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Great!!!...Sedating the masses so they won't cause trouble...The idiots in power will love this.
TV, the internet, and booze don't seem to be sedating the masses. Why would legalizing a substance that is already being used illegally change anything?
TV, the internet, and booze don't seem to be sedating the masses. Why would legalizing a substance that is already being used illegally change anything?
How active are the people now using pot?...How ambitious are they?
I worked for many years and was exposed to many successful people of all types of industries and professions...Not many smoked pot on any type of regular basis. Maybe once in while when getting together with old friends...But not often at all.
The people that I do know that had always smoked pot regularly - Many certainly did have lifelong careers. But mostly they did not excel in their work.
Most significantly, I never knew a person that regularly smoked pot that was active in public groups...running for school board, running for local office...nor even getting involved in politics at all...(Just what the pro legalization politicians want).
The Catch 22 for migrant workers and others: You have to bring the product into the US to attempt to pay the tax - bringing the product into the US without having the stamp is illegal. Prohibition at its best.
I worked for many years and was exposed to many successful people of all types of industries and professions...Not many smoked pot on any type of regular basis. Maybe once in while when getting together with old friends...But not often at all.
Most significantly, I never knew a person that regularly smoked pot that was active in public groups...running for school board, running for local office...nor even getting involved in politics at all...(Just what the pro legalization politicians want).
People in important high public profile positions like school boards and political office who smoke pot tend to be covert about it. What benefit woould they get from advertising illegal behavior like smoking pot?
People who do not excel, do not excel. Assigning an externality as causal is a fallacy.
That said, any habit can be abused to the point where it interferes with one's life. I have a friend who has burned a lot of bridges at work because of his obession with politics and cultural issues that have been driven into him by a 24-hour news network. No drugs involved, yet he can't help himself but to dig his own grave day after day arguing about culture wars. There all sort of habits that can be abused, but we don't put people in prison for them.
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