Legalize pot?

Westside Steve

Actually heart disease kills more people alcohol or drugs. How about making German food hamburgers computers and video games illegal? its for our own good isn't it?

And just think how many lives we would save if the nationwide maximum speed limit was 30!

WSS

Browns149

@westside-steve said:

Actually heart disease kills more people alcohol or drugs. How about making German food hamburgers computers and video games illegal? its for our own good isn't it?

And just think how many lives we would save if the nationwide maximum speed limit was 30!

WSS

More people would die if the speed limit was 30.

Road rage would become the #1 killer of EVERYONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Cysko Kid

@legacy-fan said:

I don't think making cigarettes illegal will do much to curb their use. See prohibition.

I couldn't really care about the legality of pot. It doesn't really affect me either way. I grew up.

Sure it will. With all the vaporizers patches and gum out there who's going to grow an illegal tobacco farm and go through all that?

Legacy Fan

@the-cysko-kid said:
Sure it will. With all the vaporizers patches and gum out there who's going to grow an illegal tobacco farm and go through all that?

I should have clarified: "cigarettes" was inclusive of all tobacco nicotine

Westside Steve

Also "well this shit is terrible and it's legal!" isn't a particularly great argument as to why other bad things should also be legalized.

For me it's not a matter of good or bad it's just the libertarian idea that people should be allowed to be assholes and do stupid shit if they want to. unfortunately in a lot of these situations the public ends up paying for their mistakes.

WSS

MLD Woody

@westside-steve said:

Also "well this shit is terrible and it's legal!" isn't a particularly great argument as to why other bad things should also be legalized.

For me it's not a matter of good or bad it's just the libertarian idea that people should be allowed to be assholes and do stupid shit if they want to. unfortunately in a lot of these situations the public ends up paying for their mistakes.

WSS

Bringing up alcohol and tobacco is a good point. If someone thinks weed should be illegal because it is dangerous, then their view point on those other two substances matters because of what I said before.

MLD Woody

@westside-steve said:

Actually heart disease kills more people alcohol or drugs. How about making German food hamburgers computers and video games illegal? its for our own good isn't it?

And just think how many lives we would save if the nationwide maximum speed limit was 30!

WSS

Computers and video games?

MLD Woody

@legacy-fan said:

I don't think making cigarettes illegal will do much to curb their use. See prohibition.

I couldn't really care about the legality of pot. It doesn't really affect me either way. I grew up.

It may not affect you directly, but it will indirectly. There are plenty of benefits that could spil over into your life

Westside Steve

@mld-woody said:
Computers and video games?

Yep.

If in fact the health and well being of the American public is essential to lawmakers, and remembering that heart disease is caused by inactivity to a great degree, then the sedentary activities that people are devoting more and more of their time to should be regulated.

WSS

Westside Steve

(and yes I am being facetious)), kind of...

MLD Woody

@westside-steve said:

Yep.

If in fact the health and well being of the American public is essential to lawmakers, and remembering that heart disease is caused by inactivity to a great degree, then the sedentary activities that people are devoting more and more of their time to should be regulated.

WSS

So TV, many forms of work, reading, sitting of any kind, using a car, etc

Browns149

As long as they don't make Shamrock shakes illegal.

Westside Steve

@mld-woody said:
So TV, many forms of work, reading, sitting of any kind, using a car, etc

Yep.

If Congress is serious about legislating good health.

WSS

Browns149

@westside-steve said:

Yep.

If Congress is serious about legislating good health.

WSS

the only thing Congress is serious about is Congress.

The Cysko Kid

@legacy-fan said:
I should have clarified: "cigarettes" was inclusive of all tobacco nicotine

Nicotine isn't particularly dangerous on its own unless you ingest a crazy amount of it.

BaconHound

I would hope lawmakers are weighing the cost of law enforcement, incarceration, loss of tax money etc. and weighing it against the cost of law enforcement, health care costs, etc. but I have a sneaking suspicion that, like everything else they decide, they're only weighing which lobby will make the largest campaign contribution and the moral compass of their district.