Sir_Tokie said:
I truly believe that no one has the right to tell me and all of you what we can and can not ingest into our bodies and I mean NO ONE not even our government.
While your statement encompasses marijuana, it also includes every other substance that can be ingested.
I disagree with your statement almost entirely.
Unless, you live in the middle of the desert and use no health-care services other than those that you pay for out of your own pocket 100% and will do so until the day you die.
If you ingest things that make MY taxes pay for YOUR health care as a result of what you've chosen to ingest, then it now becomes my problem and I should have a say in what you're doing with MY money.
So, if you're going to abuse alcohol your entire life and you choose to add cocaine or whatever with it, and then your liver, kidneys and brain stop working right, THEN you use the system of health-care that I help pay for and is based on how much it costs to support you until you die from the things you ingest, then NO you don't have my freaking permission to put whatever you want into your body.
Move to the desert and stop using any type of health-care or public services as a result of your ingestion of substances into your body and I couldn't care less what you ingest.
However, if I have to pay part of your expenses later for your health-care because of your substance ingestion, then I'll have a say in what you ingest into your body.
That, my friends, is the real argument.
Look up the stats on health-care for those who ingest things into their bodies that harm them. You and I pay for their care when they decide to go into detox or long term health-care for their abuse.
Countless BILLIONS of dollars go towards the treatment of alcoholics alone. FEDERAL MONEY is part of what supports them. MY taxes.
Quit making me pay for what you do and I couldn't care less what you ingest.
That's MY rant.
Marijuana? Hell, I've never heard of anyone getting treatment for marijuana unless it was some Bull-crap shrink you're forced to talk to as a result of a failed piss test at work where they have a "treatment program" that is Federally assisted.
That's an easy one to end. Quit making your employees take piss tests.
If your employee is stupid enough to show up for work stoned, and that same employee has signed a paper saying they won't do that if they accept pay from you, then just fire them. Have your freaking job filled with a bunch of alcohol drinkers who show up for work with hangovers every day. Or Babble Thumpers who will annoy your customers every day by trying to convert them to Jebus on your dime.
I've always said that Marijuana should be legal for adults. Give it the same laws that govern alcohol use.
1. You must be 18 (21 most places) or older to buy it or use it legally.
2. If you're caught using too much of it while driving or anything that makes it unsafe, then you get busted just like drunks who don't have enough sense to not get drunk at inappropriate times.