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We were in Denver last week. My husband had a terrible nasty cold. It was awful. We tried every over the counter med -- still miserable. My son gave him a 'sleepy' edible. Best night's sleep he had had all week. It was all he needed to start feeling better -- sleep.
This was a central part of the government's campaign promise, and it looks like it will have full effect at the end of August.
Canada joins Uruguay as the second country to legalize marijuana and Portugal who has decriminalized it (as well as all drugs).
It appears that the experiments in Uruguay, Portugal and many of the States that overall, the effect has been positive; less crime, less policing for marijuana and associated costs, and a controlled environment that results in a lessening of marijuana use among minors.
Some huge grow operations are ready to go, and being built right now.
I don't always agree with you, but this is one of those times. It seems pretty simple to me.
Simple?
Even though I agree with you, do you have any idea how many posters here in this forum are right now slapping their foreheads and exclaiming "Legalizing all drugs is simple? What planet do you live on?!?" so loudly that their neighbors are wondering what all the yelling is about.
To you and me, the idea seems so simple because we have applied critical thinking skills, along with weighing the results of decriminalization (of all drugs) from other places in the world, then came to our conclusion.
For many, even if they can get past the critical thinking skills issue, they simply can't get past the brainwashing they and their parents were raised on: Illegal drugs are so bad and so harmful, that the more draconian we can make the laws against them, the better. The more War we can make against them, the better. To quote Trump: "Death penalty to dealers!".
No, I'm afraid that we Americans, as a whole, are way too stuffy to consider results that comes from foreign countries, no matter how promising, because ideas from foreign countries just can't be as good as our ideas, right?
Drug prohibition is big money making business for the government. Just clean up the money by using civil forfeiture for the police to grab everything a person has, especially cash, when found in possession of drugs. It helps explain why it's so slow and frustrating for the U. S. to legalize marijuana.
We were in Denver last week. My husband had a terrible nasty cold. It was awful. We tried every over the counter med -- still miserable. My son gave him a 'sleepy' edible. Best night's sleep he had had all week. It was all he needed to start feeling better -- sleep.
i actually dont care about weed. i just dont think its a federal issue. but dont cocaine and heroin come from a plant?
A lot of our pharmacopeia comes from plants.
Do you know what it takes to derive the active compounds from pounds and pounds of coca leaf to produce cocaine base? The effort it takes to make heroin?
I don't think there's anyone growing poppies or coca at home with the desire to use the end result.
Now we'll have pot smuggled in from the north and the south. We were just in Hawaii on business/pleasure. Lots of nice empty pineapple and sugar cane fields just waiting for some Maui Wowie. Trump may be the only Republican president with the chutzpah to pull off some form of legalization
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