re: Marijuana legalization in SEC states

I am legal medically. I think all people should have access, if they'd like. I smoked a few times in high school, did a decade in the military, and now smoke often.

Just grinded this up. Came in a "flight pack" of 5g, 5 strains. 30.269% thca/Total 31.77%

Harvest just made the largest acquisition in "cannabis history" a couple days ago. They absorbed Verano, which holds several brands, one being GoldLeaf.

(But hey, steer clear of that devil's lettuce. It's bad mmmkay.)

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This is a terrible argument. Your opinion is clouded by emotions.

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But a pot heads stoned "clouded" opinion is better??

Or how about the opinion of people who have invested in the legal future of weed...better opinion??

But cops, religious people, etc, shouldnt be listened too, cause it doesnt matter cause they all have "agendas".

Oh....and the alcohol comparison "argument" is lazy, and stupid. Classic potheads though.

I haven't smoked weed in months!

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When one encounters a mentality such as this, there's no need for rebuttal.....thanks for helping make my point.

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While I am all for legalizing and regulating pot, I do acknowledge there is an issue here. People who use hard drugs also use the wacky weed. And they drink.

Is weed a "gateway" drug or is it something that must of us can use wisely but some of us will abuse? Because that is alcohol as well. Only alcohol is far more addictive.

I still lean towards making weed legal but regulated. Ideally... yes... we wouldn't use weed or alcohol. But we will. The same with prostitution.

Better to regulate and control our vices I think. We are going to do them. Limit the damage they do and keep them under control at least. It is a slippery slope but things change over time. After all, 100 years ago heroin was a perfectly fine medicinal product to give to your children in cough medicine.

No. Just no. If the 49 other states want to legalize it I could get on board with that, I guess. That would send all the stupid fricking potheads here elsewhere, I expect.

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I lost a son to drug addiction and I know he started with pot.

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I am truly sorry to hear that, and that fact certainly puts your views on it into clearer focus. I lost my little brother who had his own battles, though his drug use was only a minor cause of his death. He was clean when he died in a car accident, but the people he was in the car with were not. Who knows where his life was headed, but he had just been accepted into culinary school when he died.

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Really? Alcohol has been "legalized" for over 80 years now on a national level, and look at our society because of it. When you legalize pot, you'll see usage skyrocket like you did alcohol since its legalization...and that comment about alcohol being "far more addictive" than pot is ridiculous. The strains we'll see (legal and illegal) of pot after legal approval will totally change the landscape, PLUS give society 80 years of free-hand abuse and watch what you'll be dealing with then

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Actually that is one of the ways you could tell Prohibition was not working as intended. The first year of Prohibition usage dropped like a rock. By the second year, however, it was up to about 70% of its consumption before Prohibition took place. There was just a lot of gang violence around it instead.

Legal breweries were going out of business left and right (probably where we got the super breweries that dominate American brewing now is that they were the ones to survive) while criminals gleefully took up the slack. Organized crime, a very small niche criminal activity back in the day (as it is now) expanded greatly as a result. Once Prohibition was appealed alcohol usage climbed back up... to where it was before we banned it. We actually drink less now then we did back then believe it or not.

Regardless, a Democracy (well a Republic in our case) exists to give power to the people. Or, here in the US, to give power to multimillionaires on both sides of the political fence who assure us they feel our pain and relate to us. If the people really want to smoke pot then they'll vote to make it legal and the multimillionaires will bravely invest in pot farms to become even richer.

Also assuming folks who disagree with you are in their twenties is a bit off the mark. I can assure you by the grey hair I see in the mirror (though its starting to fall out) and achy joints that some of us aren't Spring Chickens. I'm old enough to remember when MTV actually played music videos. Hell, I'm old enough to remember before cable came around.

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Also assuming folks who disagree with you are in their twenties is a bit off the mark. I can assure you by the grey hair I see in the mirror (though its starting to fall out) and achy joints that some of us aren't Spring Chickens. I'm old enough to remember when MTV actually played music videos. Hell, I'm old enough to remember before cable came around.

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You're obviously too intelligent to use the "if a few are different, then the premise is incorrect" approach to this. Look at the % by age of the population who approve of legalized pot, and you'll see what I was referring to.

"Once Prohibition was appealed alcohol usage climbed back up... to where it was before we banned it."
Isn't that an argument for not legalizing it?

"Regardless, a Democracy (well a Republic in our case) exists to give power to the people. Or, here in the US, to give power to multimillionaires on both sides of the political fence who assure us they feel our pain and relate to us. If the people really want to smoke pot then they'll vote to make it legal and the multimillionaires will bravely invest in pot farms to become even richer."
Question: would our society have been better off if we'd made cigarette production, sales and usage illegal before the country became addicted in the early 1900s?

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I think some people are just more risk taking than others, and some people are more pre-disposed to addiction than others.

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This is definitely true, even to the point that I'd say the great majority of it is genetic. This is why I so hate to see a youngster's path made easier by legalization. I definitely fit into that category as did my boy.