Posted on 04/26/2018 9:37:15 PM PDT by Simon Green
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What “pure havoc” is being caused by the legalization of pot?
Can we drug-test welfare recipients who can’t find a job but can find money for pot?
Some are, but most are not. And alcohol causes far, far more issues than pot does (and I hate smoking of any kind, and drink alcohol). And it’s not like the war on pot is a good $50b a year annual investment.
Traffic fatalities linked to marijuana are up sharply in Colorado.
The late night taco bell runs and the grocery store cheetoh runs. Chaos
Here's a little bit of Ann Coulter on the subject (from a debate with John Stossel on his Fox Business show):
"Libertarians and pot!" says an exasperated Coulter. "This is why people think libertarians are pussies. We're living in a country that is 70 percent socialist. The government is taking 60 percent of your money. They're taking care of your health care, of your pensions, they're telling you who you can hire, what the regulations are gonna be...and you want to suck to your little liberal friends and say, 'Oh, we want to legalize pot. You know, if you were a little more manly, you'd tell the liberals what your position on employment discrimination is."
Donald Trump is still a Reform Party candidate and not so much a “Republican”. It was a party takeover and it was good to defeat Hillary and Jeb.
But don’t think it is the “new GOP”.
>>It’s less support for cannabis and more loathing for the tyrannical police state that all good Americans are long since sick and tired of.
If Americans were tired of a tyrannical police state then they’d be pushing back against the CDC, Fed, and MADD who are pushing to lower the standard for DWI yet again. None of that was the agenda of the woman who originally founded MADD.
And there are plenty of people around the world who want to see the licensing and limitations and overreach by governments (not just our own) lifted. THIS is why “AirBnB”, “Lyft”, “Uber” et al are so popular not just in the United States. So much licensing and bars to entry for cheap lodging and cheap cab service.
And it is beyond just one avenue. It’s why people want their nations to leave the control of the EUSSR. It’s why Trump won. Nannystate progressive globalism “for your own good” is being pushed back. They also are fed up with the leaders flooding the countries with new citizens to dilute to vote of the locals.
You are correct about the traffic fatalities being on the rise in Colorado since legalization. However, there is no provable correlation to that being due to legalization - yes, there are more accidents, but that can be due to any number of factors - drunk driving, texting while driving, etc. There is NO PROVABLE CORRELATION that it’s caused by people driving high. It’s kind of like saying “unemployment in CO is down since they legalized weed, it must be because they legalized weed.” (fallacy)
I’ve always found it curious the way we treat cigarettes and alcohol compared to cannabis, as cigarettes and alcohol are much worse for the user, yet we legalized those after coming to the realization that individuals should be able to make their own choices about what to ingest.
“Can we drug-test welfare recipients who can’t find a job but can find money for pot?”
I used to agree with this idea but over time I’ve changed my mind.
The problem isn’t stoners on welfare, the problem is welfare, period.
Rather than wasting money doing drug screening on a HUGE amount of people, how about we limit welfare to six months?
Regular marijuana use turns many of its users more to the left. It’s been obvious to most non-users all along. Many users who lean to the left say that they are conservatives when speaking to conservatives.
As for revenues, revenues from pot are not sustaining revenues, because pot generally slows production and stifles new business starts. Revenues that sustain come from useful agricultural, energy and manufacturing production on U.S. soil—not from something that makes its users lazyminded and alters their perspectives away from reality.
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This doesn’t surprise me.
Too many have used cannabis over the last 40 years & know most everything they were ever warned about regarding cannabis was/is mostly just falsehoods & propaganda.
Cannabis should be legal to have, to use & grow by free citizens who wish to do so.
People on our side think drinking beer is a symbol of america.
They scream bloody murder at all of the attempts to ban or curtail smoking.
Both of those are known to lead to addiction and health issues.
But there is just this thing with pot that causes them to have the most “hell no” reaction.
This is disturbing.
As efforts to legalize marijuana grow, more research is being done. With more research, the body of evidence of the damage marijuana causes just keeps growing. Yes, it can kill directly as well as indirectly, it causes brain damage, it causes addictions with all of the classic behaviors of addicts, it decreases users’ ability to function, etc. etc.
The bottom line is that we are starting to learn in a very tangible way why our ancestors made marijuana illegal in the first place. How many people will call into the dark out of addiction before we learn the lesson?
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Recreational chemistry is for losers - period.
You will if your local contractors can’t find anyone willing to pass a drug test.
‘Support” for a communist America is also at an “all time high”. Probably just a coincidence.
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