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Biden Says Marijuana Might Be A Gateway Drug

Discussion in 'Current Events' started by US Conservative, Nov 17, 2019.

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  1. Spim

    Spim Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    To my knowledge that particular grocery chain still drug tests, its just a thing, I could have gone to work for winn dixie (competitor) but they paid about 25c an hour less and by the time I became aware of weed (never really knew about it at age 14) it was too late I was already employed and doing well there, honestly the idea of changing employers to get high just didn't occur to me. We did do a lot of underage drinking, being as we were friends with Cashiers there so we had an "in" but it never got me into trouble. It did help that the cops were pretty laid back in the 80's, getting caught with a few beers wasn't a big deal until the lawsuits changed things, cops tightened up quite a bit in the 90's and now they are strict as hell.

    and yes, what kept me straight was my parents, getting caught smoking weed would have meant that my mother would find out, I was terrified of my mother!
     
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    The drinking and driving laws radically changed under age drinking, as I recall. I think that actually started back in the 80's, but I was legal and of drinking age by then. I do remember that when leaving or coming back to base, if you were driving, they almost always gave you a breathalyzer test.
     
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    God what an old man shaking his fist against the clouds.

    Weed was a gateway drug for me. In that when I tried it, and I didn't go insane, or try and murder people, or do any of the **** I was told would happen if I did, then I thought "Maybe all the stuff they said about other drugs is BS too". And thus...my 20s lol.
     
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    Will dem voters hold this against Joe?

    Nah. It won't matter.

    Dem Voters WON'T Care.

    They will just want Trump gone.:salute:
     
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  5. Robert E Allen

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    Everyone is addicted to something.
     
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    Biden is just a product of his time. The main reason why marijuana is still not legal on a federal level is because lawmakers of Biden's generation are still the ones making these types of decisions. We were all taught growing up that marijuana is a "drug" and "drugs are bad". But when you remove the label of "drug" then it becomes almost impossible to argue against the legalization of marijuana while hard liquor is legal in society.

    If children are the main concern then that again applies to alcohol. We should be banning all of these alcoholic beverages that are marketed towards "women" but are appealing to kids. Beer and whiskey are acquired tastes that many teens won't drink but they sure as hell will knock back a super powerful Four Loko or some MD 2020, and more recently White Claw's. Those things are arguably worse than a shot of whiskey because they taste "good" and sweet and have high alcohol content. I did it as a teen many years ago, as did millions of others, and I've lost count the number of times I've seen teenage friends of mine fall flat on their face from drinking a Four Loko that tastes like hard Kool-Aid. Plus even with hard liquor you can make drinks that don't taste "gross" that young people will drink. While many teens can't stomach a whiskey neat they can stomach a Crown and Coke or a Long Island Iced Tea.

    Point is, we are basically just making up reasons now to keep marijuana illegal because we were raised to believe that it's "drugs". But when you step outside of the box and look at this objectively I have yet to have anybody convince me that it makes sense for alcohol to be legal but weed shouldn't be.

    Sure it might be a gateway drug, but Smirnoff Ice is a gateway alcoholic beverage to stronger drinks. The first drink that many folks have is some concoction of alcohol that doesn't taste "gross". If we want to "protect the children" then we need to ban any packaged alcoholic beverage that tastes sweet. Can't do anything about folks mixing their own drinks but we can do something about companies packaging drinks to specifically taste like that.

    Or we could just stop being hypocritical and realize that alcohol is way worse than weed and legalize it and any and every negative aspect applied to weed can also be applied to alcohol 10 fold.
     
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    More research will have an impact upon the still undecided. Research is a good thing. First marijuana needs to be rescheduled thus opening the drug to more research.
     
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    With those kinds of numbers there simply must be a black market.
     
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    Like sugar for example.
     
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    Joe just needs to go. He is an anachronism. None of my democratic friends like the guy beyond his familiar antics and good nature. If he wins the nomination, I will vote for him but he will not turn out anyone for the left. Just go away Joe.
     
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    Maybe as a general principle research should be performed before passing laws making something illegal -- rather than passing laws making something illegal and then conducting research.
     
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    OK Boomer
     
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    Back in my youth it lead to potato chips, and Boone's Farm wine.
     
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    Yet marijuana is not the reason everyone has an addiction.
     
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    Maybe maybe not
     
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    the war on drugs is a gateway to crime

    you take a nice family drinking wine with dinner, arrest them for nothing more then drinking wine with dinner, give them a criminal record, it's the gateway to crime for many

    if you had to buy your milk from a drug dealer, milk would be a gateway drug... as your already at a dealer - the solution is to legalize Marijuana at the federal level
     
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    nowadays they have uber

    Bush Jr had a OWI, the conservative M.A.D.D group went away after he was elected

    http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/celebrity/george-w-bush-dui-arrest-record
     
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    No doing drugs while they are illegal causes ALL of the crime and those who do drugs ,buy illegal drugs, are guilty of all the crimes associated to making and selling drugs.

    You pot grower kills a cop= you killed a cop.

    Not the fault of the non war on drugs.


    If doing drugs is illegal it if your legal responsibility to not do drugs.

    Period end of story
     
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    BuckyBadger, Nov 18, 2019
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    kinda like the tea party is still around, just do not hear much from them, they went pretty silent after the Bush era
     
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    We jhve a case just breaking of two college professors manufacturing and selling METH in the university lab.
     
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    anti-drug policies support terrorists and gangs

    by your logic those helping to free the slaves were criminals

    bad laws are bad laws, period, end of story
     
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    Anti drug laws aren't bad... drugs are bad..

    Those who helped slaves were criminals. And heros.

    Comparing drugs to slaves is corrupt and offensive..
     
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    Does that include the biggest killer of them all, booze?
     
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    That's very true!
     
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