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Drugs Declare Victory in War on Drugs

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Posted By: zoidberg, 12/7/2020 11:46:24 AM

The 2020 elections delivered a resounding victory for drug policy reformers, who won everywhere their proposals were put to a vote. Across the country, in red and blue states, on both coasts and in between, in the Midwest and the Deep South, voters passed ballot initiatives that not only continued to reverse marijuana prohibition but also broke new ground in making drug laws less punitive and more tolerant. New Jersey's approval of marijuana legalization was expected. Preelection surveys consistently put public support above 60 percent, although the actual margin of victory was a few points bigger than the polls suggested

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Voters understand the difference between a vice and a crime.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: edgar 12/7/2020 11:55:18 AM (No. 625307)
After all of these years, dollars spent and lives ruined, the headline is unfortunately very true.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: IowaDad 12/7/2020 12:19:18 PM (No. 625326)
Yup -- smoking pot has/will ruin the lives of millions of young people, rendering them unhappy and useless zombies.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: MDConservative 12/7/2020 12:30:34 PM (No. 625330)
OP has it right. Drug use is a vice. We made it a crime. In 1933 the headline would have been "Booze Declares Victory in War Against Booze". The other thing to remember is now the Dems in GA have another Senate campaign issue that the Walker-Evers race in Wisconsin shows has relevance among younger voters...legalizing pot...denied by the righteous Republicans, used to lock up black kids - Senate won't even vote on it. One more reason to turn out to vote Dem.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Maggie2u 12/7/2020 1:09:34 PM (No. 625360)
Right. A populace that has been dumbed down by our educators and now drugged. What more could a government want? Citizens who are stupid and dazed. Legalizing drugs does not mean crime will go down. Druggies still need to find a way to get their drugs and that means committing crimes to get the money or will the next step in liberal land be to give the drugs away?
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Reply 5 - Posted by: JL80863 12/7/2020 1:30:08 PM (No. 625370)
People say that pot is not a gateway drug. I guess heroin users all got one morning and said "you know what, I'm going to go out and get hooked on hard drugs today". Argue all you wish about semantics. This is more about new tax revenues than drug policy reform.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Foont 12/7/2020 1:40:11 PM (No. 625376)
Boom times ahead for ERs and psychiatric hospitals all across the fruited plain.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: LadyHen 12/7/2020 2:07:17 PM (No. 625392)
I've seen enough loser pot heads to know where this is headed but hey, at least the freakish libertarians can enjoy the last few years of the republic.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: zephyrgirl 12/7/2020 2:16:59 PM (No. 625398)
Brave New World, here we come. Instead of a population hooked on Soma, they'll start on pot and progress onto opioids.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: zoidberg 12/7/2020 2:55:46 PM (No. 625419)
Tell me which section of the Constitution authorizes Congress to outlaw marijuana. Back when they prohibited alcohol, they at least had enough respect for the Constitution to pass an amendment to do it. Respect for our founding documents went out the window because Nixon hated him some blacks and hippies.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: FL_Absentee_Voter 12/7/2020 4:09:28 PM (No. 625480)
Recreational pot has been legal in CA for several years now. I was apprehensive about it at the time - even my pothead daughter wasn't in favor of legalization. I'm sure there are statistics proving otherwise but from what I've seen, nothing here has changed.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: Ida Lou Pino 12/7/2020 4:19:02 PM (No. 625484)
#2 -- The only way smoking pot, shooting heroin, or taking fentanyl will "ruin your life" is - - if you choose to smoke pot, shoot heroin, or take fentanyl. Otherwise - - nothing. The "War On Drugs" has been "waged" for fifty years - - costing trillions of dollars and causing thousands of innocent deaths, rampant crime, and massive corruption - - and yet - - the "drug problem" is worse than ever. I again ask the Prohibitionists again - - when and how will this unconstitutional "war" end? The "War On Drugs" has been the biggest crime ever committed by the government against the American people. This destructive folly must end - - NOW!
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Reply 12 - Posted by: chumley 12/7/2020 4:21:18 PM (No. 625486)
I dont like pot or any other recreational drug. I wont be around it or allow it in my house. That said, when you fight a war for decades and spend billions, and have very few victories and mostly losses, its time to give it up. If people want to use it, its no skin off my beak. All the arguments against it can be made against alcohol as well. Its everyone's right to go to Hell whatever way they want, pot heads included. As for the "tax it" crowd...freedom minded people do not run to taxes to discourage behavior. Or for any other reason.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: bobmadison 12/7/2020 4:23:28 PM (No. 625490)
We have a very, very, very sick nation. I believe the reason is that so many people are on "Prescription" drugs and are more sympathetic to street drugs. How sad, very sad...
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Reply 14 - Posted by: udanja99 12/7/2020 6:41:02 PM (No. 625618)
Yeah. And now, in Kalifornia, it’s illegal to smoke a cigarette in your own apartment but perfectly fine to light up a joint. Have pot smokers who think there’s nothing unhealthy about it ever looked at the brown gunk which builds up in the bowl of their pipe? Do they really think it’s not also building up in their lungs? Twenty or thirty years from now lung cancer will be killing millions.
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