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    Bye Bye legal recreational marijuana

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    Posted: Feb. 24, 2017 - 12:58 AM ET #1

    Trump and Sessions are going after the recreational marijuana.  They are going to start enforcing the Federal laws that are on the books.  The memos the Obama admin had telling the feds to leave the pot industry alone have been ripped up by that little religious right freak AG.

    In 4 years none of us will be able to recognize our country. It will be like we are living back in the 50's.    I will bet in 4 years, even all the people who voted for Trump, they will be hating him.

    They said Marijuana use leads to opioid addiction, lmfaoooooooooo
    That couldnt be farther from the truth.  Do these idiots running our country really believe their own bullshittttt?

    Welcome to our AG's 1950's  America    Maybe we can get rid of the internet , cell phones, flat screen tvs etc etc.
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    Trump and Sessions are going after the recreational marijuana.  They are going to start enforcing the Federal laws that are on the books.  The memos the Obama admin had telling the feds to leave the pot industry alone have been ripped up by that little religious right freak AG.

    In 4 years none of us will be able to recognize our country. It will be like we are living back in the 50's.    I will bet in 4 years, even all the people who voted for Trump, they will be hating him.

    They said Marijuana use leads to opioid addiction, lmfaoooooooooo
    That couldnt be farther from the truth.  Do these idiots running our country really believe their own bullshittttt?

    Welcome to our AG's 1950's  America    Maybe we can get rid of the internet , cell phones, flat screen tvs etc etc.
     
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    Posted: Feb. 24, 2017 - 1:33 AM ET #2

    media spin

     they are talking about states that do not interfere with state laws, Federal task force can couple with state task force,
    to a locality for suspision of any known drug offenses. was the wording. To enhance Law and Order He invited The chiefs to corridinate a msg. we are here to assist you.

    His policy is to say
    1 We are here to Assist our ally achieve a sustainable peace with Isreali
    Palisine Intersts Egypt refuse to grant palisnian land on the Cynia Pennesula.

    2 We are here to express Our 100% support to Japan to reach a solution to the asian conflict

    3 We will support the will of Nato and assert our support for their initiatives

    4 we pledge the unwavering support to our local police departments to facilitate any all concerns to our full capacity You have a friend at the white house.
    5 CIA I admire your work and have great respect for your abilityies.

    confusion spells this deep shiek are for primary concerns of the wealthy donor artsy folk.
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    media spin

     they are talking about states that do not interfere with state laws, Federal task force can couple with state task force,
    to a locality for suspision of any known drug offenses. was the wording. To enhance Law and Order He invited The chiefs to corridinate a msg. we are here to assist you.

    His policy is to say
    1 We are here to Assist our ally achieve a sustainable peace with Isreali
    Palisine Intersts Egypt refuse to grant palisnian land on the Cynia Pennesula.

    2 We are here to express Our 100% support to Japan to reach a solution to the asian conflict

    3 We will support the will of Nato and assert our support for their initiatives

    4 we pledge the unwavering support to our local police departments to facilitate any all concerns to our full capacity You have a friend at the white house.
    5 CIA I admire your work and have great respect for your abilityies.

    confusion spells this deep shiek are for primary concerns of the wealthy donor artsy folk.
     
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    Posted: Feb. 24, 2017 - 2:10 AM ET #3

    Just say " No " .
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    Just say " No " .
     
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    Posted: Feb. 24, 2017 - 2:19 AM ET #4

    okay lets follow that road ... that ship sailed many are addicted to substances.

    Mormons to avoid these things.

    were given words to the wise 

    rest well have a want for a substance descibed in the doctrine.

    what they all perish for want now?
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    okay lets follow that road ... that ship sailed many are addicted to substances.

    Mormons to avoid these things.

    were given words to the wise 

    rest well have a want for a substance descibed in the doctrine.

    what they all perish for want now?
     
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    Posted: Feb. 24, 2017 - 2:24 AM ET #5

    Quote Originally Posted by nature1970:

    okay lets follow that road ... that ship sailed many are addicted to substances.

    Mormons to avoid these things.

    were given words to the wise 

    rest well have a want for a substance descibed in the doctrine.

    what they all perish for want now?


    Dude are you OK ?
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    Quote Originally Posted by nature1970:

    okay lets follow that road ... that ship sailed many are addicted to substances.

