Stronger Pot Causes Governmental Policy Shift

[Kuciwalker]

And that is so because?

You cannot be responsible for someone else's actions.

You'd be amazed at the number of people who hold that opinion.

They're wrong

The natural result of being on a motorway is that someone is gonna run over you sooner or later.

Did you see the "only"?

It's your fault if you shoot yourself in the head. It's not your fault if someone else shoots you in the head, even if your actions may have had some causal relation.

[Ming]

Originally posted by debeest
Also, while we have never been able to say with confidence that a specific case of lung cancer was induced by smoking, we are now much closer to it.

Close to it... yep... and I don't think anybody will disagree. But the point is, it can't be proved at this point. And here we have somebody saying the medical coverage should be denied based on something that really can't be proved

[Lefty Scaevola]

The economic studies done on smoking, by states trying to prove extra medicares costs, showed the opposite, lower costs. This was because the dumb smokers died much younger, of before age qulification for medicare, and went through their end of life rotting in the hospital phase quicker than nonsmokers.

[JCG]

Just decriminalize all this crap already and throw away the key.

[debeest]

Originally posted by Albert Speer
are we still talking about weed or are you talking about crack and heroine?

Pretty much any and all. Illegality is what makes illegal drugs very expensive and lucrative.

i was under the impression that drug legalizers were not too fond of the entrepreneurial spirit of independent drug selling...

Legalize them, and others will go entrepreneurial.

i may be wrong but aren't cigarettes sold by the pack only, making looseys pseudo-illegal? if so, then there is a massive black market for tobacco.

The black market for tobacco, including cross-border tax evasion and under-age selling and looseys, is a negligible fraction of the market.

[Al B. Sure!]

looseys are a negligible fraction of the market?! WHAT?! what the hell are you smoking?

i dont know any stats but looseys are sold everywhere here in philly.

[Last Conformist]

@Kuciwalker: So, in your opinion, people injured in car accidents should get Medicare iff it can be proved that someone else was at fault? (Lawyers would love that one.)

[Al B. Sure!]

Legalize them, and others will go entrepreneurial.

alright so drugs are legalized and a drug dealer still will sell his drugs... why would he even bother going to the govt to ge a licence and try to compete with corporations when he could just continue selling drugs like he always did? they'll be cheaper than the legal ones just out of the virtue that they wouldnt be taxed.

[Dinner]

Coke addict: Marijuana?! You came to rehab over some motherf*cking marijuana?

Pot head: Hmmm....

Coke addict: I used to suck d!ck for coke! Did you ever suck d!ck for marijuana?

Pot head: Nope.

Coke head: Everyone boo this man!

Bonus points if you can name the movie.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Lefty Scaevola
The economic studies done on smoking, by states trying to prove extra medicares costs, showed the opposite, lower costs. This was because the dumb smokers died much younger, of before age qulification for medicare, and went through their end of life rotting in the hospital phase quicker than nonsmokers.

If only we could slip in something that made them infertile too...

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Last Conformist
@Kuciwalker: So, in your opinion, people injured in car accidents should get Medicare iff it can be proved that someone else was at fault? (Lawyers would love that one.)

Why would they? You already have to determine who's at fault in a car accident.

[Last Conformist]

I imagine that if a such policy was implemented, victims of car accidents would be willing to go to undreamt-of lengths to prove that someone else was at fault. The costs for a couple major operations can pay for alot of legalistic talent.

[Kuciwalker]

It obviously wouldn't deny all medicare - it would deny medicare paying for that specific treatment.

[rah]

There's a reason a lot of states have no fault insurance.

Guess what it is.

[Kuciwalker]

What's fault insurance?