My personal opinion is to legalize and regulate similar as alcohol.
My personal opinion is to legalize and regulate similar as alcohol.
Serious question. Do you think that will stop the way pot is sold and distributed now? And don't compare it to alcohol.
It's really kind of a stupid argument to claim taxes will fund this and that, it has medicinal uses, blah blah blah. It's more basic than that, really.
The Federal Government has an agency or two that regulate prescription drugs currently.....has this regulation stopped prescription drug abuse? Illegal transfers or sales of said prescriptions? Big success story?
For the record (Rick)- I don't smoke dope, drink, use tobacco, or partake in many of the vices that plague a lot of us. (clean and sober for 23 years)
Laws didn't cause me to derail my life, laws didn't help me get back on track.
In fact, most of my life I have skirted the law in one way or another, but never to cheat or take advantage of my fellow man. I like to call it "government avoidance".
Perhaps some who are less confident in their own abilities to control themselves actually desire government keeping them in line. I'm really sorry for those folks. My dad raised me to be a man, and not to be someone who needs looked after. I'd like to extend that same respect to the rest of the citizens.
The Federal Government has an agency or two that regulate prescription drugs currently.....has this regulation stopped prescription drug abuse? Illegal transfers or sales of said prescriptions? Big success story?
For the record (Rick)- I don't smoke dope, drink, use tobacco, or partake in many of the vices that plague a lot of us. (clean and sober for 23 years)
Laws didn't cause me to derail my life, laws didn't help me get back on track.
In fact, most of my life I have skirted the law in one way or another, but never to cheat or take advantage of my fellow man. I like to call it "government avoidance".
Perhaps some who are less confident in their own abilities to control themselves actually desire government keeping them in line. I'm really sorry for those folks. My dad raised me to be a man, and not to be someone who needs looked after. I'd like to extend that same respect to the rest of the citizens.
Yes. The majority of people would probably prefer to go to Walgreens and pick up a quality-controlled product than meet up with some dude who grows it himself. Since we can't compare it to alcohol, I'll compare it to tobacco. It's legal to grow tobacco, but 99% of people still run down to 7-11 for their fix.
No, which is why pot farmers and smugglers are some of the most anti-legalization groups out there.
No , most users will grow their own. Alcohol can be home brewed for personal consumption.
What are their options?
Gangsters running rum during prohibition went the way of the dinosaur when prohibition ended. They stopped runnung rum and moved on to supplying other vices.
If pot becomes readily available in retail markets what other option would the modern day equivalent have other than to switch the product they currently distribute to something else.
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