JasonI
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We were a group of Chief Petty officers (Senior enlisteds for those who have no clue about the military)........We were suppose to go back to the ship and try impress on the young people how drugs can **** you up and that is what we did.......
What year was that? 1942?
just for the record navy, i have never smoked weed...with that being said, if you are worried about taxes, i would think you would be all for legalizing it, as your tax money, my tax money, is spent to jail alot of people whose only crime is smoking weed...why should our tax money be going to lock these people up? you conservatives/republicans always screaming taxes are way to high, well hells bells, here is a way to save the taxpayer alot of money!!! legalize it, and tax the snot out of it, like we do alcohol and cigs!!!Boy its amazing how you dopers can rationalize putting poison in your body........I don't care what you do but when you get out on the highway spaced out you endanger innocent people, in addition when you crack you car up and don't have any money my taxes have to pay for your care...................A lot is involved when you dopers get high whether you admit it or not.
You don't have a right to all substances under the sun.
My reasoning is that drugs like oxycodone, morphine, and others are tightly controlled under the law due to their effects (highs) and abuses (using the medication for a high and not fore treatment). Marijuana is a schedule I drug, which makes it illegal.
Oxycodone and others listed are schedule II which means they are legal but tightly controlled. By your logic should people have the right to pick up any schedule II drug and use it for any purpose?
What about all medications that are legal only with a prescription? Just because you tack on the word "right" to something really doesn't make it your protected right.
how, um...petty!
so, you were a chief petty officer...what right did that give you to private medical information?We were a group of Chief Petty officers (Senior enlisteds for those who have no clue about the military)........We were suppose to go back to the ship and try impress on the young people how drugs can **** you up and that is what we did.......
What difference does that make...........did I strike a nerve?
don't run away navy, stick around....This thread is deteriotating preet fase so I will bid you farewell with my final words...........Dope will never be legal in this country..............
Was this not you?
are you in favor of banning alcohol?If a doper gets behind the wheel of a car and is in and accident and kills several people including himself??????????
If a doper gets behind the wheel of a car and is in and accident and kills several people including himself??????????
Bye Bye, when you guys come up with some logical thinking let me know........
get your happy arse back here, quit with the theatrics...do you favor banning alcohol? yes? no?If a doper gets behind the wheel of a car and is in and accident and kills several people including himself??????????
Bye Bye, when you guys come up with some logical thinking let me know........
If a doper gets behind the wheel of a car and is in and accident and kills several people including himself??????????
Bye Bye, when you guys come up with some logical thinking let me know........
Not if its not available.....If you would into a store and buy it you would have a hell of a lot more crazed people out there....
That's the point: It is available. Samsmart is right. The same people who would do heroin after it is legalized are those same people who would do heroin while it is criminalized.
No one with any brains or desire to live is going to inject themselves with heroin just because it's legal. Anyway, an addictive drug like heroin or nicotine should only be available by prescription to people already addicted. People can take pot or alcohol (most people anyway) or leave them. There is no chemical dependency.
Even if there was dependency to THC, it has very little harmful effect unless it is abused A LOT. Caffeine is more harmful to long term brain function than THC and Amphetemines! Yet people drink cup after cup of coffee and drink can after can of soda! It is hipocrisy to say that you would not poison your body while you sip a steamy cup of joe.
A growing body of research shows that coffee drinkers, compared to nondrinkers, are:
less likely to have type 2 diabetes, Parkinson's disease, and dementia
have fewer cases of certain cancers, heart rhythm problems, and strokes
Well, cough, cough.
Yes we should legalize it. The punishments for it are extreme.Locking someone up for marijuana amounts to chopping someone's hand off for stealing or executing someone for speeding. Legalizing might increase usage since legality increases access, but its not like trying to legalize hard drugs or certain prescription drugs for recreational use. That said I don't believe for a second that the government can get rich off it in taxes due to the fact many people would be growing it themselves.Nor do I believe that every sick person could smoke a joint or eat some special brownies and be cured of some ailment or be alleviated of pain.I also don't believe it will stop the cartels in Mexico due to the fact the cartels are not going to start allowing competition just because something is legal.
Or prices.You have it right up to the Mexican cartels part. There is no way they could compete with legal growers in the US, not unless the taxes were extreme.
Or prices.
Why would prices stay high? If Joe Blow down at the corner market wants to sell pot at outrageous prices, everyone will just go to Moe's down the block. It's called competition and a free market.
As long as the government stays out if it, doesn't outlaw it or impose outlandish taxes, the free market will see to it that prices stay low.
DId the prices in California go down once it became legal for "medical" use?
Yes we should legalize it. The punishments for it are extreme.Locking someone up for marijuana amounts to chopping someone's hand off for stealing or executing someone for speeding. Legalizing might increase usage since legality increases access, but its not like trying to legalize hard drugs or certain prescription drugs for recreational use. That said I don't believe for a second that the government can get rich off it in taxes due to the fact many people would be growing it themselves.Nor do I believe that every sick person could smoke a joint or eat some special brownies and be cured of some ailment or be alleviated of pain.I also don't believe it will stop the cartels in Mexico due to the fact the cartels are not going to start allowing competition just because something is legal.
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