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Originally posted by airsoft guy:
Face it, pot won the war on pot. Time to pack it in and deal with it. Y'all had your chance to have a hand in crafting laws, but all you wanted was NO! VERBOTEN!, and that nonsense got rejected, and nobody gives a shit about it anymore. It's great, and I don't even touch the shit.

I swear I heard "Chack-Chack" in the background as I was reading that.

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Originally posted by chellim1:


Is that a good thing?
Has it improved education or the quality of life in Colorado?
Has it created a drain on other services?
I don't know the answers to these questions.

I do know this: Increased money going into public schools does tend to decrease opportunities for private schools. In my area, every tax increase brings about the closure of many private and parochial schools.
Parents often can't afford both the tax increases and the tuition, so they send their kids to the public school because they can't avoid the taxes. At least Marijuana Excise Taxes are voluntary.

Oh.

Ends justify the means.

Pablo Escobar was very popular in his home neighborhoods, too, for similar reasons.

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Originally posted by airsoft guy:
You're the weenises that drop a dime on the dudes with the backyard firepit, aren't you?

Heavens to Betsy! Someone's having fun in a way that offends me! Better call the cops, hopefully they'll shoot first and ask questions never!

Face it, pot won the war on pot. Time to pack it in and deal with it. Y'all had your chance to have a hand in crafting laws, but all you wanted was NO! VERBOTEN!, and that nonsense got rejected, and nobody gives a shit about it anymore. It's great, and I don't even touch the shit.

Drama much? I couldn’t care less what other people pump into their bodies, as long as they obey the law as it stands. I don’t look at stoners any differently than drunks. As long as they’re not being obnoxious assholes or creating a hazard, they can have at it wasting time and money.

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Originally posted by gearhounds:

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Originally posted by airsoft guy:
You're the weenises that drop a dime on the dudes with the backyard firepit, aren't you?

Heavens to Betsy! Someone's having fun in a way that offends me! Better call the cops, hopefully they'll shoot first and ask questions never!

Face it, pot won the war on pot. Time to pack it in and deal with it. Y'all had your chance to have a hand in crafting laws, but all you wanted was NO! VERBOTEN!, and that nonsense got rejected, and nobody gives a shit about it anymore. It's great, and I don't even touch the shit.

Drama much? I couldn’t care less what other people pump into their bodies, as long as they obey the law as it stands. I don’t look at stoners any differently than drunks. As long as they’re not being obnoxious assholes or creating a hazard, they can have at it wasting time and money.

Just as dramatic as the marijuanaphobes and their Reefer Madness horseshit.

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Originally posted by airsoft guy:


Just as dramatic as the marijuanaphobes and their Reefer Madness horseshit.

You know that that came out in 1936, right?

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Originally posted by sns3guppy:

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Originally posted by airsoft guy:


Just as dramatic as the marijuanaphobes and their Reefer Madness horseshit.

You know that that came out in 1936, right?

Yup, and the marijuanaphobes treat it like it's still gospel.

If someone isn't in favor of marajuana, do you classify them as a "marajuanaphobe?"

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Originally posted by sns3guppy:
If someone isn't in favor of marajuana, do you classify them as a "marajuanaphobe?"

I'm not in favor of marijuana either, I'm just more not in favor of having government guns push my own personal hangups.

"There oughta be a law!" is just shorthand for, "I'm okay with the police killing you for this."

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Originally posted by airsoft guy:

"There oughta be a law!" is just shorthand for, "I'm okay with the police killing you for this."

Are you familiar with a strawman argument? This is when one makes an irrelevant argument to prove an unrelated point. It does neither. It's really just an attempt to muddy the water.

You don't really believe that a law preventing something is a license for police to kill people over it, do you?

There ought to be a law about writing bad checks. There are such laws. These are not licenses for the police to kill. There are laws about peeping in windows, lying on one's taxes, and leaving a restaurant without paying, and yet none are a license to kill. Clearly one who states that there should be a law about something, whether it's marajuana use or weights and measures standards at the gas station, is not saying "I'm okay with the police killing you for this." This is an absolutely ridiculous idea.

I'm not in favor of marajuana as a recreational drug. I recognize that it has numerous medicinal benefits which are still being studied and learned. I'm not in favor of the bales of marajuana that com across the border on pedestrian backs, or the patches in the forest that are often guarded by illegals with automatic weapons, who have no problem killing you for it.

If you or someone else wants to smoke pot, go do it where I don't have to smell it, breathe it, or deal with it, and don't let the illegal actions of those who traffic in it spill into my life or my world. In that case, do what you will, but it seldom works out that way. Not in the grand scope of things.

Perhaps if I'm not in favor, I'm a "marajuanaphobe," which is the trend these days: name calling and put-downs and straw-man non-sequitur arguments to make points that don't really work, if someone disagrees.

I disagree. Fire away.

How much marijuana were these guys even carrying? Nowhere does it say.

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Originally posted by jimmy123x:
How much marijuana were these guys even carrying? Nowhere does it say.

Another news site mentions the plane was being used for “trafficking operation”, and a federal drug smuggling investigation is open. I’m guessing it was a bit more than a personal use amount.

https://idahonews.com/news/loc...ord-lives-in-marsing