BB's take: Get educated. You can't expect the news channels to tell you anything other than the network's opinion:
Some drugs are too dangerous to be legal. Marijuana isn’t one of them.
Some 24 million Americans said in 2018 that they used marijuana in the
past month — twice the number who abuse prescriptions and 12 times the
number who use cocaine. Of the 70,000 fatal overdoses in America in
2017, nearly 50,000 were tied to opioids, according to the U.S. Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention.
Deaths tied to pot are so rare the National Center for Health Statistics doesn’t track them.
It’s absurd that the federal government considers pot a Schedule 1
narcotic — a regressive stance that damages thousands of lives and
squanders millions in law enforcement dollars.
I've recently wrote Governor
Abbot and Dan Patrick and remarked that I would not support them if they
kept denying the wish of the Texan voters (70% are for decriminalization on some level) concerning decriminalization of pot. Both have made it
clear they will not support decriminalization or changing the marijuana
laws in Texas.
No
doubt the current pot that is available on the street is unregulated
and supplied by the cartels and just like in the 70's, there is no gauge
to determine what exactly a person is buying, making it possibly
Russian roulette. Legalization and regulation would make this drug so
much safer its obvious to me that this is the direction we should go.
Marijuana should not be a politically partisan issue. It is a health issue and concerns everyone. You may be 100% against legalizing pot and then you find that it is the only medicine that actually works for you. Now you are a believer. Do your homework. No one can answer if this is for you or not, but you.
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