Posted on 11/25/2018 4:39:56 AM PST by be-baw
He described marijuana as a very real danger and has said its effects are only slightly less awful than those of heroin. Once, during a drug hearing when he was a Senator, he said he wanted to send a clear message: Good people dont smoke marijuana.
So when Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions was ousted recently, a collective sigh of relief rose up from proponents of legalized pot activists, politicians, investors who felt targeted by the nations top law enforcement officer.
Sessionss departure has translated into spiking stocks for cannabis companies and a reset of sorts for the legalization movement which, since 2012, has seen nearly a dozen states pass recreational pot measures.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
I hate to tell you but... its been that way for a long time.
Because everyone throughout America just itching to smoke pot if it were legal.
“So when Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions was ousted recently, a collective sigh of relief rose up from proponents of legalized pot..”
They aren’t the only ones who breathed a sigh of relief,
“..on the other side Churchill smoked 6 to 10 cigars a day...”
And drank like a fish. All to his and the world’s credit and good fortune.
“If you don’t like the law, change the law. Don’t simply choose not to enforce the law.”
The implication being just shut up and follow the law no matter how unChristly it is...”I was just following orders”. Jim Crow, Prohibition, gun bans etc were/are laws too.
Maybe (s)he just objects to people having choices... of intoxicants, and ideologies.
That’s a bingo!!!
Strange how the health freaks in Ca. think there is no health risks with marijuana it’s a cure all from pain to depression a sucker is born every minute.
A nation of drinkers...how great is that??
I don’t inhale whiskey when I walk past winos on the street. Dope on the other hand...
I dont inhale whiskey when I walk past winos on the street. Dope on the other hand...
Sure they CAN - but do they?
Better informed people than I have stated and given facts that marijuana IS a gateway!
Argue with them!
The same sort of data that supports this statement also supports alcohol and tobacco being gateway drugs. And that data can be explained by a pre-existing propensity toward mind alteration.
Better informed people than I have stated and given facts that marijuana IS a gateway!
Facts that don't also identify alcohol and tobacco as gateway drugs? Facts that contradict the correlations being explained by a pre-existing propensity toward mind alteration?
"...lots and lots of laws..."
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