Sounds like a lot of intelligent comments so far by everyone.
I really do not care what people do at home, when they are 18 (yes, 18, everything should be 18 or everything should be 21 or 25, but not all over the place. And anyone in the military at 17 with parents permission should be able to vote and do what is legal at any other other age) but not in front of minors. We just do not have enough time or courts to deal with all of the petty bull shit.
However, I just do not like the idea of legalizing something else that numbs the existence for awhile. We know that usage by kids have shot up, in California, when it was pretty much legalized for everyone there. The pot out there now is way different than that weak weed we did 35 years ago. Take away the stigma and I think we will have more problems with intoxication out in public actually ending up being harmful.
What I am fixing so to say is based on old data so if any of this is false please let me know. I think that medical MJ is a farce. I read years ago that THC pills was just as affective if not more in one clean little package. Is this still true?
As for as the tax money, if it is to be legalized, ok tax the crap out of it. But we should not fall for the old deal that "we will make a ton of money off this for the government". Really, they will not lower our taxes. And the corrupt politicians will find ways to spend all this money while we will not benefit any more from it. And in a few years, they will be begging us for more money. Just like "gambling for education". What we need is more and more jobs, at lower income taxes to get people buying.
This is going to sound stupid. But I assign negative and positive values to things. Negative values breed even more unintended consequences. Positive values may breed some negatives but there will be positive spin offs with unintended good things happening. I think legalizing pot will be one of those things that breed negative unintended consequences.
What I would really like to see is that people can grow their own, but cannot sell it. They can give it away but not sell it. This is also unenforceable. Maybe not legalize it, just do not criminalize it.
Can we now talk about prostitution? Making it illegal to have sex because there was some dollars changed. Yet, it is legal if no money changed hands. We all know we all pay for it one way or another. Yeah, prostitution is a negative value. LOL. But I do not care what happens or what is paid between consenting adults. And I really do not care if they do heroin either.
Or Meth. Just do it at home away from kids and do not rely on me to pay for the consequences. How is all this for ambiguity.
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