Posted on 05/16/2024 8:54:34 PM PDT by VAFreedom
The Biden administration on Thursday submitted a proposal seeking to begin the formal process of reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug.
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I guess I should stick with what i have and just monitor the market, money to be made here.
When marijuana was low dose it was treated like cocaine. Now that it’s high dose it’s treated like Tylenol. Clown world flops a couple of floppy shoe steps forward.
Rulemaking, eh?
Let’s just desolve the Legislative and Judiciary branches and balance the Federal deficit.
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I guess they’ll be moving it into the “mostly peaceful” category...
I don’t drugs, so I don’t have a dog in the fight to legalise them. However, the government should be honest about drugs and let people do them if they choose. In principle, treat it like alcohol and regulate it to ensure safety.
Another “Rule” bypassing Congress.
Why do we bother having Congress?
With a giant regulatory state ruling all of us with an iron fist, I would like somebody to explain to me why we even have a legislature anymore.
People can be fined and imprisoned for violating regulations that were never passed as laws by a legislature.
When you’re sinking in the polls, give your undecided voters drugs.
This.
Hillary’s last-ditch effort was to “declassify everything about UFOs once she became President” (paraphrased)
America is a bankrupt failed state under occupation.
Headed to uninhabitability.
Magically it becomes less dangerous in order to score political points with certain segments of the population who want to be brain damaged.
Woohoo!!
LOL!! How has that worked for alcohol? People still become alcoholics, people still die from alcohol-induced diseases, people still contract alcohol-induced dementia, psychosis, and other mental disorders, they drive while intoxicated, kill themselves and other people while driving drunk, commit crimes under the influence, and commit crimes to get money to buy alcohol and drugs. So much for ensuring safety.
Drinking is permissible and prohibition did not stop it. You’re not going to stop people taking drugs prohibition either. You’re best chance is harm reduction, to teach people the limits of how much to use.
We’ve already tried prohibition and at least two Presidents became rich because of it.
Really? You don't ever have to interact with or deal with people other than yourself?
However, the government should be honest about drugs and let people do them if they choose. In principle, treat it like alcohol and regulate it to ensure safety.
Well sure - just look at how well that's worked in Oregon. < / s >
There is no such thing as doing drugs being safe - this makes as much sense as saying we should allow for skydiving without a parachute, just regulate it to ensure safety. They are, by definition, not safe, and more people consuming them will further tax our already strained health care system...not to mention make the population even more brain docile than it already is.
You claimed regulating alcohol ensured safety. It does no such thing. It will do no such thing with marijuana either.
Right, because having one dangerous habit-forming legal drug is not enough. We need two.
I try to not be social, no.
I am the son of a severe alcoholic, so I know all about addictions. I also realize that I can’t stop people from harming themselves through drugs without putting the police in every of a house across the nation.
Do you want that kind of society?
People have a right to harm themselves. All we can do is ensure their harm is kept to a minimal point and punish those who do harm while intoxicated.
You have to let people harm themselves and let them die, just like the Founding Fathers would have. There are always going to be a set number of people who will harm themselves. They must be free to do so.
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