Posted on 04/16/2023 12:34:37 PM PDT by fwdude
The Big Apple is now the Big Blunt.
Not just because decriminalized marijuana led to proliferating mayhem in the five boroughs.
Not just because stinky smoke hangs everywhere, seeping into subway cars and even Broadway theaters — the acrid odor I detected in the crowded men’s room of the Majestic Theatre a few weeks ago was not from “The Phantom of the Opera” smoke machine.
It’s also because of a forbidden-to-utter truth, in an age where raising the minimum wage ever higher has become mantra — namely, a license to get high has turned service employees into zombies.
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Did your stepson get stoned while he was staying with you? That would’ve been a nonnegotiable for me.
If a fully funded police force is going to do no-knock raids at 3am and gun down all the pets and possibly kill the occupants, seize assets without due process, and otherwise act as unconstitutional goons, then I would prefer to defund them.
But the fact that you apparently see the question of police authority as the simple dichotomy of “support the absolute police state or else you’re a communist police defunder” shows that you are EXACTLY the kind of person I am talking about, and while you deserve the growing police state, the rest of us do not.
By the way, even cocaine was legal over a hundred years ago, back when this was a free country. But somehow, people like you seem to believe that you’re freer now that the government has an extremely long list of things you’re not allowed to ingest or grow. I guess the more laws we have and the more power the government and its enforcers have, the freer we are, eh?
The problem is in the grand scheme of things, these drugs sap people of ambition. At least those folks with the 'three martini lunches' had some ambition.
This is by design. In North Korea, for instance, some hard drugs are legal, because they keep the populace sedated. I'm libertarian when it comes to drugs, but we should be using public money to promote clean living in all ways. It's in the best interest of the public health to do so.
“”Yes, let’s just forget that “three martini lunches” and offices with an ashtray on every desk were ever a thing “”
There aren’t many here who don’t long for the productive 50s again.
If they go full zombie they will start voting for demonrats
If not for appointed police, who enforces the laws? If laws are unenforceable, are they really laws.
simple questions. I’ll wait for your answers.
Yep.
The left knows how to shape populations to their purposes whether that population is under totalitarianism or democracy, you use the tools that fit the challenge.
I see, with alcohol you take over the world, force your civilization on others with wars and then degrade into infighting over transgenders, and with pot you don’t give a hoot.
You hated America and now are hating it less or actually liking it now that we aren’t the 1950s America?
It’s funny how you think you know me.
So, yes, there was a reason why hard drugs were criminalized. Of course, that did not stop useful idiots from voting to get them legalized.
At the very least, it was strange to notice states and municipalities suddenly falling (to legalization) like dominoes.
This thread is most informative.....for IDing some of the pot druggies on FR! lol
There are indeed ethical manufacturers who make completely THC free (0%- not even the at minimum 0.3%THC the DEA “allows” in many other concoctions. Meaning the minim THC can still be detected over continous use- over say 3 months, and being detected-get people fired.). So, am all for the non-opioid, non-psychotropic pure CBD formulations for sub-lingual absorption/administration. CBD is also present in a UK prescription agent for children with seizure disorders (specific to indication).
Let's be more blunt - if those New York workers are willing to smoke weed, they weren't the brightest bulbs in the box to start with.
I’m more of a libertarian on many issues, but the harm that marijuana does to society far out weighs the harm done by the criminalization of it.
There have been a lot of articles in recent years cataloging, by personal experience and solid data, the swift deterioration in public life in jurisdictions which legalize this mind poison.
You mean New Yorkers weren’t already zombies?
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