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re: Atlanta decriminalizes marijuana
Posted on 10/3/17 at 9:14 am to rbWarEagle
Posted on 10/3/17 at 9:14 am to rbWarEagle
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No it isn't. The numbers represent the percentage of people using the substance in question who become dependent on it.
Because they know the number of people using illegal substances.
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Posted on 10/3/17 at 9:15 am to imjustafatkid
So your problem isn't with the data, it's with the method by which the data is gathered? Just so we're clear.
Posted on 10/3/17 at 9:16 am to rbWarEagle
marijuana is known to cause paranoia, depression, and psychosis
Posted on 10/3/17 at 9:25 am to rbWarEagle
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Why not? Just curious.
Mostly that I get nauseated by the smell.
Posted on 10/3/17 at 9:29 am to Wally Sparks
Oh. I love the smell, personally.
Posted on 10/3/17 at 9:54 am to el Gaucho
do you believe a person should have control over what substances they put in their body? 
Posted on 10/3/17 at 10:01 am to hawkeye007
Do you believe in my right to own a semi automatic rifle that is scary to you?
Posted on 10/3/17 at 10:02 am to rbWarEagle
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Our current policy destroys lives.
No, it clearly defines what is legal, and the ramifications for breaking the law.
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It tears apart families
So, black people chose drugs over family?
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causes students to lose scholarships
So, if I'm one of the few blacks on scholarship, and I've been raised to be WOKE, I'll still frick up because that's just my culture? I can't say no? So I'm my own barrier to success, and I chose drugs?
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renders a generation of young people unable to get a job
Like father/mother....
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We waste millions of taxpayer dollars on arresting, trying and jailing marijuana offenders
True, but the law is the law.
Posted on 10/3/17 at 10:05 am to rbWarEagle
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So your problem isn't with the data, it's with the method by which the data is gathered? Just so we're clear.
Yes. It's incomplete data that is meaningless in this discussion.
Posted on 10/3/17 at 10:10 am to imjustafatkid
I'll be sure to contact the National Institute on Drug Abuse and let them know their data is meaningless in discussions on drug abuse and dependence.
Posted on 10/3/17 at 10:10 am to CoachDon
You guys are missing the real reason why marijuana is still criminalized.
It gives Law Enforcement something for these guys to plead down to. If you don't want to go to a jury trial, and the system couldn't possibly handle all the cases they would have if most cases had to go forward just on the grounds the suspect was arrested on.
Got an assault? You don't think you can get the witnesses to testify truthfully (or show up at all?.
Give 'em a deal to cop to possession and go to county for a few months.
Get a guy on a traffic stop? He's a bad, bad man, and up to no good? Kick the can down the road a while. Search his car. What are the odds you won't find weed - and that isn't some kind of "planting evidence" thing. You are just going to find weed. It would be surprising if you didn't.
It gives Law Enforcement something for these guys to plead down to. If you don't want to go to a jury trial, and the system couldn't possibly handle all the cases they would have if most cases had to go forward just on the grounds the suspect was arrested on.
Got an assault? You don't think you can get the witnesses to testify truthfully (or show up at all?.
Give 'em a deal to cop to possession and go to county for a few months.
Get a guy on a traffic stop? He's a bad, bad man, and up to no good? Kick the can down the road a while. Search his car. What are the odds you won't find weed - and that isn't some kind of "planting evidence" thing. You are just going to find weed. It would be surprising if you didn't.
Posted on 10/3/17 at 10:13 am to imjustafatkid
All available evidence points to alcohol, cocaine and other amphetamines, tobacco, and caffeine being more addictive (not to mention more harmful) than marijuana.
Posted on 10/3/17 at 10:24 am to rbWarEagle
He’s right you know ^
Posted on 10/3/17 at 10:27 am to The Cool No 9
But it's easier to downvote than provide evidence to the contrary... probably because it doesn't really exist.
Posted on 10/3/17 at 10:31 am to rbWarEagle
Lots of people in here get drug tested at their jobs and are super pissed that other people get to enjoy something they can't.
Posted on 10/3/17 at 10:33 am to Gordon Hayward
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Lots of people in here get drug tested at their jobs and are super pissed that other people get to enjoy something they can't.
Beautiful example of an addict's thought process.
Posted on 10/3/17 at 10:33 am to Gordon Hayward
That may have something to do with it. I think a lot of people are still ignorant to the facts about marijuana. Propaganda goes a long way with the general population.
Posted on 10/3/17 at 11:23 am to rbWarEagle
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Hall’s office cited that 92 percent of people jailed for marijuana use were African-Americans, versus the 54 percent African-American population in the city of Atlanta.
Why did it take ATL so long to decriminalize it?
It seems odd that a major city, with a small black majority, where 92% of MJ use jailings were black, took this long to correct this.
This post was edited on 10/3/17 at 11:25 am
Posted on 10/6/17 at 8:16 am to Lou Pai
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I'm not putting that on here
you think you have stalkers
Posted on 10/6/17 at 8:17 am to GumboPot
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The GA state police will still enforce GA state and federal law concerning marijuana laws and the Atlanta city police will still have the option of charging people with state and federal laws, right?
GA state po po ain't fixin to get aggressive in the ATL
what is the official rule in NOLA??
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