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Well said.
Nov 25, 2019 4:51 PM
LegalizeMarijuanaTexas
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Well said.
JHassium
As soon as a valid test gets developed to test for THC DUIs
buttwheek
Legalize and stop the damn cartels profits of death.
IJE72
Spent so much on weed, he could only afford to live in a trailer in parking lot
leroy666
Drove a Camaro, tho.
DeadArcadian
The only reason I actually care about legalizing weed is so that weed people will that the fuck up about it
Netherlock
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Tarlon
How I about I let you have your weed, and you let me have my beer?
buddbilly
Such a Maverick
Rawpillow
Such an idiot really.
MyPowerLiesInMyBookshelf
MadFamousLove
i mean i agree on cannabis legal, it's great here in canada, alcohol is more dangerous illegal than legal tho, as with every other drug.
LikeTotallyNotTheNSA
ok, get out.
adamrac
The police have files on him in Rockford, they call them...
shouldhavemadebetterlifechoices
Matlock
Pwnius
Habitual use of marijuana increases your risk of stroke 3.5x. This man died of a stroke in 2008.
squreky
Make weed legal but don't make alcohol illegal. I love my craft beer
lostsoulmumei
The US has already tried to make alcohol illegal. The alcohol won.
leroy666
And would again. You finally getting the idea that prohibition of any kind is futile.
TheFizzicist
Tbh I don't care if weed is legal, but it should be treated as the same as alcohol if you are driving under the influence.
Cranbananarama
Legalize everything. Even murder. But have that restricted to battle arenas. Or New York.
Btint11
I dont think we should be promoting drug use either way, unless it is medically necessary.
GrosseChung
Shouldn’t even be surprising, once you actually know anything about it.
xKaraKx
Decriminalize every drug, then treat addiction like a mental health issue rather than criminal. Problem solved
natabus
Dude... you sound positively Portuguese!!!
JaimeFookinLannister
Idk why the downvotes, it's the obvious solution. It'd massively cut down on gun violence and give cops less excuse to harass minorities too
Treblaine
True, decriminalize =/= legalize. Basically, users aren't prosecuted, only the suppliers. The de-facto status in many states.
applesforjuice
If you think you'd be a shit person if you didnt smoke every day maybe you're a shit person with shit opinions
Aimela
From an outside perspective, weed is better with some people than others. Some get a little too consumed by it.
azazyel
My mom now uses CBD lotions and stuff
CatsUpvoteTerror
Actor trying to give health advice
RtsWillH1Mself
I absolutely agree it should be legal. But this mentality could be dangerous. It should not be thought of as a crutch, rather a privelege.
Ripplingtwinkie
I don’t think alcohol should be illegal. You can make it at home easily.
ACSwineburne
Lol - you can make it accidentally. Trees in my backyard plop out fruit that ferments and there are tiny little organic stills everywhere.
Jimbo1956
Watch Ken Burns documentary on Prohibition. ALOT of bad things resulted from it.
panamjck
Just like meth? If I believe everything from breaking bad...
terryr
Listening to celebrities should be illegal. Their opinions somehow became important and knowledgeable, when they're mainly stupid.
leroy666
If you think celebrities are mainly stupid, how did you vote? Celebs are just a smart or stupid as us, and have the same right to opinion.
RickyLs
Is there some correlation between voting and intelligence? Please, do elaborate
leroy666
Given the twat in the oval office, there must be. Looking from a distance, stupid is as stupid does.
terryr
The same, not greater. How did this anti-vaccine get started. From scientists? No, celebrities.
EvillBob
I ain't giving up my sipping whiskey because some old fuck smoked a doobie and had a big brain moment.
SanguinariAlativari
Ew why whiskey
leroy666
I perceive he was saying his druthers, not making a attempt to bring back prohibition.
YourIceCreamMan
Alcohol in U.S.: 100,000 deaths per annum, 10,000 killed in car accidents. TWICE as deadly a drug as HEROINE. Drink Up!
RickyLs
Methinks those numbers are probably favoring the idea that one is legal and the other isn't (besides obvious prescription)
YourIceCreamMan
Your phrasing leaves me not understanding your point. I'm at the mercy of information available through Google. Heroin: CDC.Gov ->
YourIceCreamMan
88,000 per year for booze (not 100,000): niaaa.nih.gov
sackofmeat
or... OR we could just make them both legal.
