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randome

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5. Decriminalization would do much the same.
Sun Sep 8, 2013, 11:59 AM
Sep 2013

Legalizing and taxing it means corporations and the government will have an incentive to encourage sales.

Marijuana may not be as dangerous or as addictive as alcohol. But with legalization will come an uptick in respiratory ailments because most people will not want to take the time to bake it or vaporize it. They will smoke it.

My daughters know they can experiment with drugs if they want. But they also have goals in their lives and they have no interest in taking 'time out' for anything that will slow them down. I wish more of their generation had similar ways of looking at the world.

Legalization means we will see more of JC.


As for the crime cartels, they will find other areas of 'interest'.
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Sign me up! immoderate Sep 2013 #1
Unless they make the fredamae Sep 2013 #2
Well, here's my concern. factsarenotfair Sep 2013 #3
Yes. Segami Sep 2013 #6
Yes-- fredamae Sep 2013 #9
Yes. Dopeheads are great activists! roody Sep 2013 #11
Jesus H.. legalize it! elias49 Sep 2013 #4
Decriminalization would do much the same. randome Sep 2013 #5
with legalization, I predict vaping will become more convenient with products from side industries eShirl Sep 2013 #7
I can hope so but right now I doubt it. randome Sep 2013 #8
It is legal here AgingAmerican Sep 2013 #10
Where is 'here'? randome Sep 2013 #13
Seattle AgingAmerican Sep 2013 #20
Totally different substances. roody Sep 2013 #12
And yet they share the application of the words 'addiction' and 'habituation'. randome Sep 2013 #14
Pot will never be a replacement for tobacco jmowreader Sep 2013 #16
When I was in High School, I was too busy smoking pot to smoke tobacco. Warren DeMontague Sep 2013 #19
K&R nt Mnemosyne Sep 2013 #15
Kicked and recommended. Uncle Joe Sep 2013 #17
To be honest, I would never have dreamed that marijuana B Calm Sep 2013 #18
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