Same thing with alcohol. Prohibition didn't work with it either.
Huh? What? Who’s there? Dave? Dave’s not here.
Which is exactly how the Uniparty wants them.
Its another side-effect of our nanny-state, funded by fiat money and massive Federal Reserve debt.
Same thing with alcohol. Prohibition didn't work with it either.
Even on FR, if you say that the US is becoming nothing but a bunch of ignorant potheads you get pummeled by the “potheads”
If you abuse any substance, yes, it will affect other aspects of your life negatively.
That is true for anything, including alcohol. It’s also true for gambling, food, sex, video games and whatever else.
If you cannot control your appetites, your appetites will control you, won’t they?
I think the poor and the stupid do not need the evil rich to make themselves less responsible.
Pot makes liberals and democrat voters.
HAHAHAHAHA
another commie goal achieved.
A good chunk of the poor are already irresponsible. Those who aren’t don’t stay poor long unless they are truly disabled or of ill fourtune out of their control.
I’ve always maintained that the elites want the masses smoking heavily and often so that when the communists come knocking at the door, there will be no resistance.
The same is true for heroin.
I’ve always said the order of events is vital:
1) End government charity. Make all people responsible. If you don’t work, you don’t eat. If you make bad choices, you suffer. If you screw up your life, perhaps a church will help you, but “society” owes you nothing.
Now you’re ready for Step 2.
2) Go ahead and legalize pot or whatever else you consider a good idea.
If you reverse the order of these steps (as the US has largely done) then you get a lot of people who have messed up their lives and who expect “society” to take care of them.
My big beef with Libertarians is that they want LIMITED government (which is good) and they want legalized drugs. And they push for the drugs first, which TOTALLY works against the concept that government charity should be reduced. Legal drugs magnifies the problem and drives us toward Big Government.
You have to be stoned not to see this.
Budweiser started advertisements with "Holidays were made for Michelob back in the 70's.
It soon became "Weekends were made for Michelob" then "Put a little weekend in your week".
It then became "The night was made for Michelob". If you wanna be poor keep going to work hung over on a Wednesday.
For every pothead slacker, there are 10 that are hanging out at a Happy Hour getting sloshed on a work/school night.
In truth, the real motive is keeping our legal lawyer-jail-rinse-repeat revolving doors working. How do you think 75% of black males between 18 and 35 get caught up in the legal system? We keep the courts full and the jails brimming.
Did it ever dawn on anybody that we could save billions by taking the profit out of illegal drugs and end 80% of the associated violent crime. Then, we could easily afford treatment centers (even if we have to scoop folks off the street), and get businesses wanting to return to the cities.
Of course, I suppose one argument of the Drug Warriors is valid: Many of these people would be better off in jail or prison.
Pot taxes, cigarette taxes, and lotteries all tax the poor the most, to pay for toys like bicycle trails predominantly used by, or programs administered by, the rich. This is how the lilly white gentry class operates. No longer getting rent from peasant farmers, they get their "rent" from guaranteed funding sources from the government.
I have a place in southern Colorado where pot is legal. Speaking to a man who is a probation officer says that heroin has taken its toll here. Very bad situation.