New York City Is Discovering That Legalizing Marijuana Wasn’t Really a Great Idea

PJ Media ^ | 04/17/2023 | Robert Spencer

[yukong]

Just last week on I-35, in Southern Oklahoma a truck driver, hauling a trailer full of bricks, failed to notice the upcoming construction zone, continued driving 70 mph into a line of traffic that had stopped for the construction. He hit 5 other semi-trucks, a pickup truck (that ended up just a cab) and then came to rest on top of a Honda Accord. Needless to say, the two occupants of the Honda died. The driver admitted to “smoking a bowl” of marihuana just before he left on his trip up from the Dallas area, and he was messing with his phone. It was just a massive level of destruction.

[mass55th]

"So you are also against legalizing automobiles"

Your thought process is screwed up. Owning a car has always been legal. Using and selling a drug hasn't been.

[Chuckster]

But these places also often sell other illegal drugs and quickly become centers for other crimes as well.

So of course, just as with gun violence, they place the blame where they want instead of where it belongs: With crime and criminals

[Alberta's Child]

This conservative says there is no compelling reason — and no constitutional basis — to have any “federal drug laws” at all.

[AppyPappy]

“The state has been slow to grant licenses to legal marijuana shops”

Imagine if they had repealed Prohibition but made it very difficult to buy state taxed liquor. Well, that was Appalachia and guess what we did.

Virginia made it legal to grow and possess Weed but not sell it. Oddly, nothing really happened but the state is not getting the tax money. I think everyone here is growing it.

[alexander_busek]

Your thought process is screwed up. Owning a car has always been legal. Using and selling a drug hasn't been.

For most of our nation's history, marijuana was not illegal.

Regards,

[Clemenza]

The house organ of the NYPD whining about something that the people of the state wanted legalized and that was legalized for much of our nation’s history. The NY Post only exists to scare bourgeois surburban white Catholic old biddies in Suffolk County. Oh, they are also anti-gun.

[BipolarBob]

Exactly.

[Sacajaweau]

Gotta go to the Rez...

[BipolarBob]

Using and selling a drug hasn't been.

It was until some bureaucrat decided black people were having too much fun and it was then outlawed in 1937. But back in the day it was okay.

Genesis 2-29: “And God said, behold I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, which is the fruit of the tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.”

But go along with the fascists if you want. Like guns aren't the problem, people are. Same with pot. And no I don't use it myself.

[dynachrome]

Stay away from the downtown pedestrian mall in Denver, five points, and MLK Blvd.

[mass55th]

"For most of our nation's history, marijuana was not illegal."

But then it was. Cars were never outlawed.

[mass55th]

"But back in the day it was okay."

So was opium use.

[gundog]

Cars were never outlawed.

Stay tuned...

[mass55th]

"But go along with the fascists if you want."

Believing that the use of drugs of any kind is being fascist? If so, then I'll proudly wear the label, but in today's world, the commies and fascists are the same, and they're the ones destroying this country...not me with my personal beliefs.

[mass55th]

"Stay tuned... "

Hopefully I'll be dead by then.

[LouAvul]

Nah. Ban the drugs. Then lock up the stoners. Then incarcerate libertarians for being so ... freaking ... stupid. Finally, please, somebody ban these fools from FR. They are the antithesis of conservative.

[alexander_busek]

But then it was. Cars were never outlawed.

Irrelevant and immaterial. According to your logic, it is wrong to legalize something as long as people who don't want to pay for it might still steal it.

Regards,

[dead]

New York mandated that to get a marijuana seller's license, you HAD to be a convicted marijuana felon.

Not that you couldn't be a convicted felon, but you HAD TO BE a convicted felon to sell it legally.

The root problem might just be New York politicians.

[gundog]

That’s the spirit. /s