Thread: Legalizing marijuana would hinder the multi-billion dollar empire of Mexican drug car

i wonder how employment processes would be different if legalized though? as an employer i'd not want a pothead working for me if i could help it......i'm sure the stipulation would have to be similar to alcohol (1 drink at lunchtime and no showing up intoxicated or baked)

i wonder if mexican cartel is hiring...

Originally Posted by irish_2003

i wonder how employment processes would be different if legalized though? as an employer i'd not want a pothead working for me if i could help it......i'm sure the stipulation would have to be similar to alcohol (1 drink at lunchtime and no showing up intoxicated or baked)

don't assume that everyone that uses MJ is a "pot head", many use it responsibly the same as others might have a drink or glass of wine at night.

Originally Posted by irish_2003

i wonder how employment processes would be different if legalized though? as an employer i'd not want a pothead working for me if i could help it......i'm sure the stipulation would have to be similar to alcohol (1 drink at lunchtime and no showing up intoxicated or baked)

It won't be any worse than dealing with people and alcohol. Alcohol is all over the place, but there aren't that many alchis. Plus, pot is way easier on the body and mind than alcohol is.

I want to legalize pot for the same reason that I want to replace oil/gas: it'll ruin the economies of shit countries. I'm also sick to death of having the government tell me what I can and can't do.

Originally Posted by DOMS

I'm also sick to death of having the government tell me what I can and can't do.

a-fucking-men

Originally Posted by DOMS

It won't be any worse than dealing with people and alcohol. Alcohol is all over the place, but there aren't that many alchis. Plus, pot is way easier on the body and mind than alcohol is.

I don't think you can compare or even put MJ in the same class as alcohol, first of all alcohol ruins lives and kills people, it makes people violent, its physically addictive, etc.

When is the last time you heard of a pot head killing himself with MJ, or being violent, or having physical withdrawals.

If we could replace alcohol with MJ it would be a different world.

The anaolgy of legalization of MJ to the retaliation killings of the addicts is not even close to being correct.

They burned their fucking crop. The cartel retaliated. If we legalize it and regulate it, they could grow it all they wanted. But the market would be so flooded it wouldn't be worth it for them. There is a huge difference in that.

I don't smoke anymore but believe it should be legal.

Originally Posted by Prince

I don't think you can compare or even put MJ in the same class as alcohol, first of all alcohol ruins lives and kills people, it makes people violent, its physically addictive, etc.

When is the last time you heard of a pot head killing himself with MJ, or being violent, or having physical withdrawals.

If we could replace alcohol with MJ it would be a different world.

I agree 100%. It was what I was alluding to.

I'm willing to bet that when pot is made legal, and enough cigarette smokers move over to it, that you'll see the rate of lung and mouth cancer plummet.

think how much money we save not criminalizing pot heads who just take up unneccessary room in the jails. It would be a good source of tax revenue as well. CDC has already stated that alchol is more destructive to society than meth, the latter though is more destructive to the individual, marijuana doesn't even come up on their radar.

Originally Posted by Prince

I don't think you can compare or even put MJ in the same class as alcohol, first of all alcohol ruins lives and kills people, it makes people violent, its physically addictive, etc.

When is the last time you heard of a pot head killing himself with MJ, or being violent, or having physical withdrawals.

If we could replace alcohol with MJ it would be a different world.

This is what people don't understand. I used to run security for an outdoor night club and on Sunday's, it was reggae night. Most of them came in high on weed and would sneak some in, but we only had one fight on a Sunday night in the five years I was there. You never hear about violent pot heads

Originally Posted by bandaidwoman

think how much money we save not criminalizing pot heads who just take up unneccessary room in the jails. It would be a good source of tax revenue as well. CDC has already stated that alchol is more destructive to society than meth, the latter though is more destructive to the individual, marijuana doesn't even come up on their radar.

It's insanity that marijuana is illegal.

