It's about time they did it the right way, and for the right reasons!

Not that it's likely to pass, but at least they've got the right idea. I'm tired of lame attempts toward legalization that want to treat marijuana like a prescription (don't get me wrong here, medicinal marijuana is great, but if you treat it like oxycontin druglords will still thrive.).
Treat it like alcohol and sell it in liquor stores.
At least then I could go to the liquor store and buy something legitimately good for me.

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While I'm all for legalization of cannabis, doing it to raise revenue isn't the right reason.

Doing it to avoid spending money making criminals out of people whose only crime is toking up is the right reason.

If you want to raise revenue increase the taxes on alcohol and tobacco.

No - the RIGHT reason is that the government shouldn't be in the business of telling people how to run their lives. I see no reason why MJ should be illegal when used medicinally.

The day they legal pot is the day that Seattle becomes the pre-crisis Dubai.

For me the argument starts and ends here: There is no god-damn reason it should be criminal to grow, sell, or smoke pot. I fucking roll my eyes these days whenever I hear people talking about how "free" we are. Sure we might be relatively free compared to many places on the planet. But loose chains are still chains.

There are two reasons pot is illegal: bass-ackwards thinking based on all the misinformation that's out there. And because if people were allowed to freely consume pot, they would in large numbers do so to the exclusion of drinking alcohol, which is one of the main ways in which the common man is held down and controlled. Keep drinking beer that tastes like piss and watching football and reality TV, you stupid fucks. Whatever you do, don't take a moment to introspect and establish a core kernel of truth.

Empathy is the worst thing for capitalism.

The argument that pot would bring in revenue pisses me off just much as the argument for legalization based on the benefits of medical marijuana. Fuck revenue. Fuck benefits. How's about just lifting the destructive, arbitrary laws against it because they represent the cocksucking lie that is the concept of freedom in our world? You know, because it's the right thing to do? No? I should go to jail because I like to get a natural, non-destructive high instead of getting drunk, stupid, and violent? Okay I'll just continue my descent into schizophrenia then.

>> ^Winstonfield_Pennypacker:
No - the RIGHT reason is that the government shouldn't be in the business of telling people how to run their lives. I see no reason why MJ should be illegal when used medicinally.


I agree with the first sentence wholeheartedly. Please tell me about the medical benefits of tobacco and alcohol.

There's a difference between "de-criminalized" and "legalized".

>> ^Payback:
There's a difference between "de-criminalized" and "legalized".


Your opinions intrigue me, and I'd like to subscribe to your newsletter.

Decriminalization vs. Legalization.

Care to explain?

My home state FTW!

The gov't needs to keep its hands off conservative's marijuana.

Generally speaking, decriminalization reduces the offense to a civic or regulatory offense, on a level with a parking ticket, i.e. no jail time involved. Whereas legalization means that use/possession is no offense at all, assuming other regulations (like legal age requirements) are met.

>> ^rougy:
>>
Your opinions intrigue me, and I'd like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Decriminalization vs. Legalization.
Care to explain?

>> ^Winstonfield_Pennypacker:
No - the RIGHT reason is that the government shouldn't be in the business of telling people how to run their lives. I see no reason why MJ should be illegal when used medicinally.


You're supposedly a fiscally conservative social liberal that believes in the free market. Why would you care how people use it?

Trolls don't have beliefs, or at least not as we understand them...what were you thinking?

And yes, I -did- catch the "supposedly".