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edhopper

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29. Yes it does

Thu Jan 2, 2014, 01:17 PM

Jan 2014

Look at the decrease in smokers in places like NYC.
If you ban the sales of cigarettes and the places people can smoke, but not criminalize the use, you would save millions of lives.
But since it's a "freedom' thing, you can light up and enjoy your shortened life.

Now you can answer with the usual smokers' outrage and I wish you a good day.

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The Beginning Of The End Of Prohibition [View all] kpete Jan 2014 OP

Agreed with 5 years to legalization .... MindMover Jan 2014 #1

Now when I watch "Cops" and see em bust for weed I think WTF ...its legal now. L0oniX Jan 2014 #46

Five-to-ten years, IF we keep a Democrat in the White House... regnaD kciN Jan 2014 #93

Think of how our prison population will drop! JNelson6563 Jan 2014 #2

That's one side. There's also the other side jeff47 Jan 2014 #3

They've got the machinery to package cigarettes, and the factories ready to roll, as it were. MADem Jan 2014 #9

I saw a video where they said the Big Tobacco Dustlawyer Jan 2014 #11

I wouldn't be surprised if we see a mixed format, there. MADem Jan 2014 #14

Years ago when I was in college... WinstonSmith4740 Jan 2014 #49

and that's okay if you only have the funds for a ragweed type of item but when you Hestia Jan 2014 #57

With it legal in Colorado, there should be blanket pardons for anyone... OnlinePoker Jan 2014 #5

The prison population wont drop. The for-profit prison industry will get rhett o rick Jan 2014 #7

I think that money from Big Pharma and Big Private Prison Industry will help truedelphi Jan 2014 #37

There are not a lot of pot people in prison. Comrade Grumpy Jan 2014 #23

when will Obama go to Colorado and fire up? RussBLib Jan 2014 #4

When it's legal at the federal level, perhaps. Not before. nt MADem Jan 2014 #10

The first step is legalization, the next is to make it mandatory for politicians Major Nikon Jan 2014 #72

I would bet that everyone in that line has had a stash. SCVDem Jan 2014 #6

"I would test positive and not get hired." Spitfire of ATJ Jan 2014 #27

Get a job inserting newspapers jmowreader Jan 2014 #32

It will be replaced by banning cigs and guns The Straight Story Jan 2014 #8

Actually banning cigs in many places edhopper Jan 2014 #12

We have? Pot is also linked to causing cancer as well The Straight Story Jan 2014 #16

From the CDC edhopper Jan 2014 #18

Study Finds No Link Between Secondhand Smoke And Cancer The Straight Story Jan 2014 #21

Complete garbage. Prohibition doesn't work. You shoudl probably just accept that Egalitarian Thug Jan 2014 #26

Yes it does edhopper Jan 2014 #29

Oh really. How many people are not heroin addicts today because they can't get any heroin? Egalitarian Thug Jan 2014 #30

Won't ended it edhopper Jan 2014 #31

Perfectly demonstrating my point. You keep saying this as if somehow the repetition Egalitarian Thug Jan 2014 #33

An addict has an addictive personality disorder. An alcoholic robbob Jan 2014 #51

No, not at all. My argument is that prohibition is not only ineffective, but exacerbates the Egalitarian Thug Jan 2014 #53

Ther is no such thing as addictive personality disorder Fiendish Thingy Jan 2014 #56

It's the cost SCVDem Jan 2014 #34

Prohibition doesn't work unless you happen to be the executive of some Big Private truedelphi Jan 2014 #38

Yes indeed. It works very well for them. Come to think of it, prohibition works to make Egalitarian Thug Jan 2014 #39

is it really such a burden for you step outside for two fucking minutes for your smoke? frylock Jan 2014 #24

No, and you can still smoke in some bars there anyway The Straight Story Jan 2014 #25

Working with smokers SCVDem Jan 2014 #28

many pro banners actually use their cars to go to work so that they can survive.. frylock Jan 2014 #36

Like gaming (state lotteries), legal weed JEB Jan 2014 #13

Other states BobUp Jan 2014 #15

If enough states legalize Mariana Jan 2014 #45

Possibly, BobUp Jan 2014 #47

What do you think the slippery slope will lead to? Mariana Jan 2014 #48

I don't really know BobUp Jan 2014 #50

Most if not all states already prohibit driving while impaired Mariana Jan 2014 #52

The biggest problem with DWI testing plantwomyn Jan 2014 #74

The very first court case with a lawyer of any merit at all. Warren Stupidity Jan 2014 #82

You are aware that people smoked in those professions long before private industry drug Hestia Jan 2014 #58

Who gives a damn what they want their employees to do off hours? Slavery is over. TheKentuckian Jan 2014 #61

Matters to some, BobUp Jan 2014 #73

So you think your employer can demand that you do not drink? Warren Stupidity Jan 2014 #79

Actually BobUp Jan 2014 #83

no not "on the job" - "off the job". Warren Stupidity Jan 2014 #84

Original question; So you think your employer can demand that you do not drink? BobUp Jan 2014 #85

I was responding to this: Warren Stupidity Jan 2014 #86

We have enough BobUp Jan 2014 #87

Alaska and Oregon should go this year, via the initiative process. Comrade Grumpy Jan 2014 #17

Hunh?... Wait..Wut...? bvar22 Jan 2014 #19

It's a conspiracy theory. Why, I just exploded over here, and no one arrested me. Eleanors38 Jan 2014 #59

What will the corporate prisons do without all those inmates? AllyCat Jan 2014 #20

Dominoes will fall, because---wait for it---money talks! WinkyDink Jan 2014 #22

I can only hope this OP is correct. blackspade Jan 2014 #35

Agreed. Marriage rights and more RainDog Jan 2014 #40

Surreal! Yet Cha Jan 2014 #41

You can tell it's the beginning of the end Blue_In_AK Jan 2014 #42

Sad time to be a criminal or a member of a drug cartel. . B Calm Jan 2014 #43

You would think that he era of Prohibition would have taught us something. olegramps Jan 2014 #44

Just wait DebbieCDC Jan 2014 #54

States will want that tax money. oldandhappy Jan 2014 #55

Pot ban ending, tobacco ban starting. Expect similar results. Eleanors38 Jan 2014 #60

I'm all for Marijuana being legalized. Mr.Bill Jan 2014 #62

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Let me tell you the story of a friend Mr.Bill Jan 2014 #65

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Thanks for the link. Mr.Bill Jan 2014 #67

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They got the go ahead in California Mr.Bill Jan 2014 #69

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I agree. n/t Mr.Bill Jan 2014 #71

There is an initiative circulating in Alaska right now. Blue_In_AK Jan 2014 #75

What's important about CO is it sets up the legal framework for production to consumption Major Nikon Jan 2014 #77

All the ancillary actives are indeed Federal felonies..."manufacturing", distributing, Romulox Jan 2014 #80

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It was *technically* correct, but also deceptive. Romulox Jan 2014 #90

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By a clone... nikto Jan 2014 #64

All of the prohibition BS is going to be exposed as BS. gulliver Jan 2014 #76

I hope he is correct. I wish all the fricking culture wars would end so merrily Jan 2014 #78

Of course Presidents Clinton and Obama have both been dedicated to the War on Drugs. We delude Romulox Jan 2014 #81

I sure hope so Locrian Jan 2014 #88

Bad news for drug cartels, criminals and the ones who profit B Calm Jan 2014 #91