Posted on 09/17/2014 4:45:08 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Tired of Cheech & Chong pot jokes and ominous anti-drug campaigns, the marijuana industry and activists are starting an ad blitz in Colorado aimed at promoting moderation and the safe consumption of pot.
To get their message across, they are skewering some of the old Drug War-era ads that focused on the fears of marijuana, including the famous “This is your brain on drugs” fried-egg ad from the 1980s. […]
“So far, every campaign designed to educate the public about marijuana has relied on fear-mongering and insulting marijuana users,” said Mason Tvert, spokesman for the Marijuana Policy Project, the nation’s biggest pot-policy advocacy group. …
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Any fantasy about the marijuana industry being morally superior to any other will collapse pretty quickly.
Locally we’ve already had allegations of bribery from one dispensary owner to get the city council to limit the competition.
Guess I’ll add to it, but stoners driving cars doesn’t make me happy.
I honestly would rather have alcohol be illegal, and marijuana be legal. I don’t understand the hate. I know tons of functional drunks that do stupid things all the time, I know tons of potheads that go to work everyday, pay their bills and don’t get obnoxious or violent or kill people when they wreck their cars.
It isn’t morally superior to any other industry, every industry has corruption. But I would say marijuana is superior to other drugs compared to what drugs do to people. In some cases, I agree it is a gateway drug. But a lot of the time it isn’t. So whatever. Legalize it. Tax it. Let the stoners do what they want.
However, I do not want the “hard” drugs legalized: Heroin, cocaine, crack, meth, ecstasy, etc. If marijuana will be used as a “gateway” to legalization of other drugs, then I am against it.
What about winos driving cars?
How will legalization change any of that? That’s a whole different can of beans.
stereotypical stoners instead of average adults.
That is because “average adults” are not stoners!
Driving is the big issue for me also, we don’t have a decent test to determine level of intoxication from THC. All the tests can show is if it has been used in the last 2 weeks.
So, using or trying to use the government to limit available competition are they?
I must say, it sure did not take long for them to get as skeevy as doctors, attorneys, stockbrokers, bankers, and CPAs. When your dope dealer stoops to such depths, I’m telling you, there’s just no decency in the world...
Modern cannabis is anything but a soft drug. Genetic improvements have made the stuff up their with LSD as a powerful hallucinogen.
All I can say is thankfully the military still requires drug testing — At least I know that my brothers and sisters in arms are drug free (for the most part) and I don’t have to deal with these idiots. Now they may be queer as a three dollar bill, but at least if they are working on any aircraft I have to fly on, they are not high as kite and doing insanely stupid stuff while under the influence and jeopardizing the lives of their Shipmates.
I know that. I didn’t mean to imply it was a soft drug, but compared to those it’s a flicker of a candle next to a star.
Pot is only a “Gateway” drug because one has to go to the black market to get it. Once there, other drugs are on offer as well.
I am not tempted to buy cocaine when I am in the liquor store. No reason why a legal marijuana store would be a “gateway” to any other drug.
Part of the dumbing down of America. A stupid citizenry will more willingly submit to communism and sharia.
No reason why a legal marijuana store would be a “gateway” to any other drug.
Delusional thinking - it is.
The fabric of our economy, our culture, our political system and its institutions, is now total corruption, those willing to conduct themselves honestly with integrity and trustworthiness, are just the decaying fringe.
We can no longer preserve our Constitutional Free Republic, it must be restored, the only remedy now is revolution, with out the shedding of blood, there will never again be a Free Republic.
Ha ha. Couldn't happen to a dumber skank.
You can thank Hearst for the war on marijuana.
But reverend Jim was funny.
Prohibition of alcohol = Sharia law.
Also funny that you said “when” potheads “wreck their cars”.
Taxing things is a liberal argument. Taxes on tobacco went way up in liberal states in the Northeast, and that created a cigarette-smuggling black market.
Pot is hallucinogenic, alcohol is not, it is a depressant.
Driving is a huge issue as there are no standard forms of pot sold. One has X amount of THC, another 10 times as much or more. We have been constantly told today’s pot is nothing like what the stoners of the 60s used, it is many times more powerful.
A user has no idea what dosage he is getting when he buys today’s products. Someone with slowed reflexes due to ingestion of depressants is a hazardous driver, but someone on hallucinogenic drugs isn’t a public danger?
Where is the FDA or the USDA on establishing quality controls, dosage levels, and safe blood levels of pot? When you buy a candybar, levels of salt, sugar, carbs, fat, etc are broken down to the nth degree, but pot labeling consists only of “really good stuff”.
Smoking cigarettes is bad, smoking weed is good? Really?
In a country that is on the verge of collapse, that has become the norm. We are being led down the toilet by a Stoner-in-Chief.
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