    Mormons to avoid these things.

    were given words to the wise 

    rest well have a want for a substance descibed in the doctrine.

    what they all perish for want now?


    Dude are you OK ?
     
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    Posted: Feb. 24, 2017 - 2:27 AM ET #6

    Quote Originally Posted by ilsp2003:


    Dude are you OK ?

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    Dude are you OK ?

     
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    Posted: Feb. 24, 2017 - 7:47 AM ET #7

    Quote Originally Posted by nature1970:

     
     media spin


    Media spins, then the lunatic fringe spins some more on the internet, and the end result is a bunch of very unhappy people 
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     media spin


    Media spins, then the lunatic fringe spins some more on the internet, and the end result is a bunch of very unhappy people 
     
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hugh_Jorgan:


    Media spins, then the lunatic fringe spins some more on the internet, and the end result is a bunch of very unhappy people 


    If you think its spin, i truly feel sorry for you, because you have no clue what Jeff Sessions stands for.  Personally i dont smoke pot, but this guy is gonna undue everything that has taken place and this wont just be some media spin.  Keep believing the master media spin doctor Trump
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    Media spins, then the lunatic fringe spins some more on the internet, and the end result is a bunch of very unhappy people 


    If you think its spin, i truly feel sorry for you, because you have no clue what Jeff Sessions stands for.  Personally i dont smoke pot, but this guy is gonna undue everything that has taken place and this wont just be some media spin.  Keep believing the master media spin doctor Trump
     
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    maybe some of you should have heard Sessions own words in his hearing.  He said the federal laws need to be enforced at some point, guess nows the some point lmfaoooooo
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    maybe some of you should have heard Sessions own words in his hearing.  He said the federal laws need to be enforced at some point, guess nows the some point lmfaoooooo
     
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    Quote Originally Posted by nature1970:

    media spin

     they are talking about states that do not interfere with state laws, Federal task force can couple with state task force,
    to a locality for suspision of any known drug offenses. was the wording. To enhance Law and Order He invited The chiefs to corridinate a msg. we are here to assist you.

    His policy is to say
    1 We are here to Assist our ally achieve a sustainable peace with Isreali
    Palisine Intersts Egypt refuse to grant palisnian land on the Cynia Pennesula.

    2 We are here to express Our 100% support to Japan to reach a solution to the asian conflict

    3 We will support the will of Nato and assert our support for their initiatives

    4 we pledge the unwavering support to our local police departments to facilitate any all concerns to our full capacity You have a friend at the white house.
    5 CIA I admire your work and have great respect for your abilityies.

    confusion spells this deep shiek are for primary concerns of the wealthy donor artsy folk.
    '

    Most people jerkoff to porn, but you def jerk off to TRUMP and his administration. It makes me want to vomit! 
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    Quote Originally Posted by nature1970:

    media spin

     they are talking about states that do not interfere with state laws, Federal task force can couple with state task force,
    to a locality for suspision of any known drug offenses. was the wording. To enhance Law and Order He invited The chiefs to corridinate a msg. we are here to assist you.

    His policy is to say
    1 We are here to Assist our ally achieve a sustainable peace with Isreali
    Palisine Intersts Egypt refuse to grant palisnian land on the Cynia Pennesula.

    2 We are here to express Our 100% support to Japan to reach a solution to the asian conflict

    3 We will support the will of Nato and assert our support for their initiatives

    4 we pledge the unwavering support to our local police departments to facilitate any all concerns to our full capacity You have a friend at the white house.
    5 CIA I admire your work and have great respect for your abilityies.

    confusion spells this deep shiek are for primary concerns of the wealthy donor artsy folk.
    '

    Most people jerkoff to porn, but you def jerk off to TRUMP and his administration. It makes me want to vomit! 
     