The government has people so brainwashed on this topic that this gets treated like a legitimate debate with relevant arguments from both sides when its not the case.
Alcohol is worse for your health than pot. Period. Its destructive and it doesn't benefit society in any way when compared to other harmless drugs that grow naturally on this planet.
If it doesn't fuel the consumer based goals of the materialistic western society then the owners of the world ban it and make up some bullshit about them protecting us from ourselves.
Alcohol is only permitted as it gives people some resbite from the daily grind of working and the day after you get drunk you have benefited nothing from the experience and you go back to work like a mindless sheep.

I base my happiness on experiences as opposed to the things I own. Fuck the goverment for telling me what I can and can't do to my own body, especially when it is obvious that they are not putting my well being first.

Originally Posted by BigPapaPump68

This is what people don't understand. I used to run security for an outdoor night club and on Sunday's, it was reggae night. Most of them came in high on weed and would sneak some in, but we only had one fight on a Sunday night in the five years I was there. You never hear about violent pot heads

Yeah I've been to a hundred concerts and the reggae concerts are always the most mellow relaxed events, even the Eagles concert I had to avoid slipping in puke when I went to the bathroom...reggae concerts there is less drinking and everyone lays blankets or towels out in the fields so you don't have some 6'5" mountain blocking your view while standing for 2 hours and getting pushed around....

Originally Posted by BillHicksFan

If it doesn't fuel the consumer based goals of the materialistic western society then the owners of the world ban it and make up some bullshit about them protecting us from ourselves.

And this is the crux of it. It's not the health ramifications at all. The "problem" is that it will take money from the huge cigarette companies--and to a lesser extent, the alcohol companies--and put in the pockets of small, local, growers.

When MJ goes legal, you'll see a large number of people leave cigarettes for pot. Even worse, for the tobacco corps, new generations will grow up doing pot instead of tobacco.

Pot is going to seriously cut the tobacco corps profits.

Originally Posted by irish_2003

i wonder how employment processes would be different if legalized though? as an employer i'd not want a pothead working for me if i could help it......i'm sure the stipulation would have to be similar to alcohol (1 drink at lunchtime and no showing up intoxicated or baked)

If they were smoking pot they probably wouldn't want to work for you anyway...

Yeah!!!

And phuq those messin gangsters, too.

We need to worry about these gangsters over here that wear $2000 suits and shit and pass laws they don't even read.

Originally Posted by Curt James

It's insanity that marijuana is illegal.

How these phuqers managed to criminalize and illegalize a literal gdamned weed baffles the shit out of me.

Originally Posted by DOMS

It won't be any worse than dealing with people and alcohol. Alcohol is all over the place, but there aren't that many alchis. Plus, pot is way easier on the body and mind than alcohol is.

I want to legalize pot for the same reason that I want to replace oil/gas: it'll ruin the economies of shit countries. I'm also sick to death of having the government tell me what I can and can't do.

I agree, marijuana is so much less an issue than alcohol. You don't see too many MA groups out there, just AA and NA. It is the BIGGEST waste of government money in the history of the country this "war on drugs" and sadly the party I most closely align with just isn't seeing the light. You want to revive the American farmer and stop all the ridiculous farm subsidies, grow marijuana and use the whole plant like the US did for well over 100 years. Tax it just like cigarettes and have responsible laws about driving under the influence. These aren't difficult problems to solve and no matter the reason, it seems they are just not good enough to get past the morons in Washington (this goes for all of them, no party is devoid of re-tards as these last few weeks have proven).

Originally Posted by irish_2003

i wonder how employment processes would be different if legalized though? as an employer i'd not want a pothead working for me if i could help it......i'm sure the stipulation would have to be similar to alcohol (1 drink at lunchtime and no showing up intoxicated or baked)

That's the thing with mj a person could puff a j at lunch and be ready to go an hour later. Now take a person who downs a few beers at lunch it's gonna take longer for them to wear off and they'll probably be tired after and take more bathroom breaks....