(03-29-2022, 09:45 AM)TheO-LineMatters Wrote:

(03-28-2022, 12:56 PM)NewJagsCity Wrote: Why are we passing laws that are just going to make us an even more unhealthy and stupid society?  (And yes, I had my 'period' of pot use/abuse).  Never mind the long term damage to brain cells (which studies support), but it's just more smoke in and damage to your lungs, which we learned from CoVid can open you up to a whole lot more opportunistic diseases.  How many out there were screaming about a vaccine, and yet its cool to suck that sticky icky into your lungs?  Why do I care?  Because an Idiocracy is more prone to totalitarian conquest than a society that is at least partly awake. Stupid and stoned doesnt usually give a [BLEEP] about anything except thier next hit. Also, Increased costs to society: health insurance, auto insurance, security, etc.  Of course, the Cheetos industry will go thru the roof, so just tax that to cover all the risk cost increases.  And of course, its possible too that most idiot stoners will Darwin award themselves right out of this world anyway, which is fine as long as they don't take me or my loved ones with them.  So, [BLEEP] yeah, light up.  Don't Bogart that joint.

So I guess you are saying Alcohol, unhealthy foods and any tobacco products should be outlawed as well, because there is absolutely no difference between weed and those other things. They are all vices. People that want weed legalized are simply pointing out that there is a double standard between cannabis and and any other vice. It should be either all or nothing.

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(03-28-2022, 10:19 PM)americus 2.0 Wrote: Not if the marijuana is laced with fentanyl or some of this other crazy stuff that's killing people. Yeah, straight up pot may not be as bad as pills but for someone with an addiction it doesn't matter. It's going to ruin their life. I've seen it happen more than once.

If it's legalized though, it can be regulated. It will be far safer and you wouldn't have to worry about it being laced with Fentanyl or PCP or any other foreign substance.

Can't remember the last time I threw down a jumbo bag of Doritos or 4 Big Macs and then went out and drove recklessly. Unless I was pooping my pants at the time due to intestinal disturbance and was paying more attention to keeping the leakage under control than i was to the traffic. However, smoke in your lungs is never a good thing. If is was, then we'd all still be using wood stoves and letting that smoke just fill the house after turning off the smoke alarms. I'm pretty sure most people would label that unhealthy right from the get-go. Also, Big Macs and Doritos don't usually make you stupider over time, while average/excessive pot use has been shown to contribute to cognitive decline. In a society that currently has a president as the poster child for dementia, why would we legalize a substance that would contribute to giving us more of that? Our society has already been dumbed down enough, we now trail the world in most academic rankings and are trending worse, not better. A healthier and smarter society will cost each of us less money in insurance premiums, gov funded hospital care (taxes), and will allow us to live longer and be able to contribute more to our families and societies over a longer period of time. I'm not advocating legislating health, our gov/insurance companies do enough of that already. But why introduce something that won't improve us over the long run?

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