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     they are talking about states that do not interfere with state laws, Federal task force can couple with state task force,
    to a locality for suspision of any known drug offenses. was the wording. To enhance Law and Order He invited The chiefs to corridinate a msg. we are here to assist you.


    i'm having trouble understanding what the f*ck you are saying here. 


    also, i went to a federal law seminar yesterday and of course the topic of trump and sessions came up.  we are already seeing some changes with doj policy.  as you'd expect it all seems pretty f*cking stupid and counterproductive so far but i don't think anyone really knows where it's headed since sessions just got confirmed, but tat guy is a moron and a disaster so no one is all that optimistic.

    we all expect to see the feds handling more low level drug cases because, as i've mentioned many times before, that's what we call low hanging fruit.  they are easy cases and are good for stats so the doj can talk about how many more arrests they make and idiots think they are actually doing something about crime rather than throwing money down the black hole we all know as the war on drugs.  however, marijuana cases specifically didn't come up. 

    immigration came up of course, and we are seeing a change in policy which appears to be as stupid and counterproductive as you'd expect a sessions policy to be along with trump who knows nothing about how immigration works.  but again, these things are just getting started so they will probably evolve over time.

    however, the prevailing theme of the new policies seems to be to waste money and shift limited resources to counterproductive tactics that are good for stats and make good headlines so the idiots think things are getting accomplished when in fact the more important and difficult issues are being ignored.

    back to the original topic, i'm not sure where marijuana arrests fit into that picture.  marijuana arrests are perfect for lazy, incompetent police and prosecutors but don't really fit into the trump smokescreen that they are making america safer because all but the dumbest trump supporters know that going after marijuana is stupid and a huge waste of money and resources. but sessions is pretty f*cking dumb and trump doesn't seem to give a garbage about anything but grifting and his rich cronies so they might do it anyway.  i guess we'll see. 
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     they are talking about states that do not interfere with state laws, Federal task force can couple with state task force,
    to a locality for suspision of any known drug offenses. was the wording. To enhance Law and Order He invited The chiefs to corridinate a msg. we are here to assist you.


    i'm having trouble understanding what the f*ck you are saying here. 


    also, i went to a federal law seminar yesterday and of course the topic of trump and sessions came up.  we are already seeing some changes with doj policy.  as you'd expect it all seems pretty f*cking stupid and counterproductive so far but i don't think anyone really knows where it's headed since sessions just got confirmed, but tat guy is a moron and a disaster so no one is all that optimistic.

    we all expect to see the feds handling more low level drug cases because, as i've mentioned many times before, that's what we call low hanging fruit.  they are easy cases and are good for stats so the doj can talk about how many more arrests they make and idiots think they are actually doing something about crime rather than throwing money down the black hole we all know as the war on drugs.  however, marijuana cases specifically didn't come up. 

    immigration came up of course, and we are seeing a change in policy which appears to be as stupid and counterproductive as you'd expect a sessions policy to be along with trump who knows nothing about how immigration works.  but again, these things are just getting started so they will probably evolve over time.

    however, the prevailing theme of the new policies seems to be to waste money and shift limited resources to counterproductive tactics that are good for stats and make good headlines so the idiots think things are getting accomplished when in fact the more important and difficult issues are being ignored.

    back to the original topic, i'm not sure where marijuana arrests fit into that picture.  marijuana arrests are perfect for lazy, incompetent police and prosecutors but don't really fit into the trump smokescreen that they are making america safer because all but the dumbest trump supporters know that going after marijuana is stupid and a huge waste of money and resources. but sessions is pretty f*cking dumb and trump doesn't seem to give a garbage about anything but grifting and his rich cronies so they might do it anyway.  i guess we'll see. 
     
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    Clubdirt, you got that right about Sessions.  The guy is a complete jerk and has no business being in govt in todays world.  All his views are tainted by his religious right beliefs.  The guy would love nothing better then to see our country living back in the 1950's.
    Really thought some republicans would have voted against this bozo, i was wrong.
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    Clubdirt, you got that right about Sessions.  The guy is a complete jerk and has no business being in govt in todays world.  All his views are tainted by his religious right beliefs.  The guy would love nothing better then to see our country living back in the 1950's.
    Really thought some republicans would have voted against this bozo, i was wrong.
     
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    I do not agree with recreational use, I think the risks outweigh the rewards to society...same goes for alkie and cigs (so I am cutting you pro-pot guys off at the pass)...

    So I am fine if they kick it out, those guys who want it so badly and need it will keep using, just like they did before. 

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    I do not agree with recreational use, I think the risks outweigh the rewards to society...same goes for alkie and cigs (so I am cutting you pro-pot guys off at the pass)...

