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re: Looks like the state is meeting to discuss legalization of Mary Jane
Posted on 1/15/14 at 6:45 pm to tigerpimpbot
Posted on 1/15/14 at 6:45 pm to tigerpimpbot
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But the bible says it's a sin.
Link?
To save you time: No it doesn't.
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Posted on 1/15/14 at 6:45 pm to High C
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Posted by High C Bottom line: Does a Legislator think that he/she can be re-elected by voting in favor of this? What do you Poli-board guys think?
Louisiana lawmakers shot down a proposal just last year for reduced prison sentences. It was a very mild reduction. It didn't come close to passing. Blame your local sheriff and DA, their lobbies will fight tooth and nail against any sensible drug law reform.
Posted on 1/15/14 at 6:45 pm to biglego
Louisiana would be the perfect state to legalize it for everyone.. just saying.
Posted on 1/15/14 at 6:46 pm to Brettesaurus Rex
This is nothing but lip service. They'll meet, say "well, we discussed it" and then continue on with the status quo with no further "discussions" to be held anytime soon
Posted on 1/15/14 at 6:46 pm to MiloDanglers
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Link?
To save you time: No it doesn't.
Sarcasm meter [OFF] on
Posted on 1/15/14 at 6:46 pm to SabiDojo
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I just don't really see the difference between marijuana and alcohol. I assume alcohol is more dangerous, though.
People hear "drugs" and assume the drug use is the reason crime rates are so high.
It's the prohibition that's causing crime rates to go so high but don't expect the average voter or politician to figure that out.
Posted on 1/15/14 at 6:46 pm to GEAUXmedic
Gonna take at least another 10 yrs. Louisiana will be last.
Posted on 1/15/14 at 6:47 pm to biglego
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Blame your local sheriff and DA, their lobbies will fight tooth and nail against any sensible drug law reform.
Yep. Pig unions and the prison industry are the biggest enemies of legalization.
Posted on 1/15/14 at 6:47 pm to GEAUXmedic
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Louisiana would be the perfect state to legalize it for everyone.. just saying.
The rag weed we used to get in LA was cringeworthy. The shite down here in West Palm
Posted on 1/15/14 at 6:48 pm to Alt26
Does MJ have to be grown inside a grow house or can it grow outside? AKA - could all of our farmland around the state one day grow MJ?
Hell Francis Thompson, state senator from Delhi, should be in favor of this. Throw up a shite ton of grow houses in the Delta and get those folks some jobs.
Hell Francis Thompson, state senator from Delhi, should be in favor of this. Throw up a shite ton of grow houses in the Delta and get those folks some jobs.
Posted on 1/15/14 at 6:49 pm to chesty
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So is your wife blowing you, but it still goes in with the bible thumpers.
Also not a sin.
Posted on 1/15/14 at 6:49 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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People hear "drugs" and assume the drug use is the reason crime rates are so high. It's the prohibition that's causing crime rates to go so high but don't expect the average voter or politician to figure that out.
Yes. Most drug related crimes are for Possession or for selling. There are however a good amount of crimes committed due to obtaining money for drugs, but never MJ. Those are opiates or coke.
Posted on 1/15/14 at 6:50 pm to Brettesaurus Rex
Not a shot. But a good step I guess.
Posted on 1/15/14 at 6:50 pm to tigerpimpbot
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Oh, I've never read the bible. I'm just assuming that's why the bible belt is so uptight about weed.
No, they are just uptight about every thing and like to get in other people's business. But to be fair, this describes about 90% of the country depending on the topic. Hypocrites I tell you.
This post was edited on 1/15/14 at 6:51 pm
Posted on 1/15/14 at 6:51 pm to camweb68
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Have a lawyer friend in Colorado and she is saying the hardest thing there right now is where to put all the cash. Colorado will make so much money of this new law that other states will fall into place. But with the oil filed being here and the new safe gulf good luck with that.
Because the Feds put the pinch on the banks.
Posted on 1/15/14 at 6:52 pm to Teddy Ruxpin
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Well, if New Orleans could vote on it separate from the state it would be legal.
Would not only be a boon for the city in terms of increased tax dollars and tourism, but decrease the stress on the jails and DAs office.
Posted on 1/15/14 at 6:52 pm to The Boat
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Also the drinking age should be 18.
Should be, but the Feds will never allow it. LA already tried to keep it 18
Posted on 1/15/14 at 6:52 pm to tigerpimpbot
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Oh, I've never read the bible. I'm just assuming that's why the bible belt is so uptight about weed.
Unfortunately much of the Bible Belt is concerned very little with what Jesus taught, what he concerned himself with, the type of people he spent his time with, and what the bible actually says.
Posted on 1/15/14 at 6:55 pm to Rickety Cricket
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Would not only be a boon for the city in terms of increased tax dollars and tourism, but decrease the stress on the jails and DAs office
And yet the sheriff and DA would never support it
Posted on 1/15/14 at 6:55 pm to biglego
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There are however a good amount of crimes committed due to obtaining money for drugs, but never MJ. Those are opiates or coke.
If drugs were legal, and cheap...this wouldn't be as much of a problem.
The original prohibition shows why the actual laws against drugs were the problem, not the drugs themselves.
Why prohibition failed.
Homicide rate
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Prohibition, which failed to improve health and virtue in America, can afford some invaluable lessons. First, it can provide some perspective on the current crisis in drug prohibition--a 75-year effort that is increasingly viewed as a failure.
Repeal of Prohibition dramatically reduced crime, including organized crime, and corruption. Jobs were created, and new voluntary efforts, such as Alcoholics Anonymous, which was begun in 1934, succeeded in helping alcoholics. Those lessons can be applied to the current crisis in drug prohibition and the problems of drug abuse. Second, the lessons of Prohibition should be used to curb the urge to prohibit. Neoprohibition of alcohol and prohibition of tobacco would result in more crime, corruption, and dangerous products and increased government control over the average citizen's life. Finally, Prohibition provides a general lesson that society can no more be successfully engineered in the United States than in the Soviet Union.
Prohibition was supposed to be an economic and moral bonanza. Prisons and poorhouses were to be emptied, taxes cut, and social problems eliminated. Productivity was to skyrocket and absenteeism disappear. The economy was to enter a never-ending boom. That utopian outlook was shattered by the stock market crash of 1929. Prohibition did not improve productivity or reduce absenteeism.[55] In contrast, private regulation of employees' drinking improved productivity, reduced absenteeism, and reduced industrial accidents wherever it was tried before, during, and after Prohibition.[56]
In summary, Prohibition did not achieve its goals. Instead, it added to the problems it was intended to solve and supplanted other ways of addressing problems. The only beneficiaries of Prohibition were bootleggers, crime bosses, and the forces of big government. Carroll Wooddy concluded that the "Eighteenth Amendment . . . contributed substantially to the growth of government and of government costs in this period [1915-32]."[57]
We didn't learn the first time.
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