"I'm sorry, perhaps I misunderstood your original intent, as I thought you had grouped anyone who might smoke pot into the same category as meth maggots and the like. "
Yeah..definitely not my intent to group the two together but I can see how it looked that way.
I'm quite sure that I have come across many daily functional smokers. There's no arguing that mild to moderate marijuana smokers can carry out their daily functions without difficulties. I just don't wont to find them behind the wheel and would work a DUI on one just as quick as an alcohol impaired driver.
Perhaps some folks didn't get this comment of 1BIG HOG. I can understand that he does see a difference.
Cupo
There are claims that the push to criminalize marijuana came from companies that competed with hemp in the fiber industry. Big companies run our government. Pharmacutical companies, timber companies, and Anheuser-Busch, would lose a lot of money if pot were legalized now.
That is about the most logical statement I've seen here.
Pharmaceutical companies lobby BIG TIME to keep Medical MJ from being accepted at the Federal level. There are so many BILLIONS of dollars that they make off their "designer" drugs, when in some [not all] cases Mother Nature has provided a better medicine.
the other problem with pharmaceutical companies is that the Federal Gov't won't allow many instifutions to raise thei own, but instead force them to buy weed GROWN BY THE GOV'T for study. This greatly inhibits the researcher in that they can not access the strains they wish in order to develop medicines in other forms that WOULD, NO QUESTION, help many thousands of sick folks.
Can you imagine how the costs for medical treatment and INSURANCE would drop if MJ were made Medically legal at the Federal level? (12 states currently have Medical MJ laws in place, however the Federal Gov't seems to be doing all they can to harass the sick folks).
Most of you know me as a pretty damn staunch Conservative...but in light of what has gone on in the last couple years with this issue (Med. MJ) and many others, I would damn near vote for a Democrat over a Rep. this election. I only wish the Dem's would field a suitable candidate!
ISO
Previous Topic
Index
