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from:msnbc.comArizona to vote on legalizing medical marijuana
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We do not need to "follow" California. The big problem with medical pot is the abusers. Druggies in California talk about how easy it is to get script from almost any doctor.
As soon as we pass medical pot, the druggies will demand we make the crap legal for them. This is what is happening in California.
We need to find a way to help this girl and others like her, without opening the barn doors.
Open the "barn doors", its pot. I think this new proposal is way too restrictive but it is a first step I guess.
Not only "druggies" think legalizing pot is the way to go but so do people that think the prisons are over crowded with petty pot crimes, or people that think it would be a great way to tax something that is by choice. I.e if you don't use it then you don't pay the tax like we do for cigarettes and alcohol.
Cardinals: Did you know, If you buy cookies or cheese, you are paying the cigarette mega fines?
Good point AZ T, but at least opening the barn door would give us better control over pot. To many accidental criminals have been created with our current attitude.
I knew a really bright kid a few years ago, had a lot going for him in the computer industry. Just before he went to college his father invited him to share a couple of drinks (he wasn't 21 yet) so that he would have an idea of why drinking at college wasn't a good idea. Hey some people even the police who came by thought that was a good idea.What better way to gain understanding than by experience?
Two months after going to college he was at a friends house. His friends were smoking pot. He decided to try it just to see what all of the hoopla was about. The cops came in just when he happened to be holding it to his mouth. Busted, lost his scholarship, lost his offer of a good job after graduation and now has a permanent criminal record.
This young man is not prone to lying and when he tells me that that was the first and only time he ever tried pot, I believe him. Now he works as a store clerk.
The tax that the government will collect on the sale of pot, when you consider the extremely large numbers(including cops and government officials) of people who use it will be quite usefull. Plus the added bonus of putting many a dealer and cartel out of business. The tobacco companies will take over the majority of distribution. A few farms will be saved by switching crops. As with booze the criminal element will never be totally eliminated, but it will be greatly reduced.
No AZ I did not know that. What I do know is that there is heavier tax on cigs then there is on cookies and that should be with regards to pot as well.
"Druggies", who came up with that?? Acceptable to have a glass of wine, have a couple of beers on the golf course, a spiked punch bowl at the wedding, a champagne toast, but not to smoke a bowl of weed at the end of the day to help you relax and take pain away in leiu of a prescribed drug that may eat at your internal organs (do you know how many people die each year because of pain killer usage??), or an anti-depressant that actually makes you crazy. Do you know how many cartels will fall apart without the profits from their smuggling pot into the USA? Arizona Tumbleweed-do you ever drink alchohol? As the child of an alchoholic, I find it ridiculous that alchohol, which does major damage in the USA every single minute of every single day is legal and pot is not. Figure it out, I'd rather my surgeon smoke a joint at night then have cocktails, the likelihood of an alchoholic blackout while I'm on the table would very unlikely-quit smellin' your butt!