It’s amazing how people do not comprehend true freedom. That which is free of intrusion from anyone or any entity at any time. I’m confused by this. Freedom is absolute and impenetrable unless people choose to give that up.
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Agree – mostly.
I think that weed can be used for good things, such as those with a poor appetite, insomnia, chronic pain, among other reasons.
However, here is where my agreement of “mostly” comes in. I think we all can agree that you should not drive or work while high. Let’s say for example you mess up while at work and it is serious, such as a serious incident in a hospital or construction setting. Odds are you will still be tested to see if you had anything in your system, if you used weed the night before, or even a couple weeks before, it will likely still be in your system. There is no way to prove that you were not impaired at the time of the incident.
Does anyone have any ideas how one would combat this? Should we just stop drug testing for weed if a serious incident occurs? I’m not sure if this is the right answer either as weed does impair the way one thinks and acts.
If we do legalize weed at a federal level, I do also believe that the public needs to be educated about risks associated with it, just as we do with alcohol.
With all of that being said, I wouldn’t mind taking a weed topical for pain, or taking a gummy when I am having anxiety. I would support this for the most part, I just worry about the technicalities associated with it.
I do also believe that Donald Trump was talking about the idea of making weed federally legal (please do NOT quote me on this), he just didn’t want it to be done in public places due to the smell of it.
I live in New Hampshire. My state has medical and decriminalized cannabis. Every other state around us has recreational. I can’t go anywhere without smelling it. Just driving into Massachusetts or being near the boarder stinks. Personally the smell makes me nauseous. People don’t have enough respect to not use it in public places or not REEK of it in public. It’s disgusting and disrespectful. If you want to do it in your own home and stay there afterwards, have at it. The second you are out in public you are a liability. Especially on the roads. I fully believe it has its uses as a medicine or sleep aid, but not as an every day all day thing. If people drank all day it’s a problem. People should not be high all day unless medically necessary. Reevaluate life choices if you need it to get through your day. Seek help if need be.
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I am all for the legalization. However, I am allergic to it so public use should be regulated so those like me can still go to public functions. I am all for the freedom but there has to be a way of making it so I can go to Walmart and not be threatened with death. Smelling it on people 2 aisles over does effect me in a very negative way.
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I have done a lot of research on this subject and they actually did a study and found that there were line 20 percent less accidents from people smoking weed. And way more from drinking alcohol which can make you much more impaired than any naturally organically grown weed. T and they found that the people smoking weed the only impairment only was driving slower. They made it illegal back in the '70s because they couldn’t control the high free-spirited hippies when they were smoking it, legalize it federally I say.
Are you implying we should ban alcohol as it is more addictive, toxic, has higher chance for domestic abuse and rape? Marijuana is significantly safer, has actual health benefits for certain medical conditions, and is not possible to overdose from as opposed to alcohol.
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You can get the medicinal benefits from the herb as God made it, without all the stupifying effects humans have bred for. Also hops is closely related and has the same medicinal benefits. I know a fellow who made a tincture frim hops, sprayed it on his sore hands and got instant relief.
As far as alcohol is concerned: two wrongs don’t make a right. You cannot say marijuana should be legalized just because alcohol is worse.
But I would shed no tears if we could ban hard liquor. I used to drive for Uber and have no positive feelings for drunks. I wish peoply could see how pathetic and annoying they are when drunk. Would still rather have them in my car than their own. Sort of. Mostly. Better if they just weren’t stupid-drunk
In any case, booze and weed both turn people into pathetic idiots who hurt everyone around them and it’s a damn shame.
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We live in america, the land of the free. Government has no right to tell us what to do, we learned this in prohibition. Making these substances illegal isnt going to fix anything. Its just going to make them more dangerous, fund cartels, fill our prisons, and increase violence.
Based on the number of people who have been killed by alcoholism and alcoholics, never mind the number of lives devastated but not lost, the case can be made that it wasn’t prohibition that was the mistake, but the repealing of it. We cried “uncle!” too soon.
And what has become of Colorado is, or at least should be, an obvious illustration of what a lie the rest of your argument is. Are you too stuborn to admit it, or too stupified to see it?
As far as ‘freedom’ is concerned, we do not have the ‘right’ to go arou d ending and destrying the lives of others, especiallythe lives of those who love us, those we should love.
Go ahead and dig your Libertarian heels into the ground and thump your protest into your screen or your keyboard, we’re not going to come to a meeting of minds on this.
The drug issue is exactly why Libertarians will never gain any ground. Very few people smart enough to support most of the platform are stupified enough to believe the lies from the stupified.
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The federal govt should no be regulating marijuana unless it crosses state lines. This is a state legislature function
Making it legal would boost the economy in almost every state nationwide though. Marijuana companies being in a lot of tax revenue. Honestly I could care less there’s always your local dealer but why waste resources criminalizing something that doesn’t even stop the use.