Yup, that legalization of pot is a good thing

I say every investment savvy capitalist ought to jump on this opportunity to make some serious cash. There is probobly a good 5-8 year opportunity before the law is either quashed or the big money takes over (big tobacco), and shuts down the start-ups.
 
XLVIII DOMINATORS said:
I say every investment savvy capitalist ought to jump on this opportunity to make some serious cash. There is probobly a good 5-8 year opportunity before the law is either quashed or the big money takes over (big tobacco), and shuts down the start-ups.
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They almost certainly will - though they probably have pretty big money in it already. In my experience we'd do better to take the path we have taken with tobacco - the stuff is not as innocuous as we used to think, to judge by those I know.
 
iolo said:
They almost certainly will - though they probably have pretty big money in it already. In my experience we'd do better to take the path we have taken with tobacco - the stuff is not as innocuous as we used to think, to judge by those I know.
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That is all I am saying. The argument used by those pushing legalization is that it is innocuous. Well, the stuff that is out there today is much more potent. It isn't your mama's mary jane
 
Teflon Don said:
That is all I am saying. The argument used by those pushing legalization is that it is innocuous. Well, the stuff that is out there today is much more potent. It isn't your mama's mary jane
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But the ban doesn't work - and probably encourages consumption. Slow and insistent wins the day!
 
A study like this is useless, really, given the amount of time pot can be detected in a user's system as compared to the period of intoxication after use.
 
Teflon Don said:
http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/...olving-pot-use-have-tripled-in-us-study-finds

Glad pot is so innocuous
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From the article:

The legalization of marijuana is an idea that is gaining momentum in the United States, but there may be a dark side to pot becoming more commonplace, a new study suggests.

Fatal crashes involving marijuana use tripled during the previous decade, fueling some of the overall increase in drugged-driving traffic deaths, researchers from Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health report.
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Currently it is legal in TWO states. Both of which occurred this year. So the above is unrelated to legalization.

Saying fatal crashes involving pot tripled is not really very telling...

1) What are the actual numbers?

2) What has the testing been like over the years?
 
aeprga said:
A study like this is useless, really, given the amount of time pot can be detected in a user's system as compared to the period of intoxication after use.
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Precisely!

Using the hair follicle test, Pot can be detected in the system for MONTHS after use.
 
Teflon Don said:
That is all I am saying. The argument used by those pushing legalization is that it is innocuous. Well, the stuff that is out there today is much more potent. It isn't your mama's mary jane
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in relative terms it is innocuous.

Pot doesn't make you get into a car and drive stoned, people making bad decisions do that. If you are the type of person to get into a car stoned you'll be high/stoned/drunk if you didn't have weed available. You can take all sorts of legal drugs and crash your car. Ambien, oxy's, etc

I don't see you starting threads about alcohol fatalities.

Deal with it bro. Pot is here to stay. Smoke weed every day burn burn burn
 
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So this is the new conservatism.

Personal responsibility is out the window. If someone drives a car high on marijuana we're now going to side with the ACLU types and pick apart tests that would confirm marijuana use. "The tests are useless. Hooray! We get to use marijuana in an atmosphere free of personal responsibility!"

Other conservative benefits would include new government regulations, taxation, and more tax dollars to the gluttonous gobblement.

I always wondered what happened to those dopey kids once they became too old to ride skateboards. It seems they've become the "new conservatives."
 
Taft2016 said:
So this is the new conservatism.

Personal responsibility is out the window. If someone drives a car high on marijuana we're now going to side with the ACLU types and pick apart tests that would confirm marijuana use. "The tests are useless. Hooray! We get to use marijuana in an atmosphere free of personal responsibility!"

Other conservative benefits would include new government regulations, taxation, and more tax dollars to the gluttonous gobblement.

I always wondered what happened to those dopey kids once they became too old to ride skateboards. It seems they've become the "new conservatives."
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Personal responsibility is allowing people to make choices for themselves about what they can and can't consume. It's letting people make decision for THEMSELVES rather than you dictating what is up to code. P.S. STOP drinking alcohol dickhead, it's way more harmful than marijuana in every conceivable way.

you are not for personal responsibility you pathetic hack. you are a big government loving fascist. YOU LOVE big government bending you over telling you what you can and can't consume and put in your body. Government is your master and you are its willing bitch.
 
Hasa Diga Eebowai said:
Another stupid conservative that does not understand the data and/or how to turn it into useful information or knowledge.

Traffic fatalities are down, and there seems to be a connection to medical marijuana laws. The reasons are obvious, marijuana use substitutes for alcohol and/or pills. Driving high is much safer than drunk or pilled up.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jacobsu...ed-driving-deaths-why-are-fatalities-falling/
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I agree with most of what you wrote, however your comment that driving high is much safer than being drunk or stoned off other medication is ridiculous. You are still impaired and still a danger to everyone around you. I am not sure how you can substantiate such nonsense.
 
Superfreak said:
I agree with most of what you wrote, however your comment that driving high is much safer than being drunk or stoned off other medication is ridiculous. You are still impaired and still a danger to everyone around you. I am not sure how you can substantiate such nonsense.
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I am glad you agree with my main point, that stupid conservatives - like you, sty and the OP - do not understand BASIC economics or how to make sense of data. Driving high is far safer than driving drunk or on pills. That does not imply it is safer than driving sober. Of course, it is not likely to be. But the FACT that people will substitute leads to the clear conclusion that legalization will reduce traffic fatalities.
 
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