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What Marijuana Reclassification Means for the US
Newsmax ^ | 1 May, 2024 | Newsmax

Posted on 05/01/2024 9:27:46 AM PDT by BeauBo

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To: BeauBo

,There is good reason why they call it dope.
And those that use it


21 posted on 05/01/2024 10:43:55 AM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: LeoWindhorse

Kamala Harris is a chronic pot smoker . That’s where the goofy laugh comes from. It’s a cannabis tick.


22 posted on 05/01/2024 10:45:49 AM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: AlaskaErik

I disagree. The people who want to do it are already doing it.


23 posted on 05/01/2024 10:48:19 AM PDT by rottweiller_inc (n't put it past them)
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To: fwdude
“ Does that go for heroine, cocaine, LSD, Meth, and all other recreational drugs as well?”

Yes it’s a state matter other than foreign importation or interstate shipment.

24 posted on 05/01/2024 10:48:32 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: gundog
The first step in kicking it back to the States, where it belongs.

I agree completely. But that would involve Democrat politicians giving up power - that runs against every fiber of their being.

25 posted on 05/01/2024 10:51:03 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: AlaskaErik

Many states, including solidly red states like Missouri and Oklahoma, have effectively legalized marijuana. You see signs for marijuana dispensaries on Interstate 44 in Missouri. I am no fan of legalized marijuana, but this is a battle we have lost. The Feds need to stay out of the drug issue except to prevent importation into the commerce and restricting interstate commerce.


26 posted on 05/01/2024 11:03:03 AM PDT by Wallace T.
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To: Billthedrill

I’ve long said the same thing. It comes up every election year.


27 posted on 05/01/2024 11:09:04 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: BeauBo

It, the Devils lettuce, can be purchased, gotten, had, anywhere, anytime, anyplace now.

What baffles me is why the gubment has not legalized it and then proceed to tax it to the extreme. Just like cigarettes and alcohol.

They couldn’t care less about the ramifications, just seems they would want the revenue.


28 posted on 05/01/2024 11:12:23 AM PDT by CodeJockey (I'd like to change the world, but they won't give me the source code.)
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To: Ikeon

I have, but just because there’s people who do something a lot doesn’t mean it’s addictive on a chemical level. There’s lots of stuff out there people do way too much of, including just buying stuff. Pot is not chemically addictive and making it schedule 1 was always silly. It ain’t heroin, it ain’t crack. Having it forbidden to even use for research is an overreach.


29 posted on 05/01/2024 11:31:32 AM PDT by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: CodeJockey

To tax it only means creating a black market


30 posted on 05/01/2024 11:39:40 AM PDT by RitchieAprile (available monkeys looking for the change..)
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To: RitchieAprile

i believe uk was the biggest exporter of weed a few years ago. kind of ironic when it is illegal there...

see, government have no problem making money off someone else.


31 posted on 05/01/2024 11:45:25 AM PDT by VAFreedom (Wuhan Pneumonia-Made by CCP, Copyright Xi Jingping)
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To: BeauBo

The slow decline of civilization speeds up a little. The competency crisis worsens. The whole country will soon smell like California and Colorado.


32 posted on 05/01/2024 12:08:19 PM PDT by Mr. Blond
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To: discostu

you’ve been bamboozled, marijuana is highly addicting. Ive never met anyone who just quit.


33 posted on 05/01/2024 12:57:04 PM PDT by Ikeon (My only issues with stupid people are, they encouraged to talk and post stupid opinions.. )
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To: Hammerhead

agreed!


34 posted on 05/01/2024 1:00:24 PM PDT by Moleman
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To: Ikeon

No. It isn’t. And you’ve actually probably met plenty. But there really isn’t any reason for anybody to be honest with you. Your attitude would inspire people to say “never mind, he won’t listen anyway”.


35 posted on 05/01/2024 1:03:33 PM PDT by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: discostu

Yep, I admit I have a low threshold of crap stories from anyone over the age of 15. Non-medical use MJ smokers are all full of crap.


36 posted on 05/01/2024 1:27:22 PM PDT by Ikeon (My only issues with stupid people are, they encouraged to talk and post stupid opinions.. )
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To: gundog

I haven’t recently read anything about the downsides to state legalization of weed.

What changed Oregon’s mind? What were the problems?

Here in FL, legalized weed is up for popular referendum as a CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT this November.

I fear it will pass and be out of reach from our legislature.


37 posted on 05/01/2024 1:32:18 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: Ikeon

But what you actually have is an inability to LISTEN. So anybody with a story that would prove you wrong (which depending on your age bracket is probably most of the people you know) would never bother to tell you.

The fact of that matter is that decades ago even the government, while still keeping pot schedule 1, admitted it is not chemically addictive. Probably 90% of the people I know (and probably well over half the people you know) at some point smoked pot. And 95% of them it’s in the past and exactly ZERO have any kind of “quitting was hard” story. Because:
It
is
not
addictive
.

And you’ll reply to this insisting it is. And you’ll just prove me right. You don’t listen. And you won’t be swayed. And that makes this done.

See ya. Better luck next time.


38 posted on 05/01/2024 1:35:25 PM PDT by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: BeauBo

It means when enough users have toked themselves into befuddled unemployability, marijuana dependency (like alcoholism was) will be declared a disease and our tax money will be diverted to their support. A behavior becomes an illness and we get to pay for it.


39 posted on 05/01/2024 1:48:47 PM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Finish the damned WALL! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH!)
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To: Jacquerie
Weed is still legal in Oregon. I’ve lived here most of my life, and the decriminalization process was a decades-long thing...very gradual. There was a bit of publicly visible use at my local fishing spot, post-legalization....rednecks and the elderly included. Minors were the only ones still hiding it.

Florida may have recourse through the courts, if the initiative petition has problems. Otherwise....

It was the other drugs that were decriminalized that posed a problem...go figure The legislature acted to repeal.

The same election in which that abomination passed, a measure containing draconian gun restrictions also passed. The courts eventually bounced that one, but it was telling (not that I needed telling) that our Governor and AG were good with it, and fought for it.

40 posted on 05/01/2024 1:50:18 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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