Posted on 03/31/2022 9:30:27 AM PDT by Red Badger
Psst.
They’re, not there.
RELEASE THE SOMA!
Yes. The Feds should not be in this business.
legalized drugs = homelessness.
“...when traffic deaths reach a new high...”
From what, people rear-ended while waiting for the stop sign to turn green? 🙄
And then 20 years later they will claw back trillions from the dispensaries they legalized when cases of lung cancer “unexpectedly explode” ...
“Kids are doing “___” anyway. Nothing will changes.”
Robert Downey Jr. was given Marijuana by his father at age eight.
Nothing bad happened to Robert Downey Jr. /
We're tired of Democratic-mandated, politically correct quarantines and useless masks. And now, desperate, election year Democrats do an about-face on CV19 by weakening peoples' immune systems with marijuana so that they're in a higher risk group for getting infected with CV19 (my words) imo.
‘Covid & Marijuana – The Shocking Link Exposed’ (9.7.21)
Also, no express constitutional power to address this issue imo, so this unconstitutional Democratic legislation is unconstitutional expansion of the already unconstitutionally big federal government's powers imo.
So this legislation amounts to nothing more than desperate Democratic election year stunt imo.
Corrections, insights welcome.
A Government Program is the closest thing to immortality on Earth - Ronald Reagan...........
There is NOT an employer outside the cannibis industry that is happy about this.
HOW do you get a clean driver for your company van?
Auto parts stores have delivery trucks running all day long.
Florists have vans running to churches/funeral homes/ hospitals, etc all day long.
UBER & other driver services...
Taxi drivers.
WHAT INSURANCE company is going to cover the actions of a person using “legal Marijuana”????
What machine shop can have such employees?
What assembly line?
Amazon forklifts all over their warehouses.
ROOFERS!!! Already one of the highest workmen’s Comp categories -—and now drugs are legal???
BAN OIL
ALLOW DRUGS
We have fallen down the rabbit hole
Of course there will be a Federal tax on marijuana, how could there not be? And of course the revenue raised by the tax will go to “communities negatively impacted by the war on drugs”. A couple of problems come to mind.
Will there be a penalty for not paying the Federal marijuana tax? Will it involve jail time? Will some communities be ‘negatively impacted’ by the tax avoiders?
For those who don’t remember, back in the day, the Federal government didn’t really have the power to outlaw things, but used the power of taxation to achieve the same goal. So they declared a tax on ‘marihuana’, but refused to issue the tax stamp. Caught with marijuana and no tax stamp, off to prison with you.
Several states have legalized marijuana (and of course tax it) but they find that many users prefer to buy their weed at an untaxed lower price from agents of the cartels.
We don’t care if you drug yourself to oblivion, but you will pay us for the privilege!
Exactly.
I am for legalization but this bill is not a removal of pot from the controlled substance list it is a federal power grab usurping regulation and control from the states.
The only gateway pot opens is the gateway to the fridge and the cookie jar…
“House Democrats are set to pass legislation this week to legalize marijuana at the federal level”
Dumb em down and keep em stoned and they are easily controled.
Priorities
I’m not going to argue here about the moral issues of drugs.
My argument is this; the Constitution only gives the federal government the power to regulate interstate commerce, importation, and exportation of goods into and out of the USA.
What laws a state chooses to enact with regard to drugs inside their state is THEIR business, not Washington D.C.
That is all.
Good.
What adults decide to do to themselves is their business.
We can now declare “the war on drugs” won. Regulate, tax it, control it and take a good deal of money away from Cartels and divert police resources.
Not to mention hugely reducing incarceration.
If an adult wants to smoke pot, snort ants, or shoot up Drano.. Not my problem. as long as they don’t physically hurt somebody else or put another’s life in jeopardy..
Something else is going on. I have a friend that needs a new roof. The biggest roofer in town told him that he can’t get a crew together. This is in Oregon. Never been a problem getting illegals or illegal pot smokers to put a roofing crew together, before.
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