Posted on 07/04/2016 8:09:00 AM PDT by rktman
So the CA gubbermint will “allow” 6 plants per household?
Yeah, let’s create a new gubbermint job-—household maryjane inspector /counter. Register your pot plants, or face a fine. Or just grease the inspector’s palm with a sample of your primo bud.
Yeah, that’s the ticket.
Sheesh.
“People smoking pot should not be voting”
Agree.
Pot makes liberals and nog just liberals, the looney moon bat kind.
Well someone has to sell drugs to your kids. If the gov ain't gonna do it your friendly neighborhood biker gang will.
The cig companies will make out like bandits. Remember they bought up the best names and I guess trademarked them in the early ‘70’s. Just make easier for us old guys to get part time jobs since the young guys can’t pass a drug test. Until the Supremes make it illegal to test for pot.
..atf ... and/or the irs
It should cost the same as parsley, and be just as detested.
I love fresh parsley ;)
Hey, I love parsley - minced fine, in potato salad, lots of it.
I’ve done a fair amount of reading about mj, for a layman, and it harms the brains of anyone, permanently lowers IQ the longer and more frequently it is used, and of course harms young people even more. It’s not just bad for people who are already schizo, it causes temporary and sometimes permament mental illness.
People who smoke it rarely want to know the facts.
PS - I used to smoke it when the THC was feeble compared to what it is now, and it was a powerful drug even then.
In CA we have TV Ads running day and night blaming Big Tobacco for enticing children to Vape.
These go hand in hand with Commercials (Taxpayer funded BTW) about the evils of Cigarette Smoking.
In fact, it just became Law that you can’t purchase Tobacco Products unless you are 21 Years of Age. You can join the Military, get a Tattoo or Piercing and Vote when you’re 18, but you can’t buy a Cigarette.
At what age does this new Ballot Proposition allow you to purchase Weed?
Of course the whole thing is ridiculous since we already have Medical Marijuana. If you want to buy Weed legally, it’s a cinch. See Dr. Feelgood, tell him you can’t sleep well, give him $100 and get a Weed Card.
Don’t know where you get your facts from but lots of “studies” are funded by big beer companies that have a lot to lose if cannabis were legalized.
People make a big deal about THC being much higher in the cannabis grown today. It’s like comparing booze to beer. I can drink three light beers compared to one whiskey sour. No need to smoke the same quantity as back in the day.
“If this does pass it’s going to kill the pot side of the drug trafficking trade and all of the crime and violence that goes with it.”
It MAY possibly reduce “crime and violence”, but there will always be those who don’t have money and don’t want to work but WILL rip off the growers they know of for their drugs and cash, and then there’s plenty of growers who will fight back. There’s plenty of people (gibs-me-dats) who have their every need taken care of who still feel the need to steal.
No, these were studies by NIH and other health oriented organizations.
You like dope? Fine. Keep ignoring the facts, it becomes easier to ignore them the more you smoke.
I smoked 1967-1970. Not daily, either; then one time in the early 80s I smoked two hits and I was amazed how much more potent weed had gotten. Two hits got me totally wasted in early 80s. I have read about the massive increase in THC and what it does to people. Large studies, a good one from Australia in which thousands of people were studied for decades.
Keep toking, have fun, say good bye to the ability to think rationally, etc.
Because the price of weed has gone down in my area, heroin and meth really picked up. MX cartels shifted a lot to heroin. Now heroin is all over the place. Dope dealers are in it for the money. If weed doesn’t get the $$ they want, they’ll sell something else. Crime won’t go down and crazed druggies will increase, just a different drugs. And a lot of people mix/n/match - weed and meth, heroin and weed, booze and any of them, opiates and any of them, etc. Makes people even more crazy!
So now that various states are legalizing recreational marijuana, where do we go from here?
Illegal drugs are illegal for a reason. The reasons being, that these drugs are dangerous to one’s health or mind or well being.
We should tread very carefully in this area.
I would be concerned we’re on a slippery slope. If we’re saying marijuana is ok, then is heroin ok too? What about other illegal drugs?
Have we gotten so liberal/libertarian in our outlook on things, that we are saying, we can’t make any judgements about people or situations?
And are we saying that since government can tax and regulate this activity, that means we should legalize and tax and regulate anything because government will get tax revenue from it?
We are saying that current marijuana laws are in the class of victimless crimes, aren’t we?
So then, when do we open the floodgates and legalize every banned substance, so that government and tax and regulate it?
And if we go down that road in that line of reasoning, then we should also legalize prostitution. Holy moley, I can just imagine the tax revenue available there.
But how can you justify any vice being illegal, if we’re saying the “holy grail” is whether government can tax something, and that we should not make any moral or ethical judgements about what people are doing????
How about just following the Tenth Amendment and let each state decide those issues. Too simple and straightforward?
$43 per ounce in CA. How does that compare to Washington, Oregon, Colorado?
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