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26 states have passed some form of a Marijuana law. Can the federal government just end this pointless prohibition already and make it federally legal? They could regulate the shit out of it, make money from taxes, help people suffering from pain, help end the opioid epidemic and tons of other good reasons. To the front page please!
HowMuchWoodCouldAWoodDuckDuckIfAWoodDuckCouldDuckWood
Idaho is surrounded
BrazilianThunderPanda
Dark green states, are the fun states! But you know what happened in WA after it was legalized? NOTHING except a new tax revenue flow.
BANANAFLAKE
No thanks.
minerhole
funny how California haven't legalize marijuana yet
iwould
We all really like prop 215. It's more legal than the upcoming legalization bill.
IronicUsername
The benefits to legalization outweigh the cons so overwhelmingly it's insane that pot is still a federally prohibited schedule I drug.
RenaissanceFaireMan
I can tell you this, Nebraska will never allow it until it goes Federal.
Kodyack
Minnesota should have a huuuge asterisk next to them. In that sure, medical pot is legal... for like 4 people.
HellomynameisSatan
Canada is taking the euro route. Its illegal to grow and sell lots of it, personal use and growth is okay but still illegalish?.
ImInnocentISwear
Iowa technically can have oil but you can't obtain it. It's a really convoluted law that doesn't make sense and doesn't actually help anyone
yungdrowsy
Lol
doctorxray
Blerg... Has no one any respect for State's rights anymore? Why in the world would the federal government have anything to do with pot laws?
ShanePavlis
And I'm just sitting here like... I'm having trouble with differentiating the shades... I should go see a doctor. *sigh*
2kidneysforsale
This would be a perfect post If US government actually cared about public demand. Still a +1
ThisIsGod
No, its not perfect, the color coding is terrible.
Buretsu
The public demands the right to get lit AF, sitting in their houses being useless fucks.
thethicknessofthelad
Skynet went live?
YoungTimbe
Yea and then people can stop moving to Colorado!!! That would really help us out!!
ImSureIHaveAnAccount
Yeah and maybe I'll stop smelling it in my bedroom every night at 10:30 on the dot.
jsnforce
Govt legalizes pot. FDA regulates it, making it expensive. Cigarette companies jump in, pump it full of the same poisons as cigarettes...
jsnforce
2) former dealers lose their market, but are the only ones selling clean pot. FDA comes down onnthem like they do folks selling raw milk.
ch3stnuts
Can anyone confirm the giant pot leaf floating just off the coast of Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas?
thomas989
This wouldn't be beneficial for the pharmaceutical companies. That's why....
stowsea
Why do the people who always make these things never use different colors? Let's just pick similar shades of the same color.
GonadTheBeerBellyan
Fuck legalization, it shouldn't be regulated or taxed at all. They need to ignore it like tomatoes, basil, tulips, poison ivy or Flint MI.
1Rogue
except you don't see kids getting high off tomatoes. I advocate it being legal for rec use but just like cigs/alcohol, don't mix with youth
BrazilianThunderPanda
PegMeOnTheFirstDate
Decriminalization
GetSchwifty
Its a fucking narcotic dude. Fuck off. This is why people think weed smokers are stupid.
fistermatic5000
Smoker here. I hate when other smokers say "it's not a drug, it's a plant." No it's a fucking drug dude.
thewhyteman
So it's not a plant?
GetSchwifty
Smoker as well. Its just no why. You sound like that old burnout hippie that never did anything and smells like old cheese.
iwould
The people that don't think weed is a drug haven't over dosed on an edible and been comatose for hours. Treat it like booze
GonadTheBeerBellyan
I have, on purpose. Multiple times. I've also had alcohol poisoning, multiple times. Alcohol is worse, much much worse.
GonadTheBeerBellyan
My point being it doesn't require any chemical processing and doesn't affect cardiopulmonary functions, even in the case of an overdose.
GetSchwifty
Its still a narcotic though? So your point is you have no point.
GonadTheBeerBellyan
Based on my experiences, responsible cannabis users aren't usually otherwise engaged in criminal activities. Not equal to heroin or meth.
ShamnusMcfee
That's blatantly absurd. Should it be schedule I, or even legal? Probably not. Should we hand it out at elementary schools? I think not.
tls72
Feds won't legalize it because pharmaceutical companies give them money.
Sionas
Big pharma wants to keep it like this for as long as they can
ThisIsGod
If it was legal and accessible, doctors would isolate the THC and put it in a pill so you dont get high like smoking it would, and sell it.
ResetButton
Marinol is the pharma version of cannabinoids, and it gets you high as shit, and generally accepted as less effective than the plant
ResetButton
Few things wrong here: THC will get you high as shit if you eat it with the carboxyl group removed.
ResetButton
There is a theory with minor merit that the medicinal effects require everything together, isolation reduces effectiveness.
ThisIsGod
The "Big pharma doesnt want it" argument is bs. Saying that they dont want to capitalize on a drug for money because of pills is stupid
Fahargo
They make more money off of their pills than they would weed.
KyleBeach
If they try to get into that though they now have to deal with each other AND every dude who snags a dispensary license. Too much competitio
ResetButton
You're missing part of the argument. Cannabis will replace or reduce their profits, and they cannot capitalize on it as much as pills.
