Liberals to announce marijuana will be legal by July 1, 2018

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There's two lines of thought about that. I fully agree with enforcing all laws that are in place WHILE they are in place. If you are going to start "bending" the rules where is it going to stop. I have serious concerns about legalizing pot for recreational use. One of the biggest being is it going to compromise the safety of our roads and another is what it does to the brain of young people. I know quite a few of the guys who were doing it weren't worth a sh*t on the job. Now, one thing I can't say is whether it was a "cause or effect" issue.

People are already driving stoned and have been since at least the 60s. Teensy have been smoking pot for the same amount of time and driving stoned. Legalization won't increase that.
My bet is the useless pricks would be useless stoned, drunk or sober.
 

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Here's the movie, Reefer Madness, from 1936. The first is the trailer. The link is the whole movie.

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The hpps has been detached from the rest, so it doesn't screw up the site here.

https ://archive.org/details/reefer_madness1938
 
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Johnnny

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Think about that statement for a second and answer these questions.
When you were a young person when did you:

  • Take your first drink
  • Smoke your first cigarette or cigar.
  • Smoke Pot (If you did)
Young people will find a way and no young person is going to wait until they are 25. At 18 years old we can hand them a rifle and send them off to war. Make them file income tax as an adult. Send them to prison.



If we as a society think the above is acceptable, then letting them make the choice is also acceptable.


And let's be honest here, we all found a way well before it was legal to do so. If you didn't, then you are the exception among a handful of exceptions.

Society doesnt think underage drinking is acceptable at all. For example when liquor inspectors close down bars for serving alcohal to minors.

Most minors would choose to drink at a bar but society says otherwise.
 

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People are already driving stoned and have been since at least the 60s. Teensy have been smoking pot for the same amount of time and driving stoned. Legalization won't increase that.
My bet is the useless pricks would be useless stoned, drunk or sober.


I'm not convinced that it wouldn't increase it. What might happen is you will get more people doing it simple because there's a few who weren't doing it while it was against the law.
 

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Since marijuana legalization, highway fatalities in Colorado are at near-historic lows

The problem with these criticisms is that we can test only for the presence of marijuana metabolites, not for inebriation. Metabolites can linger in the body for days after the drug’s effects wear off — sometimes even for weeks. Because we all metabolize drugs differently (and at different times and under different conditions), all that a positive test tells us is that the driver has smoked pot at some point in the past few days or weeks.

It makes sense that loosening restrictions on pot would result in a higher percentage of drivers involved in fatal traffic accidents having smoked the drug at some point over the past few days or weeks. You’d also expect to find that a higher percentage of churchgoers, good Samaritans and soup kitchen volunteers would have pot in their system. You’d expect a similar result among any large sampling of people. This doesn’t necessarily mean that marijuana caused or was even a contributing factor to accidents, traffic violations or fatalities.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...at-near-historic-lows/?utm_term=.6eb6c7ec8e4b

..and the actual problem is?

every pothed driver I know is way more careful then anyone else on the road
...and compared to booze or prescription meds?
we certainly can't talk about SSRIs and shootings now can we?

why do I doubt reality will be in play on this issue?
 

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That's because the damn aliens have been stoppin' all the cars with weed in it and wipin' people's minds clean. Clean! When the cops find 'em, they got less in their brains than Cliffy.

It's the damn aliens, I tells ya!

 

Danbones

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Damn straight DB, Damned straight!
:)
One of the smartest, most direct, and pertinent comments I have read all day
LOL...
damned well makes me look like a dictionary too

now that's a win win!
 

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. People with mental health issues tend to smoke pot because it helps them>

That explains the behaviour of most of you dope fiends this forum ... most of whom are Trumpadistas.
How old are you CC?

I've heard of pot helping some people with physical pain/ailments. You would think the drug would do more harm to those with mental health issues, would it not?
How old are you CC?

I've heard of pot helping some people with physical pain/ailments. You would think the drug would do more harm to those with mental health issues, would it not?
I think use of THC products is a learning curve,I have friends I wish would stop consuming so they may see them self out of a dark place,mental health issues and the use of THC
has been in existence for a very long time,it can be very detrimental to some,and benificial to others
Sobriety is important to the self discipline journey of addictions,recognizing ones vulnerabilities is another

You are willing to pay more?
I think use of THC products is a learning curve,I have friends I wish would stop consuming so they may see them self out of a dark place,mental health issues and the use of THC
has been in existence for a very long time,it can be very detrimental to some,and benificial to others
Sobriety is important to the self discipline journey of addictions,recognizing ones vulnerabilities is another
 

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We can pretty well rest assured people will die after marijuana is legalized. We just don't know how many!
 

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Make it tomorrow and I will be the first to try and reach that objective. Not even LSD would make this place took attractive.
 

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You should use marijuana. It's all natural and doesn't cause the psychotic episodes you seem to suffer from on a daily basis. Man made drugs - chemicals - are what is eating your brain away.
 

JLM

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You should use marijuana. It's all natural and doesn't cause the psychotic episodes you seem to suffer from on a daily basis. Man made drugs - chemicals - are what is eating your brain away.


Cyanide is natural too and doesn't cause psychotic episodes! :)
 

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We can pretty well rest assured people will die after marijuana is legalized. We just don't know how many!

Yes, we do. The answer is "all of them."

Nobody expects marijuana legalization to lead to immortality. Though I'm sure that won't stop you from accusing it of failing to do so.
 

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I use Cannabis, who gives a fuk about legalized Mexican ditch weed. The government has consented to legalize recreational weed , big deal, when will it mandate the miracle fibre and the three hundred or so chemical compounds? Stupid bassturds.
 

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I use Cannabis, who gives a fuk about legalized Mexican ditch weed. The government has consented to legalize recreational weed , big deal, when will it mandate the miracle fibre and the three hundred or so chemical compounds? Stupid bassturds.

huh?