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Spiffster posted:If it happens, Expect this crap to go to the Supreme Court. Hell, Obama is on record for defending the war on drugs, and Romney if he wins would most likely do the same.  The only thing that can probably stop a spread in decriminalization/increase in regulation is a concerted effort by interest groups with a lot at stake: namely alcohol.
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Gothy McAngstydie posted:The media (sans Fox News but there you go) loves legalization, just yesterday CNN reported on the legalization and what it means, and instead of spending the whole time spreading fear about injecting 3 marihuana and having a heart attack, they were throwing out puns like "Legalization: no longer a pipe dream" "Will other states juana legalize?" and "Legalization: spreading like a weed." They missed a lot of pun potential with the word "grassroots" but I think people are overestimating how much the media hates weed. The media thinks weed is hilarious. Americans love weed.
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QuarkJets posted:That doesn't make any sense. We shouldn't give a poo poo about the actual price, any tax revenue that is made is still greater than or equal to the tax revenue that we get from pot sales now (which is $0), and millions or billions of dollars are saved from no longer prosecuting and jailing people who are breaking an unnecessary law. Everything about this is a huge win even if you're like me and don't smoke pot SilentD posted:I know a lot of hardcore "legalize it all" (which is my position) advocates who wanted to use pot as a stalking horse for everything. Pot is a drug that most people agree should be legal, opiates, cocaine, acid, DMT, x, ketamine not so much. The logic is if you had sweeping drug reform some of those substances could ride in on pots coattails. But if you take pot out of the fight a lot of the support instantly vanishes.
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Cockmaster posted:Well, some of the main arguments for legalizing pot apply equally to more dangerous drugs (such as that there's nothing to gain from treating drug addiction as an offense to be punished rather than an illness to be treated). a lovely poster posted:The way I see it we either trust adults to manage their substance intake or we don't. Treating everything case by case is pretty drat pointless considering the most dangerous recreational drug of any meaningful popularity is already legal, alcohol.
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Politicians are increasingly finding themselves in a nebulous grey area of cannabis legalization where growing support makes full decriminalization seems inevitable but big, important voting blocks are still scared shitless of the stuff. The awkward years for a politician where the subtle differences in local support for legalization could mean the difference between winning and losing an election. Prepare to see years of political waffling as people like Cuomo desperately try to walk both sides of the issue: supporting decriminalization efforts as much as they think they can while going out of their way to ensure old people that they will keep this "gateway drug" out of the hands of kids. I'm looking forward to when it makes its way to the national presidential debates (if not 2016 then 2020) and some candidate supports legalization while opposing it in the same breath. SedanChair posted:A hipster lamented that federal legalization would lead to "big pot" cutting down on strain variety or something. It was silly. This led us on a journey to the heart of hipsterism itself. Just like big alcohol cutting down on beer and spirits variety...oh wait. cheese fucked around with this message at 06:08 on Jun 20, 2014 |
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