Attn: Ohio Potheads!

[Bawanna]

I never tried the stuff myself but I know many who have. The meth and heroin heads seem to treat the wildwood weed like cigarettes, hardly worth mentioning.

I'm all for it for medicinal purposes but I don't like the idea of legalization, just one more step down the moral decay funnel if you ask me.

[b4uqzme]

Hell I applaud those smart enough to get the fix in for themselves early. After all that is the Capitalists Way!

Yes and no. Sure a good capitalist would love a monopoly in a given market but it's typically only a government who can set the table for one. A free market capitalist competes openly for market share. But thanks for getting us back on track. Ohio issue 3 is not about whether or not you want to legalize pot. It's just disguised to look that way.

[berettabone]

People smoking pot is the least of this country's concern........................................... .......

[yqtszhj]

People smoking pot is the least of this country's concern........................................... .......

I can agree I just don't want to have to feed them when they get the munchies.

[knkali]

Yes and no. Sure a good capitalist would love a monopoly in a given market but it's typically only a government who can set the table for one. A free market capitalist competes openly for market share. But thanks for getting us back on track. Ohio issue 3 is not about whether or not you want to legalize pot. It's just disguised to look that way.

Give this man a cigar or is it a blunt?

[knkali]

Your tax dollars at work.Not only do you have to support your family, but you have to support leeches like this, too. We need more people smoking pot.

Do you use nicotine and or alcohol Muggsy? Do these drugs help the moral character of our country? Do we pay for the infirmities and loss of production from the abuse of these substances? Do you think that the G should make these illegal as well?

[Bawanna]

The loss of revenue from the taxes on cigarettes and alcohol would be devastating on a state level for sure here, not positive about the federal level.

Cigs here I think are pushing 7 bucks a pack, alcohol is bad too.

We do pay for the infirmities caused by same, either in insurance cost or hospital cost to cover the freebies.

I'd have not issue making it illegal, but part of the reasoning behind legalizing grass is it's hard to enforce and nothing seems to slow it down. Make it legal and focus on the bigger things, which eventually they will probably legalize and the circle continues.

One reason I don't agree with legalizing it, just a first step, like outlawing guns with bayonet lugs, just a start, foot in the door.

Now where's my damn banana?

[Longitude Zero]

Yes and no. Sure a good capitalist would love a monopoly in a given market but it's typically only a government who can set the table for one. A free market capitalist competes openly for market share. But thanks for getting us back on track. Ohio issue 3 is not about whether or not you want to legalize pot. It's just disguised to look that way.

A SMART capitalist uses the government to crush competition and have a sole source market. True Free Market Capitalism went away decades ago for those of us paying attention and seeking opportunity where we find it or make it.

[b4uqzme]

^^^ Indeed that is very true. I agree with everything you've said LZ. I just want the Ohio voters to be aware that they are being duped.

P.S. the ability for big business to manipulate governments is part of what I dislike about our current state of government. I am a free market capitalist vs. a crony capitalist. I'm sure that sounds just as Utopian as some of the drivel the dems spew. Yet it's still something to strive for: keep government honest in their duty to keep business honest.

[TheTman]

Muggsy, I just love the way you twist my words, and put them back in my mouth. No I don't think one should use any mind altering substance and go to their job, or drive a school bus. I said that I don't believe that hard drugs should be legal, particularly meth, but heroin and cocaine and any of that type of stuff. I'm very pro life. That is not a choice, or freedom, that is down right MURDER. In fact I was one of the people that got off my butt and went down and protested at the Planned Parenthood clinic near here. Around 200 protesters showed up that day, out of a county of around a half million. But that's besides the point. I think legalization might put a big dent in the Mexican drug cartels income, and lessen their drug wars, and I think that would be a good thing. It might also eliminate some of the gang activity here in the US. Again that would be a good thing. Why make these gangs rich, when the US could make a lot of money in taxing it? And pay off some of this outrageous debt Obama has put on us.
When I said I believe in freedom, I believe that in your own home, after work. Then you should be able to choose the way you want to relax, be it a beer, a glass of wine, a shot of whisky, or smoking some pot. As long as you aren't going to be driving anywhere and are home for the evening. One person's freedom ends, when it infringes on another person's rights, or safety.
And I still think they should allow the growing of hemp. It's worthless for smoking and a lot of products can be made from it. But corporations that have developed substitutes for it and will see that it is never allowed.
Muggsy, I could do the same thing to you, and twist your words to make it sound like you believe in things I'm pretty sure you don't believe in, but I'm not playing that game.
I guess I'm much more of a live and let live type of person. I don't feel the need to regulate what other people do, until it affects me or my family. We already live among thousands of pot smokers, and they've had no impact on my life that I know of. They aren't like junkies and commit crimes for money for their next fix, that I know of. I never heard of it happening anyway.

