Poll: Marijuana Law Reform

[caojyn]

A part of the population can't be trusted with marijuana use, no one should be able to use it.
A part of the population can't be trusted with firearms, no one should be able to own one.
A part of the population can't be trusted with their own finances, no one should be in charge of their own money.
A part of the population can't be trusted to raise their children, your kids belong to the state.
A part of the population can't handle peanuts, no should be allowed to eat peanuts.
A part of the population can't make healthy food choices, no one should be allowed junk food.

 

[nemesis]

Regular smoking of pot will trash your lungs as bad or worse than smoking cigarettes.

(Playing devil's advocate here.) So by extension, you're suggesting federal govt should outlaw smoking cigarettes?

 

[gl55]

I'm not suggesting anything. I'm saying that there as many or more health risks with pot smoking as cigarette smoking. How does society view cigarette smokers these days?

 

[MrShooter]

I did when I was young, then I grew up, watched several people I care about ruin their lives with drugs and booze and a few die.

What some people do with an item can't be justified to outlaw something for everyone else. It goes the same way with guns, the guns don't kill people... Etc.

People are going to do bad things. It's just the way of the world. And what people do in the privacy of their own home is of no business to anyone else. So how does keeping a plant illegal help fix the problem you think exists?

 

[caojyn]

How does society view cigarette smokers these days?

non-criminally?

 

[Coded-Dude]

You forgot the people that are to smart to fall for the druggies BS.

Ahh yes.......the "antis." The people listed below. Too smart for all of us. Biased Bigotry and Nanny Staters.

A part of the population can't be trusted with marijuana use, no one should be able to use it.
A part of the population can't be trusted with firearms, no one should be able to own one.
A part of the population can't be trusted with their own finances, no one should be in charge of their own money.
A part of the population can't be trusted to raise their children, your kids belong to the state.
A part of the population can't handle peanuts, no should be allowed to eat peanuts.
A part of the population can't make healthy food choices, no one should be allowed junk food.

 

[Goathead]

I didn't vote. I'm of the opinion government has long ago far exceeded its power in dictating the events in my life. None of the issues that Big Brother deems important (in my life) are any of Big Brother's business.

Let the Feds take care of Feds stuff. Fight our wars when we're attacked. Control the borders and deport the invaders.

(If we trimmed away all the govt stuff that's none of their business, and limited them to the stuff that is [their business], the freeloaders in Congress and the White House could all go to part-time. Which, is about what they're doing anyway. They just get paid for full-time, that's all.)

But whether or not I smoke pot (I don't, btw) is none of their business.

And when did we cede them the power to tell us what kind of guns we can own?

It's none of their business.

I can't own any machine gun manufactured after 1986. Reagan must have owned a bunch of machine guns he was looking to make a profit on, when he signed that one. Absurd.

So now I get to pay $5,000, $20,000, for a machine that has maybe $200 worth of material in it? Absurd.

That's how I feel about things also

 

[Goathead]

What some people do with an item can't be justified to outlaw something for everyone else. It goes the same way with guns, the guns don't kill people... Etc.

People are going to do bad things. It's just the way of the world. And what people do in the privacy of their own home is of no business to anyone else. So how does keeping a plant illegal help fix the problem you think exists?

Well said when doesn't it end ? Right !

 

[gl55]

non-criminally?

Ever heard of second hand smoke law suits?

 

[Goathead]

Regular smoking of pot will trash your lungs as bad or worse than smoking cigarettes.

So I guess that could be said about going to Iraq or Afghanistan because I don't smoke or drink but I when there 4 times and got cancer from there .. Don't take my choice away...