I first heard about it from Wikileaks (and smacked my forehead). ALWAYS follow the money...
https://www.google.com/webhp?source...pv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=alcohol industry opposing pot
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Recreational Pot; has your view changed?
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I first heard about it from Wikileaks (and smacked my forehead). ALWAYS follow the money...
https://www.google.com/webhp?source...pv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=alcohol industry opposing pot
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It was the $ half billion I was questioning, not their stated opposition. I found something that said one firm gave $25,000 seven years ago and another $10,000 since then. That was all I could find.
I don't care if it is good or bad. The federal government has no constitutional authority to criminalize it or any other narcotic. The DNA should be disbanded and ALL narcotics legalized. If a state wants to criminalize it, that is in them but the federal government has no business fighting a war on drugs.
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Where have you been? Don't you know it's the federal Nanny's responsibility to fix each and every problem, real and especially imagined, for each and every individual (I was going to say 'citizen' but that doesn't matter either).
Yeah, I'l looking for the article I read about it. I didn't pull that number from thin air - I'll find it eventually.
I have an uncle with PARKINSONS (for 12 years now), he used to be a high end cabinet builder and now he can't even walk across the room without falling or hold a glass of tea. He refuses to have brain surgery due to the unknowns but is open to other types of medication, according to research that I have done, MJ supposedly has some serious benefits for PARKINSONS patients regarding drastic reductions in motor movements. Oklahoma (where he lives) does not recognize MJ for medicinal purposes...so the option is off the table as far as he is concerned. Meanwhile, the medications that he has been taking for the past twelve years (to reduce motor movement) have started making him see "things" to the extent that they had to remove pictures from the walls and shelves because he was seeing people come out of them. I am all for legalizing MJ, I don't partake but the medicinal uses alone would make it worthwhile IMHO...
I believe it very well could be the right thing to do but heavily regulated. Don't have it just at any convince store for purchase, employers still drug test and can deny employment for use of it. What somebody does in their own home is their business.
that is the point I'm trying to make, if Marijuana was legal do you believe crime rate would stay the same or increase? I doubt it, I'll use the Georgia dept of corrections as an example, many of the offenders have a below average IQ, they get locked up just once or twice for misdomeanor Marijuana many of them look at it as they might as well continue breaking the law, slowly working up to committing a felony, weather it's trafficking, dealing, burglary or robbery. But that's just my opinion.
I just read that another "hidden" opponent of legalization are the private prison companies and the prison guard union.... That's messed up - an economic incentive to lock up as many people as possible.
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I'm still confused.
My "opinion" is that those teens who currently illegally use recreational pot are more prone to break other laws. "Bad boy syndrome". Making it legal I doubt would have any material impact one way or the other on their propensity to commit other crimes.
I'm still confused.
I'm about the same age as you but when I was a teen, the "freaks" or "heads" as we called them were actually not troublemakers or law breakers. They just wanted to get high and go to concerts. As an adult, if I had to choose, I'd hang out with potheads over drunks. I've never seen anyone get high and want to fight everybody....
