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re: LA Bill to legalize recreational marijuana is out of committee and will go to House vote
Posted on 4/27/21 at 11:54 am to Fun Bunch
Posted on 4/27/21 at 11:54 am to Fun Bunch
By looking at who's on the committe, I predict the vote will be close. It all depends on who's working it behind the scenes. Rep. Newell's Bill to decriminalize possession passed 6-5. Pretty much a party line vote except for that young Republican out of Houma (I think).
This post was edited on 4/27/21 at 12:01 pm
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Posted on 4/27/21 at 11:54 am to Fun Bunch
Pharmacists and their lobby will block this. They invested a lot in med marijuana and won’t lose the investment to across the board legalization.
Posted on 4/27/21 at 11:54 am to DCtiger1
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It's ironic because you don't seem to give a shite about the 100s of pharmacies in LA pilfering opiates, the 1000s of liquor stores on every corner, and lets not forget the dollar general popping up on every corner. physical dispensaries will be the least of societies concern
I care about all of that stuff, and every step of the way has been a step down to a society that every thinking person is displeased with. I'm not excited about this next step, and I do think it will make our towns worse than they already are.
Yes, classy people will be happily enjoying marijuana in many forms with little effect on society, but we all know that the lower classes are going to be buying weed at trashy-arse shops on every corner, smoking it in front of every gas station, and walking into the grocery store stinking to high heaven.
And it will further exacerbate the already community-crippling divide between rich and poor.
But I should just eat some brownies and relax, because it's square to care about ones community.
Posted on 4/27/21 at 11:55 am to BornCritic
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I do not want weed shops lining our streets like I saw in another state recently
Bet you have no problem with gas stations and liquor stores lining the streets serving booze though. Get with the times Grandpa.
Posted on 4/27/21 at 11:56 am to SG_Geaux
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Legal or not, an employer can still test you and can choose not to hire you.
This
Posted on 4/27/21 at 11:57 am to BigDawg0420
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Bet you have no problem with gas stations and liquor stores lining the streets serving booze though. Get with the times Grandpa.
"The times" are trashy af and all you damned sons of bitches know it.
Posted on 4/27/21 at 11:57 am to Displaced
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What it actually says is "ThankS God"
Commas are your friend...
Posted on 4/27/21 at 11:58 am to Displaced
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Eta: I assume the people downvoting think the above says "Thank God". What it actually says is "ThankS God" meaning religious conservatives are the reason this will not pass.
It’s so Christian to lock a person in a rape cage for possession of a plant. Jesus would be so proud.
Posted on 4/27/21 at 11:59 am to BornCritic
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but we all know that the lower classes are going to be buying weed at trashy-arse shops on every corner, smoking it in front of every gas station, and walking into the grocery store stinking to high heaven
You think this isn't already happening?
Posted on 4/27/21 at 11:59 am to BornCritic
quote:But it's not that though. You're the one saying that. That's not what it is.
"Things are bad, let's make them even worse" seems like a poor strategy for improvement.
Put it this way, smoking weed, weed shops, etc. is not any trashier than drinking. If you think weed is trashy, then surely you must think alcohol is trashy as well. I don't know, maybe you do and are a staunch hardcore Southern Baptist teetotaler type?
But if you're not, I think you're way off base with your logic. It doesn't make sense.
quote:So you're ok with alcohol being a part of everyone's daily life? Because I can tell you having lived in other states that Louisiana is very "lushy" (not a word I know) compared to other states. We are a bunch of drunks. Nobody drinks like we do here. But I'm also not going to sit here and criticize everybody who drinks either. To each his own.
gain, I'm against criminalizing weed. I just hope weed doesn't become a part of everyone's daily life in seeing it, smelling it, etc.
That makes me a horrible retrograde to all the enlightened folks on the OT.
Something just rubbed me the wrong way reading that.
Posted on 4/27/21 at 12:05 pm to Displaced
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What it actually says is "ThankS God" meaning religious conservatives are the reason this will not pass.
