FoxNews update: Weed doesnt harm lung function

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OK so can we now legalize this and do away with the cost of prosectuting folks for selling,growing and using this product that is less dangerous than alcohol and cigarettes?

 

Yep... legalize it, tax it, and concentrate the effort of law enforcement authorities on real crime, not silly crap....

 

That makes way to much sense.

 

Why tax it? Why not just decriminalize it? Why does the government have to tax everything? How are they going to tax it?

 

In addition to being able to focus on real domestic criminals, this would put a big time dent in the Latin American drug trade allowing the US to wind down the war on drugs to a reasonable degree,saving countless more billions...not too mention thousands of the thousands of folks who wont be murdered via the always cutthroat business of trafficking. Zap illicit demand and the prices will drop like a rock,essentially making lots of international dealers unemployed.

 

Yeah Im not sure I like the idea of taxing it.

It would be easy tho. Govt subsidized growers that make it cheap enough that its not worth growing it yourself.

 

Careful tho, you may find you have too many democrat voters on your hands a few years down the line
j/k

 

I'm all for legalizing, but any smoke you inhale into your lungs has the potential to damage them...

 

In theory, I agree with you. But I think if it were simply decriminalized it would still leave the most henious part of weed in place: the cartels and drug dealers. The reason it should be taxed, regulated, and sold legally in establishments is because that will almost guarantee it can no longer be a cash crop for cartels and street dealers. Of course we have to keep the tax low enough to encourage the legal purchase of weed and not on the street, tax free.

 

I agree but the severity is whats at stake. How can anyone expect a manufacture product thats treated with proven carcenogens NOT to be far more harmful than a unmolested product thats picked off of a natural plant, bundled and shipped for sale?

File this under 'tell us something we didnt already know'.

 

It's decriminalised in the NL, I can go to a coffee shop and buy it. But you are correct, this leaves the backroom affairs being illegal and dangerous.

Full legalisation is the best path forward.

We can also unofficially grow up to 5 plants, without the police being unhappy.

 

In some statee, e.g., CA, the state does not actively pursue the medical pot arrests, so in a way, there is a legal path in the undertaking.

 

The only real danger for kids smoking pot is becoming ass candy in prison.

The government is the bigger danger

They always have been

Wake up America

 

By only permitting it's sale through, perhaps, government outlets and charging tax on a pack of 20, like cigarettes?

 

Does this mean you can smoke your ObamaCare funded Weed in bars cause theres no danger from second hand smoke?

 

The good thing about Mitt winning is that under Romneycare you can do the same as under ObamaCare.

Its like there is no difference.....

 

I will never vote for Mitt Romney.

 

That Mormon piece of (*)(*)(*)(*) isn't gonna win anyway.

 

Not to sidetrack my own thread ...but isnt there something to be said for state rights vs unconstitutional federal mandates?

Id suggest you dig a little deeper into Massachusetts health care insurance reform law before comparing it to whats inside the 2000 page overreaching Obama plan.

If in fact the Romney plan which was heavily modified from its original form as it moved forward was the blueprint for the Obama plan, theyve taken some serious liberties with the fundamentals.

 

I think he is.

I like Huntsman but he's got no shot IMHO.

 

Legalization should have happened long long ago. The cost of the war on weed has cost us and still costs us a HUGE amount of money. Lets end the prohibition and let the states make their own laws regarding it. I still say their is no good reason to continue prohibition.

 

I already have, thanks for the suggestion. My statement still stands.

 

OK liberals...lets all chime in together...Fox reported it, so it isn't true. C'mon boys and girls. Fox says weed good. That means weed bad. Throw away those rolling papers, pipes and hookas. Take a stand. NO MO DOPE!

 

Then you are aware that you are wrong then?

Or you havent read the Obama plan (at least the most egregious offererings) then?

 

Your profile pic is awsome! Oh, and i am never wrong