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We're eagerly awaiting the initiative to cut down on the overprescription of opioids - y'know, an actually addictive substance. But - that would of course cut down on corporate profits, can't have that.
That already happened. That's where the heroin epidemic came from,
We're eagerly awaiting the initiative to cut down on the overprescription of opioids - y'know, an actually addictive substance. But - that would of course cut down on corporate profits, can't have that.
Most heroin addicts start on prescription painkillers. Funnily enough, the proponents of medical marijuana are usually saying pot is the ideal replacement for those painkillers.
But yeah, not important. Drug addiction is important, but not legalizing pot because that can't possibly be related. At least according to decades of puritan propaganda.
The medicinal benefits of pot are greatly exaggerated.
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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.
Has crime skyrocketed in pot legal cities? No.
Legal pot hasn't affected my city (Denver) negatively at all.
One thing pot HAS done in Colorado is generate over $100,000,000 in tax revenue from legal marijuana sales, and $40M of that goes directly to Colorado public schools.
Oh, and since weed became legal in Colorado, it has created over 18,000 full-time jobs.
Telling people to "grow up" when you CLEARLY have no idea what you're talking only makes you look silly
The medicinal benefits of pot are greatly exaggerated.
That has very little to do with my point. It certainly doesn't invalidate my point. Even if the affects are exaggerated, the problem being addressed is still being addressed. Many pain killers are addictive and pot can be a reasonably effective replacement for many of them without the addictive qualities. Certainly, the movement to legalize has precedent (baring in mind, my point was in defense of that precedent).
"It's not a war on drugs, it's a war on personal freedom. Keep that in mind at all times, thank you" -Bill Hicks
Of course Trump should do this. His approval ratings would soar and maybe liberals would start to come around. Of course he won't, too much money at stake. Republicans only claim to want freedom from government but are scared of actual freedom and only want their own form of government and control. Trump de-scheduling an unaltered natural growing plant would upset his fanatical nutty evangelical base and his crony buddies. Weed is bad mmmmk.
at this pint i dont care anymore if marijuana is made legal or not, the hypocrisy surrounding it is at a fever pitch. we are at this point trying stop people from smoking tobacco, a legal product by the way, but all the pot smokers want to do is exchange one addiction for another, IE smoking pot.
i can hear the pro pot people now, but pot isnt harmful, bull crap. anytime you breath in smoke of any kind its harmful to the lungs, and your body tells you every time early on, until you get used to it.
i just wonder how long after pot is made legal that a movement to end the smoking of pot will start.
I don't know what's up with some of you pot lovers.
I don't know what's up with some of you control freaks.
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Originally Posted by marino760
You have it and smoke it whenever you want anyway, most with the ruse of calling it medical.
My post had nothing to do with me personally.
You're a prohibitionist? You seek to keep something someone might or might not do in the privacy of their own home with their own body and mind illegal? And you think this is the right course of action? You think this is what government should be doing?
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Originally Posted by marino760
Grow up and worry about something a little bit more important than getting high.
Grow up and worry about yourself and more important things.
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Originally Posted by MJJersey
Great post. We have way too many drug addicts running around already.
Really? I thought it was one of the bottom-of-the-barrell worst posts in a long time. Thoroughly judgmental and authoritarian.
Pssh. Come on. That's never going to happen. Trump literally is the man.
I don't really think he is, at least on some things. But it is just a hypothetical.
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Originally Posted by metalmancpa
Ahh. The stigma of pot smoking evident in just a few responses.
It is a double standard. People can be casual drinkers, social drinkers, enjoy a goblet of wine in the evening or a beer or two on Sunday or Mimosas with the ladies and not be lumped in with hardcore drunks, but if you partake of cannabis (or even support decriminalization) you're viewed no better than a wake-n-bake stoner doing nothing forever in his parents' basement...
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Originally Posted by NLVgal
Agreed. I don't smoke, but it has legitimate medical uses that need to be researched. You can't do research on a schedule 1 drug.
Agreed. I think we should open up research into the use of psychedelics to help people as well.
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Trump's approval rating would also soar among libertarians, young people, and Willie Nelson.
So much win to be had.
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