Posted on 11/28/2012 6:12:22 AM PST by BlatherNaut
Expect a pot boom — like the gold rushes of old — as not just dispensers, but pastry chefs, lawyers and even vending machine salesmen all lunge for their piece of the multimillion-dollar medical marijuana business that is about to explode on the scene in Massachusetts, experts said.
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I don’t see anything wrong with it. When I retire, I would like to sit in my backyard, listen to Hank Williams, and toke a little weed from time to time.
Was that because of the pot, or the fact that it’s illegal? I was in the Army and Navy before there were drug tests, it changed just before I got out. I never saw a difference in how our ships performed. I would say that probably 50% of the E-5s and below used pot/hashish and if you looked at the difference between the senior enlisteds and lower ranks in a liberty line at 0200, the ones on their hands and knees puking, getting in fights and falling asleep, were the ones that were drunk, while those that got high, were laughing and eating.
You forgot to mention that the drunk killed a family of four while running that stop sign.
Over the years I have lost friends and family members to alcohol, whether by overdose, misuse, or drunk driving. Do you know how many friends I have lost to cannabis? ZERO. A majority of my friends that smoke “dope” are successful, happy, and productive. My alcoholic friends, the ones that are still alive, are either in jail, on their way, or destructive miserable wretches. So who are the real losers here? Those who ignore alcohol and support the ban on cannabis or those who want freedom to make decisions for themselves and freedom to live with the consequences?
I hate alcohol and I dont use it (despite my screen name) yet the difference is I would never take away someone’s freedom to use or abuse it. Nobody is forcing you to like it yet you are willing to support imprisonment in a lame effort to combat private use of a plant.
I believe in choice and consequences. It is not my business what you do or whether you destroy your own life on drugs and alcohol. While you focus on cannabis with drug war language and propaganda, the real issue of addiction and its devastating effects are ignored. Since many of you are so concerned about public health that you are willing to ban a substance, how about we start with junk food? More people are addicted to food and its negative effects on our society are far greater, yet I dont hear a call from the drug war proponents to ban soda and junk food. You seem to be fine letting people kill themselves with twinkies, soda, and booze so what is the difference?
If you care so much about public health, ignoring booze and junkfood is complete intellectual dishonesty. Moral righteousness is not won through lies nor can it be forced by the barrel of a gun or threats of imprisonment. At the end of the day, addiction is the real issue and thanks to the war on drugs, it has been almost completely ignored. At the end of the day the truth still stands.
The specific issue is pot usage not your abstract.
Yes, but the logic you used to arrive at your conclusion should hold firm, whether you apply it to pot, Dunkin' Donuts coffee, asparagus, running shoes, or toothpaste.
You determined X should be illegal because of Y, and made a definitive statement to that affect, did you not?
So the government owns each individual's potential for production, and may ban whatever decreases that potential? Should government set adults' bedtimes so they're more productive?
When the USAF did random testing, we would have side bets in our squadron. I was better than 60% on my guesses. The IDGAS attitude and personal appearance violations were the first manifestations.
Our worst problems were also E-5 and below. At that E-5 point, most had to grow up because of the responsibility and career path.
Agree on the alcohol users. They were pretty sloppy.
The logic I used was specifically and exclusively with respect to that, nothing else.
So the only thing in the whole wide world of sports whose legal status should be considered in terms of how it affects a person's ability to perform up to a certain economic and or productivity standard is marijuana?
awesome /sarc
expect grades to decrease, crime to increase, and unemployment to increase.
it’s not rocket science. it’s dominoes
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