    So I am fine if they kick it out, those guys who want it so badly and need it will keep using, just like they did before. 

     
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    cd, the prevailing opinion on sessions from the people i've talked to who know him or worked with him is that he is really f*cking stupid.  beyond that, i'm sure he'll be the standard big government loving republican who uses his position to expand government reach in a way that doesn't do much to help anyone but government itself.



    wallstreet, one's position on the recreational use of marijuana is really a small part of the equation.  in other words, you could be strongly against recreational use and strongly in favor of legalization if you considered the much more important issues like smaller government, not wasting money and resources on the ridiculous failure that is the war on drugs and the negative impact on the community of putting people in jail and giving them criminal records for using a plant, to name a few. 
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    cd, the prevailing opinion on sessions from the people i've talked to who know him or worked with him is that he is really f*cking stupid.  beyond that, i'm sure he'll be the standard big government loving republican who uses his position to expand government reach in a way that doesn't do much to help anyone but government itself.



    wallstreet, one's position on the recreational use of marijuana is really a small part of the equation.  in other words, you could be strongly against recreational use and strongly in favor of legalization if you considered the much more important issues like smaller government, not wasting money and resources on the ridiculous failure that is the war on drugs and the negative impact on the community of putting people in jail and giving them criminal records for using a plant, to name a few. 
     
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    Of course that is the argument used (and will in this thread many times I am sure) but there are lines drawn in any civilized society and I guess I am of the opinion that pot deserves to be inside the boundaries that keeps it away from recreational users.

    I think the medicinal value is worth having it controlled and administered, but not to smoke and for sure not recreationally. I think its uses can be extracted and administered without the need to smoke and especially not where there are thousands of variations, that to me is quite telling about those users and their intentions.

    I dont like knowing that there is yet another substance out there which our youth can be influenced by and can negatively impact how kids are socially challenged.

    So for sure let the extraction value stick, the rest I could do without and I do not see the intrinsic social VALUE in allowing recreational use...notice I did not reference the prison/police angle at all in my analysis..only social value and social cost as to influence.
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    Of course that is the argument used (and will in this thread many times I am sure) but there are lines drawn in any civilized society and I guess I am of the opinion that pot deserves to be inside the boundaries that keeps it away from recreational users.

    I think the medicinal value is worth having it controlled and administered, but not to smoke and for sure not recreationally. I think its uses can be extracted and administered without the need to smoke and especially not where there are thousands of variations, that to me is quite telling about those users and their intentions.

    I dont like knowing that there is yet another substance out there which our youth can be influenced by and can negatively impact how kids are socially challenged.

    So for sure let the extraction value stick, the rest I could do without and I do not see the intrinsic social VALUE in allowing recreational use...notice I did not reference the prison/police angle at all in my analysis..only social value and social cost as to influence.
     
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    It doesn't make sense at all because opioids are a much bigger crisis right now and if you actually look at the data, what's rather telling is the states with the highest usage rates and death voted for Trump.  Too bad they voted for someone whose administration doesn't care about that issue.
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    It doesn't make sense at all because opioids are a much bigger crisis right now and if you actually look at the data, what's rather telling is the states with the highest usage rates and death voted for Trump.  Too bad they voted for someone whose administration doesn't care about that issue.
     
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    So Wallstreet, your beliefs and the beliefs of guys like Sessions should over rule what the majority in our country want?   And am not a pot smoker, so i have nothing in this game.
    Personally am just sick of others always trying to push their own beliefs on others.  If somebody wants to smoke some plant that God put on this planet, i really dont give a crap.  What people want to do with their own bodies should be nobodies business but theirs.   Your argument about not wanting to see pot legal because it will effect the children, is so weak.  Listen if parents cant teach their own kids about drugs, then am sorry you suck as a parent, case closed.
    This pot issue is just part of bigger thing that is happening with this administration where they want to control everything.  Anybody that couldnt see, even before trump became president that he was the type of person who wanted to change our country into a dictatorship, is totally blind and clueless.  This guy is going to send us back to the stone ages.
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    So Wallstreet, your beliefs and the beliefs of guys like Sessions should over rule what the majority in our country want?   And am not a pot smoker, so i have nothing in this game.
    Personally am just sick of others always trying to push their own beliefs on others.  If somebody wants to smoke some plant that God put on this planet, i really dont give a crap.  What people want to do with their own bodies should be nobodies business but theirs.   Your argument about not wanting to see pot legal because it will effect the children, is so weak.  Listen if parents cant teach their own kids about drugs, then am sorry you suck as a parent, case closed.
    This pot issue is just part of bigger thing that is happening with this administration where they want to control everything.  Anybody that couldnt see, even before trump became president that he was the type of person who wanted to change our country into a dictatorship, is totally blind and clueless.  This guy is going to send us back to the stone ages.
     
