Posted on 03/26/2014 9:58:12 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Because the people pushing this are all godless liberals, and by extension, also egalitarian postmodernist. Then there’s the Freepers who think it makes them theoretical purists. They ignore and wish away the devastating affect this will have on our culture. Which is the reason men, in a better time, in a better America, banned it.
Attorneys are going to make a lot of money defending clients arrested for driving under the “influence” of marijuana. Most people know about the legal limits on the amount of alcohol in the blood. Traces of marijuana stay in the system a long time. Lawyers will argue that their client had traces of marijuana in their system because they smoked pot days earlier and the client was not high at the time of the arrest. I predict that the lawyers will clean out the clients bank accounts and blow smoke in court.
Under Obama, the Society Security offices, Post Office, et al are armed with armor piercing bullets.
And by “taxing the hell out of it” DEA enforcement (for pot at least) moves under the ATF (Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms). The same people who performed a military raid on a compound near Waco.
Feel safer?
I didn’t care much about the ‘drug war’ until I got ‘swatted’ by a neighbor who wanted our apartment. I do now. Legalize the damn stuff, and quit putting the lives of innocent people at risk at the hands of your local police.
Pot is not subsidized by insurance, in CO. It isn’t taxed like recreational pot; but requires a doctor’s prescription to obtain it at the untaxed rate.
The legal limits for "intoxication" are arbitrary and set quite low for easier conviction.
By the way, blowing below 0.08 does not clear you, blowing above it makes it easier for them to convict you is all.
They can still pursue charges from 0.00-0.07. Have a beer and dare the officers to put you through whatever measures they want. And there is no breathalyzer requirement for a public intoxication charge (they can claim they saw you drink more than 2 adult beverages in an hour).
Those against "the war on drugs" are silent about the drugs of tobacco and alcohol.
Tax revenues are exceeding expectations, to date.
Perfect response.
I never feel safe when statists are in charge of the organs of government.
Do-gooders of any party have one, over-arching goal: Control.
Yeah but the growing season hasn’t started yet.
The “tax the hell out of it” part is what you were complaining that I got wrong. The exemption was what I was pointing out.
You don’t think that recreational users are going to try for the exemption?
Irony...the Red Hampshire legislature is hell-bent on decriminalizing pot (pressure from Free Staters), but as of right now it is ILLEGAL for a Red Hampshire gardener to post a packet of vegetable seeds for sale on eBay without the same labeling license that is issued to commerical outfits. WTF? (Most states exempt small gardeners from labeling laws, but not this one. Free State? Yeah...right.)
And how does decriminalization (but not legalization) put me in the do-gooder camp? Because I don’t want to see it marketed publicly?
Where were you when the government was putting first amendment restrictions on the type of paper tobacco companies could use in advertising, prohibiting the use of cartoon characters in advertising, etc?
Hollywood is pushing for a PG-13 (possibly even R) rating for any movie with tobacco use in it.
Marijuana has been legal in Amsterdam for decades. Are you telling me no one has done any research on this?
Of course not. The negative affects of consuming nasty food (which is a real problem) are tertiary and can be absorbed. The problems cause by pot legalization will be dire and pervasive. We’re just down have the foundation anymore to maintain a decent society when so many people are getting high at an increasingly earlier age.
medicinal marijuana has always been treated at a different tax rate, to no tax if a waiver is obtained from the state. And, actually, MM is point out that they have been stuck in the bureaucratic wait for their medical marijuana card to buy at the lower tax rate, so they instead chose to buy legal, fully taxed marijuana for the time.
recreational marijuana is taxed heavily - near 20% or so.
Yes, there are quacks - for everything. I could get lots of different doctors to prescribe me perfectly “legal” narcotic drugs for a multitude of ailments. No different. You cannot control that - you cannot legislate morality, cannot do it.
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