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Old 01-10-2018, 04:18 PM
 
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I'm trying to understand the double standard. Neo Progs detest cigarettes (rightfully so) but think pot smoking is the coolest, trendiest, hippest thing ever. They're both carcinogens, stink like crazy and are terrible for your body, yet leftists are staunch advocates for recreational pot everywhere and staunch advocates against cigarettes everywhere. So please, help me understand the disconnect. Thanks
I partake in neither, but: Cigarette smokers tend(ed) to indulge 10-20 times a day, pot smokers don't.

Also, I think you may be presenting a bit of a strawman with the "staunch advocates for recreational pot everywhere", I haven't encountered that - there's staunch advocacy for "shouldn't be thrown in jail for lighting up in one's own home", which is fine by me.

Anyway, you're behind the times - vapes and edibles are the 21st century delivery systems, joints were how granny got high.

Also, you're not trying to understand a double standard.

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Old 01-10-2018, 04:21 PM
 
Location: Middle of nowhere
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I saw a headline on CNN the other day (it was on in the gym, I would never intentionally watch it) and it was decrying Jeff Sessions stance on pot and how it would hurt the multi-billion dollar Pot Industry, but CNN would never, ever take a stand in support of the cigarette industry, and in fact are always against it (rightfully so), yet both pot smoking and cigarette smoking are carcinogenic. So CNN is anti Big Tobacco, but pro Big Pot. I don't understand the hypocrisy.
Not everyone who uses pot smokes it. Edibles are big and getting bigger all the time. Topicals are also useful, I use a CBD salve topically for back pain daily no THC. I know a lady that gives her child CBD oil, again no THC, for seizures.
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Old 01-10-2018, 04:23 PM
 
Location: Ft. Myers
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I'm trying to understand the double standard. Neo Progs detest cigarettes (rightfully so) but think pot smoking is the coolest, trendiest, hippest thing ever. They're both carcinogens, stink like crazy and are terrible for your body, yet leftists are staunch advocates for recreational pot everywhere and staunch advocates against cigarettes everywhere. So please, help me understand the disconnect. Thanks
Once again, you try to paint all of us with the same brush. I am a Democrat, what you might term liberal, and I do no smoke pot , nor do I condone it. In fact, I think it is part of the dumbing down of America and the world.

Believe me, a lot of your side is going to be upset when Sessions starts clamping down on pot. If you think all those redneck pickup drivers who want to "Make Murica Great Again" do not smoke some weed, you are mistaken. Good old boys love them some pot.
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Old 01-10-2018, 04:30 PM
 
Location: Kansas City, MISSOURI
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And should be the CHOICE left to the individual.
If you really want to know what I think ... I think both should be banned. Though I suppose that would be very difficult to enforce.
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Old 01-10-2018, 04:35 PM
 
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If you really want to know what I think ... I think both should be banned. Though I suppose that would be very difficult to enforce.
It would also be a disaster for society.

You must be pretty cut off from history. You might want to look into it. Folks can learn a lot from history, including not repeating mistakes.
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Old 01-10-2018, 04:38 PM
 
Location: Kansas City, MISSOURI
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It would also be a disaster for society.

You must be pretty cut off from history. You might want to look into it. Folks can learn a lot from history, including not repeating mistakes.
I'm well aware of that - which is why I said it would be very difficult to enforce. It was an "ideal" state for me, but I realize that ideal state probably isn't practical.
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Old 01-10-2018, 04:40 PM
 
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Cigarettes are full of chemicals designed to addict people and they smell horrible.

So far, pot isn't like that. I don't smoke it myself, nor do I have any interest. I think it should be legal for adults, but I'm very hesitant saying this, because I don't want to smell it everywhere I go and I am not entirely sure that it won't go the way of tobacco and wind up laced with all sorts of chemicals to hook smokers into smoking it eventually.
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Old 01-10-2018, 04:40 PM
 
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If you really want to know what I think ... I think both should be banned. Though I suppose that would be very difficult to enforce.
I do compliment you on keeping a solid liberal position on this. You seem to be consistent.

I’m not extremely consistent. I take liberal positions on things like having everyone pay taxes for public schools.
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Old 01-10-2018, 04:41 PM
 
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Cigarettes are full of chemicals designed to addict people and they smell horrible.

So far, pot isn't like that. I don't smoke it myself, nor do I have any interest. I think it should be legal for adults, but I'm very hesitant saying this, because I don't want to smell it everywhere I go and I am not entirely sure that it won't go the way of tobacco and wind up laced with all sorts of chemicals to hook smokers into smoking it eventually.
As mentioned earlier, you can buy organic tobacco, and just wait until corporate pot farms start emerging, you’ll get plenty of other chemicals in pot.
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Old 01-10-2018, 04:43 PM
 
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Hey everyone, don't bother with this thread. I just found another thread created by the same poster, asking the exact same question, from 2013. It has 445 replies.

Obviously, this poster is purely political and has no desire to find an answer.
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