Posted on 09/06/2022 6:59:39 AM PDT by whyilovetexas111
If weed fails in the Senate, and no one hears, does it make any noise? On July 21, 2022, the three most ambitious U.S. senators ever to pay attention to cannabis sheepishly launched federal cannabis legislation into the future, with the introduction of the Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act.
The landmark announcement drew surprisingly little fanfare. Senators Schumer, Wyden, and Booker seemed resigned. The cannabis cognoscenti immediately denied the infeasibility of the timing and the impossibility of getting to 60 votes in a bitterly divided U.S. Senate.
Then, the seas started to change in Washington. After months of gridlock, Congress passed, and the President signed, four major laws – including Democratic shibboleths like gun control, prescription drug reform, and environmental policy. Instantly, the priority level for cannabis reform rocketed toward the top.
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I don’t disagree with a single point made.
I live outside Philly, it’s crazy.
It’s not a good idea to smoke pot for most people, but it’s also not a good idea to put people in prison for smoking pot.
Please show me where in the constitution the federal government gets the power to ban marijuana. If it required a constitutional amendment to ban alcohol, wouldn’t a constitutional amendment also be needed to ban marijuana?
It’s been legal in my state and neighboring states for some time now. I know of no one who has started using it simply because it’s now legal. I feel it’s likely that people using it when it was illegal are 90% or more of the current user base.
I love all the anti-marijuana rhetoric from people that have never even tried it. It’s laughable.
Like my neighbor who is a deacon in the church says, the problem with church ....is church people
I’ve tried it once or twice. It’s a whole lot of nothing. I wasn’t impressed at all. Do you fools concentrate more on bourbon and martinis instead of wasting all this time with the reefer madness mindset?
Ironically, that's the case with every state which does so.
Is it because of the demonrats making a lot money off the stinking, rotten dope-heads that support them.??
You’re right about the dangers of pot. It’s a big industry now with a number of corporations pushing it. Oklahoma is a joke with its “medical” marijuana law. There are dispensaries on every corner now. A conservative state? More like a RINO state.
Back to your point, the potency of THC edibles, dabs, and other products is very high. There is plenty of evidence that regular THC use can be harmful. It can and does lead to psychotic episodes and schizophrenia, especially in younger minds that already have existing mental health problems. Yet, we are continually lied to about how marijuana is harmless if not healthy! It’s all about the $.
Medical marijuana is not treated like any other medicine. All that was, in Oklahoma, was an excuse for some to get high and others to profit from it. Now the ridiculous, dysfunctional law is being used as a pretext for full legalization.
Alcohol is far more destructive, I think, only because of scale. Once THC products make their way to the Walmart checkout aisle, I think you’ll see even marijuana problems escalate, like alcohol.
Yup. Get the population stoned, non-productive, docile and easily led via pot. It’s the leftist dream drug. Keep people doped up and easily manipulated by making them apathetic.
The focus should be on restoring the bill of rights. The WOD isn’t the problem so much as how it’s being waged.
You're an enabler for the left then...
The problem is once we decide we want to control behavior that really doesn’t involve others. We started down the path with Prohibition, then that got repealed. Government loves power.
Pretty much right on the money.
I love how you're all pro pot because you "tried it" once or twice. I used it daily for years. It is the worst kind of drug imaginable. It subtly changes brain chemistry to make you "feel" like you're spiritual...or smart...or insightful or whatever. But it's all false. In actuality it's supplanting the natural process of spiritual and emotional growth. It kills the natural process and replaces it with a lie. It makes one unable to function or not care about traditional society. All the snowflakes...all the cancel culture...all the crazy leftists...they're all stoners who have never learned to deal with the reality of societal interaction without being drugged.
Of course that IS the goal of the left.... to destroy western culture.
But government of any kind—short of anarchy—always controls individual behavior. It’s a matter of degree, and it’s the price we all must pay to live in civilization. Why? Because no one is an island. The things you do in private often can and do affect others. So even if I agree pot should be legal, it’s something that needs considerable safeguards to limit the damage to society.
Libertarians on pot sound like pro-aborts on abortion to me. All they seem to care about is their own, selfish rights, not the rights of anyone else who has to deal with the societal problems created in the process. And even if a particular individual is a responsible pothead, the ready availability of high potency THC products are not used responsibly by many others, creating issues for the rest of us to deal with.
It’s about the scope. If your behavior isn’t effecting anybody it’s not the government’s business. At least not if the government is structured to be limited like ours originally was. And we see with how much we have to shred the BOR to enforce these laws exactly why the founders were for that dividing line. We’re in a situation now where if you try to buy too much sudafed the government could decide you’re cooking meth and kick your door in, and if you also have a coffee maker (ie a heat source, beaker and filtering system) by law you DO have a meth lab. They’re trying to control a black market that they forced into existence. And in so doing have made so every bank transaction is now evidence against you.
Cannabis
Schizophrenia
Homelessness
or you could say:
Milk
Schizophrenia
Homelessness
I agree it would get worse, but I have seen alcohol up close.
Friends dead, women beaten...
My friend owns a rehab, alcohol stories are terrible.
Colorado’s experiment with pot says no. The social downfall of pot users is readily apparent in Colorado.
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