Legalizing marijuana is a bipartisan effort!

How about this for an odd couple. Barney Frank and Ron Paul have teamed up to introduce legislation that would legalize marijuana. I say legalize it, tax the hell out of it, and use it to generate revenue for the government.

What say you?

 

I agree, it would also cut down on costs as well for Law enforcement, Courts and Prisons It would free up recourses to go after stuff like cocain/heroin etc

 

100% in agreement with you. And I don't smoke it. I'll go so far as to give you a "like" for this one.

 

I don't smoke it either and I am all for it too. Legalize it and tax it.

 

Though I don't smoke it, I agree completely except for taxing the hell out of it. Tax it, yes, but no more than any other product. Tobacco and liquor also shouldn't have the hell taxed out of them.

 

It should be taxed just like any other sin taxed item. Except if it is for medical purposes. I hear Colorado is raking in a fortune from selling pot these days. Rocky mountain high!

 

Legalizing it is all well and good to a point. I'm not sure what that threshold is however. People should be able to get high and smoke their brains out, as long as they don't impose it on others or damage others. There's the rub. You make it legal with tight restrictions, or simply legal for tax purposes, cashing in on the whole thing? Couple problems. I don't want to encourage some pot head to loosely sm0oke it wherever and whenever they deem it appropriate. I don't like pot, or the smoke of cigarettes. I don't want to smell either. I don't want to have to explain that "burning leaves" smell to him, and why should I be forced to?
If strictly legal use of it, confined to your own house, and never imposing it or any of its nasty associated airhead behavior, or its nasty smell or possible poisonous gases directly to anyone else, then hey, cool. Knock yourself out. Make me smell it, or have to tolerate any of its inherent pitfalls, with the claim "Hey man...it's legal" when it crosses my path, in some intended or unintended fashion, then it's a problem. Don't later use the fact that it's "accepted" and legal to jam it or its rancid, nasty behavior, or its consequences, down my throat at some later date.
Lastly, pot heads, in my experience, are generally airheaded, wastes and dreggs on society, and IMO, is indeed a gateway drug, but everyone has the right to be a burnout if they choose to. Just don't impose it on me, or use the fact that it's taxed, that it somehow justifies the pitfalls and its effects on others.

 

Alcohol is probably the biggest 'gateway drug' out there. I bet most people who do harder drugs started with alcohol. And, certainly, alcohol is involved in many crimes. But prohibition of alcohol didn't work out real well for us either.

And, as far as smoking it wherever and whenever, I figure it is likely that the same kind of laws that prohibit doing that with alcohol would be used. You can't just walk down the street drinking a beer in the vast majority of cities/counties/states in the US. Same with public intoxication laws. We are getting there with cigarettes too.

 

We''ll try to pass all laws with the things that offend you in mind.

 

Is that the Libertarian coming out in tomc?

 

I can only imagine how you'd react to a homo toking on a spliff.

 

So long as it isn't imposed on me in any way, I'm cool with it. Good luck straddling that line though is my point.

 

That would be acceptable.

 

I am not 100% sure what you mean by imposed but I don't think anyone is going to force anyone else to smoke pot. But, at the same time, I don't think there is a constitutional right not to be offended by something. I can't stand tampon advertisements or guys who don't wear shirts when out in public but they really don't do me any actual harm.

 

This should be nominated as the most hilarious post of the day!

 

Well, like cigarettes for one. Ignoramuses still smoke around others that don't. They think that moving three feet away somehow makes it better. So, I smell and breathe their smoke from three feet away. Very helpful. I don't care if people huff car exhaust all day long if they want to. Just do in in a manner that doesn't subject me to any part of it.

 

So you don't mind breathing actual car exhaust when you are outside? I have never seen smoke go
sideways except in blowing wind. I guess you believe in that second hand stuff.

 

You're also probably mad at the sun for burning your skin.

 

I can smell cigarette smoke from quite far away. If I can smell it, that means I'm breathing it to some degree. It's cancerous. I don't want to breathe it. I shouldn't be forced to do so. It's that simple. From what I've read, marijuana emits even more cancerous and toxic gases. I don't want to smell or breathe that either.
Second hand smoke causes cancer. That point isn't debatable. You have no right to expose me to cancer any more than I have a right to expose you to poison gas.

 

The sun's rays and marijuana smoke aren't quite the same thing. One is optional and one isn't. One is a product of illicit behavior, and one isn't. But I know...as long as there is a buck to be made, you're all for it, despite any other considerations or anyone.