Recreational Pot; has your view changed?

[Kaotiktribe]

No opinion on it really. I do just see it as another drug

 

[BanjoJohn]

Do you feel an employer should have the right to fire anyone for any reason or not? it's not a slippery slope, it's a cliff. Some don't like cliffs (which I get). "Protections" are the slippery slope.

I believe that an employer should have the right to fire anybody anytime. My boss just wishes I'd come in and work more. lol

If you are worth piss in a bucket and you get fired, you really shouldn't have any problem finding work. Well, unless Obama gets reelected, then the jobs might get few and far between.

 

[BanjoJohn]

Drugs are personal choice and addiction is a medical problem.

I can't think of a single drug that should be illegal. It's not like that stops anyone anyway, and if you want to ruin your own life... have at it.

Addiction is also a personal problem.

 

[insulinboy]

I think the only reason they haven't made it legal is because they can't find a way to regulate it well. I have mixed opinions on it. I think that the few ruin it for the many as usual. I think what you do at our own home is your own business. If you are able to do it and not endanger me or my family I don't care.

Pretty much my thinking as well. Driving stoned isn't that much different than driving drunk (slowed reaction times, ect), but you cant exactly blow into a breathalyzer to determine if you are stoned, and the drugs are in your system for days even though the effects of the drug have worn off. That I think is the big dilemma for me. Of course there hasn't been much study on coming up with a way of scientifically proving how long ago you toked up either because it was illegal in the first place so it was a moot point when you did it, all that mattered was that it was in your system.

All that said I'm all for legalizing it. I grew up with a guy that was all kinds of ****ed up, but if he had a toke every once in a while he was a calm rational human being. I don't myself partake, but just because I don't like it or what it does to me why should I refuse someone it might help the right to use it? No different than the firearms argument to me in that respect

But then again I'm much the same about gay marriage. I don't think the state should deny people access to a marriage licence, I don't think they should require churches to preform the service (or bakers to make a cake) but if there is a church and a preacher willing, how does that effect me in anyway?

 

[rbstern]

I'm completely in favor of legalization. The only genuine social harm pot causes is the violence and chaos of the illegal drug trade. Like alcohol in the 1920s.

Want to argue it from a health perspective? Smoking related illnesses cause a crap-ton of deaths every year. We know the cigarette makers enhance the addictive properties of cigs, and now that they've paid a big fine, everyone seems to be ok with it. It's hypocritical in the extreme.

As for driving: There are lots of ways to drive impaired. Alcohol, drugs, being tired, texting, etc. The impairment is the illegal act, not the device or substance that caused it. Same argument that supports the 2nd Amendment: The wrongful use of the gun is illegal, not the gun itself.

Anyone who is a strong 2A supporter who is anti-legalization is a hypocrite.

 

[BanjoJohn]

Oh, goody.
And I know a lady who never used a car seat for her kids, and would let her toddler stand up on the front seat, hands on the dashboard, and ride around town like that. They were never in a crash and the kid wasn't harmed in the least.

Hell, that sounds just like my childhood, except instead of smoking weed, my pop had a PBR sitting on the dash.
Even better was that we rode in the back of the pickup at the age of 3 without adult supervision.

 

[timbgtm]

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.

The problem being those addicted to substances legal or not we will end up paying for there good time's of being high! Imagine the amount of money being spent drying them out, you have the cost of treatment.
Housing patients
Medical staffing
Medications ( not only the meds needed for recovery but meds for other issues they have!

Now if the patients don't end up in some type of state mandated treatment and end up homeless on the streets .
Either legal or not substances end up costing we the consumers with higher insurance rates on health and driving.

 

[BanjoJohn]

... and it would put more people behind the wheel of a car who have no business being there.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N900A using Tapatalk

That's right I'm sure you and many other "Ooo that dope be bad"would run out and buy an OZ, get stoned, get in your car and drive to the quicky store. DJD

So you think that people that smoke pot,(with it being illegal) do not drive?

You really should keep your comments to yourself, if that's all you could come up with.

 

[BNB]

Dont bogart that joint my friend....

 

[insulinboy]

You really should keep your comments to yourself, if that's all you could come up with.

Your opinion doesn't jive with mine so keep your mouth shut? I thought only liberals in college did that

I think as far as the driving thing goes there was a very small spike in auto accidents in Colorado the first few months of legalization that plained back off to normal numbers before the year was out, but I could be remembering incorrectly. Its been a while since I looked at the fact sheet