and we are fools for allowing it.)
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To: Persevero

Used to be we could always find some common ground with the other side - somewhere.

On this topic, I couldn’t agree more!


70 posted on 02/09/2020 8:23:17 PM PST by ZephyrTX
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To: Equine1952

I don’t know, and I admit I don’t...

Don’t have any use for the potheads, they’re scum.


71 posted on 02/09/2020 8:30:50 PM PST by Clarence The One Eyed Lion (You cannot serve both God and Mammon... Luke 16:1-13)
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To: coaster123
It would be unfair to you. I've always scored in the 99th percentile. I turned down a commission in the Corps, based on my GCTs, 151 at the time. I suppose they were THAT desperate.

And, bragging about my intellect is unseemly. My brother, who was brighter than I, was a pot smoker, to the exclusion of everything else, spent his entire life stumbling from low rate employment to welfare and back. Got an UD out of the Army for drug use.

He died at 44. He's in the Florida National Cemetery, near Gainesville. Buried as an indigent. Have a nice day.

72 posted on 02/09/2020 8:32:20 PM PST by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: coaster123

Its a violation in NY depending on amount.


73 posted on 02/09/2020 8:35:31 PM PST by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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To: Trump20162020
Oh no, I agree with him...I'm sorry...😀

Didn't think I'd say I agree with Little Mikey on anything...

74 posted on 02/09/2020 8:35:34 PM PST by ConservaTeen (WFLA's Jack Harris: Brooklyn is missing their village idiot. Right you are, Jack.)
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To: Robert DeLong

Smoking anything is bad for you. I just don’t. Never did. I run marathons and I cage fight. I love beating people up.


75 posted on 02/09/2020 8:36:14 PM PST by Clarence The One Eyed Lion (You cannot serve both God and Mammon... Luke 16:1-13)
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To: pepsionice

That’s exactly what I saw. It also makes men docile and effeminate... they get a sort of PMS when they can’t get weed.


76 posted on 02/09/2020 8:38:45 PM PST by Clarence The One Eyed Lion (You cannot serve both God and Mammon... Luke 16:1-13)
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To: Trump20162020

I can’t really agree with the comment from the headline. Yes, I agree that legalizing pot is a VERY stupid idea, and almost the stupidest of ideas, and pretty much the most stupid thing a politician can do. The problem is, it is obvious that Mr. Bloomberg has never met Justin(e) True-dope!

Where do I start with stupid things emanating from True-dope and company? His gubmint makes a gubmint run by even AOC, appear intelligent and insightful.

Amongst a plethora of stupid things coming from True-dope and company, how do you rank them? To be fair, it would seem that EVERY idea coming from the Prime Mistake of Kanadahar is INCREDIBLY STUPID! I do not believe that he, or his Cabinet is capable of ANYTHING that is NOT stupid. The actions of his gubmint give stupid people a bad name!


77 posted on 02/09/2020 8:39:00 PM PST by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind but now I see...)
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To: irishjuggler

So he will flip flop like he did on stop and frisk.


78 posted on 02/09/2020 8:40:18 PM PST by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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To: Trump20162020

Half of all Freepers now Bloomberg supporters.


79 posted on 02/09/2020 8:40:57 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner
Half of all FReepers now Bloomberg supporters.

I support him in the next midget-tossing event.

80 posted on 02/09/2020 8:43:36 PM PST by windsorknot
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