Posted on 01/04/2014 9:02:25 PM PST by Ken H
States should probably have the authority to decide if its legal or not.
But this reminds me of “Republic... if you can keep it”. Try and build freedom with a drugged populace. A few you can absorb. More than a few and you start twisting into the tarmac.
So if you like your weed, you can keep your weed...?
I suppose its notable that the people who are demanding freedom to smoke are not by and large demanding freedom to start businesses and educate their children or choose their own health care. We might see these as seamlessly related issues but I don’t know that the average pothead sees it that way.
Because, Lord knows, there weren't any stoner skiers or snowboarders on the slopes before Colorado passed this law.
Was that sarcasm, or do you really think that isn't already happening in every state in the nation for every kind of drug, legal and illegal?
“The Federal government has absolutely no authority to regulate what people smoke. None whatsoever v”
But they have passed laws making POSSESSION illegal! You can smoke it, you just can’t have it to smoke.
It will be interesting to see if the FEDs try to interfere with the Colorado law like they have been doing in California with respect to “medical marijuana.” Here, they are threatening the owners of buildings leased to “marajuana dispensaries” with the forfeiture of their real estate under the Federal drug laws unless they kick out the dispensaries to whom they rent space. Who knows, maybe Colorado will take them on. It would be fun to watch.
This forum is rabidly anti pot because I think that most freepers (yankees and others)live where pot smokers tend to be libs or occupy sorts and that naturally rankles them...yet I know pot smokers in Michigan and NorCal who are right wing or Randian at least...personally
The rest is reefer madness nonsense
I live in Dixie....99% of the hundred or so pot smokers I know are God guns and guts types
I smoked pot from 71-84..
I doubt many here consider me a lib.
Pot is not without faults but I prefer to be around a stoner more than a drunk
I really despised cocaine snorters....all blather....
I am only addicted to one thing....punani......or just a woman’s love and physical affection......a lifelong severe addiction
I have no plans to try to quit.....ever.
Freepers can sure be silly nannies....they toss liberty out the window on a whim
So fire away y’all
War daddy....racist anti Semite homophone sexist bigot neoconfederate pot apologist
Could anyone possibly make this stuff up?
Why don’t I still smoke.....I’m too damn busy....I’d love to on occasion otherwise and I just might
The Pot Head yammerin’, are always right, by opinion.
Federal Government backed police officers handling drug users is bad, but federal government backed evangelists handling drug users would be OK? Sounds nanny state with either a gun or a bible.
Susanville?
I love that area.....
Well, I didn’t quite have that in mind. General evangelism. Ultimately this is going to have to be a function of what is written at the top of the U.S. Constitution. I.e. “We The People.” Because the church can’t be subject to Caesar.
Good. How do you know it?
CCC and CSP High Desert?
I’m happy to see states going their own way. If Colorado pays a price in social fallout, so be it, they can serve as a test lab. And anything that diminishes the clout of an overarching fedgov leviathan is a good thing in my mind.
So if you like your weed, you can keep your weed...?
Since the cigarette buying age was raised to 18 it’s easier for kids in high school to buy pot than cigarettes.
I guess it's always unfortunate that some people need SOME drug/opiate/whatever to pump into their body to cope with world.
Alcohol and pot are not addictive, habit forming, yes, but not addictive. I haven't heard of booze as a gateway drug to addictive drugs. But I have heard that about pot.
I guess weak people unable to cope with the world will turn to whatever is available.
Your comment "Lots and lots of smart capable people, who dont escalate to harder drugs, smoke weed regularly" belies what doctors say. But what do THEY know?
My husband's BEST friend was a pot smoker. He's dead now but not after his brain turned to mush after the all of pot smoking. He spoke the same way you do of pot. Such a waste.
Our best man, also a friend of my husband, was a drunk. He got sober, decided he was gay (after marriage and two children) and died of AIDS, as his YOUNG lover got AIDS and gave it to our best man. He chose homosexuality, since there is no gay or bisexual gene, as he chose alcohol and chose to stop drinking.
Of course there were, but it was pretty discrete. I don't expect the case now. I'm not a prude by any stretch, but I don't like stoners.
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