I don’t really care one way or another, but it is certainly more in line with conservative values to all a free, open and fair Market place for a substance than use it to take liberty away from more people. And you don’t have to go to jail for weed to fuck you over. A year of drug court, a few thousand in fines can get people caught up in the criminal justice system for years.
If this were about promoting conservative values, that ultimate home/family wrecker, alcohol should be made illegal. Countries that have switched to a nearly entirely state run system of distributing very highly taxed alcohol have been very successful reducing the social costs of booze.
I don't do weed, but I have friends that do who I have known for decades before.
Also worked with pot smokers (coworkers.)
I think thc changes people by changing the lens through which they see themselves - so they don't realize they are changing, they can't see it, but it seems to make them irritable, short sighted, and mildly belligerent -- and it makes them think they are good liars even though everyone else can see through the lies.
And judging from how people literally spend their last dollar then borrow money from friends to buy pot when money they ain't got, it's obviously addictive, although again they will tell you it's not addictive (but this is one of the ways it causes them to lie to themselves.)
Addiction is a form of bondage. It may not be mechanical chains, but it's chemical chains.
And any time you have people making off of people's bondage, whether it's physical chains or chemical incarceration, THAT IS SLAVERY. Sorry, it is.
A drug pusher offering free samples of an addictive substance is no different than a slave catcher offering free snacks to entice potential slaves into the cage.
Now, in America, it is each individuals to hurt themselves however they want, as long as they don't hurt anybody else. So while I don't advice fellow Americans to hurt themselves, I recognize it is their right to do, including putting themselves into bondage to a chemical which they cannot break free of easily, possibly never will.
But for others to make millions of dollars off of that changes the whole thing into slavery.
And minors absolutely should not be allowed to be enslaved ever. Once they are 21 or whatever, then it's their choice to make.
In my opinion, a state should be allowed to outright ban recreational thc. But if a state allows recreational tch, then people should have to grow their own. Nobody should be allowed to profit from another's thc addiction.
(I feel the same way about alcohol, tabacco too. Grow it or brew it if you want it, but it should not be for sale.)
Now - it is extremely important one person's right to hurt themselves doesn't hurt another. Huge numbers of people die every year from drunk driving, and they haven't even had a drop to drink. That is absolutely terrible. And it continues.
Please tell me the benefits of legalizing weed. How does it help the nation and how does it help conservatism?
I don’t really care one way or another, but it is certainly more in line with conservative values to all a free, open and fair Market place for a substance than use it to take liberty away from more people. And you don’t have to go to jail for weed to fuck you over. A year of drug court, a few thousand in fines can get people caught up in the criminal justice system for years.
If this were about promoting conservative values, that ultimate home/family wrecker, alcohol should be made illegal. Countries that have switched to a nearly entirely state run system of distributing very highly taxed alcohol have been very successful reducing the social costs of booze.
I don't do weed, but I have friends that do who I have known for decades before. Also worked with pot smokers (coworkers.)
I think thc changes people by changing the lens through which they see themselves - so they don't realize they are changing, they can't see it, but it seems to make them irritable, short sighted, and mildly belligerent -- and it makes them think they are good liars even though everyone else can see through the lies.
And judging from how people literally spend their last dollar then borrow money from friends to buy pot when money they ain't got, it's obviously addictive, although again they will tell you it's not addictive (but this is one of the ways it causes them to lie to themselves.)
Addiction is a form of bondage. It may not be mechanical chains, but it's chemical chains.
And any time you have people making off of people's bondage, whether it's physical chains or chemical incarceration, THAT IS SLAVERY. Sorry, it is.
A drug pusher offering free samples of an addictive substance is no different than a slave catcher offering free snacks to entice potential slaves into the cage.
Now, in America, it is each individuals to hurt themselves however they want, as long as they don't hurt anybody else. So while I don't advice fellow Americans to hurt themselves, I recognize it is their right to do, including putting themselves into bondage to a chemical which they cannot break free of easily, possibly never will.
But for others to make millions of dollars off of that changes the whole thing into slavery.
And minors absolutely should not be allowed to be enslaved ever. Once they are 21 or whatever, then it's their choice to make.
In my opinion, a state should be allowed to outright ban recreational thc. But if a state allows recreational tch, then people should have to grow their own. Nobody should be allowed to profit from another's thc addiction.
(I feel the same way about alcohol, tabacco too. Grow it or brew it if you want it, but it should not be for sale.)
Now - it is extremely important one person's right to hurt themselves doesn't hurt another. Huge numbers of people die every year from drunk driving, and they haven't even had a drop to drink. That is absolutely terrible. And it continues.