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>>>But since research indicates that marijuana does not impair driving ability nearly as much as alcohol does, more pot smoking, if accompanied by less drinking, could actually improve public safety. The legal availability of a less dangerous intoxicant would benefit the general public as well as consumers.<<<
This is a sentence which will be used in scholarly papers 100 years from now about the delusional thinking revolving around the whole issue of personal intoxication.
Sad to say, several decades ago I smoked prodigious amounts of weed. Maybe I’m a freak of nature, but none of the statements made in these sentences are true, at least according to my own experience and observations.
These statements remind me a lot of Carrie Nation and the Prohibitionists and their predictions about banning the sale and use of alcohol. In both cases, the proponents predict many good things once their point of view becomes the law.
No doubt they’ll legalize weed. For all intents and purposes, it is legal anyway, laws notwithstanding; it is just hard to get sometimes, especially if you’re not in the loop. After it is legal, though, then we’ll see what really happens to folks who like to get high have unlimited access to cheap marijuana and witness the improved public safety ourselves.
So are they going to bring back smoking in bars? Not cigarettes, of course.
All you so-called conservatives who simply love the fact that militarized police forces can kick your door in at 3:00am, taze your grandma and shoot your dog with a warrant based on an anonymous phone call are just going to have to contain your rage that one state might reduce the reach of Big Brother (accidentally, as most lefties who will vote for this are not exactly Constitutionalists) and see what happens along with the rest of us. I’m glad this thing is on the ballot because I want to see what happens. My guess is not much, except that a lot less people will be chucked into overcrowded prisons in California for minor drug offenses, and the Mexican Mafia will have to find other ways to supplement their income.
For those who think that decriminalization of marijuana will lead to wholesale public intoxication complete with uncontrolled hootin’ and hollerin’ in the streets and dogs and cats sodomizing each other, you obviously aren’t aware of the pervasiveness of marijuana usage among people who are otherwise pillars of society. The oldtimers’ outdated view that only filthy communist hippies smoke pot as a way to crap on the US flag is just one of the many ridiculous misconceptions about our current drug climate. The truth is that anyone who is inclined to get high is doing so NOW, and that includes a lot of people that you wouldn’t expect.