|
Printer-friendly format Email this thread to a friend Bookmark this thread |
This topic is archived. |
Home » Discuss » Archives » General Discussion (1/22-2007 thru 12/14/2010) |
Philosoraptor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-02-10 07:59 AM Original message |
What horrible things would happen if the prohibition on marijuana were repealed? |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Cirque du So-What (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-02-10 08:00 AM Response to Original message |
1. Sporadic shortages of HoHos at convenience stores? |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Initech (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-02-10 06:16 PM Response to Reply #1 |
52. A shortage of Jack Johnson and Bob Marley albums at record stores? |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Dennis Donovan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-02-10 08:01 AM Response to Original message |
2. Acute shortage of Twinkies... |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
apex nerd (56 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-03-10 08:31 PM Response to Reply #2 |
61. ...and Funyuns |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Warren Stupidity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-02-10 08:02 AM Response to Original message |
3. lower rates of alcohol consumption |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-02-10 08:24 AM Response to Reply #3 |
11. sums it up... |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
safeinOhio (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-02-10 08:05 AM Response to Original message |
4. Owners of Coors would |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
geckosfeet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-02-10 08:06 AM Response to Original message |
5. Excess border patrol and DEA agents - maybe major layoffs for them |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
glitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-02-10 08:50 AM Response to Reply #5 |
19. They'd be offshored. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
HopeHoops (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-02-10 08:11 AM Response to Original message |
6. People would be unbearably mellow. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Philosoraptor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-02-10 08:27 AM Response to Reply #6 |
13. that's..(shudder)..UNSPEAKABLE |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
HopeHoops (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-02-10 06:38 PM Response to Reply #13 |
55. I don't know, man. It would be like, so, - hey, is that a bag of Doritos on top of the fridge? |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
PJPhreak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-02-10 08:11 AM Response to Original message |
7. Pringles Futures would go thru the roof. nt |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-02-10 08:16 AM Response to Original message |
8. It would like be um ... uh ... oh man ... I forgot what I was going to say again |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Zephie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-02-10 08:18 AM Response to Original message |
9. America would develop a greater appreciation for Doctor Who |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
JohnnyLib2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-02-10 08:21 AM Response to Original message |
10. Publishers of anti-pot literature would be devastated. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Hepburn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-02-10 08:27 AM Response to Original message |
12. The money spent busting smokers instead could be used for... |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
old mark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-02-10 08:28 AM Response to Original message |
14. Lots more interesting TV ads for serious snack foods, man.... |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
DBoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-02-10 08:57 AM Response to Reply #14 |
20. Some theorize that Quizno's strange commercials target stoners |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
old mark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-02-10 12:36 PM Response to Reply #20 |
40. Probably the only people who eat there more than once...not much food for the money... |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
KG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-02-10 08:29 AM Response to Original message |
15. a collapse of the PIC. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
rurallib (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-02-10 08:29 AM Response to Original message |
16. empty corporate jails |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
anarch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-02-10 08:31 AM Response to Original message |
17. I could see some lost revenue for alcohol peddlers and pharmaceutical companies |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Ichingcarpenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-02-10 08:35 AM Response to Original message |
18. Something that would wake them from their Matrix |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Froward69 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-02-10 08:59 AM Response to Original message |
21. Closure of private Prisons |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Greybnk48 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-02-10 09:34 AM Response to Reply #21 |
26. All true, especially the bit about for profit prisons. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
DBoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-02-10 08:59 AM Response to Original message |
22. a new TV show hosted by Cheech and Chong becomes a major "hit" |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-02-10 09:00 AM Response to Original message |
23. More people would come together to cook delightful foods & listen to good music & play games |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
hootinholler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-02-10 09:27 AM Response to Original message |
24. Hmmmm |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Greybnk48 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-02-10 09:32 AM Response to Original message |
25. Cheetos will have an upsurge in sales. The fried kind, not |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
femrap (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-02-10 09:36 AM Response to Original message |
27. Increased demand for |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Toots (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-02-10 09:38 AM Response to Original message |
28. Fewer teenagers being hospitalized for huffing dangerous inhalants. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Donald Ian Rankin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-02-10 09:48 AM Response to Original message |
29. A slight rise in the incidence of schizophrenia, |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
RainDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-02-10 09:54 AM Response to Reply #29 |
