Gov. Stitt declares Oklahoma special election for recreational marijuana vote

[trekrok]

There are already too many degenerates. If we look around it is easy to see we have a whole society of screw ups who want everyone else to work while they sit unproductive and lazy. Look at the thread about the guy reporting his work experience. The worst thing is that the other employees he is talking about are the ones that are at work! They are already ahead of the ones who won't even go! We have a whole nation of these people! Where is my check? Where is my entitlement? I'm not saying we should go all puritan with the laws, but let's not go out of our way to screw things up even further just to see what happens. We are already on a collision course with stupid and disaster.

My wife was telling me she just read that our OK 8th graders are LAST in the nation in math testing. LAST. Maybe their parents were on the pot when they were conceived/pregnant and maybe their parents can't help them with homework because their brains are fried or maybe their parents are too busy smoking pot to help them or maybe it is all 3. Could it not be the result of POT? Sure, but it certainly isn't being improved by it.

Pot is being heralded like it is the new wonder solution to everyone's problems, it is better than drinking, it is better than pain pills, blah blah blah. It is like Chris Rock's get that tussin on in there. You got a problem? Get some pot on in there. They are all bad and trying to say one is good compared to another is just a fools argument. Being addicted to alcohol, pain pills, and/or pot is bad. It will diminish one's life and the life of others. It already sucks what has happened in our great state with the weed shops on every corner and the everyone driving 20 miles an hour because they are on something; I see no reason to further our descent so I will be voting no.

And for those of you who are black and white thinkers saying it is about freedom. 10 years from now, 20 years from now, when society is even worse off than it is now, and more people are a slave to addiction, maybe you'll understand that life isn't always black and white.

I get what you are saying, but is it the pot or is it the user? Is it the gun or is it the user?

And if we're against pot why shouldn't we start at least trying to make alcohol illegal?

 

[Michael M]

See a problem with the date for the special election.
Issue is that the election will only be for the legalization of marijuana voter turnout will be low which favors the passing of the question.
The older generation won’t take the time to go to the polling location and cast their ballots.
I feel that they would vote no.
We cannot keep up with policing the current laws so adding this would be a catastrophic problem.
Too much money going out to cartels and foreign entities and not staying in Oklahoma.

 

[jeromebill7718]

I think weed is affecting your spelling.

Ya, I depend on autocorrect too much and this site lacks it. I havn't smoked weed in 20+ years.

 

[Shoot Summ]

everyone driving 20 miles an hour because they are on something

What they are on, is their phone. See it multiple times a day, every single day, talk about an addiction that is way out of control.

 

[Pstmstr]

What they are on, is their phone. See it multiple times a day, every single day, talk about an addiction that is way out of control.

For sure. Another law already on the books that is ignored by law enforcement. A Trooper gets killed by a texting driver. A law is written and passed as a result. Troopers and Police Officers ignore texting drivers.

 

[JEVapa]

So you’re making the assumption the other guy is lying?

Sure...since we're dealing in hyptheticals, in my interview I asked them both if they ever tried or currently smoked weed or drank alcohol. Choirboy said no, never and Weedman said he smoked at nights after he got off work. So, Choirboy fckin lied to me and I hired Weedman.

 

[TedKennedy]

The older generation won’t take the time to go to the polling location and cast their ballots.
I feel that they would vote no.
We cannot keep up with policing the current laws so adding this would be a catastrophic problem.

Oh, I'll show up alright.

Please explain bolded comment.

 

[Pstmstr]

Sure...since we're dealing in hyptheticals, in my interview I asked them both if they ever tried or currently smoked weed or drank alcohol. Choirboy said no, never and Weedman said he smoked at nights after he got off work. So, Choirboy fckin lied to me and I hired Weedman.

amazing the length weed lovers will go to defend their position.

 

[Shoot Summ]

amazing the length weed lovers will go to defend their position.

Same for the weed haters, I don't have a dog in this fight, but I see hate on both sides of the argument.

 

[alank2]

What they are on, is their phone. See it multiple times a day, every single day, talk about an addiction that is way out of control.

I am totally with you on this Shoot Summ. It is so common to see people driving with their eyes off the road.