Marijuana laws- O/T

[HRBAKER]

All they need is a commensurate increase on the Doritos tax at the same time and tax revenue should skyrocket.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by HRBAKER

All they need is a commensurate increase on the Doritos tax at the same time and tax revenue should skyrocket.

Leave my Doritos alone please.

[HRBAKER]

Originally Posted by Leon

Leave my Doritos alone please.

How appropriate that they now have a product called "Munchies."

[tiger8mush]

just like alcohol "home brew", it should also be legal to grow your own for personal use.

edited to add: The Libertarian party was pushing for the States to be able to make their own laws regarding Marijuana and take control away from the Feds. But most "radical" ideas which take control away from the Federal gov't get no attention from the media or are swept aside.

[barrysloate]

I've long been a proponent of legalizing marijuana and I'm very happy to see some progress being made. It will still be a long time before it becomes legal on a national level but we have to expect that the process will be slow.

It's not an entirely harmless drug, but it's light years safer than alcohol or tobacco. Having teenagers getting really stoned and then getting behind the wheel of a car is certainly among the many dangers, so I think some aspects of marijuana use cannot be allowed. Smoking and driving is a no-no.

It could become a very lucrative business, it would generate tax revenue, and it would put a huge dent in the U.S.- Mexican drug war, which is taking the lives of thousands of people. There are still many who think it's a terrible thing so we have to accept baby steps on the road to legalization. But so far, so good.

[EvilKing00]

if making it leagle can help to decrease the debb, and not wasting the tax money on some "govt programs" it should. These tuff times and the situation the govt is in with debt, all options should be open to generate some revenue.

[SmokyBurgess]

Scene at a McDonalds in 2 years:

" I'll take a McChicken biscuit, sweet tea, and a reefer"

The McJoint....new to the dollar menu.

(sigh) sad to see our country sliding down so fast...anything goes it seems.

[rjackson44]

going to a show stoned on pot is a very dangerous thing $$$$$$

[Jantz]

Originally Posted by rjackson44

going to a show stoned on pot is a very dangerous thing $$$$$$

Especially if the National is held in a state where it is legalized!


Jantz

[rdwyer]

Medical marijuana should be sold at Police stations. No. Strike that. The cops would steal it.

[vintagetoppsguy]

Originally Posted by jefferyepayne

I disagree. It is and will be an issue. An employer can prohibit guns in the workplace from a security/safety perspective but cannot prohibit someone from owning a gun. Likewise, I believe it will be difficult for employers to prohibit the use of marijuana outside the workplace if it is legalized as long as the employee doesn't show up high. Much like you can drink all you want at home but can't show up drunk. Watch for the first court case wherein an employee is fired for failing a drug test due to marijuana use a state where it is legal and see the sparks fly.

jeff

I'm not saying it couldn't be challenged, but I'm not sure that the employee would win. Maybe an attorney can chime in. However, if an employer can fire an employee for other things they do outside of work (I could name several, but FaceBook postings come to mind), I'm pretty sure an employer can impose their own marijuana policies.

[esd10]

marijuana should be legal the war on drugs is a joke and the prohibition was started on grounds of racism and bye big business because they felt there was a threat to the paper industry. I believe marijuana should be sold as such goods like alcohol and tobacco making stipulations on it such as you have to be 21 and not driving impared and tax the shit out of it the goverment would make a killing. marijuana is a plant our ancestors have been using for centurys and its only been these last hundred years where they made it wrong to use a plant that grows naturally. let me just say i dont smoke weed but if it was legal i might break out the the 6 footer lol

[joeadcock]

Agree Medical marijuana has definite place in medicine. Just had some one on it for Pancreatic CA. Poor guy's life improved with use of it.

Being a child/teen of the 70's, in my Miami neighborhood of potheads, Van Halen, peace, personally would rather not see it go legal. Just a personal opinion. Only based on experience and what I saw it do. (Yeah, I deal with the horrendous results of legal Etoh and tobacco daily, and the disease and morbidity and death, at my office). Doesn't change my mind.

We are in a Democratic society, and the vote will give a result in the end.

Agree with references to the bible and nothing should be used in excess including this for recreational use.

Odd topic for our forum.

[Brian Van Horn]

No thanks. I can just see I would end up behind one of the guys or women that would use it and decided to go driving. There are enough of those drivers already on the road in my area. I don't need a law allowing more even if there is "a legal limit" to how much they can have.

[bnorth]

I went from owning a construction company that made me very comfortable money wise in the area I live in to building a 40'X76' hydroponic greenhouse so I think my answer is easy to figure out.

It is not legal here yet but I am betting big that here they will enact laws that control it more like Washington than like the free for all in Colorado.