re: Why is weed still illegal?

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Drugs are a super pandemic...

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I don't have an issue with people choosing to use drugs. The illegal nature of the trade is as dangerous as the drug itself, and more expensive.

Weed is illegal at the federal level until you can do a limited invasive instant testing method that can be done on the roadside by an officer or at the emergency room to determine if the individual is or is not at that specific instance is under the influence at a set cutoff.

With alcohol, there is a limit and being over that limit then limits the insurer's liability (both vehicle and worksman comp). Most opiates are going/no go from a liability standpoint and have a short shelf life in the body from a testing standpoint. THC does not.

How do you determine if Johnny fell off the ladder because he was stoned at work vs being stoned last night? How do you figure out if Jane crashed the car because she was just a shitty driver or was stoned at the time?

Fix the testing issue, and I am all for it. For someone what grew up in construction, the inability to deal with the liability issue is terrifying and as such its legalization in a nonstarter until it is resolved.

People don't wreck cars and fall of ladders high lol, it's not like being drunk

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A requirement to be employed at a lot of places, is to have zero traces of marijuana in your system

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You should start your own business, and hire nothing but pot heads.

Maybe then you’ll see why most employers weed out these applicants.

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People don't wreck cars and fall of ladders high lol, it's not like being drunk

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“The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) says in a news release that crash rates spiked with the legalization of recreational marijuana use and retail sales in California, Colorado, Nevada, Oregon and Washington. “

“THC disrupts coordination and balance by binding to receptors in the part of the brain that regulates balance, posture, coordination, and reaction time. Therefore learning and doing complicated tasks, like driving and participating in athletics, are affected.”

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People don't wreck cars and fall of ladders high lol, it's not like being drunk

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You really are retarded.

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and participating in athletics, are affected.”

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A lot of professional athletes would have something to say about this. College athletes as well.

In Louisiana, it just makes too much sense for a broke arse state to do something smart. I could talk about this for hours but to put it short: special interest and police departments prevent it bc it would greatly affect prisons and number of officers busting people for bullshite (aka funding). Louisiana is too dumb to look at Colorado and how they were in a similar hole financially as Louisiana before they legalized it and within 2 years had over a $1b surplus. I also lived for 16 months in a recreationally legal state (Illinois) they taxed the frick out of recreational (like 40%) and people (myself included) still bought.

It’s literally too sane of a decision to legalize it but Louisiana as a state is too dumb and backwoods to do it until it’s federally legal and we will be behind the 8 ball again, like always. I’ve said for a few years to a close friend that’s a high power lobbyist about this and they even agree but too many people with money depending on the bullshite arrest to change Louisiana law.

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What’s considered “heavy usage” and “long term?”

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anything past 3 months, and I'd say maybe anything over 2.5 to 3mg a day. I know that 4mg a day is supposed to be a limit, and I got to where I was doubling that a day.

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And if you’re not having any noticeable side effects, why would you initiate stopping?

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To me, it just wasn't a real solution to what I was dealing with. It was some heavy shite though, I was going through horrible surprise deaths back to back to back of people I was close with. I just wanted to sleep all the time. Figured, when I was asleep there was no danger to me or anyone else of me losing it on anyone. Which didn't work out cause I was legit crazy with all the xanax plus ambien in me at any given time. Was like trying to fight a cancer with anthrax in my case. At that time, I had enough money to where I didnt HAVE to do anything, my house and vehicles were paid off and I dont have any children so no responsibility to anyone else..which was also dangerous. Now, thats just with my situation which was a bad one..I'm sure its beneficial to some people in low moderation, as all people are different with different body chemistry. But the negatives heavily outweigh any benefits imo. I'm no medical professional, but I know many of them see it too.

Those withdrawals are no joke though, its horrible feeling like a slave to a chemical. I was awake for 9 days bedridden, sweating and shaking, tossing and turning hoping that I wouldnt succumb to seizures or some aneurysm or heart attack at any given moment at that point. I was feeling effects almost a year after I had stopped taking them.

I guess anything can be detrimental to you if you allow it to. Some things are just quicker than others. In retrospect, I've always been good with just weed. Had it been easily accessible in louisiana at the time (legal and quality like oregon)..id have so taken that over benzos. I've had friends die, throw their lives away or hurt others chasing alcohol, speed, or opiates and I could have been right there with them easily.

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Now I'm wanting early 1990s Johnny's Pizza. A good meatlovers and mushroom or something

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People don't wreck cars and fall of ladders high lol, it's not like being drunk

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I’d say you can’t possibly be stupid enough to think that, but I’d be wrong obviously.