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Old 10-17-2011, 09:46 PM
 
Location: planet octupulous is nearing earths atmosphere
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Field Notes - Support for legalizing pot hits all-time high


are people finally coming to their senses..


just legalize it and be done with it for heavens sake!!
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Old 10-17-2011, 09:56 PM
 
Location: The bustling, world-renowned downtown of Pataskala, OH
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I'm telling you if they legalize it, they will (try to)regulate the heck out of it and it won't work. It'd be one thing if they legalized it and just left it alone, but they'll never do that.
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Old 10-17-2011, 10:09 PM
 
Location: Arizona
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If you've studied the political landscape for the past ten years you should realize that politicians won't do what the people want them to do. They will only respond to lobbyists and special interests.
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Old 10-17-2011, 10:10 PM
 
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I'm telling you if they legalize it, they will (try to)regulate the heck out of it and it won't work. It'd be one thing if they legalized it and just left it alone, but they'll never do that.
Just legalize it and treat it like alcohol. Enjoy the plant responsibly and be safe.
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Old 10-17-2011, 10:18 PM
 
Location: Arizona
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Just legalize it and treat it like alcohol. Enjoy the plant responsibly and be safe.
Agreed.
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Old 10-17-2011, 10:23 PM
 
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I think legalization is close to being a done deal. What better way to deal with people facing chronic lack of jobs, lack of opportunity, the ending of the American Dream but to let them soothe themselves and numb their minds with every sort of drug.

Once addicted to meth, heroin and other such drugs, who will care or notice that they're being foreclosed on and losing their home, just another hit of their drug of choice and it's nirvana time again.

A very drugged society is a very easy society to control.
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Old 10-17-2011, 10:24 PM
 
Location: OKC
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The Alcohol lobby is one of the main players in keeping pot illegal.
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Old 10-17-2011, 10:34 PM
 
Location: The bustling, world-renowned downtown of Pataskala, OH
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it can't work like alcohol which is taxed something like 60-250% off the top of my head. Producing safe, mass-produced alcohol is much harder than growing a plant, picking from it, rolling it up and smoking it. People aren't going to pay 2,3,4,5x the market value of something they can grow next to their tomato plant.
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Old 10-17-2011, 10:42 PM
 
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The fact that it's taken this long shows a truly mind boggling inability to learn from history.
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Old 10-17-2011, 11:12 PM
 
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Its not going to be legalized at federal level anytime soon, regardless of the results from polls. The opposition is too loud and the administration simply doesn't have the energy for yet another fight in congress. Its not going to happen in an election year.
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