Posted on 11/30/2018 2:21:41 PM PST by fwdude
Own it.
Washington state became a homeless camp shortly after legalization.
An honest person would have to admit that there would be negative consequences. Just like legalizing casino gaming had negative consequences.
What you mean potheads LIED to us to get pot?
What drug user would do something like that?!?
I won’t give you a hard time but who ever wrote this, should not write for a living, so many things wrong with their writing skills it’s like a fifth grader could do better!
Whut?..................
Let me just say this: The scum that were attracted by legalization were scum before they were attracted.
It is legalization in enclaves, inevitable with state by state action, that creates these kinds of scum magnets.
The street idiots you describe were street idiots before, but they lived somewhere else before legalization. They were more evenly distributed.
If legalization was more common, they’d go back to their natural distribution.
You see a similar thing with gambling. Gambling addicts are more concentrated in areas where gambling is legal. But they were gambling addicts, anyway. (Not an exactly parallel argument, I admit, with the advent of internet gambling, but partially on-point. Hell, there’s always day-trading.)
I am a Colorado resident that opposed legalization.
Still do, Mostly for the reasons above.
This is your BRAIN ON DRUGS.................
Wondering if we will have Mothers against Drugs Soon.
Don’tcha’ just love the “victimless crime” excuse.
One thing nice about the brutal North Idaho panhandle winters is the bums don't stick around and there aren't many to begin with.
Good Job! Comes to the obvious point, right away. Makes sense out of nonsense. If no tobacco, why dope?
Just doing the jobs our Mexicans used to do.
And it stopped all illegal dealers so that’s a good thing. Hahaha
Actually, the second sentence is badly constructed. It is really the post that is badly written. The conclusion is a fifth grader could do a better job.
Drugs or not, we shouldn't be allowed to physically hurt others. Drugs or not, taxpayers shouldn't have to pay people to say poor. Personal responsibility is much more anti-drug than any drug law.
My problem with my fellow libertarian minded peers is they're more pro-pot than they are libertarian on anything else. I'm for government doing what it's supposed to do bigly (i.e. federal government should have a strong military to protect us, local governments should protect us from civilian violence). Keep the government out of our way in other areas, though (i.e. legalize pot).
Seems like an idea case for letting the “states as laboratories of democracy” sort it out. If some states legalize, and it doesn’t go well, then it will be to the benefit of those states that don’t.
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