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Tax Officials Release Analysis of Revenue Benefits for Cash-Strapped State; Legalization Bill Pending
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- stuart --
Don't waste your time with ithoughtitwasfunny -- she's a fascist Foxsnooze troll who gets off on posting the sicko jibberish spewed out from Karl Rove's Propaganda Machine over there.
Besides being extremely anal-retentive, she also suffers from the delusion that she's actually human.
Her postings do more damage to the weepublicans than anything else, so I hope she continues . . . I love a good laugh. - Reply to this comment
- ithoughtitwasfunny is a protitute/lobbyist/pill-pusher for Big Pharma . . . go figure.
If Big Pharma was given the monopoly on marketing and distribution of marijuana, packs of marijuana cigarettes would be in every 7-11 coast-to-coast, tomorrow.
That's what's driving policy -- Big Biz Mafia interests . . . and nothing else. - Reply to this comment
- They better do something to placate the masses that are sitting home both unemployed and fuming.
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- Facts?? He does'nt need no stinkin' facts. He's a neo-dweeb.
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- If pot makes one do stupid things then you're smoking way too much of it.
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- Estimates are that nationally we would save approximately $7.5 billion on reduced law enforcement costs if pot were legal. I personally think that number is low. The savings would probably be better than that.
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- This thread is about weed stimulus not money stimulus.
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- by IThoughtItWasFunnyNupe July 16, 2009 12:59 AM EDT
Just keep your krap out of my neighborhood and stay safe because as far as I'm concerned bringing it to mine is a shooting offense..
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Why do you always act so foolish? What the hell is wrong with you anyway? I mean really...you have some serious issues girl. Don't you think that pot is already everywhere? Including YOUR neighborhood? So this is just another example of you running your ignorant mouth, spewing lies and such. Go shoot somebody already you dumb neo-con! - Reply to this comment
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- stuart --
Don't waste your time with ithoughtitwasfunny -- she's a fascist Foxsnooze troll who gets off on posting the sicko jibberish spewed out from Karl Rove's Propaganda Machine over there.
Besides being extremely anal-retentive, she also suffers from the delusion that she's actually human.
Her postings do more damage to the weepublicans than anything else, so I hope she continues . . . I love a good laugh.
- stuart --
- What were these brilliant mind expanding Liberals smoking when they decided to tax & spend the People of Caliphony into oblivion?? Now they have to come up with another scheme to replace The American Dream. So Sad!
10 Reasons Employment Is Worse Than You Think! From The Business Insider, July 14, 2009:
Mort Zuckerman (of all people) has an op-ed in today's WSJ explaining why the jobs situation, which is quite clearly horrific, is even worse than you think.
Here are his points, condensed
* 185,000 workers in the June number were the product of statistical sampling, but could not be verified by the government.
* Companies are asking employees to take unpaid leave.
* 1.4 million unemployed workers weren't counted because they're not searching for work.
* Part-time employment has doubled to 9 million.
* The work week is 48 minutes shorter than when the recession began.
* The number of long-term unemployed (4.4 million) is at an all-time high.
* There were no wage gains in June.
* The goods-producing sector lost over 223,000 jobs just in June.
* When business picks up, businesses will just add hours to existing workers, rather than create new jobs.
* Old business lines are being eliminated entirely, not shrunk down, decreasing the odds that the unemployed will be able to find work.
Says Zuck: It's time for a serious second stimulus -- not a hodge podge of pork and transfer payments, but a truly big and bold infrastructure program (like what we were promised the first time, but which didn't happen) to put people to work. - Reply to this comment
- About as many people show up stoned to work as they do drunk,
factor in the hungover effect and its probably higher. - Reply to this comment
- How about the ever-popular "gateway" argument, eh?
You know, the "weed leads to harder drugs" argument against legalization.
If these morons would do a little research on actual usage numbers, they'd realize how absolutely absurd that argument is.
Lifetime herion use stats for the US - 1.2% of the population
Lifetime marijuana use stats for the US - 50+ %
http://www.alcohol-and-drug-guide.com/index.html - Reply to this comment
- No one who smokes a joint is interested whether others do or not.
You should seek treatment for your paranoia. - Reply to this comment
- The Canadian government found exactly the opposite to be true.
http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/4628.html
You're the one who needs to do some homework before shooting off your yap about something which you obviously possess only opinion, not fact. - Reply to this comment
- Since there are many more carcinogens in pot than in regular tobacco and the smoke is intentionally held in the lungs for a much longer time by the user, you would have to be high to think that marijuana is not a stronger source of lung cancer. As for DUI, alcoholics are addicted to the drug physically and the number who would switch to pot's psychological addiction because they now could buy a more expensive substance (due to the inevitable government taxes and manufacturing standards), for a different high and do lung damage at the same time, would be miniscule. Do your homework!
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- The Canadian government found exactly the opposite to be true.
http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/4628.html
You're the one who needs to do some homework before shooting off your yap about something which you obviously possess only opinion, not fact.
- The Canadian government found exactly the opposite to be true.
- I don't know what you were buying that caused you to cough up "black crap" during 20 years of use.
I've been using it for 40 years and never had such an occurance.
I think you bought oregano and couldn't tell the difference. - Reply to this comment
- Let's look at this realistically.
If California would legalize ALL illegal drugs and also prostitution and do away with child protection laws, they could take in over 10 billion a year. Making steroid use legal for everyone including high school kids would probably bring in a billion by itself. Then they could tax the drug rehab companies who would be on every street corner.
Go for it, sell out California like it is a cheap street prostitute.
Poor pothead drug addicts, they will use any excuse to hook other people and this time the excuse is badly needed tax money.
But then again we all know that pot destroys your brain and makes you do stupid things so maybe the potheads just can't help it? - Reply to this comment
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- No one who smokes a joint is interested whether others do or not.
You should seek treatment for your paranoia.
- Sounds like a typical Repuglican. Use off subject scare tactics like the dangers of child abuse, prostitution (don't get me started on that) and really dangerous drugs to push their tighta$$ domineering agenda. Hell why not, they talked us into two 9 year wars and a depressed economy using the same kind of twisted logic.
Who left these monkeys in charge??
- No one who smokes a joint is interested whether others do or not.
- What??? Pot is illegal? Since when???
RT
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- I would advocate legalization of pot on a limited scale..if you get into a accident while stoned..you are going to jail, just as you would for drinking alcohol and driving...yes, we should all be able to have a choice whether to smoke or not to smoke..I smoked pot for 20+ years..almost daily..but..I do believe there are health risks..the black crap that I coughed up..wasn't pretty...oh, I loved my "high times"..and this very well may be a change that is over due...but understand there will be consequences...and I hope that we all are not just looking at the "freedom to make a choice" part of this decision..there are many many aspects of this debate that haven't even been touched on...but I applaud California for leading the way..perhaps by their example, other states can see either what to or not to do..
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- sarge: on mushrooms? the fairy tale crapola would be more weird if you have to look, stoned, at a depection of some guy on a cross
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- excoachken: what makes you think that DUI deaths would increase at all? some people would likely choose pot over alcohol. pot seems to pose less danger on the roads. alcohol makes people aggressive, pot does not. which is a greater danger on the road, people driving too cautiously or those driving too aggressively?
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