Jagerfr34k
Alcohol is legal silly goose
Niggler21
we did. ya canada
924Carrera
Only one mind-altering substance can be legalized at a time, just as the Founding Fathers intended. /s
YesYouJustLostTheGameAgain
The thc infused tequila was quite the experience. Akin to a mushroom high!
Ac1dBurn72
Right? I toke with a dram of good bourbon is what we in the south like to refer to as "Friday Night"
Thiccysmols
Im in Canada and high as a kite while reading this, its dope
Cheesses
I mean both are legal in canada
thebishboy
And California
zebulorg
And DC
Treblaine
"Let's ban alcohol, what's the worst that could happen?"
GhostofCain
Poor snakes.
ImTheProfessor
Keep the change, ya filthy animal.
morbida
Never heard of a case of a stoner going on a murderous rage while intoxicated. There’d be a lot less crime if ppl just chilled tf out
maxwilder
I agree, but I have to say there’s a stronger argument for banning alcohol than weed. More to point out how dumb it is to ban weed.
AllisAching
Yyep. More business opportunities. And maybe people would buy marijuana instead of other illegal stuff then. More taxes for gov as well.
MufinMcFlufin
But then you're cutting the profit of prisons! /s
ThisDique
More money for them to find a way to waste. In California cumulative taxes are closer to 50%. They pull money from 911 services for the fair
ThisDique
And other types of unnecessary expenditures. Tbh we need artificial intelligence in politics more than anything.
AllisAching
I'm not from America. But what I think is. That punishment aren't severe enough to give others a lesson. And there's less check and balance.
AllisAching
And Artificial Intelligence should be involved in the check and balance measures only. And more information should be transparent.
DurendaI
Fuck yeah Psycho Pass here we come.
ButterfaceTaintClown
and decriminalise heroin, and make support services more accessible.
IDKandIDC
The people downvoting you are wrong.
ThanksIHateThis
Absolutely. Prohibition doesn't work.
FarenDin
as a guy who grew up with a drug addict father. i agree. the laws we have now help no one but private prisons and drug lords make more money
vicvalour
Throw people in jail for making it and distribution, not for buying $10 worth because they're addicted
LaronX
See Portugal. But then again if the USA did they might implode form the social policies they have to support and not demonise people.
QueenCousland
What? No! We can't do that, heroin is evil! And it's not like doing that has worked out for any other countries OH WAIT.
Cottonpicker6000
Yeah the people downvoting you dont understand what decriminalisation means or the benefits it can bring..
Rektastic
"but my privatized prison won't get as much profit if nobody's getting arrested for stupid stuff"
StrawberryPrincess92
Abolish Private Prisons.
ladybuglauren
He's not wrong though - alcohol is just a poison that actually kills people daily... it SHOULD be illegal.
GreatScatt
Alcohol is wonderful. Cars actually kill people hourly...they SHOULD be illegal.
WellWellWellLookWhoItIs
They tried that. All it did was make some people blind and other people rich.
Nobody7713
If it was illegal it'd still be killing people daily, but then they'd also be afraid to go to the hospital for treatment.
ButterCremeDoxy
Why should we make alcohol illegal just because some folks can't moderate themselves on it. That's their prob, not mine.
leroy666
Until the drunk guy runs over your kid.
ButterCremeDoxy
I've had several friends die because of drunk drivers.
GhostofCain
Not sure why this gets downvotes, it's a fair point. It's society's problem - and one that affects many people directly.
EvillBob
No it's not, it's already illegal to drink and drive. Going beyond that continues to erode freedom.
GhostofCain
It does not erode freedom really - or necessarily - but people should have freedom from alcohol related crime, too.
EvillBob
I'll take freedom of choice over freedom from it, thank you very much.
leroy666
more to the point, it doesn’t work.
NoItsATideUsername
But how will we continue to supply the for-profit prison system???
historymaker121
Hang on...let the Epstein thing work itself out. Got plenty of people lining up here real soon.
SpoilGOTandDie
Make corruption illegal?
DarkSock
Jail politicians who consort with Russia
parasP6rsas
Well, if alcohol is illegal, then with all the alcoholics of course.
tomyironmane
Let's lock up Congress.
brassfist
Weebs. We will lock up all the weebs.
SithShodan
p-pwison?? OwO
Chronoroth
Daruni
QueenCousland
Fuck. I remember when I first saw that. Fuuuuuck.
YourMomsBoyfriendRandy
Imagine the tiny katana toothbrush shanks.
SgtDefaultGN
Fighting over a pillow-wife.
