Recreational use of motor vehicles kills and injures people.

You’re an idiot.

The argument is a complete fallacy.

Big Gov’t will out-spend any taxes that can potentially can be collected.
Leading to new streams of revenue – cocaine? prostution? Not that I’m against them but the argument that this will fix deficits is a crock.

- William Blake

All drug addicts are the same. They cannot conceive that their addiction can influence anyone other than themselves. All of them are either liars or deluded.

-actually, they aren’t

While this could be misconstrued as proof..

During the 80’s when i was playing with Triple T Muni’s, i had discovered
an interesting fact:

In the Bear&Stearns building here in nyc (55 water street, iirc)

There were several people dressed to the nine’s in three piece suits
that went around to all the offices
(ie their customers)with an attache case full of all the favorite illegals
of the time, coke, smoke, heroin, freebase, ludes, Penwalt/bi-amphetamine (black beauties) and few other popular pharmaceuticals for sale
to those in desire..

The “display case” was beautifully organized and very professional.

This type of service existed in many
of the big name wall street buildings downtown.

what i am getting at is your “picture
perfect” drug addict that has been painted for you by big brother and it’s propaganda arm, far far removed from the true reality.

While drugs are “out of fashion” in the mainstream view these days, this practice still exists.

There are infinitely more “functional drug addicts” in the U.S. wearing business suits than there are of the typical “non-functional” drug addicts depicted on TV.

I know this as fact just by my observation over the past 25 years
as i have both, as many friends and clients in the “street” as i do in the office.

doing house/office call PC repairs gives one unique access and insight to the personal lives of both.

My bond broker was one of the
office class “addicts”. -while i knew this from the start, i did not know how fast and severe he “escalated” until after i had exited the bond market.

Yes, he eventually lost everything, however during the 7 years he was a “functional addict” he was extremely good at his job.

Your comment is valid to a degree, however, the amount of addicts in medium-high-level business matches or
exceeds your “classic addict” view.

If **all** the so called “addicts” were suddenly thrown in jail, this country would easily lose 40%-50% of
its workforce in a day.

People are positioned in the test lab
chain to assure this trend is never interrupted.

Only one thing is 100% for sure:

We are ALL deluded

Keep that in mind in the future..

-s

#32 you must be republican. You just can’t seem to separate the practical from the ridiculous.

The “if x happens the slippery slope” theory. The “if y happens the domino theory”. The is z marries the “people will marry horses” theory. The “socialist agenda” theory.

Why do you people live in a perpetual state of fear?

Professor David Nutt was forced to resign from his role as chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs. Research by Nutt and his colleagues, published in the medical journal the Lancet in 2007, rates drugs in order of their relative harm, where #1 is most harmful. Results included the following:
#5 alcohol
#9 tobacco
#11Cannabis

Was he fired because his facts were wrong? Oh no – he was fired because his remarks were contrary to declared government policy.

Credentials:
Professor David J Nutt MRCP MRCPsych FRCPsych FMedSci is professor of Neuropsychopharmacology.

The politician who fired him left school at 15 and was once a postman.

Go figure.

Where do we get the money to pay for the dead and injured when a larger percentage of these morons hit the streets, planes and trains of the nation?

Isn’t enough we have so much death from alcohol that we have to add yet another legal depressant to kill motor skills and risk other peoples’ lives?

All drug addicts are the same. They cannot conceive that their addiction can influence anyone other than themselves. All of them are either liars or deluded.

Recreational use of dugs kills and injures people.

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This is not about legalizing terrible things for money. This is about asking why something that does little harm is illegal in the first place. If it shouldn’t be illegal, and we can take a valueless expenditure (MJ drug enforcement and incarceration) and turn it into a source of revenue, then thats win win in my book.

RBG

But think of WHAT it will take away.
For those that use Substitutes like alcohol and Tobacco..MJ is not as harsh.
And IF the Gov. places it under its SOLE control, insted of as Tobacco and alcohol are sold. the money goes STRAIGHT to the gov.