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    Relax cd. You're letting fake news get you all riled up. President Trump is in charge not Sessions. Spicer isn't in charge either. President Trump is the boss. Wait for President Trump to comment on the issue before you spaz out. If President Trump speaks out against medical and recreational marijuana, then be outraged.

    IMO Sessions is pushing his luck and might be fired just as Flynn was. President Trump is a populist. He will listen to the people who voted for him. And many of his supporters support medical and recreational marijuana.

    I believe President Trump will speak against Spicer and Sessions view on marijuana soon. He wants to be liked. Being pro-pot is very popular today. If President Trump sides with Spicer and Sessions, I will finally have something negative to say about the president. Being anti-pot is extremely anti-American. Whiskey, tobacco, and pot are American as apple pie. I hope the president sides with the American people on this issue. 

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    Relax cd. You're letting fake news get you all riled up. President Trump is in charge not Sessions. Spicer isn't in charge either. President Trump is the boss. Wait for President Trump to comment on the issue before you spaz out. If President Trump speaks out against medical and recreational marijuana, then be outraged.

    IMO Sessions is pushing his luck and might be fired just as Flynn was. President Trump is a populist. He will listen to the people who voted for him. And many of his supporters support medical and recreational marijuana.

    I believe President Trump will speak against Spicer and Sessions view on marijuana soon. He wants to be liked. Being pro-pot is very popular today. If President Trump sides with Spicer and Sessions, I will finally have something negative to say about the president. Being anti-pot is extremely anti-American. Whiskey, tobacco, and pot are American as apple pie. I hope the president sides with the American people on this issue. 

     
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    Man some of you are so brain washed with anything that comes out of trumps mouth. its mind boggling.  His favorite thing now is fake news this, fake news that.  The guy is full of crap and saying that stuff so all you sheep believe what he says.  First rule to becoming a dictator, is discredit the media.  I really cant believe all the suckers who fell for this con artist.

    Hey Money trump and sessions coming for rec pot is not fake news
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    Man some of you are so brain washed with anything that comes out of trumps mouth. its mind boggling.  His favorite thing now is fake news this, fake news that.  The guy is full of crap and saying that stuff so all you sheep believe what he says.  First rule to becoming a dictator, is discredit the media.  I really cant believe all the suckers who fell for this con artist.

    Hey Money trump and sessions coming for rec pot is not fake news
     
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    cd,

    If you had or have kids, my argument is not weak at all..parents responsibility has nothing to do with my comments. I mentioned in very specific detail what my concerns were, I think you are so mad at the administration that you missed my points.

    I only speak about social benefit vs social cost..not taxpayer cost or political cost or religious beliefs, none of that. In fact if you have any ability to analyze you would know I am never about mixing personal or religious opinions with politics, I support the laws as they exist even if I do not agree with some things personally. If I am so against a law that I need to try and make a change and I feel I can, I and everyone should try to do so INSIDE the laws as they exist.

    From only a social perspective, I do not see the benefits worth the social cost. Kids are faced with social challenges which have nothing to do with parents and everything to do with peer pressure and choice. If I had my way (which I dont) I would remove all and any addiction influences on kids and teens, the damage it causes and lives it changes are like no other. When kids face pressures from cigs, alkie, pot, vaping, etc etc it stops the ability for them to learn, explore and develop in ways we will never know. Kids that alter their lives due to these influences could have experienced completely different outcomes and developed into much greater social contributors and stronger people.

    Social cost vs social benefit...that is the only point I am forwarding. I dont know what anyone could argue against my point, there is nothing to argue.
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    If you had or have kids, my argument is not weak at all..parents responsibility has nothing to do with my comments. I mentioned in very specific detail what my concerns were, I think you are so mad at the administration that you missed my points.