ResetButton
Cannabis will directly reduce sales of many types of pills. And cannabis producers aren't exclusively pharma companies
ThisIsGod
Id to do more research before I say anything with that kind of authority, but they love to gin up Big Pharma conspiracies in their basement
ResetButton
It's a common fact that pill sales drop radically in medical states. So maybe you need to not be as dismissive. And research.
ResetButton
"They?" It's a common fact that tobacco and pharm are some of the biggest contributors to anti-marijuana causes
ResetButton
Lobbying, direct campaign support, recommendations to governing bodies
ResetButton
So why the trolling? What makes you want to do it?
ThisIsGod
Always. Everything. Its whatever.
ResetButton
Oh. Intentional troll account. Cool
ThisIsGod
Yes and no, I just see the situation from a different perspective than you and I clearly stated I'd have to do more research before
ThisIsGod
acting like an authority on the matter as you seem to be setting yourself up as.
david42
Write to your Congress critters, they control the money and that's the only thing the DEA will respond to.
jmeyers1983
It's not just money, their's a racial and class component to it also.
idontliketheclonebone
Ha those ass clowns tried to stop it from becoming legal in DC. 71% of people voted yes and Republicans still tried to fuck it up
idontliketheclonebone
http://reason.com/archives/2014/12/15/did-congress-stop-marijuana-legalization
Reilynn
Find your congress critter: Senator .senate.gov/index.htm">http://www.senate.gov/index.htm and Representative http://www.house.gov/
crimsondog
wait they're seriously called congress critters? I imagined a squirrel looking over emails.
Reilynn
I don't about the seriously part, but *I* thought it was cute.
NeverWithoutMyMoleskinePocketNotebook
On another note, I'm proud of Pennsylvania for finally making moves and legalizing it for medical use this year.
demonic
I want it to be for recreational use as well but I'm happy that it's allowed legally for medical at least.
fufuwewe
Good luck getting it. Alot of the legalized places on this map don't actually have anywhere to buy it from or get prescribed.
JCSmoove
In NJ you pretty much need to be hours from death to get a script.
EGOT
Yes I know! I'm from PA, live in CO now. If it stops being such a shithole I may move back one day.
JCSmoove
Tracy Jordan?
wobbu
lord knows everyone here already smokes it
spacecatts
What is the oil thing?
iwould
Scroll up a bit.
spacecatts
?
iwould
Someone else asked I answered in there
spacecatts
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Halbeard
Actually in Washington medical was just illegalized, we only have recreational. Which is better that nothing, but not fair to sick people.
illegalacorn
i don't get it
1Rogue
neither does washington
chefchris357
Incorrect. The medical mj program has been discontinued. With pretty much anything mj available at stores, it's not necessary anymore.
Halbeard
Except that the price has since quadrupled.
KyleBeach
Well i think they also started finding people taking advantage as a tax loophole and they nipped that in the bud because it's recreational
Halbeard
Nice pun lol.
KyleBeach
so anyone needing it medically can get it just as easily
chefchris357
Some people used med program to get around the law, but I've first hand seen more people benefit and helped by medical usage.
KyleBeach
For sure, but the point is, if it's legal for rec. use and it costs similar to go to a dispensary or your doctor, might as well get rid of
KyleBeach
the go around for the people taking advantage.
NeverWithoutMyMoleskinePocketNotebook
It's legal in DC. Friggin congressmen are probably getting high in their suites with staffers.
ShamnusMcfee
Be real, they could do that whether or not it was 'legal'
im40percentsumthinsumthin
Sales are still illegal I believe...
moto192834
You're right, still can't buy it in stores here.
moto192834
Edit: legal to "give" to a friend so you can imagine the grey area currently
im40percentsumthinsumthin
A friend with weed is a friend indeed haha
JustSayingHowItIs
Cannabidiol?
iwould
CBD was mostly bred out of cannab is because THC is what most are after. It's making a comeback in the medical community because
iwould
It's ability to regulate the effect of THC. A 1:1 ratio will get you somewhat high but when you get to 15:1 CBD to THC OR 20:1 it's nearly
iwould
Impossible to get stoned. Good for children and new cannabis patients. But watch out for "cbd oil" from hemp. The CBD content is usually
iwould
Very low and it is usually manufactured in China from hemp that absorbs pollution and heavy metals from the environment. And CBD may require
iwould
Some THC to actually work. CBD only laws are far too restrictive. The best part of cannabis medicine is multiple compounds working together.
ImSureIHaveAnAccount
I live in Colorado and went very quickly from not caring (and therefore in support of legalization) to hating it completely. Constant smell.
iamthemeowssiah
I also live in CO and have never smelled weed outside anywhere. Unless youre in the crowd at red rocks
ImSureIHaveAnAccount
I'd love if I only smelled it outside. But no, these fuckers smoke it on their damn porch at 22:30 on the dot and I smell from my bedroom.
Mirawatts
Complain to your neighbor then to your building management.
ImSureIHaveAnAccount
Neighbor: It's legal. Building management: Despite physical proximity, they are definitively separate buildings owned by different entities
Mirawatts
I didn't mean complain to them as in threaten to call the cops on them. You ask them to smoke someplace else or at a different time.