Do you support legalization of recreational marijuana? (heroin, compared, Illinois)

[Listener2307]

No. It doesn't solve any problem and creates many more.

[Loveshiscountry]

Originally Posted by MetroWord

Do you support legalization of recreational marijuana? I just want to get an idea of what people on here think.

I voted Federal level but that was just to get the Feds completely out of it. Lets the states decide.

I would vote to legalize freedom.

[jacqueg]

Yes, we still have a black market in Washington too.

But I just love buying, carrying, and using it legally. I love not having to wonder about how much blood was shed in order for me to buy that ounce. I love that I can know the growers I buy from. And I know I'm not alone in feeling this way.

State taxes will come down eventually. In the interim, I'm happy to pay them. And I think the revenue will influence a considerable number of people who would otherwise not care much one way or the other.

[Versatile]

Originally Posted by desertdetroiter

I support the complete legalization of all drugs. Period.

Meth definitely affects families.

[Loveshiscountry]

Originally Posted by Finn_Jarber

We have legal pot in places like CA, and 80% of it is still sold in black market.

The legal market isn't the free market. The black market is and that's why it's cheaper. It's about choices. And that's what freedom brings.

[BornintheSprings]

Originally Posted by desertdetroiter

I support the complete legalization of all drugs. Period.

This

[royalabran]

I briefly worked the phone in a Family Practice Clinic in Fairbanks Alaska.

Many many phone calls for Medication renewals.

This simple request sticks in my mind.

A patient came in in person and asked to speak to someone about a med request.
He said way that he was heading out to manage his trap line and would be living remote for a few months.
He asked if he could have a script for a broad spectrum antibiotic and a narcotic pain med in case he was injured.

So... I knew that would be a NO but I wanted to relay that through his physician since the request was logical.

and yes it was a no go... how dumb is that?

legalize all drugs

[BornintheSprings]

Originally Posted by Versatile

Meth definitely affects families.

So does alcohol but banning it was a disaster.

[Finn_Jarber]

Originally Posted by Loveshiscountry

The legal market isn't the free market. The black market is and that's why it's cheaper. It's about choices. And that's what freedom brings.

The selling point was that it would make the black market vanish, but obviously that did not happen, and never will.

[Sassybluesy]

Originally Posted by Finn_Jarber

If its $7.00 vs $60.00, then they will obviously turn to the black market.

But is quality pot really $7.00? It is probably something grown in Mexico using human waste as fertilizer.

I really don't know.


Something I had read on Facebook (so consider the source), was that what a lot of people would end up doing is buying from a dispensary the first time, and then from their regular sources later, but hold on to the containers the legal stuff came in, so that the police would have no idea WHERE you bought it from, and have to assume you bought it legally because it's in a legal container.