Posted on 05/09/2023 6:54:36 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
This is a story about weed (i.e., marijuana or cannabis), and it’s a story about greed — greed on the government’s part, which encourages more greed on the part of those willing to break the law for profit.
There has been a long-running debate over legalizing the recreational use of drugs, especially marijuana. Proponents argued that legalization – or at least decriminalization – would undermine black market sales of those drugs. Prices would fall and organized crime and gangs, which have long profited from the distribution and sale of illegal drugs, would diminish. Meanwhile, the government could regulate vendors to ensure quality and safety and, most important to the politicians, tax their sales.
While I never agreed with the argument, it didn’t seem unreasonable. What was needed was a test case to prove the theory. Now we have one.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Interesting. So the States that have legalized marijuana have proven that the Laffer Curve is very real despite the left’s constant denial of it. Higher taxes have lowered the tax revenues.
“It’s toasted”?
lol. The best cannabis is actually shaded and chilled at the end for maximum terpene compounds. Many compounds are degraded just by being in too much sunlight or above ~65 degrees for a few hours
I stayed in Boulder for 6mos, back in the 70s with some friends. It was beautiful in the mountains, but I’d never go back.
interesting...
I would be for it but it’s not quite that simple.
Some compounds are intoxicating psychoactive to some people and medicinal psychoactive to others.
For example some people today at any age can actually get legal prescription meth (brand name Desoxyn) as long as they have a doctors signature. Yes, actual pure methamphetamine pills. Instead of feeling intoxicated, the meth actually helps their brain function.
One of the most addictive and devastating drugs known to man has a medical purpose and can even be prescribed to children according to the feds but cannabis they claim does not...
Never talk to me again.
Back in the ‘80s, some AF buddies and I were parked by a canal in a FL residential area. Looked out the window and saw this bushy little pot plant...about 6” tall. We took some pics, and came back a couple of weeks later for more pics...Florida climate amazed me. We got there, and we’re looking around, and no plant, no hole...and this is that crushed coral crap they use for roadbed down there. We looked around, and a couple of kids walked up and asked “Are you looking for that plant?” We kind of sheepishly said we were, and one of them said “A man came and took it away in a box.”
Welcome to FR.
You and RightWingVegan should get a room.
It’s fact we have had federally legal “medical meth” since it was invented in 1943.
It can be prescribed for uber common conditions like obesity, tiredness or ADHD. Yet the sky is not falling...
Nonsensical.
What an ass.
This stronger pot drives psychosis, especially in young people.
That culture does drive use of stronger drugs. All of that drives destroyed motivation and increased crime.
It overwhelms law enforcement who are being undermined at every turn as well.
It’s easy to blame the pot. That’s only part of the equation.There’s so much pressure and stressors nowadays that people not doing pot act strangely. Metro areas are becoming out of control.Judges and politicians give even violent offenders leniency which perpetuates the problem. Lack of good job opportunities combined with poverty, lack of parental guidance and societal breakdown with lack of respect. We are a society crumbling and it’s not just one thing. Wait until there is a food shortage. Many Americans have never experienced true hunger.
I want to thank all the activists who replaced the pungent and dangerous second hand smoke that was everywhere, with even more pungent and more dangerous second hand mary jane smoke everywhere.
I love not being able to walk down a public street without smelling the disgusting stench of weed.
And I especially enjoy the fact that if I run into a group of underage folks of certain melanin levels, it is almost a guarantee the group will reek of pot.
Thank you oh so much
Yep, government got greedy and not for the first time. The power to tax is the power to destroy even if that isn’t what you’re after. Sin taxes especially have to be levied with a deft hand because the activity in question - gambling, prostitution, drugs - has been going on a lot longer than the taxes.
And society needs cells again for members of the subversive element such as potheads who drug the air with their pinko hallucinogen.
You’re getting close to the same level of nutty that gets the wearing of “aggressive fragrances” (colognes, perfumes, scented deodorants) banned from the public square. Mind that you don’t start complaining out loud that the crows and blue jays are making too much of a racket.
nutty
You want nutty, how about this: I would have capital punishment for every pot and other hallucinogen legalization conspirator.
I can guarantee everyone whose eyes see this post one thing: If you're sick and tired of the escalation tranny and pedo and other degeneracy, I can guarantee you this: You NEVER see this and other outrages stamped out unless re-criminalization of marijuana and other hallucinogens is part of our national revival.
Gundog your yelping and lisping we can do without. You didn't need to tag me in here. And I don't welcome tags from subversives.
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