NO On Prop. 19
My personal opinion about Proposition 19, which proposes to legalize marijuana in the state of California.
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You have much growing up to do, kid. Your claim of support for “live & let live” has obvious limits. There scant difference between your opinions here (based on “personal” observations of drug & family) with those of a religious believer who may go to great lengths to deny your right to live and love as a homosexual. Someone’s personal freedoms are at risk, and in this case, you’re the one who “knows better” than all the rest. How shallow.
@kaptkarl Preach it!
He is kind of hot! I want his cock!
What a faggoat
That’s absurd…legalizing marijuana would have simply removed the drug dealing element and created a more pure product sold at a cheaper price. So people that wish to take it wouldn’t be 1) Ripped off. 2) Having to deal with drug dealers. 3) Not as much exposure to the more dangerous drugs. 4) Not criminalised for a drug that is safer than alcohol and nicotine. And many more advantages.
I like your videos and the cut of your jib…but you don’t seem to have thought this through.
Prop 19 has already failed. I still disagree with you. A business will always make more money then an insignificant drug dealer. The business would be more efficent allowing for lower prices. While a drug dealer couldn’t keep up with the cheap prices and quanity of the business. This can be observed by just looking at Wal-Mart and a supermarket. The Wal-Mart being the big marijuana business and the supermarket being the drug dealer. In the end the Wal-Mart will always be more successful,
We need more people like James to not only have an opinion but the ability and strength to share this. I discovered this chap on here as a wonderful polite, genuine openly gay activist. This message shows that there is much more to him and he will fight for what he believes… All if this at 18. If more guys and gals his age showed this level of maturity and willingness to spread their word, the world could/would be a better place. Please check out his other posts too… NO TO PROP 19!!!
its not going away whether its legal or illegal and obviously keeping it illegal hasnt worked so why not try something different and take the money out of the violent drug cartels hands and into the economy seems logical to me. vote yes in 2012.
Belinda must be very proud of you. You sounds like a sincere, well spoken, intelligent, young man. That being said, I have to disagree. Marijuana being legal would bring HUGE amounts of needed money to CA. If it were legal, LEGITIMATE business men would get into the game, actually lessening the number and effectiveness of the cliched image of hooded gangsters on street corners. When prohibition ended, bye bye went “bath tub vodka” and legitimate bars and liqueur stores opened up.
I agree there are also problems with alcohol impairing judgement, so why would anyone want to legalize a substance whose main purpose is to produce a similar effect? The regular pot users I’ve come across usually turn out to be bums who smoke it to get away from the depressing reality of their lives and in two cases, they were completely insane fruitcakes (no joke).
Plus the stuff stinks to high heaven!!
@webguy024 people seem to forget that when they vote against pot they vote for taking scholarships off potentially 30-50 percent of students that will try pot.
they also vote for paying taxes for bigger prisons which let go real criminals that do actually harm people. voting against pot NEVER stops the market. it only keeps the mexican blood and problems on our hands.
i was like you too but then i did a lot of research and pot is the safest of all the drugs you mention. there is so many problems caused by it being prohibited which will go away.we need to face that some people use drugs to escape or alter mind.
i do not want to make their problems worse. most people use it to relax not when they have to function at work etc. i would rather people use a safer substance if they choose to use any. less tobacco and less alcohol would be a good thing.
“It impairs ones judgement, it impairs ones ability to get things done… and I just can’t support that”…
Doesn’t alcohol do that??
MAKE ALCOHOL ILLEGAL 2010!!!!!!!!!!!!!111
You’d better grab your picket sign and start your campaign to ban alcohol…it’s more harmful than marijuana..sure, that seems to be a huge, pounded-in argument..but really, it is a valid one…
haha how are u ment to be able to smoke pot if u cant buy it anyways dealers are selling marijuana right now and making a killing prop 19 will put the buissnes into ligit companies not dodgy drug dealers and drug cartels youv got the facts wrong but hey your vote just dont spread bs
The real question is which is more harmful – the drug or the stigma? The stigma, of course. Is marijuana a gateway drug? Yes, because the drug dealer is the gateway. Dispensaries displace this caveat. Unfortunately it appears many people are ignorant about the tenets of Prop 19 and of Marijuana – which is why there is so much disinformation being spread. My friend is a victim of the war on marijuana – 4.0 gpa, caught with one joint in school – they took his scholarship. Still pisses me off.
Duke
“You cannot sanction drug dealers who are profiting off of, or in some cases ruining some peoples lives”…
Somebody who owns a liquor store is exactly what you are “against”. A liquor store is dealing a liquid drug, and is profiting off of the sale of it. Are you for the prohibition of alcohol Duke? How is this any different of an issue?
You need to get over the fact that people will do drugs regardless of the law.Prop 19 isn’t about creating access, its about destroying the black market
People sell marijuana ALL the time, regardless of the legality. Also, if prop 19 was passed, you wouldn’t have to go to your shady drug dealer to get marijuana. The reason violence is connected with marijuana drug deals is because it is illegal. Making marijuana legal takes out the middle man, which is why so many hard core dealers are against it as well, because they would be losing business.
There are going to be drug dealer whether this passes or not, so wouldn’t it make more sense to regulate who can sell. Your argument doesn’t make logical sense.
I respect the fact that your showing your opinion I do find your arguments,not thought out, when you say you dont want drug dealers, prop 19 pushes forth a system in which safety is pushed forth. Your correct marijuana is not like other drugs, ironically throughout the world marijuana is being used to counter the addictive aspects of other drugs,2 of which are legal in California.Tobacco & Alcohol.I mean this in no disrespect, but if you do want to look at this logically, research more. VOTE YES
Good blog James. You were informative without being condascending. You give a youthful outlook on a subject that many will oppose and you do it without malice. You are someone who would have seen the results of those who have used drugs and can give that first hand account that others can only guess. Well done and keep on following your ideals.
Bravo Dukey. You have shown great insight into the problem and great clarity of thinking. I don’t think responsible people will ‘kill’ you over this at all. Quite the opposite.
Pot is a mood-altering drug and leads to more serious drug use somewhere along the line. It is about as ‘harmless’ (not) on the ladder to full-blown addiction as beer is to the alcoholic.
I would find it hypocritically amusing if Californians voted to legalize marijuana but not gay marriage.