DNC endorses "reasoned pathway to future [marijuana] legalization"

[Lyin' Steve]

The marijuana legalization movement is basically a bunch of rebellious teenagers & irresponsible mellennials & hippie boomers who draw a false equivalency between people who want ban something that's undebatably, unequivocably bad for the public health, society, and the economy, with no upsides other than members of those groups being able to party even more, and prohibitionists who want to watched Reefer Madness and think it's reality.  They go tell the other idiots in their social group that that's the reality, everyone accepts it intentionally uncritically because hey, they're all using reefer anyway, why make any effort to think about something that will only lead to a realization that might hurt their fun, right?  In twenty years they'll all be either miserably constantly stones, dead, or regretful and trying to warn people not to follow the same path.  Those are the only three possible outcomes.  Boy what a great addition to our social fabric!  Those idiots in the early 20th century really didn't know what the hell they were doing when they banned it!

[falling apart like the ashes of American flags]

The marijuana legalization movement is basically a bunch of rebellious teenagers & irresponsible mellennials & hippie boomers who draw a false equivalency between people who want ban something that's undebatably, unequivocably bad for the public health, society, and the economy, with no upsides other than members of those groups being able to party even more, and prohibitionists who want to watched Reefer Madness and think it's reality.  They go tell the other idiots in their social group that that's the reality, everyone accepts it intentionally uncritically because hey, they're all using reefer anyway, why make any effort to think about something that will only lead to a realization that might hurt their fun, right?  In twenty years they'll all be either miserably constantly stones, dead, or regretful and trying to warn people not to follow the same path.  Those are the only three possible outcomes.  Boy what a great addition to our social fabric!  Those idiots in the early 20th century really didn't know what the hell they were doing when they banned it!

As absurd as all of this is, I love how you say it's bad for the economy. States that legalized clearly have shown otherwise.

[Shameless Lefty Hack]

The marijuana legalization movement is basically a bunch of rebellious teenagers & irresponsible mellennials & hippie boomers who draw a false equivalency between people who want ban something that's undebatably, unequivocably bad for the public health, society, and the economy, with no upsides other than members of those groups being able to party even more, and prohibitionists who want to watched Reefer Madness and think it's reality.  They go tell the other idiots in their social group that that's the reality, everyone accepts it intentionally uncritically because hey, they're all using reefer anyway, why make any effort to think about something that will only lead to a realization that might hurt their fun, right?  In twenty years they'll all be either miserably constantly stones, dead, or regretful and trying to warn people not to follow the same path.  Those are the only three possible outcomes.  Boy what a great addition to our social fabric!  Those idiots in the early 20th century really didn't know what the hell they were doing when they banned it!

Okay, let's ban alcohol!

Also I resent the implication that I use. I don't and I thoroughly judge those who do.

[Devout Centrist]

The marijuana legalization movement is basically a bunch of rebellious teenagers & irresponsible mellennials & hippie boomers who draw a false equivalency between people who want ban something that's undebatably, unequivocably bad for the public health, society, and the economy, with no upsides other than members of those groups being able to party even more, and prohibitionists who want to watched Reefer Madness and think it's reality.  They go tell the other idiots in their social group that that's the reality, everyone accepts it intentionally uncritically because hey, they're all using reefer anyway, why make any effort to think about something that will only lead to a realization that might hurt their fun, right?  In twenty years they'll all be either miserably constantly stones, dead, or regretful and trying to warn people not to follow the same path.  Those are the only three possible outcomes.  Boy what a great addition to our social fabric!  Those idiots in the early 20th century really didn't know what the hell they were doing when they banned it!

Okay, let's ban alcohol!

Also I resent the implication that I use. I don't and I thoroughly judge those who do.

What do you expect from a self described liar?

[Drop Billionaires, Not Bombs]

Actually, the history of marijuana prohibition is quite interesting.  Before the government banned it, it was only known as "cannabis" and was present in nearly all tinctures and medicines at the time, but "marijuana" was a foreign term because that is what Mexican immigrants called it.  It's the same thing, of course, but when the media began playing on people's fears of "dirty spics" getting high off of it and soliciting sex from white women, most people didn't know that they had marijuana in their medicine cabinets.

