Challenge acceptedI looked up the LD50 for cannabis. Lol, this is the first thing I found.
How high would a man be after smoking 39,999 joints?:eek2:
It's Time to End the "War on Drugs"
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You know you only have 15 minutes. If you can get it done, you’ll surpass Joey Chestnut as the world’s greatest athlete.
Of course the drug trade is stronger than ever. There are more people using and the same ol sabre rattling from politicians who have absolutely no desire to shut the drugs down due to money and power. I would even go so far to say (without hard facts to back it up) that a lot of the money collected in taxes that are supposed to go towards fighting this drug war is really diverted elsewhere. It's a scam.
Amen to that! An expensive and deadly scam intent on depriving people of life, property, and liberty.
We'll let you know when Voyager reaches them.I looked up the LD50 for cannabis. Lol, this is the first thing I found.
How high would a man be after smoking 39,999 joints?
A couple of TED Talks on the subject:
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The harm reduction model of drug addiction treatment
Why do we still think that drug use is a law-enforcement issue? Making drugs illegal does nothing to stop people from using them, says public health expert Mark Tyndall. So, what might work? Tyndall shares community-based research that shows how harm-reduction strategies, like safe-injection...
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Why we need to end the War on Drugs
Is the War on Drugs doing more harm than good? In a bold talk, drug policy reformist Ethan Nadelmann makes an impassioned plea to end the "backward, heartless, disastrous" movement to stamp out the drug trade. He gives two big reasons we should focus on intelligent regulation instead.
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While I have come to the point I wouldn’t oppose pot being legal, I don’t think it would be the financial bonanza some expect. Politicians would just find a way to waste it.
CA has found a way to screw it up by over-taxing and over-regulating it and screwing over small businesses while making it easier for bigger corporations. Other states have done better.
Decriminalizing alone would be a boon. Politicians seem to find new ways tp waste money.
Waste is what the government does. No amount of wishful thinking changes that reality.
Not sure if I understand why Biden feels this way: Generations of inaccurate and outright false propaganda that he's stuck on or does he fear the political "fallout" for a policy that the vast majority of Americans support? I lean toward the former as the latter makes no sense since 2/3 Americans support legalization.
Feels this way? You think that the fact that he said this means that he believes it? Come on - this is politics. Every word that he says has a single purpose - gain votes.
If I am advising Biden, I would tell him to say making it legal is “worth talking about” and that he is “exploring all options” on drug policy.
That is a bunch of political gobblitygook, but it lets him look like he might make it legal without actually saying that.
Have any other candidates (that actually have a chance at the nomination) said they would push for full legalization?
That is a bunch of political gobblitygook, but it lets him look like he might make it legal without actually saying that.
Have any other candidates (that actually have a chance at the nomination) said they would push for full legalization?
IIRC, every other democratic candidate has voiced support for just that in regards to cannabis and Pete has voiced support for decriminalization across the board, which makes sense to me.
Yes, it is. Countless Americans have been imprisoned for countless reasons that have nothing to do with having committed the crimes for which they were convicted. I don't trust anyone involved in our judicial system. Judges are corrupt. Police officers are corrupt. Prosecutors are corrupt. They are all human beings, and because they are in positions of power, they are more corrupt than those in the general population.
Power corrupts.
I would also add that it is time to end plea bargains in America, and it is time to disallow any statement given to police before legal council is present. The idea of waving your right to council dates back to a time in which we trusted our police - back to a time in which the police were worthy of that trust. And plea bargains are filling our prisons with young people who could never be convicted on the basis of the evidence.
This one officer was responsible for the killing of at least two innocent people and this unit with the conviction of 14,000 cases. None of those convictions can be trusted. Not a single one. Wasted money and lives. All should be released (standard caveats apply) and compensated for their trouble. Their records should be wiped clean. The officer and anyone else who knew or were a part of what was happening should go to prison for a very long time.
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