Posted on 05/24/2014 3:38:24 PM PDT by Wolfie
Where The War On Pot Will Go To Die
In some states, there's an untenable mismatch between the crime and the time, but does anyone think that pot—medical or recreational—will still be illegal in 10 years?
Now that a majority of Americans—54% and climbing, according to Pew Research—believe that marijuana should be treated like beer, wine and liquor, it’s time to ask: where does the war on pot go to die?
What episode will trigger that final skirmish that kicks over the hollowed-out edifice of marijuana prohibition like the Berlin Wall? What will be the final outrage against common sense and common decency that triggers an Arab Spring for weed in these U.S.? Twenty-one states and the District of Columbia already have medical marijuana (with more to come), and full legalization has gained 13 percentage points in just the past five years.
Ironically, whatever ends the war on pot won’t happen in Colorado or Washington, which have already legalized recreational pot and have received vague promises from Attorney General Eric Holder that the feds won’t bust people and businesses who comply with state laws. Colorado is further along in the retail process than Washington (where pot shops won’t open until mid-July), and so far the only problem of note is that the state is raking in 40% more tax revenue than originally projected.
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They hunted cigarette smokers down like wild dogs while pot smokers are held in high esteem.
Kind of makes you wonder doesn’t it?
Selling cocaine and heroin at Seven Eleven is not the solution.
Selling cocaine and heroin at Seven Eleven is not the solution.
Yes, I recall the hundreds of thousands of arrests of cigarette smokers last year. Or not.
Selling it behind the seven eleven isn’t any better. The WOSD hasn’t stopped drug sales to any measurable degree.
The strains of marijuana thought to be new and higher potency have been available for decades, at least as long as I was a college student in the late 70s.
It had names like Thai stick and sensimilla.
And you can thank our friends in the DEA and their paraquat spraying for taking the growing indoors where the environment is much more easily controlled.
Thai stick was nothing more than somewhat-decent pot sprayed with a little hash oil, and while the sinsemilla of the time was good, they've had 40 years to selectively breed the best lines into the highest THC content.
The stuff that's around today is markedly stronger than in our time.
Would have loved to see them try and pull you guys over. LOL
Contemporary thai stick yes, 70s thai stick no.
Remember, we’re babies compared to other cultures who have been growing it for years.
You must have had better connections. ;)
You were too busy trying to hit things ... I was busy looking for a hit to toke, uh, take.
Cocaine and heroin are not the subject at hand, and I don't even see anyone suggesting selling marijuana at the local convenience store.
Care to address my direct comment and question, who do you prefer throwing out strawmen?
Meth is not marijuana and you'll find very little public support for legalizing it.
It’s perfectly logical. Libertarians have brilliant logic. Marijuana was weaker a generation ago. People got bored. Now it’s stronger and more fun and people are flooding into Colorado. Just wait till free-market competition heats up — convenience stores are next. Then people will get bored with the present marijuana and seek out cocaine and heroin.
Makes all the sense in the world. Unless you’re stoned.
It’s stopped drugs in my neighborhood. No needle parks with addicts stumbling around.
That type of “logic” only makes sense IF you are stoned - something I am not.
To me it is a state issue, and it makes no never mind to me if states do or do not legalize it - I would like to see the feds butt out. It took a constitutional amendment for the feds to institute prohibition for alcohol - I see no difference between alcohol and marijuana, thus do not understand why the feds are involved in it at all, unless in the same manner.
So you trade our Bill of Rights for a cleaned up park. How noble.
I have a right to not have libertarian druggies break into my house.
Why would drug addicts, free to buy drugs at seven eleven, break into your house? Do drunks do so today? Have you given this any thought?
Drunks commit violent acts all the time. Addicts, because they still need money, will commit theft.
The moral decay of the nation continues, brought on the atheist materialist decadence of the libertarians. The highest, most cherished goal of the adolescent Randians is upon us — a besotted, stoned, shacked-up slackers, fatherless-kid population heavily dependent on the government.
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