People who live in california?
You are now given a chance to vote on proposition 19 to legalize marijuana. I don’t discriminate against tobacco users or alcohol users……Alcohol is worse. If you think marijuana is as bad as heroin or coke then you havent smoked before. There is a reason it is called a peace plant. It is an herbal medicine. Think of all the prescription pill usage that is actually legal. And the fake incense they sell in the gas station now which is chemically altered, but that is legal because they can tax it and not worry about people growing it, but its more unhealthy for you. I am not a pothead where i smoke all day and stay burnt out. I toke but i am still capable of holding a job and actually doing pretty well in life. I wouldn’t do more drugs or even drink because i could do that now, i don’t choose to. I just like to smoke to lay back watch a funny movie and it does help me sleep. I don’t even smoke tobacco because i think that stuff is too bad for you. I am person with my own standards and i should be able to choose pot over alcohol. You can have your drink… help give people a right to there own medicine. Vote yes to legalize for me i dont get a chance i dont live there but i am hoping once california does it then our time will come. I am NOT a teenager i am a grown woman, middle class, hardworking mother.
Well further more to you! I am not on medicaid, welfare or unemployment, i said i was middle class i couldnt even get wic! We pay cash for our food, clothes, vehicles even and make smart choices, great credit too!!..pff. what else ya got. We are a damn hardworking family and I for one dont smoke and go to work? Would you go to work drinking? Lets ban drinking because you could work on it…hmm. doesnt make sense. I have my own standards. If you abuse it then yea different, but i for one am not a criminal just because i decide not to drink but hit a plant.
You would have the same regulations as alcohol with this plant, no smoking at work, duh! alright just as long as i am free to buy without breaking a law and hit it in the evening with my own judgement.
I would never claim pot smokers to be more reliable at work. It does make you slightly intoxicated feeling but not as much as alcohol. So are you going to change your mind and vote for me?
THIS CARTOON FITS THIS QUESTION..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXqJKm3WmXU
I live in California and see the damage that is done by tobacco and alcohol. As such it is just plain irresponsible to make these existing problems worse by adding another legal drug to the mix.
If you want to treat marijuana as a ‘medicine’ then have it regulated by the FDA like any other medicine.
Additionally, I do not want a pothead working on the brakes of my wife’s car, dispensing medications in a pharmacy, driving a semi-trailer on the freeway next to me, or in any other occupation where other people’s lives depend on their judgement and work quality.
To add to that – I am not willing to let my tax dollars go to subsidize somebody’s drug habit. If a person can afford marijuana then they don’t need student grants/loans, medicaid, welfare, food stamps or unemployment.
BTW – before you try to claim that potheads have the same reliability and judgement as anybody else, let me point out what happend where I work:
My employer had a serious issue with workmanship defects, absenteesm, accidents, etc. in the unclassified side of the plant – while the classified side had none of these issues. After I pointed out to the boss that my people in the classified side are drug tested on a regular (and random) basis, the decision was made to implement the policy company-wide. A meeting was called and it was announced that in 45 days random drug screens were going to become manditory and failure would result in immedeate termination. 45 days later 20% of the employees were ordered to ‘fill the bottle’ and anybody who came up ‘hot’ was fired. Five months later every single employee (from the owner to the janitor) had been drug tested and a large number of people fired.
Guess what happened? The company’s workmanship defect rate fell by 70% employee morale improved and our accident rate fell so much that the cost of our workman’s comp insurance fell by almost a million dollars. And the real irony here is that the people we fireed went to work for a competitor – who went out of business a few months ago.
Not to mention that legalizing it will generate millions and maybe billions in tax revenue, increased tourism, increased jobs, and decreased spending on prisons and law enforcement.
Yesterday night I watched it for free here:
url.co.uk/9banwe