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Think weed is harmless?

Helena Montana? My son lives less than an hour from Helena and I was just in Helena last month for work. I actually spent several weeks in Helena this summer for work.

The "casino" on every corner has done far more damage to Montana than the dispensaries have. The funny thing is, the casinos aren't really casinos, but liquor stores operating under the guise of casinos because some holy rollers thought it would be a good idea to not issue any more liquor licenses for liquor stores. So instead of liquor stores, we now have 7 "casinos" every block you drive.

You hardly even notice the dispensaries in Montana unless you look for them, and from what I have been told, the product sold in Montana is very weak.

I smell more weed in Kennesaw on an average weekday than I smelled over the past 3 years combined in Montana. The few people in Montana who smoke weed (few because there are few people in Montana period) were smoking weed before Montana made it legal.

What are you talking about?
Unless you've been going for quite a while I'm sure you wouldn't see the degradation. I have and it's been dishearteninig. The strength of the weed has little to do with it, it's the doper culture that's eroded the city.
 
Unless you've been going for quite a while I'm sure you wouldn't see the degradation. I have and it's been dishearteninig. The strength of the weed has little to do with it, it's the doper culture that's eroded the city.


You blamed the legalization of marijuana though, which just happened on January 1st of this year. You just proved my point. The weed was there long before it was legal.

The potheads are all over in Missoula. Helena is nothing but politicians, flight attendants, bureaucrats, fishing guides, political staffers/lobbyists/etc. Helena seems very quiet and dead every time I am there, and far tamer than any town in Georgia. It's the type of place that nobody goes to on purpose.
 
You blamed the legalization of marijuana though, which just happened on January 1st of this year. You just proved my point. The weed was there long before it was legal.

The potheads are all over in Missoula. Helena is nothing but politicians, flight attendants, bureaucrats, fishing guides, political staffers/lobbyists/etc. Helena seems very quiet and dead every time I am there, and far tamer than any town in Georgia. It's the type of place that nobody goes to on purpose.
I think a lot of it depends on your accepted level of societel degradation. Your baseline may be Kennesaw or some other community in GA. Mine may be different so we have varying levels of tolerance for that sort of thing. I get it.
 
My whole thought is, that I don't care if it is harmless, dangerous, deadly, violent, etc. The constitution does not grant the federal government the authority to regulate it, and as such, I don't want the federal government doing so. If a state's constitution grants the state government the authority to regulate it, have at it at the state level.


All that said, prohibition of ANYTHING has never once in the history of humans worked to prevent the doing of whatever the thing being prohibited is. Government prohibition does nothing to curb the use of that thing, but does create an illegal, violent, profitable market for criminals to engage in the production, transportation, and distribution of said prohibited thing. The crime from that criminal market is ALWAYS more violent and damaging than the thing being prohibited.

I don't understand the thinking of wanting the government to step in and exercise authority over you that it doesn't have, and wanting to create a violent criminal market for something that you and the government will never be able to prevent.

It's borderline mental illness.
 
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