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@1 Well then that's a pretty weak one there Ken. 'Dangerous' is pretty obviously wild hyperbole. What's not hyperbole: prison is dangerous, and prohibition means lots of non-violent offenders being sent there. Heavily armed narc gestapo are dangerous, and prohibition means lots of those guys kicking in doors and shooting people.

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The real right-wingers, the wealthy ones, know that drug decriminalization is a huge power loss for them. Weaker drug laws make it harder to subjugate minorities and scapegoats.
Low-status neck-beards hit the streets yelling bigot slurs, but the rich & crafty know that
jail is a terrifically easy way to eliminate the 'unwanted' on the government's dime.
No coincidence that the rise of "drug laws" are inverse to the end of slavery. When hippies posed a social threat, they got same treatment with same laws, beefed up for politics.

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mehl - never met a logical fallacy too stupid to embrace huh? That's why your palms are so hairy.

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@3 Legal cannabis isn't available to minors. Stifling the black will most likely reduce under-age access and habitual use by minors.

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*stifling that. "The black" is a next-level weird autocorrect. Guh.

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Not my favorite nit to pick, but "fewer illegal imports" has a different meaning than "less illegal imports."

...unless you're trying to say that state laws mean imports are not as illegal as they once were?

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What exactly are we to make of the huge shift from imported to domestic cannabis in the illegal market when legal cannabis is thought to account for only something like 10-15% of total cannabis sales in the US? It sounds to me like the creation of a legal cannabis industry has somehow made it easier to grow illegal cannabis domestically, or that the legal cannabis industry is extremely leaky.

I suppose the point about the wall still stands, but saying "with legalization, criminals will just grow weed here instead!" probably isn't going to win over too many law-n-order types.

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This isn’t geographically relevant now, nor was it relevant before decriminalisation and legalisation.

CC101.

Schwag and gas weed didn’t make the grade. It was always homegrown, bc buds/beasters/canads and/or fancy strains.

We called the standby up here grapefruit, and it worked just fine, but Mexico had nothing to do with it.

Trekking across the Canadian border is a liiiiitle bit different, and much safer, than doing so from Mexico. All the news says contraband is going through ports/ of entry and over water, anyway.

See: gas weed.

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@10 That's a natural analog to make but there's a lot of important differences in how the products are used, culture surrounding them, and the science of addiction. For the casual teen ne'er-do-well, imagine if the only place to buy alcohol was the black market. What impact do you think that would have on teen accessibility? Now imagine if the only place to buy alcohol was dispensary, and a 12'er costs $40.

The studies you site concern regular, long-term use by minors. Time will tell if legalization decreases this sort of abuse but it's very unlikely to encourage it. If I had teenagers that partied occasionally—and they all do, I'd rather have them sitting around stoned than drunk off their tits.

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@14 - It hasn't so far. The wholesale price will shrink—especially as legalization expands—but the markup that once covered the implicit risk involved in selling pot now covers things like packaging, testing, retail markup, and most of all heavy taxes.

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It’s really funny now that more. Places are legalizing marijuana all these books ,research ,so many big mouths voicing their opinion , that it a gateway drug that was a mouth pieces for the NFL, people are so worried about what it will do to young people , all you. Can do is educate them on it , then it’s out of your hands wether it’s legal or not they want it they can get it , just like alcohol .i would rather my child do marijuana than some of the things they have tried e-cigarettes, potpourri, excidy,and some of the other stuff herion , pot is not addictive, it’s not a drug it’s a HERB ,stop believing the government , remember how they fought alcohol prohibition samething ,CONTROL EVERYTHING , that’s what the government is all about !! They should shut up because they can make mountains. Of money by taxing it ,like booze ! 🤗

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@1, @3, @5, @10 The inconvenient truth you refuse to acknowledge is that nobody ever in recorded history has died of a marijuana overdose. It's impossible. But I can go to any grocery store and buy $40 worth of vodka that will kill me if I drank it all at once. But there you go pushing that lie that pot is dangerous. How much do you enjoy lying? Does lying make you happy? Is that why you're a republican, because you like to lie?

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Hahahahahaha Seattle is def. where all the mentally unstable nutjob liberals live.


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