re: The Atlantic: weed legalization didn’t deliver on its promises. In fact, it made it worse

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Yet recent reviews suggest

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Legalization was a political scheme to raise taxes and give away profitable concessions to their buddies.

If it was legit, they would have just eliminated the criminal penalties.

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That’s just basic America:

LIBERAL legislation proposal = sit down with billionaire campaign backers and lobbyists to figure out how it can help them squeeze more profits out of middle class folks

MAGA legislation proposal = sit down with billionaire campaign backers and lobbyists to figure out how it can help them squeeze more profit out of middle class folks

Big pharma hates weed so studies will always be tainted.

I posted an article similar to this one about 8 months on the PT board.

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Cartels and gang members dominate the business. And open borders allowed them to bring massive numbers of laborers to boost their ranks. Not only California, but places as far afield as Maine that have large open areas and limited law enforcement resources, have been overrun by drug operations that more closely resemble parts of Latin America and Asia than the USA.

The coasts, from Southern California up to Oregon, are controlled by Mexican cartels which have expanded so much that they're running short of workers even during the Biden open borders boom. Some have taken to brazenly advertising for illegal workers in Europe.

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The Atlantic: weed legalization didn’t deliver on its promises. In fact, it made it worse

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I could have told you that back in 1982... the 70's were a blur.

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had a coworker who would bitch when she smelled onion during lunch.

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Another ridiculous comparison. Do we have assclowns driving around cutting onions, forcing the stench of their onion addiction through the air vents of cars behind them? Do you walk by groups of onion cutters chopping their harvest on the street corner or outside the gas station?

I'm fairly certain that the smell of onion is 99% of the time found in places where one would expect to smell onions, unlike the trashy people who force their nasty odor unto people who don't care to smell it.

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It absolutely is a gateway drug.

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I would argue that.. Or at least at one time, alcohol was a gateway drug to marijuana. After that, marijuana didn't really lead into anything else. Marijuana is where a lot of people stopped. Then there were those who were influenced by others to do other drugs, they would have done whether or not they tried marijuana first.

By saying its a gateway drug, its almost saying that without it people would not use anything else. But alcohol and marijuana definitely went more hand to hand than anything else.

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I'm sure someone argued that it would curb opioid addiction but it sure wasn't me

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Me neither. Junkies and people who make poor decisions will always do what they do.

I’ve never done meth, heroin, or fentanyl.

Now Cocaine, that was just for funsies.

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legal weed would lead to positive, indirect externalities

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It probably could in Louisiana but

A) Peopke like Landry probably see it as the devil’s lettuce

B) The state will totally corruptly misuse the profits.

Potheads are annoying degenerates