Only potheads are pro-legalization of weed

Why does tax have to be involved? That imposes the concept of still being an unlawful act made legal with the permission of government by paying a tax. That was the first rule tried for it's ban, having to pay a license tax that required one to possess before applying, a declared criminal act, and then no license being issued but a declared criminal being arrested.

And why is it that alcohol prohibition required an amendment to outlaw and another to not only repeal the prohibition but to also add Section 2:

So why is not a taxable act in contradiction to the law as a tax is but a method of prohibition. Tax rates can vary from $1.50 in DC and Maryland to $12.80 a gallon in Alaska. Now at $12.80 a gallon, does that not enter the range of prohibition for many of the poorer population? And this doesn't include the federal tax of up to $13.50 per gallon.

Yes, that's billions, just for the fed.

 

To end your post simply watch Sanjay Gupta's documentaries on it "Cannabis Madness 1&2". These 4 year olds having near death seizures aren't drug seekers, they just want to live without seizures.

Is Alcohol a Liberty? It has worse results by far. You probably see it as a Liberty because it's free now. That's the difference between a Conservative and a Liberal thinker. Conservatives simply don't like change to the current system because it's hard for them to follow.

I don't smoke weed and use to judge people for it like you. I even dumped women for using it because I was a moron.

As it turns out, it's extremely regulated by Big Gov. in Medical testing, yet it attacked Cancer in a test. What else has attacked cancer without regulation? If it's extremely regulated for testing and it's one of the only things that have attacked Cancer, why don't we allow more testing?

I'll let you Ketsup from there.

 

Ummmmmm..... no. I have no interest in marijuana. Smoking it, taking it in a pill form, etc., and I am all for legalization. I am far from a "pot head" and in honesty, I find such a description of those who approve of legalization as a gross miscalculation on your part.

 

It's propaganda, and it's blatantly dishonest. In The thread title, he is saying if you don't agree with him you are wrong.

 

Yeah, pretty much. I was actually astounded when I looked up the figures on the Federal Bureau of Prisons for the total percentage of incarcerations are due to drug related charges. It really does take your breath away.

https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_offenses.jsp

e Drug Offenses 93,821 48.4%

The only thing that comes next in line for that is cut by 1/3 and that is for weapons, arson, explosives - 31,676 - 16.3%

It means that we have three times the amount of people incarcerated in the federal jail system for drugs then we do for domestic terrorism.....

Again, it just takes your breath away.

 

Yeah it's pretty stupid to lock up people for doing the particular drugs that aren't legal.

As to the op, I asked him if the only people that were against prohibition were alcoholics, it didn't go well.

It's amazing we permit people to abuse alcohol but not thc. Alcohol related crimes are exponentially higher than pot related crimes if you don't consider the prohibition of it.

 

I sit my happy butt (don't know if the other word can be said here) at home when I drink. I am a responsible drinker. I do not go out to drink and do my drinking from home. I have heard too many horror stories. It happens, it is reality.

 

well than you are against prohibition, but not an alcoholic. thus the fallacy is exposed.

 

Wow, unexpected benefits.

 

So it's ok by you for others to be a little bit of a slave so long as you can pretend to be the master and determine that level of slavery? Mighty white of you as the saying goes.

Nothing like a total misconception of the philosophy of freedom and the meaning of a republic as the founding axiom of a once great nation.

 

Tax? Why is it that all those so called persons desiring freedom somehow deem being a slave is ok if what one had a right to do is restricted and taxed by the act of malum prohibitum and then think they are somehow free. And if you think the concept of Colorodo is somehow free, then perhaps you need to refine your interpretation of slavery.

 

Well, I am no Lemonade Lucy, as they used to call one of the first ladies during the prohibition movement.

Yes, the fallacy is exposed..... I like my spirits at home.

 

Hardy, har, har, that's a generalization at best.

There are people out there who use pot for medical conditions, often serious ones. Are you going to call those epileptic people "potheads" as well? Are you going to say those who suffer from nausea are "potheads" as well? Please.

 

Weed is a plant and thereby it cannot in itself cause any harm on anyone. Keeping it illegal is just as idiotic as illegalizing roses becauses "stastics prove every broken relationship starts with a rose". ;O

 

I'm looking at the revenue aspect. States can generate plenty of revenue from the legalized sale of marijuana.

 

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jacobsu...-the-price-of-pot-peace-looks-like-a-bargain/