“And the DU trolls come out of their cover.”
If you consider people that disagree on this issue to be “DU Trolls”, then you have no argument strong enough to push.
Frankly I’ve heard more DU reasoning by the people wanting to keep this illegal.
*They want a Federal ban, a waste of money, time, and a granting of power to the Feds they should not have inside the various states.
*Their reasoning is that they and the state knows what’s good for you as their rationale.
*Character assassination: The “dope smoking pothead loser” trope, while the backwoods hick drinking his moonshine or guys down at the local watering hole, or the image of their dad drinking a six pack and smoking a cig out on the boat or while hunting is seen as “all-American”. They are all doing the same thing, but one is “evil”?
*And then citing studies of the health effects of people that obviously sit and inhale all darn day, while the effects of people that smoke tobacco or love to down beer are somehow culturally disconnected from the far more prevalent lung, throat, and mouth cancers that occur, and the bad kidneys from drinking most of your life. Basically selective outrage.
I dont even like the stuff, but it is just making us look like hypocrites to support busting some dude for a ounce of weed, and thus ruining his life, while a guy can walk down the street with two six packs of booze, 3 cartons of cigs, or a 5th of rum.
My state is in the process of legalizing it now. It's still in the works and hasn't even been legislated yet, but I'm already hearing ads on the radio from non-profit groups offering to help people overcome their pot addiction.
The whole thing is nothing more than an emerging industry that is seen by governments as a huge source of untapped tax revenue.
This isn't going to end well under any circumstances.