Let's dispel this fiction that the government didn't know what the hell they were doing, they knew exactly what the hell they were doing.  Pot prohibition was designed to control immigration and demonize darker-skinned people, hence the prison industrial complex that exists now.

[Lyin' Steve]

Why was I posting at 4:51 AM last night?  lmao

[For Trump, everything. For immigrants, the law]

Do people actually think that legalizing pot will turn everyone into a pothead? Remind me again how few people drank during prohibition. Smoking cigarettes is undeniably more dangerous than smoking pot, should we make tobacco illegal?

This is coming from someone who never has, and never will smoke pot.

[Suburbia]

It's really a shame that the RNC has yet to do this. Smh.

It promotes laziness. People who smoke pot should be shunned from society, mocked, ridiculed.

[Gass3268]

It's really a shame that the RNC has yet to do this. Smh.

It promotes laziness. People who smoke pot should be shunned from society, mocked, ridiculed.

lolwut?

Your opinion is losing:

[Shameless Lefty Hack]

It's really a shame that the RNC has yet to do this. Smh.

It promotes laziness. People who smoke pot should be shunned from society, mocked, ridiculed.

Maybe. But they shouldn't be arrested and put in jail for years.


Also, have you *met * an alcoholic? Like seriously, being drunk by 11am doesn't make you industrious.

[Mallow]

Do people actually think that legalizing pot will turn everyone into a pothead? Remind me again how few people drank during prohibition. Smoking cigarettes is undeniably more dangerous than smoking pot, should we make tobacco illegal?

This is coming from someone who never has, and never will smoke pot.

Yep.

[falling apart like the ashes of American flags]

It's really a shame that the RNC has yet to do this. Smh.

It promotes laziness. People who smoke pot should be shunned from society, mocked, ridiculed.

lolwut?

Your opinion is losing:

I think the 1951-1965 numbers are most telling...

[Virginiá]

I wish the older holdouts would just accept that prohibition does not work. Sorry, but when it comes to vices, we can't just ban everything we don't like. If people want it enough, they will get it, and banning it only hands over power to criminals and makes procuring cannabis more dangerous. Folks need to freakin accept this and stop pretending like we can actually successfully ban things like this.

Baffling after decades of a failed drug "war" that has done nothing but turn minority communities upside down, explode our prison population and destroy families/people's futures, that so many still support this phony prohibitionist idea. Drug use hasn't gone down. It doesn't work. The anti-drug crusader's war just made things worse and it is time for a change.

[ProudModerate2]

Well, I guess we need to legalize cocaine too.
And might as well throw meth in the "OK group" also.
How dare our nation have some control over drugs.

[Gass3268]

Well, I guess we need to legalize cocaine too.
And might as well throw meth in the "OK group" also.
How dare our nation have some control over drugs.

To compare marijuana to cocaine and especially meth really shows ignorance.

[ProudModerate2]

Well, I guess we need to legalize cocaine too.
And might as well throw meth in the "OK group" also.
How dare our nation have some control over drugs.

To compare marijuana to cocaine and especially meth really shows ignorance.

The thread has posts comparing pot, which is a Schedule 1 drug, to alcohol which is not.
Just thought I would add to the ignorance.

[Shameless Lefty Hack]

Well, I guess we need to legalize cocaine too.
And might as well throw meth in the "OK group" also.
How dare our nation have some control over drugs.

To compare marijuana to cocaine and especially meth really shows ignorance.

The thread has posts comparing pot, which is a Schedule 1 drug, to alcohol which is not.
Just thought I would add to the ignorance.

Uhhh, we're arguing the merits of that schedule 1 classification, bud.

Alternately, we're arguing that alcohol should be scheduled similarly. I'd be fine with that!

[cwt]

Yuck, Yuck, this is probably done because of Sanders and his supporters, and I voted for Sanders. Uhh

Has nothing to do with Sanders. The majority of Americans support legalization, check the polls.

It's already legal in 4 states, and up to 5 more may legalize it this November. It's time to officially update federal policy.