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It's about time they enforced the law. Recreational marijuana is nothing more than buying votes, and putting people in peril. Two good reasons for enforcement.
The choice belongs to each individual adult. Does anyone in their right mind think that because something becomes legal there will be a mad rush to do it? We know from studies in Portugal use rose slightly at first them went down.
No ones rights have been violated, THAT is the reason for stopping enforcement.
I wonder if we ever will have separation of church and state in this country. Why should everybody be forced to live by the rules of a deity they don't believe in? Plus, didn't God create the cannabis plant and call it good (Genesis 1:29)?
On the other side of this, maybe enforcement is what is necessary to force Congress' hand. While Oklahoma the rest of Baptistan will be ecstatic about this decision, most of progressive, open-minded America as well as more libertarian red states will not be.
LOL. Reminds me of some Graffiti I read on the wall in the John at ISU in 1972.................
"Man made booze; God made Grass; Who you gonna trust?"
That's not true, they could just move weed up to Schedule IV or Schedule V from it's current ridiculous Schedule I
I mean, even cocaine and meth are Schedule II ffs
I'd agree especially considering this stymies medical study of it but also keep in mind the Obama admin had 8 years to initiate proceedings to get it moved.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say it's habit forming being that 1 in 4 people that smoke weed habitually smoke it. I smoked a 10 sack a day for almost a decade. Once I quit, it was easy to stay away from, but quitting weed was one of the most difficult things I've ever done. Add to this the fact that I lost a lot of friends in the process. One thing that you'll find about quitting weed is how many drug based relationships you have. It's crazy when I look back and see what most of those people are doing these days. Most of them still burn all day and work dead end jobs. It's like groundhogs day for some of these poor saps.
Anyways......no, just no man LOL
A pot smoker that says he smoked a "10 sack" a day, is no pot smoker. That really sounds like somebody who picked up some lingo from a bad ghetto movie and is trying to sound hip. EVEN if this crap is true, what kind of life is somebody leading when it and their relationships revolve around weed? Who does that? Sounds to me like there were other, deeply rooted psychological issues at play. Either that or the poster was 13 when he had his marijuana "addiction"
This is not the behavior of most people I know who use marijuana medically OR recreationally. Most are casual users 2 - 3 times a week. Even the heavy users I know don't smoke more than a joint or occasionally 2 a night. Then again, I don't know any adolescents.
Maybe Trump has buddies that own some private prisons. Lord knows, they LOVE draconian pot laws.
Which I'll quote in part: "Recently, Trump has supported state's rights to choose how to legislate medical marijuana, but has not expressly called for legalization.
"In terms of marijuana and legalization, I think that should be a state issue, state-by-state," Trump told The Washington Post. "… Marijuana is such a big thing. I think medical should happen — right? Don’t we agree? I think so. And then I really believe we should leave it up to the states."
He has also expressed support for medical marijuana, telling Bill O'Reilly in February that he's, "in favor of medical marijuana 100%."
How do you enforce federal law on one aspect of marijuana and ignore another?
If the current AG ignored a state that started segregation practices again you would you still be suggesting they haven't changed the law?
No, because they haven't. The law is still on the books, right where it always was, and the regulations promulgated as a result of that law have probably not gone anywhere either.
I would be finding out why they weren't doing it, and would probably join in with people urging them to shift their priorities.
This isn't rocket science.
You are head of X agency. You have 20 employees in charge of implementing 50 laws on an annual budget of $100,000 (totally made up numbers).
If employee A is working on implementing law #1, which the legislature and the governor/president has told you is your top priority, then there are 49 other laws that employee A is not dealing with, and 19 employees to work on the other 49 laws. You don't have legislative approval (and therefore, you don't have the budget) to hire any more employees. You figure it out.
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