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Post by xdipster on Aug 29, 2016 8:27:23 GMT -6
So who is for this and who is against, and why? I"m leaning for
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Post by Lebowski on Aug 29, 2016 9:21:19 GMT -6
I am for it. I watched my dad starve to death from cancer. I believe the Marijuana for medical use would have helped him. Not just for the appetite booster but for pain management.
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Post by xdipster on Aug 29, 2016 9:30:49 GMT -6
I agree. Saw the same with my mother-in law. My mom is now having problems as well. Its said to help with liver problems. Science has known since the 1970's the effectiveness of cannabis for medicinal uses. Our gov't would have had to admit it was wrong, so people have suffered since. I'm surprised we didn't attempt to go full Colorado, but this at least is going in the right direction. Now the federal gov't has to reschedule the stuff to a level 2 drug. No way is it as bad as heroin.
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Post by TOBC on Aug 29, 2016 10:30:18 GMT -6
legalize it, tax the piss out of it, and still make it illegal to drive while using it. treat it just like alcohol.
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Post by xdipster on Aug 29, 2016 10:32:11 GMT -6
Absolutely. My thoughts exactly. Colorado and Washington state are way out in front on this. And all the goods stuff is better, and the bad stuff is lower. Imagine how much more time and money law enforcement could spend on real criminals. Right now the only thing wrong with pot is its illegal.
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Post by Burnet44 on Aug 29, 2016 11:32:29 GMT -6
against but you expected that yeah I know booze vs weed we all ready got enough stupid fed up people lets just make some more
tax it but dont let the govt have the money do you think the govt is actually gonna spend it on its people? then you are smoking weed
gty
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Post by Lebowski on Aug 29, 2016 11:35:08 GMT -6
We ought to outlaw Haikus
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Post by xdipster on Aug 29, 2016 11:38:27 GMT -6
Colorado trusted the gov't, and they are expanding services and reaping the benefits. Of course I'm not so sure Burnett isn't right about what would happen here. Not a great record for our gov't in Oklahoma.
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Post by Burnet44 on Aug 29, 2016 13:12:31 GMT -6
A few years back, a Colorado school facilities assessment projected that construction needs on campuses across the state would amount to more than $17.8 billion by 2018. Under Colorado’s new law, revenues from the marijuana excise tax feed into an existing grant program that funds school construction and renovation projects—a program that has been funded primarily by land and lottery proceeds. During the 2015 fiscal year, the grant program’s revenue grew to more than $95 million from about $72 million, according to state Department of Education data. But the pot taxes only accounted for a sliver—$3 million—of that growth. Then, the marijuana proceeds contributed just $13 million to the fund. The funding stipulated in the recreational-pot legislation is “miniscule” compared to school construction needs. And it’s also important to remember that [school construction is] not the only need in funding in education, a lot of funding needed in other areas as well.
Curiously, 2014 revenues from the lottery fell by nearly half from the year before, an unusual drop whose timing largely corresponded with the legalization of recreational marijuana.
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Post by xdipster on Aug 30, 2016 8:15:34 GMT -6
So people are doing something not addictive instead of something highly addictive. Awesome.
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Post by TOBC on Aug 30, 2016 9:52:24 GMT -6
on the flip side there dip............crime in Denver went through the roof when they legalized it. lots of transients and career potheads moved in and started committing crimes in order to pay for their weed habit.
kind of a pick your poison deal.
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Post by xdipster on Aug 30, 2016 10:25:31 GMT -6
State wide the rate went down though.
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Post by email on Aug 30, 2016 13:10:26 GMT -6
State wide the rate went down though. Would have to see that dip What about traffic accidents?
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Post by email on Aug 30, 2016 13:11:28 GMT -6
I agree. Saw the same with my mother-in law. My mom is now having problems as well. Its said to help with liver problems. Science has known since the 1970's the effectiveness of cannabis for medicinal uses. Our gov't would have had to admit it was wrong, so people have suffered since. I'm surprised we didn't attempt to go full Colorado, but this at least is going in the right direction. Now the federal gov't has to reschedule the stuff to a level 2 drug. No way is it as bad as heroin. I think the rewrite did But at the bottom says this doesn't change federal law
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Post by xdipster on Aug 31, 2016 8:52:36 GMT -6
State wide the rate went down though. Would have to see that dip What about traffic accidents? Great question. Proponents say that figures are misleading either way. Rarely are traffic accidents weed only. Usually mixed with alcohol. What needs to be looked at are the weed only stats compared to alcohol only. Never heard of a bad high driver, but have seen the bad drunk ones.
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Post by Hitch on Aug 31, 2016 11:29:31 GMT -6
Seriously, Dip? Godzilla man.
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Post by Hitch on Aug 31, 2016 11:30:01 GMT -6
You're as bad as Maynard at times. Try a new lure.
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Post by xdipster on Aug 31, 2016 11:40:35 GMT -6
Was actually serious. I'm tired of locking up non-addicts that are not a threat when those precious dollars could be used in law enforcement for other things. I'm very conservative in that regards.
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Post by xdipster on Sept 7, 2016 10:39:10 GMT -6
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Post by xdipster on Sept 7, 2016 12:24:11 GMT -6
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