OT: Is legalizing cannabis on the November ballot in NJ ?
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I just assume people who say No don’t understand the issue.
Thank god those people are in the minority.
I know a couple of people who are voting no and are heartbroken over the issue.
Of course, they both make a good buck off of selling the stuff....and have for years.
I truly do not understand how when Alcohol is the legal parallel to mind altering substances how anybody can argue against the legalization of cannabis.... Take the medicinal benefits which are vast out of it.... You have to be over 50, and someone with no experience with cannabis to still have these thoughts...
And at the end of the day, people are going to get it one way or another. You either get it through your doctor (which is extremely easy to do), take a day trip to Massachusetts, or from the many dealer delivery services. PA and NY will be legalizing it soon anyway.....are we really going to be last in line again? Thankfully not because the vote on this one won’t be very close.
Think of all those people who have lost loved ones, and will now be getting their ballots.
You're kidding, right? People in their 60's and 70's were smoking weed in the 60's and 70's, long before many on here were born.
legalizing it will go a long way in helping with the opioid problem we are facing.
Will there be a legal limit for driving like alcohol? Can it be measured in your bloodstream like 0.1 or anything like that?
Everyone should vote No. Sure it will make the state money being a drug dealer, but look what it did the the minds of the citizens of Cali and Oregon.
I don't do drugs or drink (I don't like things that alter the sharpness and clarity of the mind).
BUT legalizing cannabis is still worthwhile.
The US incarcerates 655 people per 100K people. That is the HIGHEST rate in the world.
The majority of the incarcerated 2.2 million people in this country are incarcerated due to non-violent drug offenses.
Legalizing cannabis will reduce the rate of drug related incarcerations; leading to less broken families and ultimately more productive and prosperous generations moving forward.
If alcohol is legal, there is NO reason cannabis should not be. Alcohol is actually worse for you as it's a direct poison that destroys cells in the body.
Those that support the use of alcohol and tobacco yet support the continued ban of cannabis are hypocrites of the worst kind...
Voting YES is good for society and our future as a whole.
BUT legalizing cannabis is still worthwhile.
The US incarcerates 655 people per 100K people. That is the HIGHEST rate in the world.
The majority of the incarcerated 2.2 million people in this country are incarcerated due to non-violent drug offenses.
Legalizing cannabis will reduce the rate of drug related incarcerations; leading to less broken families and ultimately more productive and prosperous generations moving forward.
If alcohol is legal, there is NO reason cannabis should not be. Alcohol is actually worse for you as it's a direct poison that destroys cells in the body.
Those that support the use of alcohol and tobacco yet support the continued ban of cannabis are hypocrites of the worst kind...
Voting YES is good for society and our future as a whole.
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What about the minds of Massachusetts or Texas or just about any other state since marijuana use is rampant across this country. Unless you think only people in legalized states use it??
Another freedom hater. Time to go to China.
Why do you want big government controlling personal choice, commie?+
Your street dealer is worried about price competition from the dispensaries?
Im told that in Seattle the street dealers are out of business. The dispensaries out there are selling products to the public for less than the street dealers have to pay to acquire it.
Don't trust Trenton. They will screw it up and waste any money it generates on graft.
So because Trenton might mismanage the tax revenues, it’s not worth it? I dunno how Trenton spends sport’s betting money, but I’m sure glad I have the freedom and ability to take the over on Saturday’s.
Just make sure they put a mask on you after they pull the spliff out.
The opiod crisis is a SYMPTOM of
Instead we continually attack the symptom which ultimately creates
- The deindustrialization of this country
- Poor mental health services in this country including the poor access to such services
- Widening income inequality
- Reduction of the middle class with the simultaneous expansion in the lower class
- Unemployment and underemployment
- Lack of education
- Big Pharma
- Prison industrial complex
Instead we continually attack the symptom which ultimately creates
- Creates more broken families
- Creates more poor families
- Creates greater income inequality
- Creates greater education inequality
- Continues cycles of crime
- Boosts revenues for Big Pharma
- Boosts revenues for the prison industrial complex.
- Bigger burden on the US tax payer to fund welfare and underprivileged education programs (the solution lies at HOME, not in the schools)
- Perpetuates stereotypes of the poor and underprivileged.
So you’re saying the state is better off without having an additional $300+mil a year in revenues?
Not at all, why do you ask?
I don't know but in Counties like Bergen where Opioid and hereon are very common, so many of the kids addicted are coming from upper middle to wealthy 2 parent families.
Doesn’t get more American than that. Although I only smoke a handful of times a year.
I do not think they have anything to worry about. NJ voters will approve and then the pols will tax it and make it so hard and expensive to obtain the dealers will still be flush. $5.00 of MJ will cost $35.00 when Trenton is done with it.
Poor mental health services and big Pharma play a role in this scenario.
Big Pharma pays off doctors to over-prescribe legal opioids which then can engender addiction in the patient/victim which then can lead to crime which then feeds into the prison industrial complex. It's a vicious cycle.
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By your logic, beating people up and killing people should be legalized. Why keep those people away from their families by putting them in jail.
That is much better stated.Poor mental health services and big Pharma play a role in this scenario.
Big Pharma pays off doctors to over-prescribe legal opioids which then can engender addiction in the patient/victim which then can lead to crime which then feeds into the prison industrial complex. It's a vicious cycle.
While addiction crisis raged, many surgeons overprescribed opioids, analysis shows
Amid the addiction crisis, thousands of surgeons continued to hand out far more pills than needed for postoperative pain relief.
Prescription Opioid Use among Adults with Mental Health Disorders in the United States
Background: The extent to which adults with mental health disorders in the United States receive opioids has not been adequately reported. Methods: We performed a cross-sectional study of a nationally representative sample of the noninstitutionalized U.S. adult population from the Medical...www.jabfm.org
What Is The Connection Between Mental Health and Opioid Addiction?
Having a mental health condition increases your risk of opioid addiction. Explore the current research as well as tips to avoid addiction.
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