Posted on 11/01/2022 3:47:28 AM PDT by guinness4strength
Voters in five states, including four that are among the most conservative in the country, are deciding on whether to legalize recreational marijuana this election. If passed in each state, Arkansas, Maryland, Missouri, North Dakota and South Dakota would join 19 other states and the District of Columbia where cannabis has already been legalized for personal use.
All except Maryland backed Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election, underscoring that the legalization effort increasingly spans the political spectrum and is even gaining support in some of the most overwhelmingly Republican parts of the nation.
"The more people learn about cannabis and cannabis policy, the more we see them support making cannabis legal and regulating it and treating it
Only a liberal would want the FEDs to control pot! Trump himself knew friends who benefited from it. Stop the ignorance fellow conservatives, and embrace what God has given us.
I’d put limits on what age you can be to get THC.
Candies and bake items can be ingested by kids and one recently OD’d on it.
Now it’s no where near as urgent as fentanyl. But kids shouldn’t be anywhere near this.
Yeah because of legalizing marijuana has been so good for Colorado!
If we go back to the ditch weed that God gave us maybe you have an argument. But since man tampered with it is no different than “anti-” inflammatory you mentioned in your post 1. Crime is up significantly in areas that “legalized” marijuana.
crime is up everywhere ... even in places that didn’t legalize
not sure there’s any correlation
This is another giveaway to Democrat supporters. They will get the franchises.
A lot of medications are helpful but not as recreational drugs. I have no problem with the medicinal properties of marijuana plants being used correctly under a doctor’s supervision. I don’t want it legalized for non-medical reasons.
The Missouri ballot initiative, Amendment 3, is 5 newspaper pages long. As Nancy would say, we have pass it to find out what is in it. No thanks.
May I offer you some God-given hemlock, then?
I've seen some grows here in OK. No oversight. No inspections. No QC. People living like animals in the grow fields. Urinating and defecating in the same plot they grow that crap. Contaminated water. Heavy metals.
And idiots like the OP are ingesting this crap into their bodies. Five years from now we're going to wonder, "What on earth were we thinking?"
If you thumb through the data the crime in Colorado was on the rise - significantly - ahead of the crime wave that overtook the rest of the country.
Here in Pennsylvania, Democrat Fetterman is running commercials for legalizing weed non-stop.
If I see another “Let’s Just Legalize Weed” commercial with Uncle Fester in it I will scream!
Any reasonable piece of legislation should be less than 1 page long and understandable by a High School student. Anything more involved than that, and it’s just social engineering and not governance.
If you want recreational marijuana legalized, you are no conservative. Marijuana is not ever really “legalized” because of the hazards which surround it, it is just put into a system of extremely high regulation. What were once perhaps half a dozen pages of criminal code to completely ban it becomes thousands of pages of regulatory code to define where, by whom, by what manner, through which markets, it may be used, obtained or sold. It must be graded for safety and potency, which is a massive regulatory undertaking in itself. An entire bloated bureaucracy must spring into existence, or crafted from an already existing bureaucracy, employing thousands of taxpayer-funded employees and, like most state agencies, will probably be full of horrendous waste and corruption.
Yeah, that’s the conservative way.
Sure - not unlike recreational free-basing cocaine....
and it cost $7 million just to get the initiative done, not including the cost of hiring people to go out and get the signatures, most of who were not from MO. Bunch of big money behind it. The disability/welfare king neighbor of mine has never voted before but registered to vote on this. He’s 59 years old. All his family and friends are doing the same. Constitutional amendment is not the way it should be done.
I’m guessing you were high when you posted that.
I have a nephew in a wheelchair that gets medical pot (as much as he wants apparently) and he shares with his friends and family. It is legal for medical use but not recreational. We just had a pot grower build down the road from us. So far they have built 12 large buildings and clearing more land and building more every month. It employs a lot of people in the area and the security is really tight. I watch the On Patrol show on Reels and there are a lot of folks using pot and driving. Scary.
“May I offer you some God-given hemlock, then?”
Exactly!
Like skr posted, if these God-given plants have medicinal qualities, let them be treated by doctors and patients like any other drug. Right now, there doesn’t appear to be any effective control.
Wow, a lot of ill informed posters ,ranting points that are repeated points they didn’t research, I cringe to wonder how many “Consevatives” take a stance against ending weed prohibition then go home and give thier kids prescribed speed that they probably take too,,, casue someone gave them the idea of ADD in thier head ,,, no person has ever taken an MRI that can measure anything that backs up that idea , but everyone takes thier speed and they feel better about it . You wonder why the youth are having a hard time not seeking other pills that end up being laced with chinas bio weapon , fentynol.
Watch. In or 6 to 8 years, the few state which DO NOT legalize recreational marijuana will be the envy of the country in quality of life, economic vitality, and cost of living.
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