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So, what you are saying it that we 86% are completely wrong, and that you and your 14% is right???
Hmmm... If I were in that 14% I think I would re-evaluate my position. Just sayin'.
BTW, I completey support Booker and I am not a liberal or part of the left. I'm a 60 year old conservative. 86% approval shows this issue enjoys broad support from both sides.
42 year old non-leftist libertarian here and I completely support legalization of cannabis as well.
I would have no issue if marijuana was made legal all across the country. I personally think alcohol should be banned. Nothing good has ever come from drinking alcohol.
I agree that alcohol is just as bad as other drugs, but one thing that always annoyed me about pot heads, and I am not saying that's you trlhiker, but that the real zealous ones tend to hate on alcohol and cigarettes. They'll always bash the other two in order to make pot look so much better, even though you're inhaling smoke when you smoke pot, even if it is healthier than tobacco. Why hate on alcohol and tobacco if the point is to make sure people do what they want to do without force?
I've already stated that I'm not afraid of somebody telling me that I'm going to hell. Furthermore, postulating a clear behavioral difference between marijuana zealots and religious zealots is not scapegoating, but rather reflecting reality. Surely you're not suggesting that marijuana zealots have committed the same atrocities in the name of their advocacy as religious radicals have and continue to...
But yes, I'm very concerned about the far-left condemning anyone who disagrees as fascists and suggesting that violent retaliation against their opponents is reasonable. In this respect the fringe-progressives are functioning much like a religious cult.
Not marijuana zealots alone, but far leftists who include marijuana legalization in their platform of ideas to beat over the head of the people they disagree with, sometimes violently. We're both in agreement. Yet when it comes to them, I am more afraid of a pot smoking anti-fa member than a church lady who may hold religiously conservative views. If you're talking about mental cases who use religious fanaticism as an excuse for their violence, then that is another story.
I agree that alcohol is just as bad as other drugs, but one thing that always annoyed me about pot heads, and I am not saying that's you trlhiker, but that the real zealous ones tend to hate on alcohol and cigarettes. They'll always bash the other two in order to make pot look so much better, even though you're inhaling smoke when you smoke pot, even if it is healthier than tobacco. Why hate on alcohol and tobacco if the point is to make sure people do what they want to do without force?
bs. Blanket statement unspported by any facts. I know no stoners who hate on alcohol and pretty much everyone hates on cigarettes these days so it's completely bogus to say that's some sort of hypocritical salient attitude of marijuana users.
It's not quite that simple. Over taxing it leaves the teeth in the black market. There is a proper tax point that needs to be found that makes the profit margin in the black market low enough to not be worth the risk.
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I would have no issue if marijuana was made legal all across the country. I personally think alcohol should be banned. Nothing good has ever come from drinking alcohol.
Not true, some foods have flavor elements not soluble in water that are soluble in alcohol, the reason wine makes some foods more tasty.
I don't care about salary because like you snidely said, that hipster actress with the sleeve tats and cheshire grin, makes way more money than I do, and probably more than an attorney before making partner. MY point is that in the average the best positions where the smartest people go into, there tend to be less exhibitionists.
Oh my god, just answer the question: Why. Do. You. Care. What. They. Make?
Yet when it comes to them, I am more afraid of a pot smoking anti-fa member than a church lady who may hold religiously conservative views. If you're talking about mental cases who use religious fanaticism as an excuse for their violence, then that is another story.
No they're equally bad. The flip side of the same coin of dumb. The anti-fa (I hate even typing that) fascists are typically anti-gun yet not a one of them has ever fired a gun. They know nothing of what they want to prohibit. The anti-weed little old Baptist Church lady from Abilene has never smoked weed in her life. She knows f-all a bout what she wants to prohibit.
bs. Blanket statement unspported by any facts. I know no stoners who hate on alcohol and pretty much everyone hates on cigarettes these days so it's completely bogus to say that's some sort of hypocritical salient attitude of marijuana users.
Well I didn't intend to cite a sociological study about it. What are you talking about? I just said that I've personally and anecdotally heard some pot heads who've made cannabis their mission in life throw alcohol and cigarettes under the bus as being epically worse than pot. That's it. I didn't say that this was the standard view of pot smokers, but something I've noticed in my personal experience from some zealots, not casual smokers.
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