And I don't even smoke weed.
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And I don't even smoke weed.
First, if the legislature has failed to do their job, campaign to vote them out or lobby and get the law you want passed. Don't 17 things up because you're not getting your way at the moment.
Second, 65A not giving direction is closer to what a constitutional provision should look like. You don't lock in tax rates for a particular product in the constitution. You don't set up a new regulatory entity and funding mechanism in the constitution. What happens if the 7% doesn't fund the new government agency you are setting up? And why lock yourself in to a particular regualtory structure with a new government entity? Think maybe there could be some savings available by putting that responsibility under an existing agency? Tough shit unless you can get the constitution amended.
If you want to put in a constitutional provision saying the government has no right to criminalize what people voluntarily choose to put in their body, that would be a proper initiative. Probably wouldn't pass unfortunately cause people love to get into other people's business.
In other words, the people pushing 65 are trying to improperly put what should be a statute into the constitution, whereas 65A is closer to what should be in the constitution while leaving more specific policy decisions to statute and regulation where they belong.
So alcohol is ok though? Why no zero tolerance on alcohol which is proven tenfold to be so much more dangerous to operate a vehicle amongst countless other things alcohol leads to. It's not even close to comparison. Every label you listed is man-made and could easily be changed. What about people who are prescribed to Xanax or whatever drug you want to list? Take one daily in the morning and drive yo self to work. All good now though right?
Because it all goes back to money. Big pharma has lobbyists in every politician's pocket. Citizens can't just grow a prescription of pills so the gov't knows where the money is and can get theirs still.
With weed I could grow, harvest, and safely partake however I please without a trace of it ever happening and no money exchanged. I could even barter with it and the gov't not know. Gov't just wants to get their kick back and don't know how to get it in this case. Even though the state would make an unbelievable amount of money on sin tax and whatever other tax they want to put on it. People will gladly pay that instead of risking being prosecuted for something so stupid and as harmless as a minute amount of weed.
Not to mention it would take the unmeasurable amount of wasted time police spend on trying to make arrests on weed charges and allow them to focus OUR money and time on actual drug problems. That list goes on and on.
But wait, add to the fact that many politicians also make money off private prisons and cramming as many people as they can in there so they can get paid per inmate. Why on earth would they want to take money out of their own pockets when it all just circles back to them by not changing.
It's probably going to allow a decent amount of basically recreational use based on other states that have gone down this road. And that's fine. We don't stop people from using medicine because some people are going to use it recreationally. Well, actually, we do. We deny lots of people opioids and even things like sinus medicine. But that's because people mainly act like ass holes when they vote and they should stop doing that.
We need to put a statutory scheme in place as one of the first orders of business this session.
First off, I’m for legalized marijuana and I’ve never smoked it in my life, but one argument against the card I’ve heard is how easy it would be to counterfeit and there’s no registry or any way for an officer to know if your card is legit. Thoughts?
This will not affect my vote as I’ll be a yes and leaning heavily toward 65
So if someone is pulled over high right now , do the cops just let them go? No they don't, they have testing to see if they are impaired.
Marijuana being legal wouldn't change what the cops do already.
Also, my aunt lived several years because my sister was able to help her with her chemo. She would not have survived without certain items that doctors in Alabama couldn't prescribe.
I agree, it will be very easy to forge a card. While I agree that the medical profession is "highly influenced" by the pharmaceuticals, I still trust doctors to provide me the very best information available about my health and how to treat any issue. At least they have studied the human body and medicine unlike the pot shop owners! Unlike Cooter, I will not put my trust in a damn pot shop.
Breathalyzers are very suspect. Even the road sides are only admissible in court only to prove alcohol was present not the number. Yes Weed has killed numerous people. I have worked 5 auto accidents were someone has been killed with be under the influence of THC. Like I said earlier the problem is you only have very very very few LEOs in the state who know what to look for with someone being under the influence of another substance besides alcohol. That's why you don't have "as many deaths"