re: Are the potheads ready to admit decriminalization was a mistake?

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Edibles are way more trashy than smoking

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I see the skinny white boy still smokes his joints and listens to his gangster rap.

Wannabe's are so 1990s.

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part of the issue is the ease of getting a weed card in Louisiana.

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No, it shouldn't even require a card to begin with. Its a plant dude.

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a lot of idiots think they can just go blaze up in public in front of kids or whoever. That is what needs to be controlled.

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Correct, enforce a public smoking law, much like with alcohol and public intoxication.

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No, it shouldn't even require a card to begin with. Its a plant dude.

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I agree. It should be legal on the federal level. My issue is with retards. I'm bringing up the card situation because it's still illegal recreationally in Louisiana. Yes, the enforcement has been relaxed big time but with the cards, the retards think they can go just go smoke wherever no matter who they are around.

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should be no different than alcohol and public intoxication rule/consequences.

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My point exactly.

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I see the skinny white boy still smokes his joints and listens to his gangster rap. Wannabe's are so 1990s

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you do drugs and live in an apartment with a minority grandchild.

You’re not even a wannabe. You’re the real thing

And edibles are so fricking gay. You probably vape too

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For starters, the concept has essentially only existed for the period of the American experiment, and its existence has changed over time.

And freedoms are a privilege. They are a privilege we should nurture and try our best to maintain.

The minute someone with a bigger gun or stronger army wants to rescind those freedoms, they will.

Just look at England as an example of how that goes. The one with the power makes the rules.

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Respectfully, Scruffy didn’t actually address my point. He dodged it.

I never questioned whether or not power exists, everyone knows it does. I questioned the framework you’re using. When you start calling freedom a “privilege,” you’ve already put the state in the parental role and yourself in the position of a child asking permission.

Your reply (“the one with the power makes the rules”) is a pivot, not a rebuttal or an explanation of your logic. Instead of defending why freedom should be treated like a privilege (as you framed it), you just described what happens after people accept that framing.

Scruffy conceded my point while pretending to argue against it.

If the only justification for treating freedom like a privilege is “because someone stronger can take it,” then you’re not talking about liberty anymore, you’re talking about base survival. Once you redefine freedom as something granted, you’ve already agreed it can be taken, because anything handed down by authority can be revoked when that authority decides you’ve “abused” it.

So the question still stands: do you believe freedom is something granted by authority, or something that exists in spite of it? Because those two worldviews don’t coexist.

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Man I do love a good post to get our resident weedheads riled up

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For as “mellow” as they think their pot makes them they sure are an angry bunch

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Then move out the ghetto

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I live in a gated community and here isn’t the problem. Going to an LSU game has become a problem. Going anywhere in public has become a problem.

It’s fricking disrespectful and thoughtless. Go smoke your weed until you pass out. I don’t care. Don’t subject me to your shite habit/addiction.

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So was most of Colorado when I last visited. The service industry there is dead. Ruins the vacation experience

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Colorado was a great place to live until they legalized weed.

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You can’t go anywhere in a major city without the stench of trashy skunk weed everywhere

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Which before smelled of stale beer, vomit and piss. Those are the days!