Prohibitionist Sabet: "Does any president want to experience a major legalization-related tragedy

[Warren DeMontague]

...on their watch?"

http://www.oregonlive.com/mapes/index.ssf/2015/10/next_president_could_shut_down.html

Wait, a whut?

A "legalization-related tragedy". Mmmm, okay, let me envision a really bad one. Like, some 20 year old walks into an elementary school and kills twenty kids with a bag of Obama Kush.

That would be a horrible tragedy, wouldn't it? One whose shocking severity would clearly mandate we re-evaluate our legislative relationship to this obviously deadly... hey, wait. That would never happen! No one can walk into a classroom full of first graders and kill them in 5 minutes by wielding a bag of weed.



Legalization-related tragedy. That's, um... pretty fucking rich.

[n2doc]

1. I guess the people who die from drunk drivers each year aren't tragedies.

Or the Tobacco smokers who die from cancer each year. Nope, not a problem, so long as big fucking biz makes a profit on it.

[JackInGreen]

2. ...tbh

I killed a lot of my classmates with high end hydroponic....
they woke up a few hours later though.

[brewens]

3. Their worst nightmare is that it's legalized and nothing much happens. That makes all the

right-wing rednecks eat shit!

I worked with old guys like that for years that were my friends but would have loved to have seen me fired if they knew I smoked weed, even though I was a good guy on the job. They just hated the 60's, the hippies, pot and everything associated with it so much. No way you could even talk to them about it without their getting angry.

I have buddies in Oregon and Washington with grower and medical cards. I've told them that no matter how tempting it is, not to be too "in your face" about it with redneck types. I'd love to be one of them though, and fire up a big fatty in front of some of those assholes!

[Warren DeMontague]

4. I get the feeling that, at least out here, most people just don't care.

The only folks still deeply committed to prohibition are those who directly benefit from the drug war, it seems.

[jtuck004]

5. As opposed to the tragedy visited on tens of thousands of Americans by the War on People.n/t

[TeamPooka]

6. Major prohibition related tragedies happen every day. nt