rod
Retired 23 years
legalize it? all of it?
Build That Wall!!
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BrownFlush
Woke Racist Reigning Ban King
If we all could just be as intelligent as you.
Who is your 2020 pick for Dims?
BrownFlush
Woke Racist Reigning Ban King
DriveInDriveOut
Inordinately Right
BrownFlush
Woke Racist Reigning Ban King
Not sure about the first sentence .
Agree 100% with the second.
LarryBird
Well-Known Member
We've had worse ideas...
...like waging a WAR on substances which can never be won, because at no point in time has prohibition of something people wanted worked in the history of civilization, nor will it ever.
We can begin by using the model that's worked so well in Portugal, and decriminalize small amounts of all drugs for personal use. Part of the drug problem stems from the fact that once you've been convicted of a drug felony, your chance for a successful life is essentially over, and that helps to perpetuate the cycle of addiction and arrest. If you treat the problem instead of punishing the user, over time the problem will shrink.
I don't think the legalization of heroin and crack should necessarily happen, BUT if you take out the criminal element, and treat it/regulate it as a medical issue, the crime disappears - junkies will not commit crime if they're getting regular access to safe drugs from a medical/gov't program, and will actually become productive members of society who hold down jobs - just like the functional alcoholics and prescription opiate/amphetamine users we ALL already work with at UPS. If you think you don't work with some of these people already, you are nuts or fooling yourself.
By the way, the UK has been giving prescription heroin to addicts for years and it worked just fine. Society didn't fall apart, kids were not getting hooked at any greater rates, and the sky didn't fall.
MAKAVELI
Well-Known Member
Alcohol is by far worse than weed.
BrownFlush
Woke Racist Reigning Ban King
Sometimes.
rod
Retired 23 years
Trouble is is that most addicts don't want to be cured.
Are people getting incarcerated for pot usage? Thought it's not addictive.
MAKAVELI
Well-Known Member
Yes, in many states they have stiff penalties for marijuana possession. A lady in Florida was arrested at Disney World for CBD oil. And that doesn't even get you high. Smh.. ...
MAKAVELI
Well-Known Member
All the time.
Are people in prison for smoking pot?
Hey smart guy... This isn't Trumps Wall, it was private landowners that had this wall built. ttku
"The group has eyes on other areas where private landowners hold border lands and want a barrier to cut down on the illegal traffic across their property."
Now Trump has less wall to build.
DriveInDriveOut
Inordinately Right
No.
Cannabis usage is not illegal.
Possession of cannabis is illegal.
Which is why people are getting incarcerated.
Hope this helps buddy.
LarryBird
Well-Known Member
Let's try an experiment:
Why don't you head down to your local precinct, sorry, I meant the Mayberry county sheriff's office, and spark up a fat doobie snack. Blow a bomber hit in Andy's face, and then ask Barney if he wants a rip off your dosia, while you do that hold it in/talk/cough through the nose maneuver the reefer toking pros do.
If they try to arrest you, eat that
, and say "arrest me for what"?...Then report back with the results.
Genuinely curious what the outcome would be.
Old Man Jingles
Rat out of a cage
We'll see what Monkey Butt has to say about that!
Old Man Jingles
Rat out of a cage
It's certainly not the first time you have been wrong!
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