It really doesn’t make sense honestly, look at how volatile alcohol is and how they behave vs how people respond to weed, it’s night and day. Couldn’t they be wasting those valuable resources on real crimes with victims?
shareThere will probably be a Doritos shortage if weed is made legal all across the USA.
shareWeed is legal in California and some other states.
shareWeed zaps ambition.
Less ambition = fewer people willing to do hard work
Fewer people willing to do hard work = less GDP, less growth
Less GDP, less growth = crumbling state
Crumbling state = poorer nation
Poorer nation = unhappy people
Unhappy people = more weed smokers to be happy
"Don't worry, be happy"~ Bob McFerrin
Crumbling state is never because lack of ambition, but corruption.
shareThe people could lack the ambtion to tackle corruption.
Weed legalization might make for a happier nation, but it would be hard to argue that it makes a nation more economically competitive.
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/insights/110916/economic-benefits-legalizing-weed.asp
shareYou can argue the economic business model benefits of cigarette smoking also. It provides jobs, gives the state tax revenue etc etc.
But scientist have proven that pot smoking adversely affects the "get things done" part of your brain with prolonged use.
We have had a percentage of burnouts in our nation since the 1960's. The weed today is much stronger. It is safe to assume that legalization will increase the percentage of burnouts in the country.
"I was going to clean my room, but I got high, but I got high, but I got high." ~ Afroman
We can agree that legalizing marijuana has economic benefits.
Is there a scientific term for the "get things done" part of the brain? I'm not familiar with this.
These burnouts have managed to evolutionize weed as well as get it legalized, or at least decriminalized. We've come a long way from police throwing you in the pokey for finding a pot seed. That's impressive for a bunch of burnouts.
I personally believe social media is increasing the amount of burnouts in the human race, but I don't think it should be illegal.
"Everybody must get stoned"- Bob Dylan
I agree with him on the burnout thing, people are invariably far less motivated when they smoke weed all the time. There is that small fringe of functional users who it stimulates and they are able to lead a productive life as a stoner, but as a whole I think this is one of the drawbacks.
Having said that, I still think it should be legal as people are going to do it anyway and it’s far more benign than alcohol in most aspects.
A slippery slope argument. Only your opening statement is true. Beliefs like this are born of either uninformed conjecture handed down through generations OR watching someone close go down this path and extrapolating massive generalizations from one person's failings.
You must know that a huge % of the hard working blue collar workers of America smoke pot. Zapped ambition does not equal fewer people willing to do hard work. In my life, the harder the job I have had, the more of my fellow co-workers were stoners. The weed makes some people less likely to be upwardly motivated, not some opiate-den slug who won't work.
Scientific studies have been shown to be tools of those who fund them ... as proven by a scientific study. See what I did there?
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shareSpock would know.
shareI think it's SO sad that people are so committed to throwing away the totally awesome gift we're given of a clear and sharp mind by using drugs and or alcohol.....
shareIt's a gateway drug, meaning it gets people started on trying illegal substances. I don't give a damn what Colorado or other states say, it's bad for you. It's been known to cause a lot of damage to people's systems if smoked heavily, including making men sterile, and causing you to lose brain cells.
The only reason they made it legal was so they could tax it, but that hasn't really worked out, particularly in CA. It turns out that the medical stuff is heavily regulated, and many [original illegal dealers] who eagerly opened dispensaries (particularly in L.A.) were not aware you need a permit, and were arrested and shut down.
Then, it turns out, states like CA and CO didn't really profit from taxing this stuff, because the recreational users got fed up with the prices and went back to their dealers, who were charging less than the legal dispensaries. So the entire legalization thing was pointless. That, and Colorado doesn't want to admit that the crime rate and number of car-accidents due to pot-smokers went up a bunch after they made it legal.
What a load of BS prohibitionist propaganda. You really took what they taught you in DARE and ran with it, didn't you? The gateway theory has been debunked long ago and the only people who still believe this are out of touch dinosaurs like Joe Biden. Seriously, if weed is a gateway drug, what about alcohol? And if it kills brain cells, how did I buy my first investment property in my late 20's? I seem to be doing pretty good for myself, same as my friends and family who responsibly use the stuff.
And no, you clearly have no idea why it was made legal. It has nothing to do with taxes. Cannabis was legalized through Citizen Ballot Initiatives. Signatures were collected from the citizens to get something but on the ballot.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initiatives_and_referendums_in_the_United_States
Where in hell are you getting your information? CA and CO didn't profit from retail sales? You've got to be friggin kidding me! Colorado has now generated more than $1 billion in total state revenue from the legal marijuana industry, another milestone for the state that legalized cannabis in 2014. Yes, when prices were initially high at the beginning due to supply and demand, but now you can buy a gram of weed in Colorado for the price of a beer!.
Legalization was pointless? People aren't being arrested for personal possession and growing in their own homes, countless jobs, tourism, etc. How can you say with a straight face that legalization was pointless?
Do you have a non-biased citation that's not an opinion piece on how legalization directly correlates with crime increases? I doubt it..And as for traffic accidents, driving under the influence is obviously illegal. Like with alcohol, anyone caught breaking the law will be arrested.
Sorry to be blunt, I'm not sure if you're brainwashed by your conservative parents who you still live with as a grown ass adult, but you need to start thinking for yourself and stop buying into these ridiculous stereotypes about cannabis. Its 2020 and 67% of Americans want it legalized. Get with the times, sweetheart, or get the out of the way.
Yea to get people imprisoned to get the courts money.
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