This Christian conservative from Northwest Louisiana wants it to pass.
Posted on 4/27/21 at 12:07 pm to Dennis Celery
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What it actually says is "ThankS God" meaning religious conservatives are the reason this will not pass.
This Christian conservative from Northwest Louisiana wants it to pass.
This guy too!
Posted on 4/27/21 at 12:09 pm to BornCritic
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"The times" are trashy af and all you damned sons of bitches know it.
You'd be surprised at the amount of "trashy" people you associate with in your daily life. It may be hard to believe gramps but pot smokers aren't just pizza delivery drivers with dreadlocks these days.
Posted on 4/27/21 at 12:11 pm to BornCritic
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Yes, classy people will be happily enjoying marijuana in many forms with little effect on society, but we all know that the lower classes are going to be buying weed at trashy-arse shops on every corner, smoking it in front of every gas station, and walking into the grocery store stinking to high heaven.
They already are, usually illegally on the street. I'd say a regulated storefront is the better option. FYI it is ILLEGAL to smoke in public in most states where it is legal recreationally. you're showing your ignorance on the matter, which is why this bill has no chance.
Posted on 4/27/21 at 12:16 pm to BornCritic
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I do not want weed shops lining our streets like I saw in another state recently.
I won't jump your arse immediately. Go ahead and take a timeout. Think about what you said. Think about what shithole Louisiana already is, just as a place period. Now add in the liquor stores and tobacco shops with all of the addicts hovering around them.
ok....now go back and edit your post.
Posted on 4/27/21 at 12:18 pm to kingbob
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Ag folks want to be able to commercially grow pot as a row crop like soybeans.
Them folks down in Louisiana got trouble grown their weed
Them alligators is mean they eat up all the seeds
Posted on 4/27/21 at 12:25 pm to BornCritic
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but we all know that the lower classes are going to be buying weed at trashy-arse shops on every corner, smoking it in front of every gas station, and walking into the grocery store stinking to high heaven.
2 things:
1) both classy and trashy people are already smoking weed as if it were legal so having a shop to buy it at won’t create a “problem” that doesn’t already exist.
2) an easy fix to your public smoking issue is to make smoking in public against the law similar to an open container law. Vapes and edibles could be allowed publicly as they don’t smell or draw attention, just the act of smoking. In most places you can’t drink in public, I don’t see why smoking can’t be the same. I personally don’t care for adding this law but if that’s what it takes to allow myself and others to be able to buy weed at a store like a good American then I will concede it.
Posted on 4/27/21 at 12:27 pm to Fun Bunch
4 pages and not one mention of tax revenue.
Regardless of what people think about weed, the tax revenue generated would be a game changer for the state.
It's going to happen eventually, so let's do it now to start milking this cash cow.
Regardless of what people think about weed, the tax revenue generated would be a game changer for the state.
It's going to happen eventually, so let's do it now to start milking this cash cow.
Posted on 4/27/21 at 12:27 pm to kingbob
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The issue with sports gambling is a battle between the big licensed casinos and video poker casinos. John Georges wants sports gambling at the truck stop casinos to feed his video poker empire. The big casinos want sports gambling only at the licensed casinos like the Belle, Harrah’s, and L’Auberge. End result is no one gets casinos.
Odds are, something similar is going to happen with recreational weed if passed.
The pharmacies who are licensed to distribute medical want to keep their exclusive rights to being the only distributors for recreational as well. LSU and Southern want to keep their duopoly on growing pot. The bars and alcohol distributors want to be able to sell pot in bars, and so do grocers. Ag folks want to be able to commercially grow pot as a row crop like soybeans.
The real fight won’t be over making it legal, but who gets to grow and sell it.
Exactly right. Well said. Recreational weed, if it gets passed, will take forever and ever to get going because of this exact reason, just like sports/fantasy gambling. It's all fricking stupid.
Posted on 4/27/21 at 12:28 pm to BornCritic
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let's not pretend that it isn't trashy.
What exactly is trashy about it?
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