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VolGee4 said:
Not at all. Not sure how you got that.

It wouldn't save tax payer money as much as it could add money through more tax money. There will still be those who sell it illegally to get around the taxes.
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There will be a few, but once again it will be a very small percentage of the amount sold as opposed to the huge addition in tax income from legal distribution.
 
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jjay2518 said:
There will be a few, but once again it will be a very small percentage of the amount sold as opposed to the huge addition in tax income from legal distribution.
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The stores would probably have to get 24 hour security. I would guess the number of burglaries or attempted burglaries would sky rocket in certain areas in our town. It just poses some different issues. That's all I am saying. It's not so simple that you legalize it, and things go away. As I edited in my last post, I see fraud in every way imaginable.
 
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VolGee4 said:
The stores would probably have to get 24 hour security. I would guess the number of burglaries or attempted burglaries would sky rocket in certain areas in our town. It just poses some different issues. That's all I am saying. It's not so simple that you legalize it, and things go away. As I edited in my last post, I see fraud in every way imaginable.
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Skyrocket? That's doubtful.
 
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Ron Swanson said:
For kids, I agree. There should be an age limit. But for adults It's a victimless crime. People should be allowed to do whatever they want to themselves as long as they're not hurting others. You should be able to smoke crack if you want. And guess what? If crack were legal you and I still wouldn't smoke it.

We should spend the money we waste on prisons and locking up weed smokers, on education and this stuff wouldn't be a problem anyway.
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Once your addiction makes you uninsurable and unemployed, you become a big burden to the shrinking pool of taxpayers...

With legalization in states, research is showing significant cognitive impairment to younger brains if smoked just 10x per month. (It is suggested that the brain damage is permanent)

As more research goes on, more issues will be found, most likely. Just as it was with tobacco and alcohol. Interesting that further research on red wine especially shows a significant # of health benefits that were not known when I was in med school.

I personally don't care , inhaling smoke of any kind can set off my asthma. So never been a fan of any inhaled substances....
 
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VolsDoc81TX said:
Once your addiction makes you uninsurable and unemployed, you become a big burden to the shrinking pool of taxpayers...

With legalization in states, research is showing significant cognitive impairment to younger brains if smoked just 10x per month. (It is suggested that the brain damage is permanent)

As more research goes on, more issues will be found, most likely. Just as it was with tobacco and alcohol. Interesting that further research on red wine especially shows a significant # of health benefits that were not known when I was in med school.

I personally don't care , inhaling smoke of any kind can set off my asthma. So never been a fan of any inhaled substances....
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Edibles are taking over the legal market...
 
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Ron Swanson said:
Oh no doubt, I mentioned them in my post. It's all such a scam. It's an incredible disservice to the human race the way these pharmaceutical companies profit off of medicating illnesses instead of actually curing them. But there's no money in curing diseases. The money is in medicating people over and over and over and over. Putting them on 5 different pills they take twice a day for the rest of their lives. Most which have multiple side effects that require even more medicines.

And god forbid marijuana is legal, a plant that grows naturally and is a fantastic drug for many different illnesses. But they can't control it, they don't have patents, it can be grown in any backyard in america. That's a big problem for them. So let's continue to make Americans afraid of it..."It's a gateway drug", "It's addictive!", "we don't know the long term affects!", "It's evil!" "It ruins generations of lives!". All complete bs.
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Okay, you lost me at the beginning. There is no cure for all these maladies that big pharmaceutical companies are hiding...

That is about the same conspiracy theory as Oil and Auto industries are hiding the 300mpg car that never breaks down...

You should read the position statement by the AAP ( American Academy of Pediatrics).
MJ has been legal in enough states for actual true research to start giving real data. Pot and maturing brains are a bad combination. Here is the issue that I have. The brain matures into the late 20s...

I could actually care less about MJ being legal or not. I don't like the uninformed argument that it's harmless.

Also, some of the urban myths about MJ have been proven false. No change with glaucoma at all...
The substance that helps with pain relief is a different substance than the part that gets you stoned. No one wants it that way. :hi:

If people feel so strongly about it, move to a state where it's already legal. Or make the change in the state you live in. Hard work but possible.
 
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Ron Swanson said:
I don't want to argue about hard drugs. It's a waste of time. I'll concede they should stay illegal, fine.

Just legalize weed. It's absurd what our system creates by that plant being illegal. All a money making scam.
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Check the homeless rate and unemployment rate in Colorado pre and post MJ being legal.

Read all the actual research on MJ and brain function. Other aspects as well. It took a lot of research to figure out all the problems associated with alcohol and tobacco. People still don't believe....
It will take a long time to figure out all the potential problems with MJ too. To say it's harmless is just as uninformed as those that consider MJ the root of all evil. :hi:
 
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I smoked a lot of weed as a teen, I'm now 43 (and have smoked lightly ever since) and my brain is A-OK. No one is saying its harmless...but compared to other legal drugs...it is pretty harmless.
 
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I think you guys are missing my point on hard drugs. Of course they're awful and can ruin lives. Duh. I'm not advocating hard drug use, at all. My point is that the system we have now isn't working and hasn't worked. The "war on drugs" is a massive failure and maybe it's time to look at alternative ways to stop people from ruining their lives and the lives of their loved ones by hard drug use. I'm not an expert on how to go about doing that but I do know that what we're doing isn't working.
 
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