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Legalized pot is making America’s lower class poorer and less responsible
New York Post ^
| 8-20-16
| Naomi Schaefer Riley
Posted on 08/21/2016 10:34:48 AM PDT by DeweyCA
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This is just like so many other liberal ideas. They promise freedom (and/or sin) but the people who get hurt the most are the poor. The rich can usually avoid or mitigate many of the bad side-effects of these bad liberal policies, but poor people often don't have the resources or the habits to restrain them. Meanwhile, Libs will congratulate themselves on their open-mindedness and good intentions, and continue to not see the actual results of their actions.
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posted on
08/21/2016 10:34:48 AM PDT
by
DeweyCA
To: DeweyCA
Huh? What? Who’s there? Dave? Dave’s not here.
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posted on
08/21/2016 10:37:16 AM PDT
by
Roger Kaputnik
(Just because I'm paranoid doesn't prove that they aren't out to get me.)
To: DeweyCA
Which is exactly how the Uniparty wants them.
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posted on
08/21/2016 10:37:47 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: DeweyCA
Its another side-effect of our nanny-state, funded by fiat money and massive Federal Reserve debt.
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posted on
08/21/2016 10:37:57 AM PDT
by
PGR88
To: DeweyCA
Same thing with alcohol. Prohibition didn't work with it either.
To: DeweyCA
Even on FR, if you say that the US is becoming nothing but a bunch of ignorant potheads you get pummeled by the “potheads”
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posted on
08/21/2016 10:38:41 AM PDT
by
notaliberal
(St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle,)
To: DeweyCA
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?
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posted on
08/21/2016 10:38:42 AM PDT
by
chris37
(How do you make Republicans turn on their own candidate? Sneak up behind them and say "Boo".)
To: DeweyCA
I think the poor and the stupid do not need the evil rich to make themselves less responsible.
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posted on
08/21/2016 10:38:42 AM PDT
by
sagar
To: DeweyCA
Pot makes liberals and democrat voters.
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posted on
08/21/2016 10:38:53 AM PDT
by
ifinnegan
(Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
To: DeweyCA
Beware of Reefer Madness!!
To: Snickering Hound
Not the same with alcohol. That’s hippie propaganda from the 60’s.
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posted on
08/21/2016 10:39:48 AM PDT
by
ifinnegan
(Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
To: DeweyCA
To: notaliberal
Soon, in NV you won’t need a ‘scrip’ to get it. Initiative 2 on the Nov ballot. Tax and regulate MJ. IOW-—recreational use. It’ll take 5 hours to get from Reno to Fernley.
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posted on
08/21/2016 10:40:57 AM PDT
by
rktman
(Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
To: chris37
Certain “appetites” are easier to control than others.
Liberal-leftist relativism is stupid.
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posted on
08/21/2016 10:41:39 AM PDT
by
ifinnegan
(Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
To: BenLurkin
Yep. And then the guvment will offer a program (tax payer funded of course) to help treat the addiction (probably will continue it) and of course....”re-training for jobs”.
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posted on
08/21/2016 10:43:15 AM PDT
by
ealgeone
To: DeweyCA
another commie goal achieved.
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posted on
08/21/2016 10:43:34 AM PDT
by
ColdOne
(poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~TrumpÂ’s got this, Barry. Go back to your golf game.)
To: DeweyCA
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.
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posted on
08/21/2016 10:43:55 AM PDT
by
GraceG
(Only a fool works hard in an environment where hard work is not appreciated...)
To: DeweyCA
Alcohol makes you brave,strong and more attractive to others with no negative societal impact
To: Donglalinger
A hilarious movie! And just as most antigun advocates have never pulled a trigger in their lives, I’d wager most anti-pot reporters never took as much as one toke in their entire lives, either...
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posted on
08/21/2016 10:45:19 AM PDT
by
W.
(0bama fatigue syndrome has set in long ago!)
To: PGR88
Fiat money is the worst regressive tax on the poor becsuse the poor don’t realize they are being “taxed”.
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posted on
08/21/2016 10:45:39 AM PDT
by
GraceG
(Only a fool works hard in an environment where hard work is not appreciated...)
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