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re: Give me one good reason why marijuana should be illegal while alcohol shouldn't
Posted on 12/18/14 at 9:42 pm to Roger Klarvin
Posted on 12/18/14 at 9:42 pm to Roger Klarvin
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Resistance will melt away when the baby boomers start dying off.
I am far from being a baby boomer.
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The lack of testing measures isnt a significant reason why most oppose it
It is the single best and most logical reason to oppose it.
Not to come across as showboating, but I will make you an offer. Meet me at work and we will get in a personnel basket attached to a crane that is going to lift us 150 feet in the air. Maybe the crane operator will be stoned, maybe he won't. We have no way of telling for sure because there is a "lack of testing measures" as you put it. You see no problem here?
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Posted on 12/18/14 at 10:59 pm to reverendotis
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Not to come across as showboating, but I will make you an offer. Meet me at work and we will get in a personnel basket attached to a crane that is going to lift us 150 feet in the air. Maybe the crane operator will be stoned, maybe he won't. We have no way of telling for sure because there is a "lack of testing measures" as you put it. You see no problem here?
What about a coworker with a prescription for pain pills who abuses them on the job? Where's your oxycodone breathalyzer, so you can test them in real time? Out of all of the legal substances that exist that can be abused with or without a prescription, alcohol is the only one I'm aware of that has a real-time breathalyzer type test (i.e. no blood work).
Also, what you're saying is that this scenario can't possibly happen now? That'd odd, because despite marijuana being illegal in Louisiana, I've definitely had jobs where my coworkers were high... You're starting to sound like those gun control loons who think that criminals won't have guns anymore if you just make them illegal.
Posted on 12/19/14 at 8:35 am to reverendotis
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Meet me at work and we will get in a personnel basket attached to a crane that is going to lift us 150 feet in the air. Maybe the crane operator will be stoned, maybe he won't. We have no way of telling for sure because there is a "lack of testing measures" as you put it. You see no problem here?
this has nothing to do with why it should be illegal. that private employer still has its own rules and regulations irrespective of alcohol. and tell me how you can immediately test that crane operator on the scene for opiates, which are much more of a worry (and much more common) than weed.
the only instant-chemical analysis we have is for alcohol. that's mainly a function of alcohol being legal for so long and the market adapting. the argument that we can't legalize weed b/c we don't have that is irrational b/c you've created the self-fulfilling prophecy to maintain its illegal status
Posted on 12/19/14 at 8:39 am to reverendotis
Nice straw man. Let me guess, you're republican? Why is it that the legality of a substance has to be premised on a negative (i.e. It can't be legal because we can't test for it if someone wrecks a vehicle!) or some enormous tax. Something can't just be legalized because it's the rationally sound thing to do.
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