House poised to pass bill legalizing marijuana

The Hill ^ | 03/2822 06:00 AM EDT | BY CRISTINA MARCOS -

[BrandtMichaels]

Post of the day - worth repeating:

lack of control in ANYTHING in life will cost a person in end.

Gambling is legal as well.

Prostitution is legal in some States.

Alcohol is legal.

Vaping pure nicotine is legal.

Viagra is legal.

Get the US Government OUT of your house and your personal business.

I’m 59.

I don’t need a babysitter anymore.

[Telepathic Intruder]

"marijuana has medical uses, alcohol doesn't."

Neither has been found to actually cure anything except infection.

I disagree that marijuana is not addictive. It is to some degree.

But speaking of going whole hog, we know from experience that we can't ban alcohol consumption. And if we go the other way, we'll have to legalize heroin and all other dangerous addictive drugs. Can we not just contain the evil to a certain extent instead, rather than going to extremes one way or the other?

[cgbg]

“Once legal, everyone and his brother will be growing it in their back yard.”

That was what I thought would happen.

However, .gov has created state regulated monopolies with high taxes for “legal” marijuana.

This is a total joke.

What matters in the real world is how they treat the “home grown” stuff—if they decriminalize it then it is de facto legalization—otherwise it is not.

That still may vary by state and by community—no matter what the feds do.

[stevio]

From just smoking pot? No other drugs/booze?

[moovova]

I don’t know.

Why don’t you tell me, genius.

[Ken H]

Shouldn’t that be left to each state to decide, rather than fedgov?

[Ken H]

“In the past, there have been many stories on Free Republic about marijuana legalization. And quite a few people here are in favor of legalizing marijuana. This issue is one on which conservatives here are really split on.”

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True, but there should be no split among them as to who decides intrastate mj policy. Those who think fedgov should decide are peeing on the Tenth Amendment.

[Telepathic Intruder]

I suppose. My real concern is that it’s easy enough for kids to get their hands on it now, so imagine once it’s legal and stores are selling it? I wouldn’t have done pot at all in high school if not for the peer pressure, which is not an easy thing to ignore at that age. And my grades went to pot as well. Am I a unique case? Hardly.

[moovova]

I'm still waiting for you to tell me "how much fertilizer do you suppose it takes to grow the grains that produce alcohol", genius trash-mouth.

[jmacusa]

And I'm waiting for somebody to tell me how much fertilizer it takes to grow a weed big mouth, can you do that Mr Drug Warrior?

[moovova]

“...tell me how much fertilizer it takes to grow a weed...”

It takes little to no fertilizer to grow “a weed”.

Not much of a genius, are you? Or...more likely still...your wife takes care of the yard.

[cgbg]

“imagine once it’s legal and stores are selling it?”

The stores are selling it at high prices (with heavy taxes in most states).

“Legalization” is targeted towards the well to do—the kids with little money will keep doing it the old way.

[Right Wing Vegan]

marijuana is classified as a hypnotic drug for a good reason ...

And psychotropic, hallucinogenic, schizogenic, and airborne–force dosing others.

Sleazeball and f%ggot drug as well.

[Fred S]

Yup. Heavy fine.

[Drew68]

Now there will be even more open entry level jobs and half the fries made at McDonald’s will never make it to the drive thru window.

We all smoked plenty of weed when I worked at McD’s back in ‘85 and there were still fries to sell.

[Drew68]

Once legal, everyone and his brother will be growing it in their back yard. There will be no more “marijuana industry”.

Tell that to Philip Morris or R.J. Reynolds.