Just what this country needs. A ton of liberal freaking stoners all over the place. OMG no. The Senate will never pass it anyway but still... if the idiotic Dems do over take the Senate... OMG no. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/historic-vote-marijuana-decriminalization
Disagree. Several states have already done it by referendum, meaning, a lot of people support it, meaning it's not so easily dismissed as destructive to society as you make it appear. Have you ever researched how/why it was criminalized in the first place? I am for it because it potentially employs a lot of people, generates revenue, treats plenty of illnesses that can't be treated otherwise and frees up the legal system from frivolous and malicious prosecution and incarceration. There isn't enough downside to justify the damage prosecution does to society. Meth is what you want to stop...that and heroin.
Yes and the states that are selling it in local stores (Is this crazy or what)? have more traffic accidents and a lot of them are deadly. Innocent little children are dead because some ahole smoked "weed" (which is 80x stronger than it used to be, therefore almost like an opiate) and decided to drive down the road. And most of them add alcohol to their idiocy while they are at it. Great stuff? Then everyone should be smoking it like the Police, school teachers, lawyers, doctors and the Political freaks in Washington DC. There is no proof MJ treats anything medical. It is all lies so big business can make more money from selling it. There is proof that MJ and other smoke screws up DNA and little children's brains, keeping them from advancing their emotional responses to life's issues. (BLM anyone?) How good is that? Pregnant women smoke it and it damages their babies for life. The DNA damage goes on down the line. It decreases intelligence. I could go on forever with this. OMG Drug dealers being prosecuted is frivolous? You must be kidding. So it's okay to bring in 800 lbs of MJ from Mexico and sell it to unsuspecting children. Got it. To stop meth and heroin you have to start with the gateway drug, MJ. We should go back to the days when Texas used to put people in prison for 5 years for having one joint. That would clear up this horrible drug use. And don't try to tell me we are losing the drug war. Because if we are, then maybe drug use is one big reason why society is as screwed up as much as it is. MJ is a drug, plain and simple. It needs to be treated just like the drugs meth and heroin as you said above. Legalizing it is going to be one of current society's biggest blunders of all time.
I read that Mitch McConnell is strongly opposed to the legalization of marijuana so I don't think anything the House does is going anywhere for the rest of President Trump's term of office. Trump himself is supposed to be a complete teetotaler so its hard to visualize him signing a decriminalization bill. But something ought to be done either way. Right now 11 states offer legal marijuana in conflict with federal law so we have a uneven landscape fraught with risk for consumers and businesses. Either make it all one way or all the other way so that there is uniformity.
It's already legal in Canada and there has been no negative consequences for anyone and some likely positive ones long term.
"I thought the kkk were good guys till I found out they smoked weed" - Jeff Sessions Might have been drunk on alcohol or power when he "joked" about it.
There is no sense to argue about a controversial topic like marijuana legalization, because each of us is right. I'll tell you my little story. I am a DJ in nightclubs with almost 10 years work experience. Likewise, I have a wife and a daughter. Family, nice money. What can go wrong? Well, I have been visiting a psychotherapist for like 5 years already. I tried a lot of kinds of antidepressants, but it works only the first time. So my doctor prescribed me some cannabis tinctures. I don't use it every day of course, but only in extra situations. And it really helps me to relax and to sleep. I have serious problems with sleep and stress, mostly because of my job. Yeah, you can say something like hey why don't you change it. I just have a good income, and I am good only in music. So it's really hard. I think cannabis should be used in medical purposes.