Posted on 01/10/2018 9:51:14 AM PST by Kaslin
Crikeys, our Republican state legislature can’t even pass a bill to allow for Sunday sales of alcohol.
It’ll be the year 2525, before IN ever legalizes pot
I criticize Sessions for this because there are about a million more important things for him to be doing at DoJ to clean out the swamp and advance conservative principles. Making pot illegal seems to be his Number One priority.
To be fair, Sessions didn’t make it illegal.
Congress did.
Except that THC is not addictive.
Denial works for some never met a stoner who could stop for very long.
I appreciate the work you two put into similar threads. Hang in there!
My mom and mother-in-law both benefit from a marijuana cream for their arthritis, something I’ll be using eventually.
I did not realize Senator Cory Gardner is a Republican.
Marijuana is not an easy issue for GOP candidates to work with.
Outside the southeast USA, a Republican who demands rigorous enforcement of marijuana laws stands a good chance of losing a close election.
I personally favor legalization, but I haven’t smoked marijuana in 25 years, so it’s not a compelling issue for me, one way or the other.
That fact right there gives the lie to any claim that the vast majority of Americans reject legalization.
Personally, I don’t use marijuana - but I believe strongly in individual freedom coupled with individual responsibility.
Of course, that also means I have almost no sympathy for people who get drunk/stoned/messed-up on their intoxicant of choice and then harm others or otherwise get themselves in trouble.
PS - Thank you for the compliment and the encouragement.
That doesn’t mean that they are addicted, nor does it mean that THC is an addictive drug.
It just means they would rather continue than not continue, a choice.
An addict does not have a choice.
I am not in denial, and you should learn what addiction actually is.
My pleasure.
There seem to be a lot of people who like to spout off about drugs, drug use, and addiction, but they don’t seem to actually know anything about it at all.
I hadn’t heard about marijuana cream use for arthritis, i will have to look into that. I can only imagine that it is a better option that NSAIDs, steroids or opiates.
“I stopped reading at “...floodgates to marijuana addiction”.
Man, I do truly despise these Drug Warrior zealots who go after pot.
They’ll say whatever needs to be said to further their agenda without regard to truth.
And it’s always been so. From “Refer Madness” until today.
They don’t even care that they look dumb.
And I don’t even smoke the stuff. Nor do I care who does.
“In the meantime, enforce the actual enacted laws. “
Even before states legalized, the feds would not get involved in anything less than 100 pounds or 100 plants. They simply didn’t have the resources.
Even then they were reliant on local LEO to queue them up as they didn’t have feet on the street for discovery.
So my question is this: Would you have the feds direct their limited resources to the scourge of marijuana? If so, what would you pull them off of?
It would be fun to find those posters and put them up in my reloading room or gym.
I am for the feds to continue as they had in the past before the Obama chaindown. Enforce the law as resources permit. Primarily that is to retain the threat of enforcement as a very real possibility. But don’t stand down.
Yah right, Sessions, let’s help the Republican midterm candidates win real big... (slaps forehead, walks off muttering...)
“Primarily that is to retain the threat of enforcement as a very real possibility. “
That makes sense as policy.
But it will not change things on the ground.
Keep it a cash business without access to the banks, and ensure large corporations don’t get into the business.
And it’s precisely what the small pot business wants.
Also, among the pantheon of chemical components found in cannabis, THC is now considered a bit player.
There are many other components that do many things; beneficial things, like ease my muscle spasms and reduce the inflammation in my vertebrae.
THC really has no effect on my vertebrae, sadly.
Please note that it is not marijuana cream per se, but rather CBD oil in a cream form. It does not have psychoactive properties.
CBD is just one of many components in pot.
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