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The Weed Machine Comes to Idaho
Political Potatoes ^ | 5/19/2024 | Gregory Graf

Posted on 05/19/2024 5:43:15 PM PDT by Habanero

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Should Idaho conservatives continue to fight the legalization of marijuana or embrace it?
1 posted on 05/19/2024 5:43:15 PM PDT by Habanero
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To: Habanero

It’s turned many Colorado towns into zombie land. New Mexico is in the process too. Fight it.


2 posted on 05/19/2024 5:46:03 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Habanero

Marijuana is for cowards and liars and is destroying this country.


3 posted on 05/19/2024 5:46:51 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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To: Habanero

I’d support legalization of pot if it comes with getting rid of welfare programs.


4 posted on 05/19/2024 5:47:47 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Habanero
I think the bigger question is why are Americans so desperate to sedate themselves with meth, pot, fentanyl, whatever.

What makes life so miserable that people want out of it by stupefying themselves even to the point of being drugged out, unemployable, homeless vagrants?

5 posted on 05/19/2024 5:47:59 PM PDT by Lizavetta
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The marijuana industry has become a substantial financial contributor to various political groups

The alcohol industry is no different, except their product is more deadly by a series of magnitudes.

6 posted on 05/19/2024 5:48:02 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Habanero

FIGHT. Legalization is bad and needs to be reversed.


7 posted on 05/19/2024 5:58:09 PM PDT by Reno89519 (If Biden is mentally unfit to stand trial, he is mentally unfit to be president. He needs to resign.)
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Even cheech and chong understood what marijuana does to people


8 posted on 05/19/2024 6:00:08 PM PDT by xoxox
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I'd always supported legalized weed, primarily because I opposed the heavy-handed methods of law enforcement that punished it.

This being said, it's hard to deny that legal weed is a public nuisance. For one, the strains are an order of magnitude stronger than the crappy Mexican ditch weed I smoked as a college student in the 90s. And they're putting weed in everything! From beer to candy. This increases the risk of accidentally ingesting it and then losing your job because you popped on a drug test.

And where it's been legalized, smoke and vape shops are opening up everywhere and become conduits for crime and various shady people loitering about.

And finally, the public use of weed shouldn't have surprised me but it did. People smoke it openly everywhere with no regard to the laws prohibiting this, which aren't enforced anyways.

So, Idaho, this is what you've got to look forward to.

9 posted on 05/19/2024 6:00:13 PM PDT by Drew68
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What’s up buddy? Hope you’re good. Here in NV you can’t even drive down the freeway without that skunk weed hitting you. Supposedly for home use only. I guess home is wherever you happen to be at that moment.


10 posted on 05/19/2024 6:05:28 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: dragnet2

agreed!


11 posted on 05/19/2024 6:09:20 PM PDT by Moleman
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Doing OK. There’s pot shops all over Albuquerque, and some are starting to go under due to market saturation. Fine with me. Hope you’re well.


12 posted on 05/19/2024 6:11:00 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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Doing well thanks. Same in Reno but they seem to be doing well here. Oh well.


13 posted on 05/19/2024 6:18:22 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: Lizavetta; NobleFree

“What makes life so miserable that people want out of it by stupefying themselves even to the point of being drugged out, unemployable, homeless vagrants?”

Almost the exact same words as written by my mother. She sent her opinion to me while I served drug-free overseas in 1968.

(A letter I still have).


14 posted on 05/19/2024 6:26:26 PM PDT by Does so ( 🇺🇦....We are in the later stages of a Communist takeover...)
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To: Habanero

Those places that sell it have to charge 24% tax for the govt. at least here in Az they do. So the gov is making good money on it. I wonder where that money goes.


15 posted on 05/19/2024 6:32:12 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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Libertarians. I hate those scumbags.


16 posted on 05/19/2024 6:34:03 PM PDT by LouAvul (DEI = Didn't Earn It. )
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To: Lizavetta

It’s a rough life.


17 posted on 05/19/2024 6:37:37 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (Bye done!)
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Idaho will never legalize marijuana, one suspects.

If the Idaho Citizens did so, the result would be even more, much more, Californian moverinners storming the state border.

18 posted on 05/19/2024 6:51:22 PM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never...in nothing, great or small...Winston ChurchIill)
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Potatoes won’t be the only things baked in Idaho.


19 posted on 05/19/2024 6:52:32 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: TribalPrincess2U

It is a rough life but escapism is hopeless...to have hope you’re gonna need to be looking to a better day ahead and be able to recognize It Soberly.


20 posted on 05/19/2024 6:58:22 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
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