Posted on 08/23/2014 10:28:08 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
#6. There's a Whole Industry Dedicated to Just Making Weed Pretty
#5. The "Safe, All-Natural Drug" Could Actually Be Full of Serious Toxins
#4. Weed Can Be Fairly Dangerous to Handle
#3. Even Where It's Legal, It's Not Legal
#2. The Legal Pot Industry Is Hurting the Environment
#1. The Growers Don't Want It to Be Legal
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There you go making sense.
You are talking about federal law under the Wickard Commerce Clause. Do you not support the Tenth Amendment?
The average smoker uses a pack a day. 20 cigarettes. Even back in high school when I knew some of the biggest stoners, smoking 4 joints would have had them sleeping. Bongs filter out a lot of the tars and other carcinogens. Unless you’re superman, You’re not going to smoke 20 bowls of weed a day in a bong.
Haven’t touched the stuff in over 20 years. Won’t touch it for at least another 15. The day I retire is the day I quit alcohol and switch to weed. I’ll get my Medical (green card) cert and never look back. God willing I live that long of ocurse...
“#6. There’s a Whole Industry Dedicated to Just Making Weed Pretty. BS. Name it.
#5. The “Safe, All-Natural Drug” Could Actually Be Full of Serious Toxins. BS. Regulated POT is tested more than any food stuff on the planet. It must be tested for toxins, chemicals, DNA, etc.
#4. Weed Can Be Fairly Dangerous to Handle. BS.
#3. Even Where It’s Legal, It’s Not Legal
#2. The Legal Pot Industry Is Hurting the Environment. More BS. Pot is grown primarily indoors.
#1. The Growers Don’t Want It to Be Legal”/ Just more BS. They are LIVING it being legal. The growers are making more money than ever and far easier, too.
“#7 Second hand weed smoke smells like crap.”
Makes me sneeze, too! Hate the stuff.
I’m just saying you can’t have it both ways.
Agreed. So which do you support, the Wickard Commerce Clause or the Tenth Amendment?
It sure didn’t take very long for the FR dopers and liberaltarins to show up with their pathetic rationalizations.
How much is invested in growing all those tomatoes, how many employees? Very few farmers are getting rich, and zero of the employees.
The states would make zero or close to that if pot was totally legal. Everyone could easily grow all they could possibly use. Unlike tomatoes, it won’t spoil and is easy to freeze.
Tomatoes have to be picked at perfect ripeness, they then have a very short shelf life. That isn’t the case with pot, harvest, dry, into a zip-lock and toss in the freezer.
Any adult in CO can grow their own, yet pot stores are doing a booming business.
“States like Colorado care more for the tax revenue generated from this than they do the health and well being of the people. That is Democrat thinking, at its worse.”
Or maybe some care more for liberty.
I don’t recall the Constitution empowering the government to take such steps as it deems proper to protect the health and well being of the people.
“By take over I mean the government reaps the lions share of all profits from formerly prohibited practices.”
That will never happen.
Government stores would have to offer higher quality at a lower price and, as I said, that will never happen.
Not sure where "liberty" comes into play when you can only obtain the pot from state sanctioned facilities.
“Well, at least since lawmakers first started using it as an excuse to arrest Mexicans.”
Part of the reason it was so easily criminalized was that “nobody uses it but the negroes.”
Mexicans weren’t even on the radar back then.
“So how did medical mj become a billion dollar industry in CA alone, despite the fact that patients can grow their own?”
Because it is heavily regulated. It isn’t totally legal like tomatoes are.
Even in CO it is heavily regulated, you can’t just till up the backyard and start growing it.
Use common sense, anyone could grow a dozen tomato plants. At best you will have fresh tomatoes for a month or so, then you are done for the year. That is why their is a commercial market, so you can get them all year.
A dozen pot plants would keep you stoned out of your gourd all year. It isn’t used as a fresh product, so storage isn’t a problem.
The largest piece of the pie will be taxes...thus the gov gets the lions share.
It all beats locking humans in cages for smoking a plant.
All legal businesses are state sanctioned. Try selling alcohol or cigarettes without a state license.
Correct, and adults in CO and medical mj patients in CA are allowed to grow six plants at a time indoors. As you say, that's plenty to keep them stoned for a year. Yet, enough of them choose to pay at least $300 an ounce to generate $1B in sales.
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