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I do. All drugs.
Well let's just say I grew up in Colorado.
We all know people who do nothing but sit around and smoke weed all day. High all day, no motivation to do anything except play playstation.
I don't like seeing that, therefore I'm against legalizing marijuana.
whats that have to do with weed, though?
i mean i agree with you, i knew people that did just what you are taking about . . . . .but "weed" had nothing to do with it
i knew people that are just like you are describing without the weed, just video games
just saying, those peoples problem are themselves or something else its not the weed . . . .
whats that have to do with weed, though?
i mean i agree with you, i knew people that did just what you are taking about . . . . .but "weed" had nothing to do with it
i knew people that are just like you are describing without the weed, just video games
just saying, those peoples problem are themselves or something else its not the weed . . . .
`Well let's just say I grew up in Colorado. We all know people who do nothing but sit around and smoke weed all day. High all day, no motivation to do anything except play playstation. I don't like seeing that, therefore I'm against legalizing marijuana.
Well let's just say I grew up in Colorado.
We all know people who do nothing but sit around and smoke weed all day. High all day, no motivation to do anything except play playstation.
I don't like seeing that, therefore I'm against legalizing marijuana.
Libertarianism is the most naïve political philosophy out there.
OK, libertarian, do you want to legalize heroin as well?
Awesome. At least you're consistent. And I'm glad you have no political power, because that would be quite a scary world to live in. A world in which countless people are addicted to heroin and all other sorts of drugs.
You know that drug addicts are many times more likely to commit serious crimes than non drug addicts?
That said, I don't even think cigarettes should be legal.
We believe that drug prohibition is the true cause of much of the social and personal damage that has historically been attributed to drug use. It is prohibition that makes these drugs so valuable – while giving criminals a monopoly over their supply. Driven by the huge profits from this monopoly, criminal gangs bribe and kill each other, law enforcers, and children. Their trade is unregulated and they are, therefore, beyond our control.
History has shown that drug prohibition reduces neither use nor abuse. After a rapist is arrested, there are fewer rapes. After a drug dealer is arrested, however, neither the supply nor the demand for drugs is seriously changed. The arrest merely creates a job opening for an endless stream of drug entrepreneurs who will take huge risks for the sake of the enormous profits created by prohibition. Prohibition costs taxpayers tens of billions of dollars every year, yet 40 years and some 40 million arrests later, drugs are cheaper, more potent and far more widely used than at the beginning of this futile crusade.
We believe that by eliminating prohibition of all drugs for adults and establishing appropriate regulation and standards for distribution and use, law enforcement could focus more on crimes of violence, such as rape, aggravated assault, child abuse and murder, making our communities much safer. We believe that sending parents to prison for non-violent personal drug use destroys families. We believe that in a regulated and controlled environment, drugs will be safer for adult use and less accessible to our children. And we believe that by placing drug abuse in the hands of medical professionals instead of the criminal justice system, we will reduce rates of addiction and overdose deaths.
Well let's just say I grew up in Colorado.
We all know people who do nothing but sit around and smoke weed all day. High all day, no motivation to do anything except play playstation.
I don't like seeing that, therefore I'm against legalizing marijuana.
I bet he doesn't hate cops either, the poser.
:lol:
Well... liberty IS right in the name and is usually interpreted as the ability to live ones life as they see fit as long as their actions don't harm others.
And the drug war is the perfect opposite of that, so...
And I don't hate cops either. I want to see them held accountable, as I am, when they screw up, which they generally are not. But I consider it one of the most noble callings.
For those who say legalize it and tax it. Would you be willing to say legalize it and NOT tax it?
I would not support legalization without taxing it. Drug use has a cost to society - at a minimum if we legalize drugs many individuals will require treatment and many of those will be unable to afford it. So I'd support a tax on drugs to fund those costs - matches the costs of drug use with those who benefit from legalization.
No.
Not national legalization.
Removal of it from the narcotics list as it isn't one, and allow the individual states the right to regulate or ban.
For those who say legalize it and tax it. Would you be willing to say legalize it and NOT tax it?
For those who say legalize it and tax it. Would you be willing to say legalize it and NOT tax it?
Thank you for the response. Would not those who force society to incur a cost have to pay a fine rather than taxing it for everyone?
Against.
Don't want young people exposed to marijuana. I've seen too many lives ruined by the stuff.
Against.
Don't want young people exposed to marijuana. I've seen too many lives ruined by the stuff.
pretty simple answer
and a really good one
But being against drug USE is different than supporting sending drug users and sellers to jail, ruining their lives.
I've seen many more lives ruined by alcohol than pot but we can have an alcohol kingpin (McCain) run for POTUS. And I can't think of a single objective metric which we'd evaluate pot worse than alcohol, but we're encouraged by ads consume one, and one sends people to jail. It's just impossible for me to find a reason to treat one substance different than the other, and since prohibition of alcohol failed, and prohibition of pot has a decades long history of failure, it should be legalized.
The other big problem with pot is it's illegal, but use is rampant, including by some very high profile public figures, such as our Presidents. I think many of those who oppose legalization can do so knowing that if they or their HS or college age child gets caught, they'll hire a lawyer, and the problem will go away - Junior can still go to med school and be a doctor or a lawyer or whatever. But they're OK sending the lower class "dealer" to jail and hanging a felony on that person for selling it to Junior because Junior won't ever be a "dealer." Seems hypocritical to me, and in an especially pernicious way.
Fair enough, but how is the current policy accomplishing that goal?
yes...
Because there is NOT libertarian government rule in Colorado. The legalization of marijuana (a decidedly LibertariaN goal for decades) will not be accompanied by a libertarian approach to social services. Use has already been shown to have skyrocketed, with use increasing in kids as young as age 12. Use of other illegal drugs have also increased during that same time period. National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2013
There is a dirty little secret. SOME people can use marijuana just like they use alcohol. Function perfectly well during the week, hang out, smoke a few joints and get mellow once or twice during the week and maybe get lit on the weekend...life is good. Others...others are addicts. Psychological addiction comes with a cost. Homelessness, joblessness, increase in crime, increase in health care costs, to say nothing of the increase in those populations from homeless people in other states moving to a state with friendlier drug rules. Its far too early to tell what kind of long term impact it will actually have on schooling, graduation rates, college attendance, job prep, etc.
Will there be identified gains? Sure. Incarceration costs may immediately decrease. And as far as 'addictions' go, its an easily treated disorder. Essentially...there is no treatment for marijuana addiction. But...all addicts tend to suffer greater health problems. Someone is going to have to foot the bill. To that end, Colorado would be wise to bank that money.
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