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I don't know what's up with some of you pot lovers. You have it and smoke it whenever you want anyway, most with the ruse of calling it medical. Grow up and worry about something a little bit more important than getting high.
I don't see Trump doing this. The private prison industry and the religious right...
I'm not saying you're wrong, but I have to ponder what the issue is here. Does the Bible lay out a framework for which substances are sins and which are sky-daddy-approved? I'm a lifelong atheist and not the biggest Bible scholar, but wasn't Jesus stoned on the streets of Galilee?
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Originally Posted by marino760
I don't know what's up with some of you pot lovers. You have it and smoke it whenever you want anyway, most with the ruse of calling it medical. Grow up and worry about something a little bit more important than getting high.
I don't know what's up with some of you pot lovers. You have it and smoke it whenever you want anyway, most with the ruse of calling it medical. Grow up and worry about something a little bit more important than getting high.
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Originally Posted by MJJersey
Great post. We have way too many drug addicts running around already.
I don't even know where to begin... oh wait, yes I do! Go drink a 1/5th of whiskey and a 12 pack of suds and tell us how bad the drug problems are. Nobody has EVER died from overdosing on THC, while alcohol kills thousands each year, not to mention the long term effects, and is involved in 70% of all violent crimes.Your ignorance precedes both of you. At this point you are in the minority and losing ground quick.
OP: why didn't the Head in Chief do it? He used cocaine and pot regularly as a teen and young adult. He would have sealed the deal for HRC if he had made that one of his last EOs, which he had 8 years to do.
The commercial prison machine and legal system (lawyers, cops, judges, rehabs) make too much damn money on the backs on innocent people who prefer a natural buzz than getting ripped on alcohol with all the side effects.
Many pain killers are addictive and pot can be a reasonably effective replacement for many of them without the addictive qualities.
Exactly. If someone replaces opioid usage with cannabis usage, why would we start arguing "well the effects are exaggerated." Who cares? As far as I can tell, getting people away from opiates / opioids is a laudable goal, period.
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Originally Posted by skepticratic
Certainly, the movement to legalize has precedent.
I'm not saying you're wrong, but I have to ponder what the issue is here. Does the Bible lay out a framework for which substances are sins and which are sky-daddy-approved? I'm a lifelong atheist and not the biggest Bible scholar, but wasn't Jesus stoned on the streets of Galilee?
The religious right is opposed to any mind-altering substances. Many of them would support banning alcohol if they could (many Bible Belt states still have dry counties) and alcohol is only barely legal in far-right states like Oklahoma. As long as the religious right maintains its support for the war on drugs and its opposition to legal cannabis, I don't see federal policy changing, at least under this administration with this Congress.
Alcohol and tobacco and certainly dope should be illegal for the high medical costs to society it costs.
Ban it all. No redeeming qualities from any of it.
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