Don't be flippant. Marijuana criminalization and the war on drugs causes a vast amount of harm to the entire country, including millions of lives ruined or cut short. Just recently a completely innocent couple were gunned down in their own home by the police executing a no knock raid based on completely bogus (or at best horribly mistaken) evidence.
> Marijuana criminalization and the war on drugs causes a vast amount of harm to the entire country, including millions of lives ruined or cut short.
Which drugs --prescription and otherwise-- do you think should be freely available and unregulated?
> Just recently a completely innocent couple were gunned down in their own home by the police executing a no knock raid based on completely bogus (or at best horribly mistaken) evidence.
Bad policing doesn't justify bad policy. Could you please cite the specific case you're referencing?
Are police canine units not serious because they're called K-9? What a stupid comment
> Which drugs --prescription and otherwise-- do you think should be freely available and unregulated?
There's a difference between decriminalizing and making something freely legal. Stop conflating the issue
> Bad policing doesn't justify bad policy. Could you please cite the specific case you're referencing?
The case the parent comment referenced could be 1 of hundreds, because this happens frequently. Why is decriminalizing drugs bad policy? Portugal has had no problems in addition to the many states that have already legalized MJ, let alone decriminalizing it
In any case, removing cannabis from the Federal revenue code would not make cannabis "legal nationwide"; state laws against cannabis, where applicable, remain in effect.
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[ 1.1 ms ] story [ 201 ms ] threadNaming the bill S.420 is unserious.
> Marijuana criminalization and the war on drugs causes a vast amount of harm to the entire country, including millions of lives ruined or cut short.
Which drugs --prescription and otherwise-- do you think should be freely available and unregulated?
> Just recently a completely innocent couple were gunned down in their own home by the police executing a no knock raid based on completely bogus (or at best horribly mistaken) evidence.
Bad policing doesn't justify bad policy. Could you please cite the specific case you're referencing?
Are police canine units not serious because they're called K-9? What a stupid comment
> Which drugs --prescription and otherwise-- do you think should be freely available and unregulated?
There's a difference between decriminalizing and making something freely legal. Stop conflating the issue
> Bad policing doesn't justify bad policy. Could you please cite the specific case you're referencing?
The case the parent comment referenced could be 1 of hundreds, because this happens frequently. Why is decriminalizing drugs bad policy? Portugal has had no problems in addition to the many states that have already legalized MJ, let alone decriminalizing it
https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/420...
In any case, removing cannabis from the Federal revenue code would not make cannabis "legal nationwide"; state laws against cannabis, where applicable, remain in effect.
Is that fake news, too?