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"When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things."
-- 1 Corinthians 13:11
This isn't 1975, people. You can lose your homes, your jobs, and... your children, for fucking around with illegal drugs. You might not like the law. You might not agree with the law. But you're not immune to it.
What's more, unless you're growing your own, you're making a market for an underground industry responsible for death tolls in the tens of thousands. There is a REAL drug war in Mexico. It's not just meaningless jargon leftover from the Reagan years. People die. And the war is spilling over our southern border. This is not, as some claim, a "victimless" crime.
Now, personally, I don't have a problem with changing the law. That's fine by me. Just so long as employers aren't forced to take on stoners and tax dollars are assiduously withheld from their use and maintenance. As long as you're not bothering the rest of us... smoke yourselves blue for all I care.
But since I don't see a scenario in which employers and taxpayers would be fully protected... I doubt we'll see any changes in the law soon.
Hey stupid........quoting Bible verses as a way to justify not legalizing pot is a bad move.
Did you know that cannabis oil was one of the ingredients of the Holy Anointing Oil of the Kings of Israel?
God's Chosen People (of which Yeshua was one, you know.....a Jew), used cannabis recreationally as well as medicinally. There is archaeological proof.
My point isn't about the Bible, stupid. Love the knee-jerk reaction though.
My point is about behaving childishly.
Hey, I've got a fairly Libertarian view of pot-smoking. But... what that means essentially is that you can't be impeding upon the Liberty of others while you indulge in your own. If your use of an illegal substance drives a market that gets people killed, if employers and taxpayers aren't free to tell you to go stuff yourself for your poor choices... then we're not talking about something that doesn't impose a cost to others.
Either get it legalized and make sure it's no one else's problem... or grow the fuck up.
I fear you credit some of the members with more intellect than they are capable of.