When we moved back to Oklahoma from Seattle in 2020, it was shocking to see the changes brought about by so-called "medical marijuana." I simply could not believe my ruby red Oklahoma was *FLOODED* with marijuana dispensaries on every corner.
The funny thing was, when we left OK for Seattle in 2017, I was a complete libertarian when it came to drug usage. I didn't partake myself, but I thought others should have that right.
3 years in Seattle cured me of that mistake. It ends in human degradation, with hundreds of thousands addicts living on piles of human feces and garbage under overpasses, in public parks, etc.
I left OK a drug libertarian and returned as a proponent of making it illegal. As i like to say, the two great questions of history are "What could it hurt?" which is inevitably followed by "How could we have known?"
While I've never been thrilled with the idea of legalizing marijuana, I was certainly sympathetic to the arguments favoring it. Now I am completely against it. I know way too many families dealing with kids who have been completely lost to it. And as you said, Fred, it ends in human degradation - not human flourishing.
And our state just passed legal pot. So don't see any improvement in that on the horizon.
So sorry to hear that, Donna. More terrible news.
When we moved back to Oklahoma from Seattle in 2020, it was shocking to see the changes brought about by so-called "medical marijuana." I simply could not believe my ruby red Oklahoma was *FLOODED* with marijuana dispensaries on every corner.
The funny thing was, when we left OK for Seattle in 2017, I was a complete libertarian when it came to drug usage. I didn't partake myself, but I thought others should have that right.
3 years in Seattle cured me of that mistake. It ends in human degradation, with hundreds of thousands addicts living on piles of human feces and garbage under overpasses, in public parks, etc.
I left OK a drug libertarian and returned as a proponent of making it illegal. As i like to say, the two great questions of history are "What could it hurt?" which is inevitably followed by "How could we have known?"
While I've never been thrilled with the idea of legalizing marijuana, I was certainly sympathetic to the arguments favoring it. Now I am completely against it. I know way too many families dealing with kids who have been completely lost to it. And as you said, Fred, it ends in human degradation - not human flourishing.