Posted on 05/19/2024 5:43:15 PM PDT by Habanero
The marijuana industry has become a substantial financial contributor to various political groups, including Young Americans for Liberty (YAL). This libertarian group, often mistaken for a conservative Republican entity, supports far-right GOP insurgent legislators to promote marijuana legalization in the states where they work to influence elections.
This short story is about how a political machine conceals its true agenda through culture war fights and confrontational tactics to earn the support of a well-funded out-of-state organization. They don’t care if you support marijuana legalization or not; so long as they convince you to vote for their squad, your voice does not matter.
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They can send all that tax money to Washington state
The alcohol industry is no different, except their product is more deadly by a series of magnitudes.
Always the perfect defense for pot legalization, alcohol is bad too.
Just walk into any bar and asked the owner. Look at the super stupid bowl. Every other commercial is guzzle alcohol. Drink responsibly? Right. That stuff kills wholesale. Ask the those in the advertising biz peddling alcohol. They might have your answer.
Not defending anything. I’m stating facts. How about you?
They both suck big time.
No one here disputed that.
I’m just saying the facts about alcohol. It’s a mass murderer compared to pot. Even taking driving out of the equation with alcohol, it’s still total carnage, wrecked lives, then throw in all drunken deadly violence associated with alcohol etc..
Most of Fairbanks stinks like skunk behind. Hate it. Riding motorcycle around and you can definitely smell it everywhere.
People are voluntarily making themselves unemployable doing this crap.
Ask yourself: what do people value in alcohol? You can see the answer in the wine aisle at your friendly liquor store. Bottles going for $5 or more than $100, with the same alcohol content. Are marijuana users similarly discriminating? Is pot priced in a similar way?
I have no idea wtf you’re talking about. That has zip to do with my comments.
Most alcohol users don’t overdo it, with pot you don’t know how strong it is until you use it (THC levels vary, alcohol has a known percentage/proof)
I’ve been amused by folks in Utah, Idaho & now Tennessee, ostensibly conservative, usually in management, who attempting to project a “liberal” face express a wish for legal weed. “wish we’d join the 21st century” they say.
It’s only a 2 hr drive from any of these places to a state with legal recreational dispensaries. Why not enjoy the benefits of having it close by, without the social problems caused by de-facto legalization? Illinois is a hellhole (I was born in Springfield & lived in Chicago for a time in childhood) in which I would never live. I am currently in rural TN. If I want to partake, I can always drive a few hrs & get something decent legally.
How can people be so lazy?
If we’re not conserving civilization, what are we even doing?
Watching your country die is better when your high?
No
There’s also the accidental unknown hazards lurking when buying street drugs.
A family member, married w/ 2 children, ODed on pot b/c it also contained fentanyl.
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