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Recreational Pot; has your view changed?
- Thread starter mkdhotrod
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The purpose of "law" was to line someone's pocket, then to have an excuse to seize assets, infringe on one's Constitutional Rights, and create revenue. $$
This countries obesity problem far outnumber any other addiction. I think overweight people shouldn't be allowed to eat fast food. Should we outlaw fast food altogether? What about the skinny folks that occasionally eat fast food? Why should they be punished because the obese eat fast food 2 or 3 times a day?
Addiction is bad regardless of the vice. Hunting, golfing, fishing, collecting firearms, eating, etc. Nothing in excess is good.
If they overdose and die, then they are no longer a problem.
What about the kids that consume a quart of liquor and dies from alcohol poisoning?
It happens more often than you think, but the media doesn't sensationalize it like "The War on Drugs"
Are you drunk? Or stoned? What are you rambling about alcohol for? If a county's residents want to keep their county dry, more power to them. I've said multiple times in this thread I don't think the feds should regulate marijuana (state issue) and I'm completely fine with medicinal uses and even OK with recreational use in the privacy of people's homes. Some of you would complain about being hung with a new rope.... made of hemp or otherwise.
The possession of Alcohol is not illegal in a dry county.
Selling alcohol in a dry county is illegal. Every dry county that I've ever spent any amount of time in, has bootleggers. So there's that. Problem solved.
If people want to ruin their lives, then you let them. It's like gambling. Right now there are talks of having an Indian Casino in Georgia. Why do that? Legalize gambling and allow GEORGIANS to offer gambling services to the free market. Those who disagree with the practice won't offer it; recently in Opelika (near Auburn) an old sporting goods store was bought by another family. That family stopped selling either alcohol or cigarettes (whatever the store previously sold) and cashing money orders to "create a more wholesome family environment". I'm sure it's costing them money but that's their principle and they're entitled to do so.
I knew of someone in college that got caught with some meth. A lawyer maneuvered the legal system and a charge seeking 10 years in prison was, after about two years IIRC, cut down to a suspended sentence and community service. How much money did that cost the State of Georgia to prosecute, and for what? Some community service work valued at minimum wage or so? That idiot last I heard is back to doing the same stuff and will probably be dead by the end of the decade. That's fine. Let God sort 'em out, not Georgia.
Each time you arrest someone on something like dope or guns or speeding violations, that's costing someone thousands of dollars. Housing, transportation, court costs, etc. That money has better purposes.
I knew of someone in college that got caught with some meth. A lawyer maneuvered the legal system and a charge seeking 10 years in prison was, after about two years IIRC, cut down to a suspended sentence and community service. How much money did that cost the State of Georgia to prosecute, and for what? Some community service work valued at minimum wage or so? That idiot last I heard is back to doing the same stuff and will probably be dead by the end of the decade. That's fine. Let God sort 'em out, not Georgia.
Each time you arrest someone on something like dope or guns or speeding violations, that's costing someone thousands of dollars. Housing, transportation, court costs, etc. That money has better purposes.
The freedom not to bake a cake is just as important as the freedom to have a gay wedding, but to force a church to allow you to have a gay wedding on their premises is just wrong.
Doubtful, when I was in high school it was easier to get a bag of weed than it was to get a six pack of beer. Pots every where and easy to get if you want it. Besides if you drive high it should be the same charge as driving drunk.
Either that or everyone flocks to the nearest store on the other side of the county. Can't tell you how many beer runs I rode in as a kid. Same for anything else; Georgia has a high gas tax. I live in GA/AL border. Know where I get my gas? Alabama. Offset is Alabama has a lot of crappy rural roads. Is this a problem? No. No reason why a low traffic rural road needs to be repaved every 5-10 years, if paved at all. Fireworks stores line Alabama and South Carolina borders because of the old laws GA had on fireworks sales. Just about as soon as you hit Alabama, you see signs advertising casinos. I know plenty of folks that live here in GA that drive down to Alabama every weekend to gamble. That's revenue we're losing because the folks in charge want to police morality instead of policy.
Close it down....this statement is so true....if the alcohol industry would just back off and realize they are the cause of so many deaths on roads,liver,anger probems and so on and so on....id rather meet 1000people on the road hi from pot than 1 drunk driving
