That's $780 million a year to prosecute people for marijuana possession.
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PACEDOG#1 wrote:It ain't illegal if you don't get caught.
LOL
Dance you pay the band and PLAY you pay the MAN.
PACEDOG#1 wrote:I'm in favor of people following the law.
Bob wrote:
As a conservative I'm in favor of limiting the size of government and government spending.
Sal wrote:You're not a conservative, Bob.
You're a self-loathing liberal.
Let go of all the destructive pretensions and embrace your fabulous self.
bob wrote: when you dismantle the marijuana industrial complex you get a very nice side effect from it. You start bringing a lot of revenue into the state coffers from taxing the legal marijuana.
Bob wrote:Sal wrote:You're not a conservative, Bob.
You're a self-loathing liberal.
Let go of all the destructive pretensions and embrace your fabulous self.
The truth is I'm not either, Sal. The nearest label to me I suppose would be "libertarian" except I'm not really that either for a variety of reasons.
I have some opinions that so-called conservatives espouse, and I have other opinions that so-called liberals espouse.
But even then, often what is deemed to be "conservative" or deemed to be "liberal" is so fraught with inconsistency that the labels become meaningless.
What I pointed out in this thread is a prime example of that. Pacedog thinks it's "conservative" to want prohibition of marijuana. But in order to accomplish this requires a much larger role of government and a fortune in government spending.
And Pacedog is not even aware that many "conservatives" (including the modern father of "conservatism", William Buckley) are also opposed to continuing the prohibition on marijuana for the same reasons I am.
Ideology and labels are not working anymore. They're helping to fascilitate the decline of our country.
Thanks and it's always good to know I'm not alone with this.stormwatch89 wrote:
Good post, Bob. I'm in your corner.
Bob wrote:Thanks and it's always good to know I'm not alone with this.stormwatch89 wrote:
Good post, Bob. I'm in your corner.
But sadly, the liberals and conservatives so far outnumber us at this time (probably about a million to one) that it's like we're standing on the beach and spitting at a hurricane in attempt to steer the course of it. lol
Bob wrote:That's $780 million a year to prosecute people for marijuana possession.
Yella wrote:Bob wrote:That's $780 million a year to prosecute people for marijuana possession.
This why it is a big part of our economy. Just think of all the jobs involved in this. 780 million dollars equates to a lot of people working. If it is completely legalized, which I hope, would all the people be out looking for work?
PACEDOG#1 wrote:I'm in favor of people following the law.
Slicef18 wrote:The marijuana laws also provide an income stream for the state chauffeurs. Some of those are, court costs, probation supervision,, and court fines. If the government didn't receive a benefit, the law would disappear. Think about all those policemen who have jobs because of the law, not to mention all the private sector jobs created to build prisons. Lots of concrete and iron workers.
Floridatexan wrote:Slicef18 wrote:The marijuana laws also provide an income stream for the state chauffeurs. Some of those are, court costs, probation supervision,, and court fines. If the government didn't receive a benefit, the law would disappear. Think about all those policemen who have jobs because of the law, not to mention all the private sector jobs created to build prisons. Lots of concrete and iron workers.
You mean "coffers", Slice, but you're absolutely correct. Why do police departments have the power to confiscate personal property of a SUSPECT?
Floridatexan wrote:Slicef18 wrote:The marijuana laws also provide an income stream for the state chauffeurs. Some of those are, court costs, probation supervision,, and court fines. If the government didn't receive a benefit, the law would disappear. Think about all those policemen who have jobs because of the law, not to mention all the private sector jobs created to build prisons. Lots of concrete and iron workers.
You mean "coffers", Slice, but you're absolutely correct. Why do police departments have the power to confiscate personal property of a SUSPECT?
Bob wrote:Yella wrote:Bob wrote:That's $780 million a year to prosecute people for marijuana possession.
This why it is a big part of our economy. Just think of all the jobs involved in this. 780 million dollars equates to a lot of people working. If it is completely legalized, which I hope, would all the people be out looking for work?
It's the big government types who have hijacked our economy and put a stranglehold on it by tying so much of it to government spending. The anti-marijuana/government/industrial complex is a part of that and so is the military establishment (both championed by people who like to think of themselves as "conservatives").
The ones who are so proud to be "liberals" have also played their role by opposing any reform of what is euphemistically called "entitlements", allowing that to also grow out of control.
So both the liberals and the conservatives have now made our economy and our jobs so dependent on this government spending that the situation is like I've described it before. It's like a cancer which has been allowed to grow to the point that the treatment to try to cure it will now also cause suffering and sickness. And yes I would imagine that since we won't need as many cops and prosecutors and lawyers and correctional officers and jails and all the secondary economy which provides support for that, there will be jobs lost.
But if this massive government borrowing and spending is allowed to go unchecked for very much longer, those jobs are not the only ones which will be lost. At some point this house of cards will begin to collapse and when that happens a helluva lot more jobs will disappear and with that will come a lot worse suffering for far larger numbers of people.
Floridatexan wrote:Bob wrote:Yella wrote:Bob wrote:That's $780 million a year to prosecute people for marijuana possession.
This why it is a big part of our economy. Just think of all the jobs involved in this. 780 million dollars equates to a lot of people working. If it is completely legalized, which I hope, would all the people be out looking for work?
It's the big government types who have hijacked our economy and put a stranglehold on it by tying so much of it to government spending. The anti-marijuana/government/industrial complex is a part of that and so is the military establishment (both championed by people who like to think of themselves as "conservatives").
The ones who are so proud to be "liberals" have also played their role by opposing any reform of what is euphemistically called "entitlements", allowing that to also grow out of control.
So both the liberals and the conservatives have now made our economy and our jobs so dependent on this government spending that the situation is like I've described it before. It's like a cancer which has been allowed to grow to the point that the treatment to try to cure it will now also cause suffering and sickness. And yes I would imagine that since we won't need as many cops and prosecutors and lawyers and correctional officers and jails and all the secondary economy which provides support for that, there will be jobs lost.
But if this massive government borrowing and spending is allowed to go unchecked for very much longer, those jobs are not the only ones which will be lost. At some point this house of cards will begin to collapse and when that happens a helluva lot more jobs will disappear and with that will come a lot worse suffering for far larger numbers of people.
The HOUSE OF CARDS already collapsed...in 2008. And you know what 100,000 lawyers at the bottom of the sea is...right? There are always economic shifts in the economy, caused by such ordinary forces as demand for a competitor's product, obsolescence, changes in laws, etc. There is also market manipulation and what amounts to dominance over the economy by the financial sector, the MIC and a privileged few who benefit from basically sucking off everyone else...the entitled types who are always screaming about...entitlements.
And if you're referring to the current state of economic affairs in this country...yes, if substantive regulatory changes don't occur...and if the b's aren't prosecuted en masse, they'll crash the economy again and again because...they read too much Ayn Rand when they should be reading Silas Marner again...and again...and again.
Joanimaroni wrote:Floridatexan wrote:Slicef18 wrote:The marijuana laws also provide an income stream for the state chauffeurs. Some of those are, court costs, probation supervision,, and court fines. If the government didn't receive a benefit, the law would disappear. Think about all those policemen who have jobs because of the law, not to mention all the private sector jobs created to build prisons. Lots of concrete and iron workers.
You mean "coffers", Slice, but you're absolutely correct. Why do police departments have the power to confiscate personal property of a SUSPECT?
Police departments have to follow boundaries set by the 4th Amendment.
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