"Decline by Design"..

I'll play ... let's toss the 'legalized week' issue around.

There are state-licensed sources of marijuana for those states in which weed has already been legalized.

Unfortunately, it is not easy to distinguish between state-licensed weed and 'street' weed. The majority of weed (as used in those states in which weed has been legalized) is from non-state-licensed sources.

Why does this matter? Because weed (unlike the abortion / woman's body issue) is a fungible commodity.

Those who have quickly endorsed the widespread legalization of weed haven't thought through the consequences. Not surprising, because young people and also older people who have become dependent upon weed as an sociological crutch are typically driven by emotional ... as opposed to rational ... decision-making processes.

Non-licensed sources of weed can be laced with dangerous stuff ... including fentanyl. Non-licensed weed is also cheaper than state-licensed weed. Guess which one weed lovers will prefer? Any guesses as to why street weed sellers want to 'enhance the fun' of THEIR brand of weed by tweaking it with a little of fentanyl happiness? Might sales of THEIR brand of weed be better if their customers are addicted? Hmmm.

(?) How will state governments control the sale and use of non-licensed sources of weed? Chances are that the states which legalize 'state licensed' weed are already dependent upon the weed-lover voting base. Fat chance that any of these states will spend the time and money to vigorously enforce their own only-state-licensed-weed laws.

Get ready for the fentanyl epidemic to accelerate as more and more states embrace the legalization of something that can be easily abused and which cannot be easily regulated.

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Re: You Pubby snowflakes wouldn’t know individual

Nov 8, 2022, 5:54 PM

You've got it all figured out ... look at how hard the Republicans are pushing the following:

(1) Disinformation boards (now escalated to misinformation boards) to punish selected speech and writings that displease the Republicans.

(2) New restrictions on a farmer's right to use well water from her/ his own property (whether or not for animal husbandry or crop growing purposes). Republicans hate farmers.

(3) Criminalization of parent's who go to school board meetings and then criticize the school board. (You know, those actively engaged parents whom the Republicans characterize as 'terrorists.') Republicans hate parents who are interested and concerned about the sexual grooming of their kids.

(4) The push to impose ESG criteria to lenders so that the lender must discriminate against potential borrowers. Those Republicans hate merit-based / financial-metrics-based lending; needs to suspend the freedoms of banks and borrowers to make conduct financial transactions of mutual interest to them.

(5) The philosophical desire by Republicans to eliminate state & local police forces and to replace them with a national police force. Republicans sure hate it when the the citizens are free to exercise their constitutionally protected right to choose how their local government protects them.

(6) Republican efforts to dismantle the USA's carbon based energy infrastructure so that individuals will have no choice between (a) utilizing readily available energy to heat their homes + run their equipment -versus- (b) going cold in the winter, hot in the summer, and becoming generally immobile. Freedoms schmeedoms, the Republicans are going to shove their Green Energy farce down every citizen's throat whether they like it or not.

Yes indeed Old Slac, you nailed it on the head. Those evil Republicans are really into destroying the freedoms that Americans enjoy.

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"Love of individual freedoms"

Re: "Love of individual freedoms"

What I named aren't individual freedoms?

Re: What I named aren't individual freedoms?

Ok, taking abortion out of the conversation

Re: Ok, taking abortion out of the conversation

Weed is a "destructive drug"?

Re: Weed is a "destructive drug"?

yet none of them are even promising smaller government

This is naive

Re: Ok, taking abortion out of the conversation

Re: Ok, taking abortion out of the conversation

Re: What I named aren't individual freedoms?

Re: What I named aren't individual freedoms?

So contrary to what the OP said, the question I asked is

Granting that particular choice to a woman also includes

Just seems to me we are moving to having less

Re: Granting that particular choice to a woman also includes

So now the same government that Pubs often say are lying

all women are absolutely free to choose what they do with

I think abortion is terrible.

Can you make a list of fetal rights for me? When do

They have none, that's why they are murdered***

The State seizes control of a woman's body at conception.***

Citizens who don't like it are free to move to another state

That sounds like a realistic solution. What should

So you're against the national ban that's being discussed?***

Re: They have none ... fetuses are too young to vote

Fertilized eggs' & zygote's rights dominate the woman's

Re: "Love of individual freedoms / unregulated weed problem

So you are saying the government needs to protect the public

Re: So you are saying the government needs to protect the public

I say we've been fighting a war against drugs for a long

Republicans caring about individual freedom in a post-Trump

Re: Dear Jimmy ... see below (the response to old Slac)

Jimmy, he just listed everything he’s heard on foxnews

That doesn't look like a rebuttal as much as an equivocation***

You Pubby snowflakes wouldn’t know individual

Re: You Pubby snowflakes wouldn’t know individual

You spent that much time writing out that drivel?

Re: You spent that much time writing out that drivel?

Hard to fathom people voting to give away their

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