31. the leading UK Pharmacologist said the schizophrenia issue does not relate to the general public |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Donald Ian Rankin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-02-10 10:10 AM Response to Reply #31 |
32. Possibly true, but misleading. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
RainDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-02-10 07:52 PM Response to Reply #32 |
56. Pertwee is the leading expert in GB and pioneered research into cannabis |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
eridani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-03-10 01:36 AM Response to Reply #32 |
59. And you may well have assignment of causation assbackwards. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Ichingcarpenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-02-10 10:59 AM Response to Reply #29 |
39. LOL.... America already has national schizophrenia |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
devilgrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-02-10 12:42 PM Response to Reply #29 |
42. Schizophrenia and a gateway drug! Oh but course!!!!! |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Donald Ian Rankin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-02-10 05:41 PM Response to Reply #42 |
48. Are you denying that either of the things I said is true? |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
devilgrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-03-10 12:47 AM Response to Reply #48 |
58. Things you said are a heaping pile of crap. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Donald Ian Rankin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-02-10 05:35 PM Response to Reply #29 |
47. Posted in wrong place, delete. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Cal33 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-02-10 09:50 AM Response to Original message |
30. The big time drug criminals would lose a lot of money, and crime rate would drop -- |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-02-10 10:16 AM Response to Original message |
33. The government would lose a huge amount of credibility.. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
socialist_n_TN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-02-10 10:17 AM Response to Original message |
34. Lots of good ideas here, but the overreaching effect............. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
HuckleB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-02-10 12:46 PM Response to Reply #34 |
44. Uh, no. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
ensho (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-02-10 10:25 AM Response to Original message |
35. the private prison Barons would lose money and we would hear them |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Kurt_and_Hunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-02-10 10:46 AM Response to Original message |
36. Stpck values of private prison companies would decline |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
RadiationTherapy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-02-10 10:49 AM Response to Original message |
37. Economy would take a hit from losing lots of underpriced prison slave labor. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
EstimatedProphet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-02-10 10:58 AM Response to Original message |
38. The worst thing possible. People would enjoy themselves. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
devilgrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-02-10 12:40 PM Response to Original message |
41. Crime will go down. What will the private prison industry do now? |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
HuckleB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-02-10 12:45 PM Response to Reply #41 |
43. Crime has been going down, but it could go down a bit. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-02-10 12:54 PM Response to Original message |
45. We'd start the process of replenishing our soil. The crime rates would plummet to all-time lows. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Prophet 451 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-02-10 03:38 PM Response to Original message |
46. In theory |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
hayu_lol (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-02-10 05:42 PM Response to Reply #46 |
49. LOL...oh the dreamers... |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-02-10 06:01 PM Response to Reply #49 |
50. You don't have to smoke pot.. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Prophet 451 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-03-10 08:19 PM Response to Reply #50 |
60. I actually wouldn't use either |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Contrary1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-02-10 06:04 PM Response to Original message |
51. My husband wouldn't get so many home cooked meals... |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
spanone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-02-10 06:17 PM Response to Original message |
53. a lot of white collared criminals would see their incomes shrink |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Dappleganger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-02-10 06:18 PM Response to Original message |
54. I could cut back on my pain meds... |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Festivito (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-02-10 08:10 PM Response to Original message |
57. ADD: Fewer kids would become users. (too boring and no longer sold by youths) |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Sparkly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-03-10 08:32 PM Response to Original message |
62. You mean you haven't seen "Reefer Madness?" |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Arkana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-03-10 08:35 PM Response to Original message |
63. Everyone would realize that...like...whoa, their hands are huge. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Canuckistanian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-03-10 08:42 PM Response to Original message |
64. People would drive WAY too slowly |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
DU AdBot (1000+ posts) | Wed Apr 17th 2024, 08:15 PM Response to Original message |
Advertisements [?] |
Top |
Home » Discuss » Archives » General Discussion (1/22-2007 thru 12/14/2010) |
Powered by DCForum+ Version 1.1 Copyright 1997-2002 DCScripts.com
Software has been extensively modified by the DU administrators
Important Notices: By participating on this discussion board, visitors agree to abide by the rules outlined on our Rules page. Messages posted on the Democratic Underground Discussion Forums are the opinions of the individuals who post them, and do not necessarily represent the opinions of Democratic Underground, LLC.
Home | Discussion Forums | Journals | Store | Donate
About DU | Contact Us | Privacy Policy
Got a message for Democratic Underground? Click here to send us a message.
© 2001 - 2011 Democratic Underground, LLC