CA to vote on recreational Marijuana in Nov

Darky

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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/03/25/calif-voters-decide-legalize-marijuana/

Hmm...not sure where I stand.I know a few who smoke and most of them turn into giggling fools one or two can actually hold them selves together and still be functional. Coincidentally both of them are currently legal via medicinal purposes. One of the giggling fools also is legal, but mostly through finding a loose doctor. The others are purely recreational. Don't know if I like the idea of legalizing it and having more people smoking in more places, but don't know if it makes sense to keep it illegal.
 
Darky said:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/03/25/calif-voters-decide-legalize-marijuana/

Hmm...not sure where I stand.I know a few who smoke and most of them turn into giggling fools one or two can actually hold them selves together and still be functional. Coincidentally both of them are currently legal via medicinal purposes. One of the giggling fools also is legal, but mostly through finding a loose doctor. The others are purely recreational. Don't know if I like the idea of legalizing it and having more people smoking in more places, but don't know if it makes sense to keep it illegal.
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Once they find a good way to tax it, the stuff will be legal everywhere. I have personally never smoked it but the people i know that do aren't that bad. They won't hurt a soul, unless its a bag of Dorito's! :D Some of them are even motivated once they smoke it.
 
My brother has it medicinally and he's more motivated to work on his truck or the house when he's had some cuz his leg doesn't bother him as much anymore, but I've known him to be kind of the exception.
 
there will still be a black market for it so peeps can find yet another way to avaid taxes. I find the people that rely on it still become worthless mid day when trying to be productive.
 
I say legalize it in ALL states.
Tax it and write laws like they have for booze, find a test like what a breath analyzer does to see if the person is stoned at the TIME OF THE TEST not that they smoked some 30 days ago.
Use the tax money to fight the REAL drugs like acid, crank, coke, ect.......


Rather know someone is driving stoned than DRUNK.
 
Coastie said:
If done right I could see it saving California but I can still see tons of illegal growing and selling going on.

The only real benefit I see is a price war between the illegal sellers and the legal ones. I don't smoke pot so that's no help to me.
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Humboldt County, that has the most to lose if this passes is already gearing up to fight the initative. That county's economy is bolstered by the money that the illegal farming brings in. The farmers buy goods and services from legitimate business that pay sales tax.
 
Boatwrench said:
Humboldt County, that has the most to lose if this passes is already gearing up to fight the initative. That county's economy is bolstered by the money that the illegal farming brings in. The farmers buy goods and services from legitimate business that pay sales tax.
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I haven't read much into the bill but couldn't the farmers just go through some bureaucratic process to legitamize their farm for production/sales to the free market?
 
Looiks like they're trying to "decriminalise," not "legalise."

Not merely a semantic difference - "decriminalised" substances can still be controlled under the law (cf: booze & smokes,) but the mere possession by an adult is not illegal - which is the end result I've been saying we should get to for a number of years now.

Keeping weed fully criminalised isn't helping anyone except the penal industry, and it's largely the penal lobby that has worked so hard to keep things at the status quo ante.

Also, I seem to recall reading somewhere (apocrypha?) that the original reason that weed was criminalised was due to the release of Nylon by DuPont Chemical - I've not yet been able to verify, but that's primarily due to a lack of effort on my part (I've had more important things to research of late...)
 
Legalize it.

I don't like it personally, and know far too many people who have smoked themselves retarded, but we might as well make some revenue off of it.
 
IslanderOffRoad said:
Legalize it.

I don't like it personally, and know far too many people who have smoked themselves retarded, but we might as well make some revenue off of it.
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And Meth too, lets not discriminate, and LSD (come on, you really wouldn't mind if the pilot of your plane dropped a tab last night), heroin, all of it.

Go for it! Free drugs and alcohol for ALL! No age limits! Let's use the public school system to train the children on proper use of recreational pharmaceuticals. Might as well most of the teachers are high anyway.

Let Darwinism decide who is left alive AND functional enough to rule!
 
Oh my god a plant!

I know plenty of stupid stoners, but even more who smoke it very occasionally. (And sensibly)

None of them are criminals.

People have been smoking weed for ever.

Humboldt will simply become the "Napa Valley" of weed.
 
Oh, let me make that clear. Criminals because they possess. (Not criminal behavior)

There's a lot of people of think that it's tied with those who get into trouble.

And it's the law... that makes pot smokers criminals. Otherwise they're just pot heads. :)
 
CHIT, this will be the END of CA.. Everybody will be f-ing pot heads..Good part is the price of booze may come down..Tax on it won't help, they will just put it in there pockets..

I do not DRINK or SMOKE.. (POT)
Only Cigars when people don't bitch about that..
 
I say you guys in Cali should legalize everything - from Meth to Heroin...

....need to let Darwin run its course, give you guys some population control....
 
srmitchell said:
Oh my god a plant!

I know plenty of stupid stoners, but even more who smoke it very occasionally. (And sensibly)

None of them are criminals.

People have been smoking weed for ever.

Humboldt will simply become the "Napa Valley" of weed.
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^This. I think that most drugs should be legal and taxed. If people are stupid enough to want to do drugs then so be it. The same laws should apply to drunk driving with drugs. I don't know how PO's would be able to give road side tests tough.
 
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