The argument to allow people safe access to safe medicine always seems to center around money. But this issue really isn’t about money, however, it’s about the freedom to use and choose medicine. If safe access to all-natural medical marijuana leads to a new revenue stream in California that could just help put and end to our massive debt…then that’s a great bi-product, but it isn’t a reason to legalize marijuana. Marijuana should be legal because there isn’t a single valid reason that it shouldn’t be.
Nehring’s flawed reasoning claims that if cannabis medicine is legalized it’s cost will drop and it’ll be easier for kids to obtain, even though, the Tax and Regulate Cannabis initiative prohibits the sale of cannabis to minors just like alcohol.
Nehring also says, “We know a top factor behind whether young people try drugs is cost, and legalization would certainly bring the cost of dope (medical cannabis) down, making it much more widely accessible.” How price and accessibility are related, we’re not sure, but the Tax and Regulate Initiative does NOT allow marijuana to be sold to kids or anywhere near them and also disallows it’s use around kids.
We all know that breast milk leads to bourbon as much as marijuana leads to meth, so that’s not even a real argument, Mr. Nerhing. Anyhow, most marijuana supporters aren’t too concerned with how legalization will affect the economy, because they’re more concerned with things like personal freedom and safe access to medicine.
“California Republicans will fight this and any other measure to expand drug use in California. When it comes to this kind of legislation, there’s a reason they call it ‘dope,’ said Nehring. He’s right about that because legislation to legalize weed is DOPE!
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Oh well Cali, I guess you'll be having a Democrat Governor for another 4 years! Other than the fact that many of them are most likely invested in companies who cash in on marijuana prohibition, I have never understood the Republican obsession with going fully open and free markets....except when it comes to weed. Then they would rather pay bloated prices, and maintain a faulty and intentionally ineffectual regulatory regime!?!? What gives?
Let the market decide which intoxicants it wants and simply craft laws that dissuade abusive and unsafe use. Why these idiot ever thought they could do more than that is beyond me!
-Oz