[getsome]

The real reason Hemp production and Marijuana was made illegal....As usual, follow the money and politics.....Interesting article:

http://www.ozarkia.net/bill/pot/blunderof37.html

[Longitude Zero]

I am a free market capitalist vs. a crony capitalist. I'm sure that sounds just as Utopian as some of the drivel the dems spew. Yet it's still something to strive for: keep government honest in their duty to keep business honest.

Agreed. I prefer the free market but when a market is not free you gotta do what you gotta do.

[yqtszhj]

Now where's my damn banana?

..... you turned your head and that pothead down in Seattle got it.

[muggsy]

Do you use nicotine and or alcohol Muggsy? Do these drugs help the moral character of our country? Do we pay for the infirmities and loss of production from the abuse of these substances? Do you think that the G should make these illegal as well?

I was a three pack a day Marlboro man. I'm paying for that folly with stage four lung cancer today. I did my fair share of drinking in the Navy, but saw the error of my ways. I quit smoking over twenty years ago, but the damage had already been done. Too soon old, too late smart is the story of my life. The only saving grace is that I did wise up. And that's the name of that tune.

[muggsy]

Muggsy, I just love the way you twist my words, and put them back in my mouth. No I don't think one should use any mind altering substance and go to their job, or drive a school bus. I said that I don't believe that hard drugs should be legal, particularly meth, but heroin and cocaine and any of that type of stuff. I'm very pro life. That is not a choice, or freedom, that is down right MURDER. In fact I was one of the people that got off my butt and went down and protested at the Planned Parenthood clinic near here. Around 200 protesters showed up that day, out of a county of around a half million. But that's besides the point. I think legalization might put a big dent in the Mexican drug cartels income, and lessen their drug wars, and I think that would be a good thing. It might also eliminate some of the gang activity here in the US. Again that would be a good thing. Why make these gangs rich, when the US could make a lot of money in taxing it? And pay off some of this outrageous debt Obama has put on us.
When I said I believe in freedom, I believe that in your own home, after work. Then you should be able to choose the way you want to relax, be it a beer, a glass of wine, a shot of whisky, or smoking some pot. As long as you aren't going to be driving anywhere and are home for the evening. One person's freedom ends, when it infringes on another person's rights, or safety.
And I still think they should allow the growing of hemp. It's worthless for smoking and a lot of products can be made from it. But corporations that have developed substitutes for it and will see that it is never allowed.
Muggsy, I could do the same thing to you, and twist your words to make it sound like you believe in things I'm pretty sure you don't believe in, but I'm not playing that game.
I guess I'm much more of a live and let live type of person. I don't feel the need to regulate what other people do, until it affects me or my family. We already live among thousands of pot smokers, and they've had no impact on my life that I know of. They aren't like junkies and commit crimes for money for their next fix, that I know of. I never heard of it happening anyway.

Tom,
I wasn't twisting your words. I was taking them at face value. I don't believe that anyone has the right to do anything that they want with their own body. Your body is the temple of God. I've poured alcohol and tobacco smoke into mine and today I'm paying the price for it. I just want to do all that I can to prevent others from making the same mistakes that I made. If smoking pot becomes socially acceptable how many more lives will be ruined? And, yes, I do believe that I'm my brothers keeper.