Posted on 04/17/2023 10:44:50 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Decriminalizing marijuana, we’ve been told to the point of stupor for years, would simply be a matter of recognizing the way society has changed and coming to a mature accommodation of a widespread current practice. It would free up valuable police resources to deal with actual crimes and real criminals, and end a longstanding injustice in which — you guessed it! — people of color were, we were told, disproportionately targeted for arrest and prosecution. So the state of New York has legalized marijuana, and how’s it going? Doritos and Patchouli oil sales through the roof? Maybe. But there have been a lot of unexpected downsides.
The New York Post reported last Monday that “the Sunday night murder inside a Harlem ‘smoke shop’ near the corner of 125th Street and Malcolm X Boulevard — the second shooting in the neighborhood in the last year — is a savage reminder of the state’s stupendously disastrous legalization of marijuana.” It seems that the state went about the legalization by “virtually eliminating the entire criminal code pertaining to marijuana overnight.” Making matters even worse, “progressive state lawmakers, besotted by a woke vision of the pursuit of equity, decided to reserve the first retail licenses for felons and other ‘justice-involved’ individuals.” They wanted to make legalized marijuana “a vehicle for reparations.” Great idea!
The state has been slow to grant licenses to legal marijuana shops, however, so illegal ones have proliferated, and cops can do little or nothing to stop them, “because having weed on open display isn’t against the law — the cops have to be present to witness a sale in order to issue a violation.” But these places also often sell other illegal drugs and quickly become centers for other crimes as well.
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Yeah...I meant after your time on Earth.
Lol… then were saved because the taxes offset the emergency response, healthcare costs and actual revenue n property damages.
Don’t grow dope, don’t smoke dope, don’t eat dope; and I live in the direct center of California’s “EMERALD TRIANGLE”.
Folks all around me got into the dope growing business when it was first legalized, invested hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars in greenhouses, generators, water tanks, irrigation equipment, etc.
They still have to compete with the MEXICAN MAFIA ILLEGAL GROWS and their prices crashed about 2 years ago, now most of those greenhouses are empty and falling into disrepair.
They would have been smarter to grow lemons, tangerines, and oranges for sale on the local market up here.
Dwarf Avocados would have made them millionairs!
That's a nihilistic attitude. (And Nihilism is the last refuge of rapscallions / people who are too lazy to rigorously mount a stringently logical defense of their own professed views.)
You brought up the issue of "morality," so I think that it's a convenient cop-out to now say that you don't care one way or the other.
Regards,
If you’re trying to make a point, I missed it.
That's okay, may your other side got it.
Show me where I used that word?
No, I asked him. He doesn’t care about opium either.
It's like anything else, if they outlaw something, people will still find ways to get it illegally, and if they legalize something, people will still find ways to get it illegally.
Yep.
Pot likewise alters one's spatial perception in a lot of people.
Thanks for the video link!! Much appreciated!
I wonder how long it was before he killed himself in that van, killed someone else with it, or someone killed him to take over his business. Lifestyle choices are directly connected to the number of years you live.
No idea, as I moved to Cincinnati later in the summer. Work related.
Stoned people are easy to control people. Plus, there’s that secondhand smoke issue. Can’t even go to a concert, walk thru downtown, ride the subway, or take your kids to the park without the stoners blowing smoke in your face. And it’s not just weed— it’s meth, heroin, & crack, too.
The fumes do help to hide the citywide urine smell.
mass55th: Show me where I used that word?
You are absolutely correct! Nowhere in your several postings did you claim to be supporting a morally defensible stance! Nowhere did you advance a moral argument! Your statements have been entirely devoid of moral discernment! Never did you allude to "morality!"
I stand corrected! You are clearly unconcerned about the moral implications of the issues at hand!
Regards,
NYS Office of Cannabis Management announces launch of cannabis growers showcase to help farmers
Because Deep State likes its citizenry stoned and stupid.
Just wait until they add President Obama Blvd.
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