Posted on 08/20/2014 10:40:32 AM PDT by ConservingFreedom
It’s all about you.
Tell it to jsanders2001, who said in post #21, "And boy does it sure make the people I know that are on it apathetic and lazy."
Funny, booze is legal and that does not give children access to free booze. Quite the strawman.
duuuuuuddddeee mannnnnn... legalize it, man, and tax it, man...... wait wha???
First point to me where in the Constitution the feds have the right to dictate what we ingest?
If we needed a Constitutional amendment to ban alcohol where is the amendment that bans all the other stuff?
To your question - no I do not believe in removing all restrictions.
FDA like all other fed agencies should be advisory with few regulatory powers. In this age of readily-available information and super expensive healthcare we are being financially compelled into a self-education and self-treatment situation. Take note of the expanding international pharmacy commerce. But its going to be more of a caveat emptor situation where you better know what you are doing before self-treatment as you will be responsible for the damages. The FDA should certainly issue guidances and standards and be vigilant in monitoring and reporting on products and manufacturers. But their expansive regulatory tentacles know no bounds and are as damaging as they are benfiting the public interest.
In the meantime there is a growing public disdain for our coercive Federales and their Reefer Madness mentality. In November Florida has medical pot on the ballet - lets see where that goes.
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Subjective. I’ll give the actual traits I’ve observed and you tell me - won’t take care of their house whether clean or maintaining it, disappears for hours then shows back up with lame eplanation, late to work, lounges around and watches TV all the time without offering to lend a hand when its obvious a little help would be nice, unable to keep jobs long term (some business owners that are self-employed and driven are exceptions but not many). That’s a short list...
And since it's illegal, the ones who don't show the effects are careful to not let on that they're pot smokers. That's one reason why the plural of anecdote is not "data."
Why? Taxes.
Ironic that a tax-reduction argument will soon be created for dope.
Maybe its just that the dumbest, laziest, slackers, and losers just tend to smoke MJ. Or maybe the MJ effects them and they begin to act that way.
I didn’t notice anything about the health effects on the lungs in this article.
All I know is that almost all of the people I have ever known who are long-term pot smokers are: poor, lazy, apathetic, slackers. Not all, but nearly all.
Ask ifinnegan - he said it.
It may be a good thing, but it is still not eliminating the crime. Associated with the sale of marijuana., and as the incident in CA shows, it won’t stop the violence and the long sentences.
"Although smoking weed won’t mess with a person’s body too much, it can cause a couple of the same issues that tobacco smokers experience, with the most likely one being respiratory problems. Ailments like bronchitis may sometimes develop as users inhale the tars from the rolling papers in joints and blunts. Because of this, eating marijuana-infused foods or smoking from a vaporizer, which heats the weed up just enough to release the THC (its active ingredient), may be healthier.[...] Other opponents argue it can cause lung cancer, a condition not one study has found a link to yet."
The only way they’ll prevent legalization of marijuana is to again criminalize alcohol. The hypocrisy is too great to keep it going otherwise. 10 years, tops, and marijuana is legal nationwide.
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It is not just taxes, it s price controls. In WA, legal marijuana is not cheap and they say that the State has created a two tier system, a legal one for the establishment types and the Black Market for the non-establishment types.
That criminalization fed crime is enough for me.
Associated with the sale of marijuana., and as the incident in CA shows, it won’t stop the violence
Are robberies of liquor stores "violence associated with the sale of alcohol"? Are they a good argument against legal alcohol?
There’s a black market in illegal cigarettes too, so should we just make tobacco illegal across the board?
You know some things are just so obvious to many that there’s really no need to defend or explain your statement
Then perhaps you should take a stab at your own question.
just how it is that others should decide for us what toxins we decide to ingest?
FDA like all other fed agencies should be advisory with few regulatory powers.
So where do they get their regulatory powers?
The FDA should certainly issue guidances and standards
Standards that have to be met? or just suggestions? If really a standard to be met, where do they get their regulatory powers?
I think we agree on the need and appropriateness of drug regulation. I think we disagree on where the line should be drawn. But I read your first statement to mean there should be no line at all. I don't believe based upon your last response that is your belief. Let me know if I misunderstood.
Comparing marijuana to liquor is a non sequitur. I won’t even discuss that.
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