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Oh yeah, the good old days under Chairman Mao. That's what we all want to repeat.
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I do not have an issue with non drunks owning or shooting guns, the difference is if you enjoy a beer, it doesn't effect your logic or reason unless you drink many......do that often enough and you are destine for a felony that will permanently restrict your ability to own guns. With drugs, no one uses and stops before getting high (similar to drunk) I don't like drunks a bit but someone that has a drink is no problem.
Guns are protected by the constitution........drugs are not. I spend a lot of money every year to support gun rights and to oppose drug use and users. I have had a great drug free life and have developed the resources to effect legislative issues important to me. Your arguments are weak and have no founding in history or fact. Washington State will be after your guns any way they can and you have neither the recourses or strength to stop them. If they have to, they will use the marijuana issue to do it but I doubt they will have to dig that far into there bag of tricks. You have been ineffective in protecting your second ammendment rights by supporting pro gun advocates that are also frequently anti drug. It looks like you have made your choice.......live with it.
The simple answer is the right to smoke anything is not a right given by the constitution. The laws against marijuana use are spelled out in legally passed federal legislation. The states have no right to make laws contradicting the Fed. During prohibition there were states that did not ratify the 13th amendment but there were enough to make it the law of the entire country and they had to abide by them. That is what the issue is here.
I have mentioned this before but this "pot thing" is starting to scare me a little. When I was a kid I smoked it a LOT. If I was not one day it was because none of us had any or money to buy some. When I got into adulthood it slowed way down. When drug testing became a thing it stopped totally. I never thought of it as addicting. Something has to have happened. The way people now will go to extremes like they do now to justify it worries me. People will make every excuse under the sun including trying to pretend it was in the constitution. This is telling me this stuff has to be having some kind of nasty effect on the human brain.
I have mentioned this before but this "pot thing" is starting to scare me a little. When I was a kid I smoked it a LOT. If I was not one day it was because none of us had any or money to buy some. When I got into adulthood it slowed way down. When drug testing became a thing it stopped totally. I never thought of it as addicting. Something has to have happened. The way people now will go to extremes like they do now to justify it worries me. People will make every excuse under the sun including trying to pretend it was in the constitution. This is telling me this stuff has to be having some kind of nasty effect on the human brain.
How about harm to society..........I used to smoke like a stack too but Ive never been addicted to anything. Havent done any for quite some time though and probably not more than a half ounce total in the last 30 years if that. I'm one of those people who immediately develops a very high tolerance and it takes all the fun out of it.
People go to extremes about everything but extremists in general are rare. You just get to hear about them more because of the way news works now. As far as the constitution thing the sole purpose of Government is not to find new ways to restricts what citizens can do. The Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution after passage because many felt it did not go far enough protecting the rights of citizens. They were right and just because something is not specifically mentioned in the Constitution does not mean is therefore illegal.
My mom on the other hand uses quite a bit but she finds it a lot easier to handle that than the opiates she had been taking for her cancers and she gets excellent relief from pain and digestive problems.
As a Libertarian I support the right of everyone to indulge themselves in whatever they want as long as it does not cause harm to others.
You are a minority........I can't think of any current drug user that voted for Trump and he won handily. He is currently raising 10.00 to 1 that the Democrats are. I am sure the number of druggies voting is minuscule and the percentage of those that are pro 2nd amendment is a fraction of a percent as illustrated by recient elections in Washington, Oregon and California. It looks like you can't win. Every time legislatures vote pro drugs the same people turn around and vote anti gun. The druggies aren't even United....the medical users in California are upset because the drug is slated to increase in cost by 50% in the next few days.....because of recreational legalization. The dealers don't like it because they have been cut out, the tax payers don't like it (in Colorado) because the homeless rate has increased over 2X and social costs have increased 10X over any revenue produced by the sale of the drug.
According to research, Tennessee has consistently ranked in the top two states in the country for highest number of opioid (narcotic) prescriptions per person. Except for West Virginia and Alabama at times, our state has the biggest problem with prescription narcotics in the country.
How about harm to society..........
We do not live in a majority rule country.........was never set up that way. That is why polls don't work and you are in the minority. Most elections are decided by less than 50% of the potential voters.......and even then you are voting for representation to a legislative body, not an issue. Drug users and young people vote in pathetically low numbers, old retired people in incredibly high numbers. You have no place to go.So if you support legalization of marijuana you are a stupid drug user? Where did I say I am a drug user or even consume marijuana? I say I grew up in Oregon around a lot of people who consumed it.
Maybe it is you who are in the minority. Polls show that 51% of Republicans even support the legalization of marijuana.
All those figures you are showing are bogus propaganda.. It is like saying with guns being legal our crime rates are so high. Yes, legalizing marijuana, which is still more expensive than heroin is why we have homeless people. It is like saying because we have so many guns in our society we have so many murders. These are fabricated propaganda figures that are use to brainwash and coerce people into supporting political measures based on fear rather than facts. Homelessness increased because Democrats took power and gave them free housing, clothing, food and basically give them free rent. It is not marijuana that is causing our homeless crisis. Most homeless people are addicted to alcohol, pain pills, meth and heroin and cannot even afford recreational marijuana use of any substantial quantity. As it stands, heroin is illegal and yet is readily available and even cheaper than marijuana. So much for your drug war working.. There is major heroin epidemic and billions of our tax dollars have been used to fight your drug war that is failing miserably.
If you believe marijuana is making people homeless, you probably also could believe that guns are making people murderers. It's completely bull crap.
BTW.. States with some of the strictest drug laws have some of the worst amounts of drug addiction. If you think places like Kansas, Missouri, Alabama, Louisiana, Indiana, etc don't have drug, homeless, gang problems you probably haven't done much research about them.
Tennessee Prescription Drug Epidemic
Tennessee has a serious drug problem
We do not live in a majority rule country.........was never set up that way. That is why polls don't work and you are in the minority. Most elections are decided by less than 50% of the potential voters.......and even then you are voting for representation to a legislative body, not an issue. Drug users and young people vote in pathetically low numbers, old retired people in incredibly high numbers. You have no place to go.
So its non drug users and old people legalizing marijuana all over the nation state by state? I'm not following??? 29 states have legalized marijuana.
Oh yeah, the good old days under Chairman Mao. That's what we all want to repeat.
^ Exactly. That Communist, pile of crap was, by the numbers, the biggest mass murderer in human history. Communism is pure evil, but Mao managed to take it to a scale that would make even make Stalin blush.