We left Massachusetts for Florida for many reasons, including the legalization of marijuana in Massachusetts. I very much hope Florida does not follow suit. I believe Charlie Munger was right when he said we have enough problems with one legal drug - alcohol. Regulating behavior never works. You just have to say no.
We left Massachusetts for Florida for many reasons, including the legalization of marijuana in Massachusetts. I very much hope Florida does not follow suit. I believe Charlie Munger was right when he said we have enough problems with one legal drug - alcohol. Regulating behavior never works. You just have to say no.
Just say No? Really? How did that work. People will get anything they want. How did prohibition work? The only thing that is accomplished is a premium is established for the product. This enables giant cartels who become more powerful than governments to make billions of dollars supplying the demand of the market.
The only reason the government approved marijuana wants to grow their revenue stream with their endless taxation. Individuals are responsible for their health or lack there of. For the success, or lack of success.
It is time to get the government out of everything that was not enumerated to them as a power in the constitution. I will take my liberty, thank you.
Just say no worked just fine, illegal drug use among teenagers dropped significantly during the Nancy Reagan "Just Say No" era. The statistics are there and they don't lie. You may not like it, but you aren't entitled to make up facts. Drug use rebounded in the Clinton years after it was abandoned.
Yes we know that you view any infringement on your behavior as a personal affront. I used to think that way too back when I was a selfish drunk-driver and a drug addict. Once I finally grew up I realized that society has a vested interest in outlawing self-destructive behavior as it never affects just the individual. It turns out that my selfish desire to satisfy uncontrolled base urges isn't the most important thing in life.
You guys have a strange way of defining "liberty". The founding fathers didn't mean drug use, prostitution, and gambling when they invoked it.
Just like the “selfish desires”of those who refused the jab. The founding fathers meant, any action that did not infringe upon the rights of others. As soon as somebody decides to make themselves, the arbiter of what is right and not right for others, we are in trouble.
That’s the exact argument that got marijuana approved in many states. And then everybody thinks it’s fine, safe, so people who would’ve never indulged, join in. But the strength of the pot is nothing like that of the 60s. So there are too many whose lives will be damaged, including young men who will develop psychosis from it. And society suffers from the strain put on it by yet another failed experiment. Edibles are another story, where else are drugs allowed to be sold without a listed potency?
While Nancy Reagan was pushing “Just Say No”, her husband President Reagan signed the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act. This protected the pharmaceutical industry from all liability in regards to vaccines and now here we are today, suffering the consequences of that decision.
Well you have a point Michael but on the other hand when a stoner on the road becomes a real danger or a youngster having a psychotic episode or even having to endure the constant haze of an unwanted substance becomes the norm then the community has to rein in this particular freedom.
We left Massachusetts for Florida for many reasons, including the legalization of marijuana in Massachusetts. I very much hope Florida does not follow suit. I believe Charlie Munger was right when he said we have enough problems with one legal drug - alcohol. Regulating behavior never works. You just have to say no.
Just say No? Really? How did that work. People will get anything they want. How did prohibition work? The only thing that is accomplished is a premium is established for the product. This enables giant cartels who become more powerful than governments to make billions of dollars supplying the demand of the market.
The only reason the government approved marijuana wants to grow their revenue stream with their endless taxation. Individuals are responsible for their health or lack there of. For the success, or lack of success.
It is time to get the government out of everything that was not enumerated to them as a power in the constitution. I will take my liberty, thank you.
Just say no worked just fine, illegal drug use among teenagers dropped significantly during the Nancy Reagan "Just Say No" era. The statistics are there and they don't lie. You may not like it, but you aren't entitled to make up facts. Drug use rebounded in the Clinton years after it was abandoned.
Yes we know that you view any infringement on your behavior as a personal affront. I used to think that way too back when I was a selfish drunk-driver and a drug addict. Once I finally grew up I realized that society has a vested interest in outlawing self-destructive behavior as it never affects just the individual. It turns out that my selfish desire to satisfy uncontrolled base urges isn't the most important thing in life.
You guys have a strange way of defining "liberty". The founding fathers didn't mean drug use, prostitution, and gambling when they invoked it.
Just like the “selfish desires”of those who refused the jab. The founding fathers meant, any action that did not infringe upon the rights of others. As soon as somebody decides to make themselves, the arbiter of what is right and not right for others, we are in trouble.
Don’t tread on me!!!!!
💯 Jeff C! True freedom is the freedom to do the right thing, not all the wrong ones.
That’s the exact argument that got marijuana approved in many states. And then everybody thinks it’s fine, safe, so people who would’ve never indulged, join in. But the strength of the pot is nothing like that of the 60s. So there are too many whose lives will be damaged, including young men who will develop psychosis from it. And society suffers from the strain put on it by yet another failed experiment. Edibles are another story, where else are drugs allowed to be sold without a listed potency?
I used to think this.
But I've seen the crack whores, the joblessness, the murders, and the unraveling of what used to be a beautiful civilization.
You are enabling the destruction and misery of millions. Own it.
Liberty without responsibility is anarchy.
While Nancy Reagan was pushing “Just Say No”, her husband President Reagan signed the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act. This protected the pharmaceutical industry from all liability in regards to vaccines and now here we are today, suffering the consequences of that decision.
Amen Michael!!! People are gonna so dumb things whether it’s legal or not. I’m good as long as the govt is not involved. But that’s less and less.
Well you have a point Michael but on the other hand when a stoner on the road becomes a real danger or a youngster having a psychotic episode or even having to endure the constant haze of an unwanted substance becomes the norm then the community has to rein in this particular freedom.