because, of course thereâs no violence around alcoholâŚ
âExperts are telling me thereâs more violence around marijuana than one would think,â Sessions said.
âYou canât sue somebody for a drug debt. The only way to get your money is through strong-arm tactics, and violence tends to follow that,â Sessions said.
You could if the drug in question was legalized.
Studies have found no correlation between legalization of marijuana and violent crime rates. But law enforcement officials in states such as Colorado say drug traffickers have taken advantage of lax marijuana laws to hide in plain sight, illegally growing and shipping the drug across state lines, where it can sell for much higher.
Bothsiderism. Law enorcement officials say lots of unsupported nonsense if it serves their biases. As for selling it for higher prices outside the StateâŚwell, thatâs the âfree marketâ economy for you. 'Course itâs really not âfreeâ, but you get my meaning. Oh., and drug traffickers âhanging aroundâ doesnât seem very violent to me.
Sessions is still living in Reefer Madness world.
Sessions: We reserve the right to use the marijuana issue as a tool to criminalize and lock up black people.
And support private prison corporations
About as predictable as it gets.
Bingo
Potheads with a severe case of âthe munchiesâ could get ugly.
The whole âreefer madnessâ mentality really is part and parcel of a generation of predominately White seniors who have NO PROBLEM with booze but believe that pot is some kind of âgateway drug.â Which, for the most part, isnât true at all.
You donât want to be near me after Iâve rolled a fattie and my search of the sofa cushions fails to find a lighter.
I would sure hate to see the billions that are going to be spent on marijuana anyway going to the drug cartels instead of the states.
one of the reasons it used to be thought of as a âgateway drugâ is because pre-60ish when heroin addicts were interviewed they often claimed they got started by smoking reefer⌠so the inference was marijuana led to heroin addiction⌠problem with that analysis was that while they mightâve interviewed 90%+ of heroin addicts, feel free to insert your own percentage, they didnât come close to gauging the population of marijuana smokers as a whole⌠there was/is no way to correlate smoking with heroin addictionâŚ
also⌠âREEFER MADNESSâ
Next up no booze sales on SundaysâŚyeah were heading back to the damn 50s with this bunchâŚ
Iâm not anti-law enforcement or anything, but this issue is absolutely a jobs program for them.
I work in the court system and I read complaints and citations everyday (btw, Iâve never read a complaint that involved someone being too high on MJ that they beat up their wife/kid, or got in a bar fight. Yet the majority of cases in my area involve alcohol). The reason LE doesnât want this legal? Because they would lose thousands of jobs and/or they would have to be out doing much more difficult police work. Why? Because the overwhelming majority of drug users/buyers/sellers are morons. They rat on each other all the time, conduct controlled buys and then confess immediately (this may be somewhat different in large cities with a different culture, but thatâs not where the majority of LE agencies are located). Convictions are simple and therefore there are usually easy prosecutions with plea deals (which there should be btw, many on the left have a bizarre negative view of plea deals based on a tiny fraction of cases).
But thatâs the thing, that wonât actually happen. The alcohol companies have billions of dollars invested in their products and millions invested in law makers and lobbyists.
The fact that alcohol is legal and recreational marijuana is not, is one of the greatest hypocrisies of all time.
I just read this.
My sense is that the Trump regime should be trying to get everybody smoking as much possible, and Iâm not just talking a few tokes, but a full-blown Ken Erdedy Infinite Jest spoonfuls-of-chocolate-cake-icing 2-week blinds-drawn withdrawal from the world.
I was going to say something about my views on public pot policy, but I forgot⌠puff
I thought nearly the same thing. Twinkie muggings abound.