Posted on 04/15/2016 7:28:31 AM PDT by Ken H
Pennsylvania will soon become the first state to legalize medical marijuana through the legislature.
The Pennsylvania House on Wednesday made a final vote in favor of a medical marijuana bill introduced in 2014. Gov. Tom Wolf said he will sign the bill on Sunday, the AP reports.
The overwhelming support of a 149-46 vote capped an intense legislative process for the bill that was initially approved by the Senate last year. The bill has bounced back and forth between Senate and House, each time with added small changes, over the extended period of time
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Now our stoners won’t have to move to Colorado or Oregon. Plus the Commonwealth gets more government revenue via fees, permits and licensing. What’s not to like?
Will Pittsburgh soon become Potsburgh?
Maybe the country is getting so bad that, of things earthly, only pot can help people stand the pain.
I’d be curious to see if there are any reliable figures correlating pot usage with how bad other things are. I’d bet it roughly follows.
We ultimately don’t have a drug problem, we have a God problem. We’ve told Him take a hike and He has replied “as you wish, but you might not care for the consequences.”
At least PA did it the right way...
“We ultimately don’t have a drug problem, we have a God problem. We’ve told Him take a hike and He has replied “as you wish, but you might not care for the consequences.”
Truth. I recently had a realization of how kind the Father is to his creatures, giving us a wide berth to choose. We must ultimately give account, but he is no tyrant. As you said, we just don’t like the results of our choices.
“A man’s own sin destroys his life, and yet in his heart he rages against the LORD”—Proverbs 19:3
I’ve said that to myself many times, agreeing with God against myself. Felt good and right. He is so merciful.
Only companies like Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline should be able to profit off mind altering drugs.
Personally, I believe it would be as safe for people if they maybe smoked a little weed on occasion at home than doing excess pain pills, excess alcohol, and some of the other legal stuff out there.
If people did it in the privacy of their own homes and did so responsibly, I wouldn’t care. Yes, I know some people wouldn’t be responsible.
Good!
All humanity took a dive into the dark place with the original sin. The only remedy is to accept afresh a gracious Light.
I think there are a lot of abuses we are trying to crudely suppress through blanket prohibitive law that shouldn’t have ever needed that, were we attentive enough to God. As Paracelsis put it, only the dose makes the poison. This is a losing game played by people who will eventually get swallowed up in their own worldly authoritarianism.
Frankly when we have so many people dropping over from heroin overdoses, even in the nicer suburbs, this issue has to go to the back-burner for me.
When will governments be sued for legalize medical marijuana that creates millions of junkies
Note that they are not giving pot to smoke. This legislation only covers THC in pill, oil or cream form.
It is pretty easy to grow. In a former life, I did.
Well said.
Pretty much a lot of “leakage” of all kinds anyway.
Bottom line is the bottom line. The potential for tax revenue will drive further liberalization of the laws.
I don’t have a problem with that.
That’s what you use to soothe Dave with, right?
That not only would put all the drug dealers out of business, but give the state a monopoly which they would enthusiastically enforce. Any of the registered druggies caught driving or voting would also provide more grist for the penal system mill at a much lower cost to society than what we have now.
Not for a decade or so. I had my younger days.
You don’t make drinkers do that. Impairment is impairment.
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