Posted on 01/06/2014 6:01:00 AM PST by shortstop
Now he wants to legalize pot.
The man who will send you to jail for having eight bullets in your gun is now paving the way for you to get stoned.
Andrew Cuomo, proof that the apple, in fact, can fall quite far from the tree.
As the first anniversary of his gun-banning Safe Act rolls around, the governor of New York is set to announce in his state of the state address that he is going to unilaterally, through administrative action, legalize medical marijuana.
As he looks across the state, and chosen who he wants to stand for, he has picked stoners over gunners. The wastrels over American traditionalists.
Political benefit over constitutional right.
He can neither know nor care that this latest left-field decision alienates and disenfranchises vast stretches of middle-class upstate, where people see the Cuomo administration’s unrelenting antagonism toward their interests and inexplicable support for the policies of folly.
Last year’s Cuomo initiative was gambling, this year’s is marijuana.
Next year we’ll have to learn how to spell “Caligula.”
In the name of liberty, he legalizes license. In the name of safety, he outlaws freedom.And he does it with the arrogant condescension of someone who looks across hundreds of miles of green upstate and sees only serfs and sharecroppers, the slaves on his plantation.
Over the weekend, there was surprise word out of New York City that Cuomo’s long-standing opposition to legalizing marijuana had been reversed, and that he would not only advocate it, he would order it.
Somebody must have written a very large check. As the backers of casino gambling learned, everything is on the table with New York’s rent-a-governor. If you can contribute enough, he can get behind your position.
And now it’s marijuana.
As long lines of Colorado derelicts flash across the evening news, Andy wants a piece of that pie.
So this week we will learn that he has tapped some two-dozen hospitals as marijuana dispensaries. He will decide which maladies will be “treatable” by ganja, and the reefer madness will begin.
His state health director, completely incapable of making a decision about fracking after a four-year review, apparently gave therapeutic marijuana the thumbs up over lunch.
Apparently, hydrofracking -- practiced safely across the world -- is unsettled science, while medical marijuana – specifically rejected by the Food and Drug Administration – is good to go.
Welcome to Andy’s Excellent Adventure.
Across the 20-some states that have medical marijuana, the experience has without exception been an experiment in getting stoned. It has been a wink and a nod, a cover for folks looking to get a buzz on.
It has been a lie told to facilitate a party.
It has also been a cowardly half measure. If you believe in legalizing marijuana – it is, after all, a whole lot safer than alcohol – then just do it. Don’t play games or hide behind sick people.
Marijuana is not a medicine, it is an intoxicant. If you want to use it as an intoxicant, say so, don’t dishonestly pretend it is a medicine.
Did you hear that, Andy?
Further, as America’s health system swirls around the drain, is the governor of the nation’s largest Medicaid monster honestly putting the tab on the taxpayer?
At these two-dozen hospital dispensaries, who’s picking up the tab? Insurance companies, run by people who can read and write, aren’t going to go along with that. That leaves you wondering who the sick and afflicted getting the Mary Jane are going to be.
On the bright side, instead of your tax money being filtered through the EBT and welfare system to buy marijuana, with the help of saggy-pantsed young men loitering on the corner, it can now go directly through Medicaid.
Andy Cuomo, a captain of efficiency.
You are free to get stoned, but not free to frack, and certainly not free to put an eighth round in your magazine.
The Empire State, and Andy’s the emperor.
And the rest of us are meaningless, voiceless dirt beneath his feet.
just going back to his “roots”
Colorado is going to get 468 million dollars from legalizing weed. Depending on if they put it into a “rainy day” fund, this could be good for the state.
Colorado is going to get 468 million dollars from legalizing weed. Depending on if they put it into a “rainy day” fund, this could be good for the state.
Are you serious?
Republicans need to abandon this meaningless issue
George Soros is in favor of marijuana being sold as it makes it easier to produce democrats. You have to be stoned to vote for them.
It ain’t a coincidence that these laws are being overturned by the democrats.
absolutely....keep em dumbded down.
we could have much lower state income and sales tax in NY if Andrew ‘evil eye’ CuHomo would allow gas drilling. and the SAFE law is a travesty and an anti constitution nightmare.
better let the people get drugged up before they realize the truth about their governator....
Colorado is going to get 468 million dollars from legalizing weed. Depending on if they put it into a “rainy day” fund, this could be good for the state.
was the crimes, the lost working Days, the accidents, the thefts, the brawls legalizing drugs will engender ?
There are no benefits in legalizing drugs.
The numbers of Young people who will become addicted will grow like wildfire.They will miss out on schooling after a week end of smoking dope.
The list is endless.
Besides, people are easier to govern when they're all on SOMA holiday...
You’ve never been at a table of stoned conservatives talking politics.
All the world’s problems solved in an evening...but can’t remember the solutions in the morning...
While research suggests that cannabis use can induce an acute psychotic state, there is controversy about whether it may precipitate psychotic disorders, such as schizophrenia. In this article, we provide an update on the literature on this important issue, emphasize areas in need of research, and provide clinically useful recommendations.
More than 16 million Americans use cannabis on a regular basis, typically beginning in adolescence. Notably, it is estimated that approximately 4% of the population have a diagnosis of either cannabis abuse or dependence.1 A history of cannabis misuse is even more common in patients who are schizophrenic than in the general population; 25% of patients with schizophrenia have a comorbid cannabis use disorder. Cannabis use disorders are especially common in younger and first-episode patient samples and in samples with high proportions of males.
2 - See more at: http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/schizophrenia/cannabis-psychosis-link#sthash.vGuqSVak.dpuf
Get High(taxed), get a same sex sodomy license, gamble at a casino(taxed), (keeps us docile), free birth control or abortions, collect unemployment comp or earn minimum wage, and go on medicaid.
And get taxed to death,
Dems really have a plan for us.
Judging by all the Marxists they vote for in that state, legalizing weed isn’t going to change much of anything being that everyone is already smoking crack. “Gee ya know, having a Marxist as POTUS isn’t screwing things over enough....Let’s elect one as Mayor as well and for city council, and for Congress”
Once the penalties for possessing weed are gone, users are not going to shell out for the extra taxes for long. They will return to the untaxed, black market sources they used previously. The Laffer Curve applies to weed, too.
Agreed. This prohibition has worked no better than the one against alcohol in the early 20th Century. Narcotics are relatively easy to obtain, despite a 40 year old war on drugs that has expanded police and prosecutorial power, but has utterly failed in its goal to prevent drug use. If conservatives recapture the Colorado governorship and legislature this year, I doubt they will recriminalize the substance. The public tide has been turning against maintaining prohibition of illegal drugs, particularly marijuana, like it or not.
During the 19th Century, all currently illegal substances were sold over the counter, but divorce was difficult to obtain, abortion illegal, and sodomy proscribed.
I hope ObamaCare covers it.
Here’s something REALLY revolutionary Andy. How about lifting the ban on fracking.
Idiot.
Awww...you’re upset that you can’t have guns? Here, have some soma—I mean, marijuana—and fuhgettaboutit! After all, a gramme is better than a damn!
My thoughts exactly!
Thanks shortstop.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.