Someone said alcohol isn't safe so you may want to stop poisoning yourself.My older brother left as a spark chaser on B52s and came home a pot smoking alcoholic and it took him more than 40 years to hit bottom, and by then his body was shot. He currently has about 1/3 of his bladder left after cancer, is catheterized all the time and is going blind from glaucoma, has COPD and his liver is barely hanging on
Can't say how much or how little to credit to the weed, but that life was often what seemed to drag him back under when he seemed to be making progress. I find the stuff and those who peddle it detestable, feeding off the misery of others just like any other drug dealer
I don't smoke, I don't drink to excess but I do drink a little scotch now and then or wine with dinner. I have no use for other drugs
Moderation and self control. I see nothing wrong with this:Someone said alcohol isn't safe so you may want to stop poisoning yourself.
My older brother left as a spark chaser on B52s and came home a pot smoking alcoholic and it took him more than 40 years to hit bottom, and by then his body was shot. He currently has about 1/3 of his bladder left after cancer, is catheterized all the time and is going blind from glaucoma, has COPD and his liver is barely hanging on
Can't say how much or how little to credit to the weed, but that life was often what seemed to drag him back under when he seemed to be making progress. I find the stuff and those who peddle it detestable, feeding off the misery of others just like any other drug dealer
I don't smoke, I don't drink to excess but I do drink a little scotch now and then or wine with dinner. I have no use for other drugs
And they are very much related.You can't arrest your way out of the drug crisis any more than you can arrest your way out of the mental health crisis.
My older brother left as a spark chaser on B52s and came home a pot smoking alcoholic and it took him more than 40 years to hit bottom, and by then his body was shot. He currently has about 1/3 of his bladder left after cancer, is catheterized all the time and is going blind from glaucoma, has COPD and his liver is barely hanging on
Can't say how much or how little to credit to the weed, but that life was often what seemed to drag him back under when he seemed to be making progress. I find the stuff and those who peddle it detestable, feeding off the misery of others just like any other drug dealer
I don't smoke, I don't drink to excess but I do drink a little scotch now and then or wine with dinner. I have no use for other drugs
...maybe it's time to try something else.
Nor is it moral to do so.Sorry to hear your brothers story. We know that around 10% of humans have addiction issues no matter what everyone else does. It is not practical to criminalize the other 90% because 10% have the issues.
Well articulated…This is not new. It's not just Democrats or Libertarians (or libertarians ) who want to see this happen. This includes INGO 2A hero Jim Lucas.
Note the letters next to the names of those who introduced related bills last session.
I wouldn't vote for a Democrat, but I would call my reps and strongly encourage them to vote with Democrats on any bill that would move toward legalization.
Drugs ruin lives. Alcohol, tobacco, opiates, etc. — all legal across the country within various restrictions and oversight — ruin lives every single day.
Prohibition helps no one but the rent seekers (e.g. Lilly); it's very hard to compete with a remedy that one can grow in a ditch or a backyard or a basement that can't be patented. All of the people you have known and loved who have suffered from their use or misuse of marijuana in spite of a decades long war on drugs.
Imagine if we were able to use half the existing enforcement budget to send the same folks currently being sent to jail or prison — where they learn to do real drugs, and real crime — and instead sent them to rehab or other treatment programs to actually try to help them turn it around.
Prohibition hurts plenty of people who have harmed no one but themselves. It does catch and punish some who do harm others in operation of their black market operations or pursuit of drugs.
Prohibition of marijuana specifically hurts a lot of people who don't break the law. Who won't break the law. Who can't get the simple and relatively inexpensive relief that marijuana offers for numerous conditions.
The participation in such black markets isn't, in most cases, due to an innate desire to be criminal; it is a function of economics, another name for the human constant of risk-reward assessment that drives all of our actions. The higher the risk, the higher the economic reward, and the higher the likelihood some will be willing to take the risk of running afoul of the law.
I have no illusion that these black markets would completely dry up in the face of legalization, as there will certainly be taxes or other regulation folks will want to skirt, and many of those already used to the cash flow will likely pivot to those substances still highly restricted. Even so, that is no excuse to continue to prohibit this relatively harmless substance to the detriment of society.
We are not children. The government is not our daddy, our mommy, or our nanny, or our master.
I'm always amazed at how many people around here seem to understand that when it comes to guns, but can't seem to complete the analogy on certain other topics.
I get that emotion often undermines logic and sometimes conviction; the arguments I've seen against legalization seem to suffer from this fate. Many of them are based on the premise that bad things have happened, and bad things might happen again.
Lest you forget, the possibility of bad outcomes is one of the cornerstones of most anti-gun arguments.
"But people sometimes use guns to murder people" - murder is already illegal; many people use guns to protect themselves.
"But people steal to feed their drug habits" - stealing is already illegal; many people use cannabis products to improve their quality of life.
If one doesn't see the similarities, he is blinded by something.
Life is full of risk. There are plenty of legal ways one may choose to ruin his life. There are plenty of ways some might harm others.
I believe crimes should require harm of some kind against another person or their property.
Possessing or using cannabis alone doesn't meet that bar.
In short, I prefer "the tempestuous sea of liberty".
We should start and promote making all mind altering intoxication not cool.
The anti-smoking campaigns have worked pretty well to make smoking no longer cool. Something along that line would do well to promote not altering people's mental status with any chemical.
Bottom line, we shouldn't change any laws. Just change attitudes about how to live life.
Don't care what anyone thinks this is going to happen within the next 10 years probably more like 2. The Dems will more than likely push for legalization in an attempt to Garner support in 2022
Theyre scared sh!tless theyre going to be the minority come 2022 elections. God forbid they get support from performance and merit..This is why you are hearing about it now.
Looking for support wherever they can get it.