Since Caribou has decided to be Igloos again I thought I would post. I'm in the process of becoming a cop, so don't throw me in with all the other anarchists.
With all the abuses in the medical marijuana system and research done out there, it might as well be legalized because people are taking advantage of the system and profiting off it. We have so called doctors writing out prescriptions like they are being handed out as business cards and growers and shops are making money. The law was originally made for the super sick and dying in mind, not for treating chronic flatulence, back pain, minor headache, or whatever else these doctors try to pass off these days for reason to be subscribed.
Second thing to be noted is that even though its legalized, I believe Colorado or Washington put restrictions on growing and decided to tax the plant. So you have people are still growing and selling weed at a cheaper price on the streets because the stoners know they can buy it cheaper illegally.
There are three types of people who smoke marijuana, casual smokers, stoners, militants. I'm okay with casual smokers, stoners and militants on the other hand I cannot stand. I can't stand those people who can't help, but talk about how much they love weed, how they love to smoke, how weed is the super cure for everything, their crazy culture of wearing beanies, marijuana leaf shirts, che shirts, etc. They are just annoying. Then there are those militants who constantly bash the police for enforcing the laws, carrying out drug busts, ranting about how the government hates weed, and other various conspiracies like tobacco and medical company lobbying. Then there are the people who are like "my friend died from overdosing :(" *continues to irresponsibly use chems*, that mainly applies to addicts and junkies of everything whether it is alcohol, tobacco or other drugs. Like seriously cry about your dead friend, but you continue to do what killed him/her. Then there those people who buy from shaddy dealers, then complain about all the crime and violence in the world, but the reality is they are contributing to that cycle by buying from gangs, cartels, and criminals. "guys check out my bong, check out my vape, check out my lighters and needles, check out my veggies. Going to school just to party guys! Blacked out and woke up and the floor and I don't remember much of what happened during the party, was a good time! Drove while drunk and I hit some body, what do I do guys?"
Now for junkies growers, dealers, and manufacturers, they only care about themselves. We have all these kids be born from addict mothers or grow up in some poorly maintained house that was converted into a lab. They grow up with stuffty parents, they are either low on the parents priority list, or outright abandoned. They have birth defects, their brains don't develop, or these kids end in special ed programs because their mothers were stupid enough to drink, smoke, or take whatever narcotic while they were pregnant. "But its my body, its my right to destroy it!", not when you are carrying another human.
I have to through in the broken windows thing too. Someone dies, their house goes for sale, a renter buys it. The renter gives their house to some poor family. Their lawn dies, they put their old ford on the front lawn and turn it into a planter. The people next door leave, that house gets put up for sale. That one gets rented, but it quickly gets abandoned and falls apart. Soon more people start moving up. Now a nice neighborhood is a slum. Now there are drug houses, squatters, gangs, delinquents smashing windows.
