According to Gallup, pollsters conducted phone interviews with 1,013 people 18 or older in all 50 states and Washington, DC. When asked what effect they thought marijuana had on society, 49% of respondents said it was positive, while 50% said cannabis has negatively impacted society.
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Americans profess to believe in freedom, just not for the pot smokers. Reality is that - as led by the Karenites among us - Americans have long been fond of passing laws that fall on other people. Every time someone griped, "their oughta be a law" the legal guild gave them a 10 for 1 special. Big Sister keeps us safe for our own good, like it or not.
ReplyDeleteTo be consistent we should be banning alcohol, sugar, and tobacco also.
So far as the Senate bill, the Pubs also crafted one but Schumer will not allow it to progress of course. The Pub version had provisions to allow dispensaries to use the banking system. The Dems bill didn't although I've no idea if it changed. That would eliminate a lot of armed robberies for the cash. The Dems are only using this to cadge votes from the stoner demographic.
Saying it's bad isn't the same as saying it should be illegal.
DeleteNobody ever stole my catalytic converter, for a cup of sugar….
DeleteYet…
DeleteAnonymous at 3:02 PM - I very seriously doubt pot heads are stealing your cat either. It is low life street scum who refuse to work, meth heads or other serious druggies.
DeletePot has been called the "gateway drug" for decades. It starts with a few puffs and ends up mainline narcotics.
DeleteWhile I think there are legitimate medical uses, I also think that overall it is bad for society. The problem is that recreational use simply creates more laziness, dysfunction, and dependence by people using it as a crutch just to get through life, because life is so shitty they're desperate for something to blunt the pain and frustration of modern American living.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, I see legalization as an inevitability because so many people already using it recreationally aren't going to stop irrespective of what the law says. It is just another sign of decay as the empire of shit withers and dies around us, taking our culture down the drain with it.
Worse still is that I see absolutely nothing on the horizon to staunch, much less reverse the bleed out.
Buying into the propaganda, I see.
DeleteIt's no worse than any other substance that's abused.
Users aren't always abusers, but you go ahead and characterize all users that way, girlfriend.
Feel the same way about alcohol?
I'd hire a stoner over a hangover any day.
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Okay, Anon above commented about how marijuana is bad for SOCIETY. You replied talking about INDIVIDUAL users.
DeleteNot the same.
Oh for fucks sake anon at.1:59pm, my point is that more and more people will - and are - using it because they can't deal with the general shittiness of life now. Happy, productive people in a generally good state of mind don't need regular use of anything that alters their mood and mindset.
DeleteThat the popularity of recreational use has reached a point where legalization is imminent is just another sign this society is dying, because the reality of daily life has gotten unbearable for too many people to make through a day it without a chemical crutch. Pot is just the current fashionable thing to that end.
Same reason 25% of American women are on antidepressants, and the use of even worse shit like alcohol and other drugs is on the rise. Same reason suicides are up. Legalization will happen, but it is just a piece of duct tape over a hole in the hull of the boat. I'll reiterate that I've no real objection to pot, it has it's uses. That it is getting legalization now is because too many people desire its use for the wrong reasons. Summation: smoking spliffs to relieve the stress of life in clown world is fiddling while Rome burns. But that die is cast, so go ahead and smoke em if you got em.
What is bad for society is good for the democrats. Next?
ReplyDeleteOne wonders where both those for and against get the data they form their opinion on after the last few years the government and those funded by same have prooven to be as accurate and reliable as the average stoner perhaps less so.
ReplyDelete"But its a gateway drug" yes when its illegal who do you buy it from of course the person selling those other drugs.....wanna try some?
I agree with the above poster if you are going to protect me from myself you must ban alcohol, tobacco, sugar, most corn products and snack foods.
Who knows as we become the land formerly of the free where the brave find better things to do with their time it may just end up lawn clippings and air fried grasshoppers for all ( except for our betters).
John
Fuck all y'all, I have been smoking weed for over 30 years and...
ReplyDeleteShit, what was I talking about?
Never mind.....
"We asked about 20 people in each state"...
ReplyDeleteOr maybe "We sampled 0.0003% of the population to produce a divisive article so we get clicks."
Polls are like The Science, trust if you must.
The criminalization of pot has done far more harm to society than pot has.
ReplyDeleteI would like to see what, if anything, it is costing the states that have legalized it. If it’s a wash or they’re making revenue off it, buy damn let’s legalize it. If it’s costing me and you money, then maintain the status quo. Decriminalization for personal use is not an option because that does nothing but encourage the big criminal organizations to keep up the flow. They’re making billions off the drug trade and are more than willing to kill for those billions. Those big criminal organizations include the cartels as well as the alphabet agencies wasting billions to wage the continuing (and loosing) “war on drugs”. I, for one, will go to my grave believing pot is no worse (or no better) than alcohol. You can damn sure abuse both. Eod1sg Ret
ReplyDeleteI don't care about legalizing weed, beyond one basic thing:
ReplyDeleteThat shit stinks. It smells, and I am tired of smelling that shit everywhere I go: Hotels in Vegas, driving down the street, walking into a store, everywhere.
The arguments that people steal to support drug habits doesn't wash with me. Stealing, whether for drugs or not, is still illegal.
If drugs are bad for you, then that is the problem of the person using them.
However, from a societal standpoint, alcohol, tobacco, obesity, and weed are all bad for society. That doesn't mean that it should be illegal.
It's better than the antidepressants so many people are on. Just because you have a prescription doesn't mean it's ok.
ReplyDeleteIMHO any intoxicants are BAD..
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