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re: NY Times: It’s Time for America to Admit That It Has a Marijuana Problem
Posted on 2/10/26 at 1:58 pm to Joshjrn
Posted on 2/10/26 at 1:58 pm to Joshjrn
quote:The op-ed EXPLICITLY states they are anti-incarceration on this.
NY Times: It’s Time for America to Admit That It Has a Marijuana Problem
Joshjrn
The NYT has an issue with personal liberty? No way…
I’m not willing to lock human beings in cages because they consumed a substance and committed no offense against anyone. There’s nothing anyone can say to convince me that we should lock human beings in cages for that.
Can we at least convince you to actually read the shite you make such strident declarations about?
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Posted on 2/10/26 at 2:13 pm to Cosmo
quote:Actual or articles?
Seeing a lot of this
I read that and I'm like, "who are these people?"
I use THCa daily. Run a business, work out every day, manage my investments and tend to the needs of my home and family. Dress nicely, have intelligent conversations for business and lively conversations among friend and family. I exhibit zero of the 'symptoms' or maladies the article suggests, yet, am a daily high-functioning user at age 70 and have been for ten years. All my health markers are excellent. I have to believe a lot of what they are describing is actually people who were already unstable individuals who should not be using unsupervised medication, including use of marijuana.
Posted on 2/10/26 at 2:17 pm to SoFla Tideroller
quote:
The enforcement. It's easy to say, "Just tax it. No one under 21. Not in public" Someone doesn't want to comply. Now what? You are putting cops in a bad position, once again. Look at mouth breathers on here who blame cops for enforcing window tint laws. It's almost like people can't grasp the concept that police don't make the laws.
Enforcement invariably invites physical resistance. Physical resistance brings attempts at physical control by police. In a dynamic, violent encounter people get hurt.
Seems like there would be fewer instances of people physically resisting enforcement when there are fewer laws to enforce....
Posted on 2/10/26 at 2:30 pm to RLDSC FAN
quote:
Legalization has led to much more use
Posted on 2/10/26 at 2:35 pm to RLDSC FAN
You cant hardly go anywhere without smelling it as soon as you get out of your car
Posted on 2/10/26 at 2:36 pm to Violent Hip Swivel
quote:
For every anecdote about "well, I went to high school with a kid who smoked weed every day and he graduated with honors," there are 10 or 15 kids who became losers along the way and lowered their acheivement ceiling.
Yep. One kid in our small town would have inherited a Ford dealership and another who was class Valedictorian. Both of them baked away their lives never leaving town but becoming experts on stems and seeds.
Posted on 2/10/26 at 3:27 pm to SoFla Tideroller
quote:
A cop makes contact with him to cite/arrest him and the guy fights. If he uses a weapon to resist and the cop pops him there will be millions crying, "That fascist cop killed him over a joint!"
me watching this video while smoking a bowl
"Haha, what a dumbass."
Posted on 2/10/26 at 5:11 pm to Zach Lee To Amp Hill
quote:I am the wife you dumbass
Tell your wife
Your lack of brain cells is showing.
Funny how about 20 years ago smelling other people’s gross weed wasn’t a problem because people still had shame and respect for themselves.
And you know what, my kids can’t play outside because of the weed smokers in my neighborhood that like to shoot guns, so you aren’t hearing my kids.
frick off, loser, weed is a drug and it’s a problem. My neighborhood smells like weed 24/7 because of the unemployed losers.
Posted on 2/10/26 at 5:50 pm to r0cky1
quote:
Why do people hate criticisms of something that is clearly causing an epidemic upon young males in this country?
I think the point he was making is that, yes marijuana use has gone up, but alcohol consumption has gone down. And i would argue the past numbers are BS because more people admit it now that the stigma has loosened.
Posted on 2/10/26 at 5:58 pm to GreenRockTiger
quote:I’m not trying to be a dick here, but it honestly sounds like your local environment might be shaping your view more than the weed itself. I grew up in Northern CA in the 90s where weed was basically de facto legal, and I’ve lived in legal rec states since Washington legalized in 2012. I’ve never really seen the kinds of problems being described in this thread, and I’m definitely not living an OT baller lifestyle.
And you know what, my kids can’t play outside because of the weed smokers in my neighborhood that like to shoot guns, so you aren’t hearing my kids.
frick off, loser, weed is a drug and it’s a problem. My neighborhood smells like weed 24/7 because of the unemployed losers.
No offense to anyone, but a lot of the complaints here read less like a weed legality issue and more like a “surrounded by hoodlums” issue. Many of the examples sound heavily influenced by specific local experiences. It might be less about legalization itself and more about dealing with bad neighbors or general nuisance behavior, which exists whether weed is legal or not.
Posted on 2/10/26 at 6:00 pm to RLDSC FAN
I have news for yall. These people have always been smoking/using!
Removing penalties now they can be counted without getting in trouble.
Removing penalties now they can be counted without getting in trouble.
Posted on 2/10/26 at 6:00 pm to northshorebamaman
im about to light up now boys
got the glaucoma
got the glaucoma
Posted on 2/10/26 at 6:04 pm to Aguga
quote:
The devil’s lettuce smells like shite.
That smell ruins public spaces.
Posted on 2/10/26 at 6:08 pm to Aguga
quote:
The devil’s lettuce smells like shite.
My one and big problem with it. Stunk up a whole campground I was in last fall. Suppose to smell wood smoke, not weed.
Posted on 2/10/26 at 6:09 pm to northshorebamaman
quote:
I’m not trying to be a dick here, but it honestly sounds like your local environment might be shaping your view more than the weed itself. I grew up in Northern CA in the 90s where weed was basically de facto legal, and I’ve lived in legal rec states since Washington legalized in 2012. I’ve never really seen the kinds of problems being described in this thread, and I’m definitely not living an OT baller lifestyle.
No offense to anyone, but a lot of the complaints here read less like a weed legality issue and more like a “surrounded by hoodlums” issue. Many of the examples sound heavily influenced by specific local experiences. It might be less about legalization itself and more about dealing with bad neighbors or general nuisance behavior, which exists whether weed is legal or not.
#nailedit
Posted on 2/10/26 at 6:10 pm to hillcountrytigah
Alphagan-G
Posted on 2/10/26 at 6:13 pm to Fun Bunch
quote:
Alcohol was essential to the survival of humanity in many places. It was much much safer to drink "wine" than it was water. The alcohol level in those fermented drinks back then would have been extremely low.
Posted on 2/10/26 at 6:13 pm to RLDSC FAN
I'll stick to my cigars alongside a tawny port.
Posted on 2/10/26 at 6:15 pm to Cosmo
quote:
More people have also ended up in hospitals with marijuana-linked paranoia and chronic psychotic disorders.
Nothing but a coincidence.
/s
Posted on 2/10/26 at 6:18 pm to northshorebamaman
quote:I do not disagree with you
It might be less about legalization itself and more about dealing with bad neighbors or general nuisance behavior, which exists whether weed is legal or not.
Legalizing weed in Louisiana would not matter at all.
However, it’s still a problem. And it may be more of a problem for some people than others. Just like any other drug. But I do find marijuana more prevalent nowadays than it used to be. But you can’t go anywhere in Baton Rouge or New Orleans without smelling it - and that wasn’t the case 20 years ago.
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