Posted on 11/15/2012 8:18:39 AM PST by YourAdHere
Do you believe Maine should legalize, tax and regulate marijuana?
Voting Yes. Thanks.
Yet you chose to sign up for this social conservative site.
To put everyone’s mind at ease, legalization of pot is not going to change much of anything. I live in Los Angeles, where pot has been functionally legal for the past decade or so. There are hundreds of hip, little “dispensaries” in every commercial district, and they sell pot to anyone with a “recommendation” that can be obtained in about 15 minutes by claiming, without documentation, medical “stress” or “anxiety” or “insomnia”.
Now, there are a lot of things to complain about in terms of life in Los Angeles, but you’d be hard-pressed to attribute many of them to legal pot. Crime rates have posted substantial year over year declines; test scores remain dismal, but slightly improving; drug abuse and addiction rates haven’t changed that I’m aware of.
Think about it like this: do you personally know anyone who doesn’t smoke pot because it’s illegal, and once it’s legal, will become a pot smoker? Everyone I know either likes pot and smokes it, or doesn’t. Nobody is sitting out there saying to themselves, “boy I wish I could smoke some pot, but unfortunately, it’s illegal, so I can’t.”
So make it legal or not, nothing much is going to change. The only thing that I really hope is that if it becomes legal in more places, the market for Mexican pot moved across the border by narco-terrorist cartels via illegal aliens will dry up, helping with our attempts to seal the freakin’ border and stop the illegal alien invasion. Now that would change things in L.A. significantly, for the better!
Couldn’t Vote!!
Poll kept defaulting to the results. Wonder if they’ve closed down the polls?
Another vote for “Yes.” And I don’t even live in Maine. ...As long as the lobsters ain’t F’d up, what do I care?
Just because it is legal doesn’t make it OK at Home Depot. They do not want the liability for some stoner driving a fork lift and hurting someone.
Pot is effectively legal in California. It’s incredibly easy to get a prescription — I live in a retirement area, average age is probably 70. Nice to have retired neighbors because they keep an eye on the area.
BUT, I smell pot CONSTANTLY in my backyard, through my open windows and on the streets when I walk the pooches.
I am sensitive to it because of allergies/asthma and I well know the smell of it having grown up in the 60s and 70s.
These OLD people all (well a lot of them) seem to have prescription for legal pot!!— they’ve told me you can buy pot ice cream, pot brownies, pot lollipops (for the kiddies?), and various brand names of pot — for their glaucoma or arthritis, I’ve heard.
I worry about them getting behind the wheel of a car — which they all do — and driving around STONED.
Sometimes, it’s not what you think...
Trick question!
They should legalize it then keep their grubby hands off it. But I voted, Yes.
What does legalizing drugs do to pre-employment and random drug screens? Since pot would be legal, how long would you have to wait for favorable drug results? Would you just quit testing for drugs too?.....They would have to start all over, retreat and regroup. As a safety auditor I talked to a guy 20 years ago who was safety manager for a large manufacturing plant. I asked to see his drug plan for employees and he showed me a written plan, took me to a window and said ‘ Do you see those people out there?’ I said ‘Yes’. He said ‘ If we shut the place down, RIGHT NOW and made all of them piss in a jar, I’d be the only person with a car in the lot.’ The people I looked down the floor at numbered about 300 plus.
No.
Democrats will only use the tax money to grow bigger government.
Among other reasons.
You suffer delusions of grandeur. How long have you been sniffing glue?
And long before you did, at that. And ever since you did sign up, I've been destroying your childish arguments on WoD threads.
What kind of clown car ammo did you bring with you this time?
Not only do you seem to despise this social conservative site, but you ignore it’s guidelines to avoid personalizing your posts and carrying grudges.
Drug use suits you and is important to you, you can promote them without raging against individual freepers and freerepublic’s social conservatism.
Legalize it and tax it at the same level gasoline is. One dollar for the grower and 6 for the government.
Incarcerate tax cheats.
I hear Hostess needs the income. Not enough twinkes going out the door at your local 7-11 lately.
Drug use suits you and is important to you, you can promote them without raging against individual freepers and freerepublic’s social conservatism.
Yes, I despise it so much I've been posting here fairly actively for 13+ years.
I don't mind people who are socially conservative. I do mind people who are socially conservative who would have the government enforce what they believe through armed coercion, just as I do mind progressive-minded people who would do the same thing.
That you can't make that intellectual determination on your own is very telling.
Go spew your maudlin mashed potatoes elsewhere.
Are there many accidents in your neighborhood or involving those in your neighborhood?
I worry about drunk drivers and texters.
70-30, 938 votes. Our heroic pot warriors are making a valiant comeback from a 72-28 deficit!
Do you believe Maine should legalize, tax and regulate marijuana?
The poll question should be, "Do you believe Maine should legalize marijuana?"
Then it should as, "If so, should it be taxed?"
The answers, by the way, are YES and NO.
So your against states rights?
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