Posted on 04/11/2018 9:31:00 AM PDT by mandaladon
I confess that, though I do have a beer every once in a while, I cut it out dramatically mostly because of the calories. But if I do have a beer, it is a single beer and always a microbrew.
I actually switched to the hard stuff because of calories. I can milk an ounce of scotch a LONG ways.
Sarcasm lately huh?
The use of drugs recreationally is the issue. Even if the “WOD” was surrendered, crime would continue- fiends still would be broke and thieving for dope, idiots would still cook meth in the tub, teens would still eat tide pacs, because it just is. Suddenly, all the illicit dope growers/processors/shippers/dealers /users would pay Uncle Sam taxes? USFDA inspections, quota production? You may have been smoking something too long friend.
every lucrative legit business is subject to illegal actions, the mob etc did not just do illegal stuff, they just did stuff illegally.
>>Exactly like China did in the 1840s. Oh, wait...<<
That sounds more like the effects of alcohol on American Indians.
Until the 1970s there were no laws against drugs in the USA. Why were we not a stoned society?
It was only when LSD and the like co-joined the hippie movements that Society decided we needed to Stop This.
Now we imprison thousands and spend trillions in a meaningless war against an invisible enemy.
FBI => Corrupt. Needs disbanding.
DEA => Good guys. Need more power.
</ FR drug warrior>
You’re not being realistic if you think removing the stigma of illegality from marijuana won’t lead to much more widespread use. It will, and it has in those states that have legalized it. There are downsides to marijuana, I’ve lived it. That doesn’t make it an entirely bad thing but you’re fooling yourself if you think it’s an entirely good thing. You can’t tell me that smoking marijuana isn’t going to lead to lung disease just like cigarettes. Additionally there are psychological impacts from marijuana usage in a not-insignificant number of users. Behavioral changes, it’s a mild psychoactive with moderate use. With heavy use it’s not so mild. Preexisting psychological disorders will be aggravated, the nuts will get nuttier and the undiagnosed ones will come to the fore.
That’s the thing. It’s not legal. Marijuana is still a controlled substance under federal law, and federal law preempts on this issue. They’ve just chosen not to confront the states over it. I’m not saying it should or should not be decriminalized federally... that’s not the point. The point is that you have a former high federal official violating federal law. And here I didn’t think he could be any more pathetic.....
He’s probably still sleeping.
And then my tax dollars will go to support these chronically unemployable users.
Depends on the field of employment, creatives can actually benefit but the so-called “amotivational syndrome” is a very real thing for many marijuana users.
“That’s the thing. It’s not legal. Marijuana is still a controlled substance under federal law, and federal law preempts on this issue.”
It’s quite possible unregistered guns will be illegal under federal law some day.
Will you roll over for fedgov on the Second Amendment as easily as you do on the Tenth?
True, but the vast majority of industries, usage is a liability.
You think insurance companies are going to like the companies they insure hiring users?
Insurance companies are all about mitigating risk, it’s all actuarial tables to them. They likely don’t have the data set to discriminate regarding marijuana usage, and I use the word “discriminate” in the classic dictionary sense, not in the social justice sense that has led to so much counterproductive idiocy.
Once a Whore, Always a Whore.
No surprises here...Boner’s daughter married a Rasta.
Watch A&E’s ‘Live PD’, it seems half the Country is driving around Stoned on Marijuana. It’s so comforting.
“WOD is the 2nd stupidest war ever (the War on Poverty being the 1st).”
Both part of a bigger war: the war on individual liberty.
Conservatives belief in law and order makes them suckers for big government intrusion - they get confused - since big government uses laws to take away our rights, and they support law - they don’t know which side to be on.
So you have so-called conservatives joining with big government of all things! It’s sad.
There’s nothing conservative about prohibition - whether it’s alcohol, drugs or guns. We are capable of making our own choices in life - the people that make up the government are people just like us, no better, no wiser, no more moral than we individuals are.
Conservatives should be the people who understand this and fight against government intrusion - but all too often they pick the big government side.
Sometimes I think Rand Paul is the only one left in DC that really gets it.
>>Conservatives should be the people who understand this and fight against government intrusion - but all too often they pick the big government side.
Sometimes I think Rand Paul is the only one left in DC that really gets it.<<
One need only view the other responses to my post to see your point. In the absence of Big Government defining what is good or bad for you then people are for the most part drug-addled fools whose only restraint on their actions is Law and Order.
Remember the new Conservative Principle: a priori laws are For Your Own Good *head pat*
My first thought reading the headline without opening the thread: "It will be a lot easier on his liver than working for a distillery would have been!"
He’s going to have his own line of product called “John Stoehner’s DC Green: Just Kick-Back...and Relax”.
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