    I only speak about social benefit vs social cost..not taxpayer cost or political cost or religious beliefs, none of that. In fact if you have any ability to analyze you would know I am never about mixing personal or religious opinions with politics, I support the laws as they exist even if I do not agree with some things personally. If I am so against a law that I need to try and make a change and I feel I can, I and everyone should try to do so INSIDE the laws as they exist.

    From only a social perspective, I do not see the benefits worth the social cost. Kids are faced with social challenges which have nothing to do with parents and everything to do with peer pressure and choice. If I had my way (which I dont) I would remove all and any addiction influences on kids and teens, the damage it causes and lives it changes are like no other. When kids face pressures from cigs, alkie, pot, vaping, etc etc it stops the ability for them to learn, explore and develop in ways we will never know. Kids that alter their lives due to these influences could have experienced completely different outcomes and developed into much greater social contributors and stronger people.

    Social cost vs social benefit...that is the only point I am forwarding. I dont know what anyone could argue against my point, there is nothing to argue.
     
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    wall street, i don't think you can weight the social cost of marijuana being legal properly without weighing it against the social cost of the war on drugs as it relates to marijuana.  of course, i don't think anyone can really weight those two things properly without having experience in the criminal justice system or other areas so that's not necessarily a critique of you.  everyone's experience is different.

    the cost of the war on drugs is a political cost and a social cost.  and a taxpayer cost.  and an intellectual cost.

    anyway, the other issue i have with your post is this comment:

    I would remove all and any addiction influences on kids and teens, the damage it causes and lives it changes are like no other. When kids face pressures from cigs, alkie, pot, vaping, etc etc it stops the ability for them to learn, explore and develop in ways we will never know.

    no law, particular our current ones is going to remove or lessen the influence of marijuana on kids.  i think you could argue that making marijuana legal would remove some of the peer pressure kids get to smoke it. 
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    wall street, i don't think you can weight the social cost of marijuana being legal properly without weighing it against the social cost of the war on drugs as it relates to marijuana.  of course, i don't think anyone can really weight those two things properly without having experience in the criminal justice system or other areas so that's not necessarily a critique of you.  everyone's experience is different.

    the cost of the war on drugs is a political cost and a social cost.  and a taxpayer cost.  and an intellectual cost.

    anyway, the other issue i have with your post is this comment:

    I would remove all and any addiction influences on kids and teens, the damage it causes and lives it changes are like no other. When kids face pressures from cigs, alkie, pot, vaping, etc etc it stops the ability for them to learn, explore and develop in ways we will never know.

    no law, particular our current ones is going to remove or lessen the influence of marijuana on kids.  i think you could argue that making marijuana legal would remove some of the peer pressure kids get to smoke it. 
     
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    Club,

    Oh I think it is possible, there are ways kids can be isolated from these influences..it happens every day. It takes a great effort and a high cost to do so from a time perspective but for sure if the environment is set properly these influences can be reduced to a large degree.

    Same goes in the opposite direction, if controls are poor then the influences can be greater.

    There are choices that can be made to protect our youth and costs that come with those choices. 

    An example for me specifically is where we live there are some super large high schools that are new and have some great benefits...but these same schools have issues with drugs, peer grouping etc etc and that is well known and is a problem. So when the time comes (and unfortunately it is coming sooner than I like) we have decided to take a different path for high school to avoid these influences and rather will take the time and spend the money to attend a school with a smaller campus, college focused and less influenced socially from these issues.

    I dont like the "there is no way to" approach, and I also for sure do not agree that wide social acceptance means less peer pressure, in fact to me it means more exposure and more risk. I think we for sure look at things from a different perspective, I do not think there is even close to the commensurate social benefit to outweigh the social cost of wide acceptance of pot.

    The topic of police and taxpayers, that isnt really even the point to me. These exist now, we have police we have prisons we have courts..these are not due to pot only or exclusively. 

    Also, I will never get past the issue of smoking pot...smoking pot is dangerous on its own, there is no way of side stepping this point, smoking ANYTHING is dangerous and a health concern and rationalizing that vs cigs or cloves or basil or any plant that can e dried makes no sense to me. Smoking is harmful period, plus there is more than enough evidence out there that shows the toxicity of the chemicals in pot multiply the issue (in a similar way to saying that unfiltered vs filtered etc).

