Weed Should Be Legal — but Not Because "It's Medicine" [Steemit Exclusive]
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We have been so successfully indoctrinated as to believe it not only reasonable but desirable to hand control of our lives to some group of random strangers who call themselves government. Of course we get a list of thieves, liars and reprobates to choose from, but not a choice of none of the above.
Yep, I agree @careywedler. Ain't a pot smoker myself. Never did much to me back in the day when I was doing it. But it's much less harmful overall than Alcohol is, imo
Hear here, ms. Wedler. So many focus on the medical side & for normies that is a gateway argument to help them along to the realization of the importance of freedom. If we're not free to make bad decisions (I'm not saying that using cannabis is a bad decision) then we're not free at all. Give me liberty or you'll get death. End the war on drugs...better said the war on freedom.
Would you post your video for this too! It's very powerful as well! Glad to see you active on here too, Carey!
For once I can fully agree with you. The stupid war on drugs has cost enough, both money and lives, and achieves nothing.
Good post
@careywedler
Thank you! :)
Love the picture! :-)
Hehe thank you, it's from a video I did last 4/20... it's on dtube! :)
Oh yeah, I think I remember that one. Ha-ha! :-)
I am in agreement with you, but for different reasons. Colorado has had a surplus budget after allowing recreational cannabis, and they've been able to reinvest in their infrastructure and economy. It's spurred jobs, increased taxes, and it's a good fiscal idea. For all this talk about budget deficit, we could very easily find ourselves with a very, very nice source of income. Funds could go to drug treatment and rehabilitation centers, schools, roads, and plenty of other social services.
Upvoted on headline alone. I agree.
As you point out, there's all kinds of good reasons for cannabis to be legal. Last I heard, the earliest evidence we have of agriculture is a pouch of hemp seed 12 thousand years old. It's kind of synonymous with human culture.
But you settle on the best reason: we are free. No one has a right to tell us what to think, be, or do, and telling us we can't ingest cannabis is all three.
Thanks!