I could have sworn I smelled doobage....
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UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
Well-Known Member
Legalize it and tax it.
Johney
Well-Known Member
It can't hurt.
soberups
Pees in the brown Koolaid
I have been sober for 15 years, but if I wanted to buy weed right now it would take me about 15 minutes to find some.
As a practical matter, prohibition has failed. It serves no purpose but to fuel a potentially violent and destructive black market. The millions of tax dollars that are currently being wasted on enforcement could be turned into millions of tax dollars collected through legalized and regulated sales, which could then be used to fund drug treatment programs.
barnyard
KTM rider
Only hire guys named, 'Dave' to be revenue agents.
old brown shoe
30 year driver
I only see two things wrong with weed. 1 Laws 2 price. I really think it is a safer drug than alcohol. I don't use weed but have seen a lot more problems with people who drink than smoke pot.
Brownslave688
You want a toe? I can get you a toe.
Yes personally I've never smoked before but I've been around a lot of it. Give me a choice and I would much rather be around a bunch of high people as opposed to a bunch of drunks.
barnyard
KTM rider
There was a thing on Nat Geo (I think) interviewing ER people about drugs. They all said that drunk people always want to fight and stoners just want to relax. The consensus was that it was easier to treat stoned people than drunks.
Anonymous 10
Guest
Dude you live in Oregon what do you expect. It's like the pot capital of the USA.And I was right!
Anonymous 10
Guest
420 just kidding
Brownslave688
You want a toe? I can get you a toe.
Yes my wife was a nurse at a hospital whose phsyc ward got eliminated so all detox patients came to here. Almost got fired one night when she punched a drunk that kicked her in the face. She said it was amazing the restraints they would get out of.
W
want to retire
Guest
Sorry. Disagree. IT'S NOT ABOUT REVENUE! And the idea that we can tax it and then provide help for the users is absurd. If legalized, I believe usage would go way, way up. And how do you determine who is too "stoned" to drive, teach school etc.? And if it's just relaxing/recreational you should be able to regulate yourself....right? It will never work. And just like cigarettes, there will be a black market....guaranteed. This idea about legalizing it just for the tax money is intellectually vacant.
Johney
Well-Known Member
I assume the general idea would be much like alcohol, don't drink and drive don't drink and teach. Of course there would be a black market, there's a black market for just about everything. Manly because people will steal it and sell it cheaper to get money. Nothing different then how the world works now.
rod
Retired 22 years
Naw----Thats way too good looking a crop. The stuff in my back yard grows wild and is called Mn. Green. Rumor has it you have too smoke a bunch of it to get a buzz going. I wouldn't know-------------------------I don't inhale.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bktd_Pi4YJw
barnyard
KTM rider
You are right. It is not all about revenue. It is also about frivolous prison sentences. Lots and lots of 3 strikes people in jail for weed violations. The war on weed has been hellishly costly. Time time to end it.
UnconTROLLed
perfection
Dracula
Package Car is cake compared to this...
OK, at the risk of pee-ing everyone off here..and really, what do I care? I don't...Weed should be legal...many of us smoked it happily until some law pushed us back. Gateway drug?? PUL-LEEZE...You wanna talk gateway drugs? I'll give you a gateway drug. Milk. Yes, Milk. Every flucked up drug user I've ever known started out on milk. Maybe breast milk, maybe the bovine milk...but that milk was a gateway to every other drug known to mankind.
Yeah, wind-up and swing away...Is there a bigger gateway drug than al-KEY-HOL? Drink a bottle of Pinot Noir, a 12 pack of micro-brew, and you might smack someone, you might drive your car in the wrong lane and kill a car of nuns, you might rant all over this web site...OOPS...Seriously, if you've never used cannabis, you might be accused of stupidity, or you might be accused of cruelty by someone who needs it for an aide to their cancer. Or, oh who am I kidding, maybe they just like to smoke a big fattie and listen to some Lynyrd Skynyrd while you slug down a half a bottle of Jack Daniels. Who are you to say you are better than the guy or gal who smells like burning rope?
Jump over your fat self....
Yeah, I know I just peeed off anyone who ever read my posts. Do I care? Flick no. I don't even smoke anymore. My pee is as clean as...pee..I guess..can be. But it still stinks on my fingers...Don't ask me how...It was from the 'legal' drug, booze, that I pissed on my hands.
So spare me the sanctimonious BS about how MJ is killing brain cells and ruining this country. That argument dried up back in '67.
Yeah, wind-up and swing away...Is there a bigger gateway drug than al-KEY-HOL? Drink a bottle of Pinot Noir, a 12 pack of micro-brew, and you might smack someone, you might drive your car in the wrong lane and kill a car of nuns, you might rant all over this web site...OOPS...Seriously, if you've never used cannabis, you might be accused of stupidity, or you might be accused of cruelty by someone who needs it for an aide to their cancer. Or, oh who am I kidding, maybe they just like to smoke a big fattie and listen to some Lynyrd Skynyrd while you slug down a half a bottle of Jack Daniels. Who are you to say you are better than the guy or gal who smells like burning rope?
Jump over your fat self....
Yeah, I know I just peeed off anyone who ever read my posts. Do I care? Flick no. I don't even smoke anymore. My pee is as clean as...pee..I guess..can be. But it still stinks on my fingers...Don't ask me how...It was from the 'legal' drug, booze, that I pissed on my hands.
So spare me the sanctimonious BS about how MJ is killing brain cells and ruining this country. That argument dried up back in '67.
laffter
Well-Known Member
People can grow their own fruits/vegetables, yet they still buy them at the grocery store. The government still rakes in loads of revenue from sales tax on that. Including myself, people are lazy, they'd rather buy it instead of grow it.
menotyou
bella amicizia
It looks like 'Diesel'. Not that I would know what that looks like.
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