Ketheres
isthatwhatthemustacheisfor
ClamScam
Cant believe all the downvotes! Just have to keep Minimum Sentences that takes the discretion of judges out of the equation, smart merica
Treblaine
He said legalise weed, not crack. Crack is the prison packing drug because it puts away mere users for decades not months.
pleaseconsiderthatImightbejoking
But you gotta start with ruining their life for weed so they'll try crack.
Treblaine
That's the "gateway drug" idea. The reality is jail time for weed use is VERY rare, years in jail for crack possession is extremely common.
Treblaine
https://www.aclu.org/other/cracks-system-20-years-unjust-federal-crack-cocaine-law a crack user caught with a single "hit" can get 20 years.
Ekad
Car accidents. Seriously, the amount of people in prison because of a crash astound me. The stories I can tell..
waitwasthatreal
Except the number of people in prison for marijuana possession is negligible.
ElbowDeepInASeahorse
How does that make it okay?
waitwasthatreal
It doesn’t, but it certainly isn’t supplying the prisons.
bilateralunsymmetry
Source?
Daruni
Seriously, source?
NoItsATideUsername
Google prison population marajuana
Daruni
Yes, I know how to find the information myself, I'm not certain the person staking the claim does, which is why I asked. To encourage them.
NoItsATideUsername
He’s correct. 99% of drug offenses are trafficking/selling. Legalizing pot will still make an enormous dent in half of the prison population
waitwasthatreal
No it won’t, marijuana related offenses are about 10% of drug offenses.
NoItsATideUsername
10% of half the prison population would be over 100,000 people. That's an enormous dent in my opinion.
mercbrit
Had a massive stroke in 2008 and died of chronic heart disease. I suppose you have to die of something.
OneAngryDwarf905
Life is terminal, the best you can do is try to go on your osn terms.
Vaanhalen
Smokin
owQuitit
Steaks should be illegal
Honorius
Neither of those things are caused by marijuana so this is a red herring
mercbrit
Don’t bring herrings into this! They are innocent.
MestreMalcot
But you ok now?
JimmiRustler
Ok and?
ten80pee
He died in 2014.
rusrsdude
I think what they meant was that he also died of chronic heart disease not that he died in '08
FatBastardVegetarian
Ummm... he was 86.
MakeItBackAlright
FYI guys, atherosclerotic disease is exacerbated by smoking. Not saying 100% it's causal but it probably wasn't doing him any favors.
MakeItBackAlright
And before anyone points out anything dumb like "it wasn't tobacco!" It's free radical damage to the intima that's the mechanism, which is
MakeItBackAlright
anything burning.
Slappydupappy
Yeah except when you smoke marijuana you 'smoke' about 1/8 the amount of a cig, & then you also dont smoke 6 more cigs per day for 40 yrs.
MakeItBackAlright
Everyone has different sensitivities. You also don't hold cigarette smoke in your lungs.
supremedingbat
Died 6 years after the stroke... something kept him going.
swephisto
His legs?
fbutt09
Hope
OneAngryDwarf905
Ganja! If nothing else it makes you care less....not careless...
DarkSock
Yeah how dare that asshole age and pass away
panamjck
Now I don't believe anything he said!
dogfrost9
The nerve of some people!
NoItsATideUsername
Cheeseburgers will do that
StormbreakerBRB
He wouldn't have eaten so many cheeseburgers if he didn't have the munchies from all the weed.
mercbrit
mactoid
Seriously??? He died at age 86. If cheeseburgers are going to get me to 86, serve up two!!!!
nonamejanie
Exactly
Foucont
Not likely... The autopsy would have concluded it to have been bovine heart disease
nonamejanie
Sometimes artery blockages are a hereditary thing. You can live a super healthy life and still not prevent heart disease.
mercbrit
Yes. Ignore the obvious and attack cheeseburgers!
anyzen
while smoking cannabis is risky for people with heart disease i can't find a link b/t cannabis and heart disease??
NoItsATideUsername
Is obesity being the most prevalent cause of heart disease in the US not the obvious?
mercbrit
Not when the post was about cannabis.
Honorius
There’s literally zero scientific evidence that marijuana leads to stroke. CBD has actually been used to treat stroke victims...
Wolvenlight
I mean, he was about 80 when he had the stroke and 86 when he died. Hard to pin that on anything except old age without more information.
NoItsATideUsername
So because the post didn’t mention the real world fact that obesity is the #1 cause of heart disease in the US we should ignore it?