Recreational Pot; has your view changed?

[batoncolle]

Sure. When people realize that "rights" are not one-sided.

1. As a business owner, I will have the right to drug test you every day and twice on Friday if I so choose.
2. As a business owner, if I find drugs/alcohol in your system, I have the right to fire your ass on the spot, and you don't get to hide behind addiction or some other weasely ass nonsense.
3. If you're high and or drinking, and you take the life of another person - thus denying them their right to life, then you are eligible for the death penalty. And you don't get to hide behind some weasely ass "amount of drugs in your system" nonsense.

So quit denying others their rights, and you can have all the drugs you want - even twice on Friday if you so choose.

 

[jimipanic]

Legalize it, tax it and enjoy it ...

 

[crippen]

My view hasn't changed at all. Keep it illegal, shut that **** down in Colorado.
Flame on.

 

[InTune]

Legalize it and drug test people to get welfare. Employers can require drug free work place including the military. Testing for dui is tricky but they are working on it. It tests positive but the high is long gone. Just what I have read. They say not to drive for a day after smoking..Test results differ between regular users and some timers

We already have enough losers in this country, no need to create another huge do nothing group of givemedats that have no desire to work.

 

[fastfish66]

Dude y'all are much more libertarian than I remember! I love you guys. It seems like were either all for legalize and tax it to mixed feelings. Maybe the dissenters will login today and kick our hippy asses.. this is great discussion though.

IT'S HARD FOR ME TO LET PEOPLE KILL THEIRSELF WITH LEGAL SMOKES AND NOT POT. LEGALIZE IT,MAKE A BUNCH OF MONEY OFF IT

 

[BNB]

Charles Manson, Wayne Gacey and 3/4 of the 9/11 hijackers fully support your position.

Morphine has also helped millions of people, but should it be freely available to the public?

Lol,morphine has made folks into junkies.
Most of theze pill mills and docs are legalized dope dealers

 

[BamaFan]

The biggest reason it's not already legal is that the alcohol industry is spending half a billion a year to lobby against it. Alcohol has caused far worse problems than weed ever will. That is especially true when you consider all the people locked up for minor marijuana offenses. Families have been destroyed because the mom, dad, or both are in prison.

 

[Hayata]

Legalize and tax. Huge new revenue stream.

Frees up popo's time to do other stuff.

Let all the pot-only offenders out of jail - reduced burden.

Takes all those billions out of the hands of criminals/drug lords. Dollars stay in the States.

All those billions would go into legal enterprises in the US.

I think it would be a huge boon to the US economy.

Scientists would need some kind of field sobriety test for use in auto enforcement.

It could become legal but employers could still prohibit it.

 

[CBH13]

Charles Manson, Wayne Gacey and 3/4 of the 9/11 hijackers fully support your position.

Morphine has also helped millions of people, but should it be freely available to the public?

it also helped lead to some of the worst opiate abuse out there, I think most folks are much more worried about prescription pills these days than they are about weeed

 

[DinkyDau]

The biggest reason it's not already legal is that the alcohol industry is spending half a billion a year to lobby against it. Alcohol has caused far worse problems than we'd ever will. That is especially true when you consider all the people locked up for minor marijuana offenses. Families have been destroyed because the mom, dad, or both are in prison.

You bring up a good point on the alcohol industry, if you add in the Pharmaceutical industry, it would be much more. Both are threatened and spending a ton to keep it out.