Ban on THC in Texas heads to Gov. Abbott’s desk

[Gaius46]

Just an FYI, Libertarian is the worst possible philosophy to peddle. I was a Libertarian out of college. Sounds good.

Then I learned how the world really worked.

Just because libertarianism doesn't easily -if at all - scale in urban environments doesn't mean that the core ideals of personal freedom/responsibility and small government close to the people that largely leaves them alone are bad and should not be implemented as much as possible.

 

[What if...?]

Just an FYI, Libertarian is the worst possible philosophy to peddle. I was a Libertarian out of college. Sounds good.

Then I learned how the world really worked.

It sounded good to me too.

Until I got to the laizzes faire part.

Then I knew why the Koch brothers came up with an ideology that appealed to potheads.

I would posit that most potheads don’t know that laizzes faire is and didn’t bother to look it up.

 

[ScrambledEggs]

I've never cared for THC, it gave me uncomfortable highs. But I agree it's your own business, no one else's.

Pure anxiety for me. Weird drug.

 

[Noodlegawd]

Ban on THC products in Texas heads to Gov. Abbott’s desk after Senate agrees to House changes

The governor has not addressed whether he supports the ban, as hemp industry leaders have urged him to veto Senate Bill 3.

www.texastribune.org

Ban on THC products in Texas heads to Gov. Abbott’s desk

Libertarians of all streaks and stripes should be unanimous on this issue. I had the idea Texas was further along to the extreme than other states. A big tax is going to be lost, police are going to be distracted, and small mom and pop shops are going bottom up. All happening even though nobody noticed five years ago when .03 delta 9 etc was legalized in Texas.

Why does he care about a bunch of post neo hippies?

It's like a campaign stunt without a campaign. So that's not it, but Cinco de Mayo became a beer holiday perfectly midway between the annual slump in sales after St. Patrick's Day and the 4th of July. Maybe by the same reason he needs to make a splash during the slump in the attention he's getting. My last guess is he thinks fundamentalists can now sleep well knowing dem damn libbles ain't gone be smokin no mo Mary G Wanna and the cash crop it's become is no more.

I expect Abbott will sign it this week.

I don't know, maybe it's because you can't walk down the street or go to the beach anymore without being assaulted by the stink of weed being smoked in public.

I'm all for legalization, but potheads should be more considerate if they want to keep it that way.

 

[noonereal]

That's on the parents who leave them out. Just like it's on the parents if their kid swallows their bottle of tylenol, or drinks their bleach.

At least in the case of THC gummies they just need to be monitored/sedated in a hospital for a few hours.



Then again "I don't like this thing, therefore nobody should have it" is a very right wing view.



Because you did a wide ranging survey of ER docs.



You don't consume it. You have negative views of it. So when you read a few scare articles - articles which usually cite ER visits in the mere hundreds in this country of 330 million - your brain encodes that as confirmation of your prior belief.

Somehow you manage to avoid encoding every other relevant thing in memory, such as the number of accidental poisonings from other sources and the outcome of those poisonings.

You are so smart. Golly gee.

 

[noonereal]

Just because libertarianism doesn't easily -if at all - scale in urban environments doesn't mean that the core ideals of personal freedom/responsibility and small government close to the people that largely leaves them alone are bad and should not be implemented as much as possible.

It does not work effectly for any tribe right to any society.

We are all interdependent.