    So I cant get past the issue of smoking, nothing else really matters about police, taxpayers etc...I cannot and will not personally accept the legalization of smoking pot and the harm it does to the body.

    Extract the benefit, use that to help in ways it does, outside that I dont see any reason to allow it at all.
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    Oh I think it is possible, there are ways kids can be isolated from these influences..it happens every day. It takes a great effort and a high cost to do so from a time perspective but for sure if the environment is set properly these influences can be reduced to a large degree.

    Same goes in the opposite direction, if controls are poor then the influences can be greater.

    There are choices that can be made to protect our youth and costs that come with those choices. 

    An example for me specifically is where we live there are some super large high schools that are new and have some great benefits...but these same schools have issues with drugs, peer grouping etc etc and that is well known and is a problem. So when the time comes (and unfortunately it is coming sooner than I like) we have decided to take a different path for high school to avoid these influences and rather will take the time and spend the money to attend a school with a smaller campus, college focused and less influenced socially from these issues.

    I dont like the "there is no way to" approach, and I also for sure do not agree that wide social acceptance means less peer pressure, in fact to me it means more exposure and more risk. I think we for sure look at things from a different perspective, I do not think there is even close to the commensurate social benefit to outweigh the social cost of wide acceptance of pot.

    The topic of police and taxpayers, that isnt really even the point to me. These exist now, we have police we have prisons we have courts..these are not due to pot only or exclusively. 

    Also, I will never get past the issue of smoking pot...smoking pot is dangerous on its own, there is no way of side stepping this point, smoking ANYTHING is dangerous and a health concern and rationalizing that vs cigs or cloves or basil or any plant that can e dried makes no sense to me. Smoking is harmful period, plus there is more than enough evidence out there that shows the toxicity of the chemicals in pot multiply the issue (in a similar way to saying that unfiltered vs filtered etc).

    So I cant get past the issue of smoking, nothing else really matters about police, taxpayers etc...I cannot and will not personally accept the legalization of smoking pot and the harm it does to the body.

    Extract the benefit, use that to help in ways it does, outside that I dont see any reason to allow it at all.
     
     
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    i suppose there are ways to keep individual kids away from marijuana, or at least try but kids as a whole, that just isn't going to happen.  but if they are your kids, then that is your decision to take whatever steps you want to keep them away from the things that concern you. 

    smoking anything is bad for you.  the question then is, what do you or what does our society do about it.  that's where we disagree, of course.

    as for teenage use once marijuana is legalized, if you run a search to see the results in states where it is legal, the articles seem to suggest either no change or fewer teenagers using.  however, i just ran a quick search in colorado since they legalized it earlier than others.

    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/colorado-s-teen-marijuana-usage-dips-after-legalization/


    so, if fewer kids are using after legalization, great.  if there is no change, that's great too because you don't have the negative of more kids using and you've eliminated what i consider to be the much greater negative of wasting money and resources on the war on drugs and avoiding kids and young adults getting criminal records for marijuana which will hurt them in life later on.

    although i don't think it's that big a deal if teenagers use marijuana.  much better than using alcohol.  but that's just how i see it. 
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    i suppose there are ways to keep individual kids away from marijuana, or at least try but kids as a whole, that just isn't going to happen.  but if they are your kids, then that is your decision to take whatever steps you want to keep them away from the things that concern you. 

    smoking anything is bad for you.  the question then is, what do you or what does our society do about it.  that's where we disagree, of course.

    as for teenage use once marijuana is legalized, if you run a search to see the results in states where it is legal, the articles seem to suggest either no change or fewer teenagers using.  however, i just ran a quick search in colorado since they legalized it earlier than others.

    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/colorado-s-teen-marijuana-usage-dips-after-legalization/


    so, if fewer kids are using after legalization, great.  if there is no change, that's great too because you don't have the negative of more kids using and you've eliminated what i consider to be the much greater negative of wasting money and resources on the war on drugs and avoiding kids and young adults getting criminal records for marijuana which will hurt them in life later on.

    although i don't think it's that big a deal if teenagers use marijuana.  much better than using alcohol.  but that's just how i see it. 
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