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common sense dictates the proliferation of CNS altering drugs, which impair reason, will have a negative impact on society.
Legalize it for individuals to grow in their backyard, not buy in stores. Pot sold on the street outside of legal constraints will always be cheaper. increase penalties if under the influence in public.
Any age restriction included in the legislation is done so with tongue in cheek, a snicker and a wink.
The last survey I found comparing the price of pot on the street vs. legal is a few years old. The legal price is about 10% more. My guess is most folks would pay it to ensure they are not getting a product laced with something. Its also easier to get, just go to a store.
"Did the dems slip something into the bill that made it a poison pill for repubs?
The dems would NEVER do that!
The so-called Stimulus bill
American population: 330,483,530
Stimulus bill: $2,000,000,000,000 ($2 Trillion)
Dividing the cost by every American is $6,051.74 The government could have given every person over $6,000, but instead will give $1,200 to each adult under a certain income. Want to know where the missing 96% of tax dollars went? Here you go. . .
29. $492,000,000 to National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) pg. 167
30. $526,000,000 Grants to Amtrak to remain available if needed through 2021 pg. 168 (what are the odds that doesn't go unused) Hidden on page 174 the Secretary has 7 days to allocate the funds & notify Congress.
What DOES ALL of this have to do with the Virus????
yep don't you just love that a 2t bill..and 1t goes to the failed entity of AMTRAK
think about that for a second....Amtrak has been failing for years...each year getting a bailout.... and a 2 trillion dollar virus bill, half of it goes to Amtrak.... Amtrak should go the way of conrail… be gone and done with..... Amtrak is a money pit
The last survey I found comparing the price of pot on the street vs. legal is a few years old. The legal price is about 10% more. My guess is most folks would pay it to ensure they are not getting a product laced with something. Its also easier to get, just go to a store.
This is why pot is not technically 'legal' yet ANYWHERE.
Drugs bought and sold on the street (illegally) will always be much higher in price than legal drugs...the high price is due to the RISK involved in its transport and sale. This is precisely why Heroin is more expensive than gold...(its not because its more valuable...its due to the extreme legal risk of being caught with it).
This is the problem with legalizing any drug...the people that sell it legally want to make as much money as possible, but they do not realize that by selling it legally, it takes out all the legal risk...so there is no justification in the high price.
In reality, legal Marijuana should be cheaper than cigarette tobacco.
Edibles are not controlled very well at all. There are many instances where a person has a low tolerance to THC, and the brownies from one vendor to another vary greatly, resulting in some people experiencing an overdose.
If there were insufficient safety regulations to control the products being produced, I could understand why legislators would vote against it. It just might be that the dems voted for the bill, not caring if the products were not controlled properly, resulting in complete chaos from one vendor's product to another.
If people were buying beer, that was not sufficiently labeled to inform the customer. If some beer were 80%, and some were 4% alcohol, and some had other ingredients that created additional reactions that would be unexpected by customers, then would you be beating up Republicans for not approving a bill that did not regulate the alcohol industry to set proper safety standards?
It's not about control, people simply don't know what they're doing.
A lot of people simply eat too much when they partake in edibles. It's akin to drinking half a bottle of liquor when you should have only taken a shot or two. Most people just like to talk crap about stuff they really don't know about. I've never had an edible but I would be a fool to just sit there and eat an entire brownie because I know edibles are very potent. The THC is fat-soluble, which works very well with butter when baking. That's why its so potent.
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This is why pot is not technically 'legal' yet ANYWHERE.
Drugs bought and sold on the street (illegally) will always be much higher in price than legal drugs...the high price is due to the RISK involved in its transport and sale. This is precisely why Heroin is more expensive than gold...(its not because its more valuable...its due to the extreme legal risk of being caught with it).
This is the problem with legalizing any drug...the people that sell it legally want to make as much money as possible, but they do not realize that by selling it legally, it takes out all the legal risk...so there is no justification in the high price.
In reality, legal Marijuana should be cheaper than cigarette tobacco.
It's ok, in the distant future most people are just going to pick up a plant from Home Depot's nursery section.
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"The man who sleeps on the floor, can never fall out of bed." -Martin Lawrence
I am against anything whose selling point is "it generates tax revenue". The government gets too much of our income as it is. Don't give them a new funding stream.
Look at the savings on prosecution and incarceration, then?
It's ok, in the distant future most people are just going to pick up a plant from Home Depot's nursery section.
You are probably right, its a whole lot easier and cheaper to just grow your own supply! As long as you dont have acres of the stuff growing (and growing only enough for personal use), law enforcement isnt going to waste time pursuing the 'home gardener'.
I used to know a guy that grew opium poppies (for personal use), I dont think he had many plants, he said it was cheaper for him instead of going to a doctor and paying for prescriptions.
Cannabis is a toxic drug and and anyone using it suffers from toxicomania. Whether you’re willing to face it or not.
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