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[KibblesBits]

smoking pot makes you twice as likely to get schizo. well, either that or if you are schizo you are twice as likely to smoke pot.

How is this bit of conjecture relevant to the topic?

 

[Old Gimlet Eyes]

Because there are more important things to worry about. If you see Obama as the lesser of two evils, not voting for him won't be helping anybody.

In a shitty economy, in a state that is cash strapped and with a huge unemployment rate, there are more important things to worry about than the states largest cash crop which produces sales over $14 billion per year? Really? Regulating and taxing marijuana would lead to instant revenues and create jobs. But there are more important things to worry about? Again, really?

Let me quote this again for the new page...

Pot is, after all, California's biggest cash crop, responsible for $14 billion a year in sales, dwarfing the state's second largest agricultural commodity — milk and cream — which brings in $7.3 billion a year, according to the most recent USDA statistics. The state's tax collectors estimate the bill would bring in about $1.3 billion a year in much needed revenue, offsetting some of the billions of dollars in service cuts and spending reductions outlined in the recently approved state budget.

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1884956,00.html#ixzz1ad3CfEiN

 

[Gaborn]

smoking pot makes you twice as likely to get schizo. well, either that or if you are schizo you are twice as likely to smoke pot.

And according to the federal government's own statistics 41.9% of the population has tried marijuana at least once in their lifetime. 11.3% report using it in the last month. using this logic you're calling a huge percentage of people mentally ill.

 

[foodtaster]

And according to the federal government's own statistics 41.9% of the population has tried marijuana at least once in their lifetime. 11.3% report using it in the last month. using this logic you're calling a huge percentage of people mentally ill.

becoming twice as likely to get it doesn't mean you will get it. anyway, I forget to add that it should be legal by now anyways.

 

[UrokeJoe]

I love alcohol. I love good beer, I love good wine, bourbon, and scotch.... Would never want to give up any of them, but that said?? Smoking weed is a safer alternative and we would all be better off if it was legal and alcohol wasn't.

Cue prohibition

 

[Gaborn]

I love alcohol. I love good beer, I love good wine, bourbon, and scotch.... Would never want to give up any of them, but that said?? Smoking weed is a safer alternative and we would all be better off if it was legal and alcohol wasn't.

You realize that was the case during prohibition, right? And it... well, it didn't go well.

edit: and yes, you called it. Of course I'm going to bring up prohibition because marijuana was legal during it and alcohol was not. Prohibition does not work and will not work.

 

[UrokeJoe]

You realize that was the case during prohibition, right? And it... well, it didn't go well.

edit: and yes, you called it. Of course I'm going to bring up prohibition because marijuana was legal during it and alcohol was not. Prohibition does not work and will not work.

sorry didn't edit fast enough. Yes

I'm more of the mind that if a more evil vice is legal.. the less should be as well. Can of worms some may say, but really come on...

 

[gutter_trash]

You realize that was the case during prohibition, right? And it... well, it didn't go well.

edit: and yes, you called it. Of course I'm going to bring up prohibition because marijuana was legal during it and alcohol was not. Prohibition does not work and will not work.

 

[HeadlessRoland]

Why would Obama allow this to occur?

 

[Gaborn]

sorry didn't edit fast enough. Yes

I'm more of the mind that if a more evil vice is legal.. the less should be as well. Can of worms some may say, but really come on...

Eh, I don't personally see them as vices. They're choices people make. Personally? I rarely drink and never really get what you could call "drunk" and I don't use drugs of any sort. I just don't care to tell others what to do with their body and I don't think the government should be doing so either.

 

[UrokeJoe]

Eh, I don't personally see them as vices. They're choices people make. Personally? I rarely drink and never really get what you could call "drunk" and I don't use drugs of any sort. I just don't care to tell others what to do with their body and I don't think the government should be doing so either.

Reminds me of one of my favorite Devo songs.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVGINIsLnqU

 

[Dead Man]

What the fuck is Obama's issue with pot? It's not like there is a massive number of people that would vote for him if only he was firmer on drugs is there?

Reminds me of one of my favorite Devo songs.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVGINIsLnqU

Great band, great song.

 

[nilbog21]

Seriously, I am baffled and outraged


Or..he's trying to incite some sort of pot revolution to hasten the process..

 

[timetokill]

What the fuck is Obama's issue with pot?

He's just mad he can't do it anymore, so he has to crack down on everyone else out of jealousy.

 

[thetrin]

Zoloft has no non-medical use?
But yeah the feds need to back off, if they wanted to stop it they should have done something the moment it passed state law makers.

Vicodin does. Maybe we should crack down on vicodin.

 

[dr3upmushroom]

You realize that was the case during prohibition, right? And it... well, it didn't go well.

edit: and yes, you called it. Of course I'm going to bring up prohibition because marijuana was legal during it and alcohol was not. Prohibition does not work and will not work.

I've never thought about perception of marijuana that far back. Was it widely used? I mean, was it legal as in technically there wasn't a law about it but there didn't really have to be since no one used it anyway, or was it legal as in people who cared to could smoke while they walked their dog?

 

[KibblesBits]

I've never thought about perception of marijuana that far back. Was it widely used? I mean, was it legal as in technically there wasn't a law about it but there didn't really have to be since no one used it anyway, or was it legal as in people who cared to could smoke while they walked their dog?

Around the time of prohibition it was considered a drug more commonly used by minorities and those on the lower end of the socioeconomic scale. It was very common among Jazz musicians and artists and the like IIRC. It was also the subject of a number of trashy novels with even trashier characters but I may have my decades mixed on the novel part.