Jealous Wants to Legalize Pot

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everyone I know is voting for Jealous!

Honest question: do you think your friends are representative of state's overall demographics?

100% yes.

Honest question: Do you think Kentucky is representative of the country's overall demographics?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everyone I know is voting for Jealous!

Honest question: do you think your friends are representative of state's overall demographics?

100% yes.

Honest question: Do you think Kentucky is representative of the country's overall demographics?

The people you know could be representative in terms of demographics even if their politics did not match polling as a whole, as clearly everyone is not voting for Jealous.

And what does Kentucky have to do with anything as no one as made any statements about Kentucky voting and your analogy, assuming that was your attempt, is completely off.

[Anonymous]

According to polls no one expected Trump to beat Hillary so anything is possible.

[Anonymous]

Pot is already legal in MD

[Anonymous]

Next thing, Jealous will want to decriminalize crack. Just what Baltimore needs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Everyone I know is voting for Jealous!

I’m sure my super liberal friends assume I’m voting for Jealous. But I am not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't smoke it, but am all for legalization and taxation of pot. Will be voting for Jealous now.

Have been on the fence, but don't know if I can vote for any Republican now, and I like Hogan (and voted for him last time )

It’s not a popular concept in Maryland really.

It is a popular concept in Maryland.

+1.

“In Maryland, the idea is popular: each spring for the past three years, about 60 percent of residents tell the Goucher Poll they support legalized marijuana.”
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/politics/bs-md-legal-marijuana-democrats-20180420-story.html

[Anonymous]

Ben Jealous wants to legalize pot= Ben Jealous is trying to buy votes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is why I am not voting for him. Yes alcohol is bad, but marijuana turns kids into stoners and potentially worse. The kid at the end of my street died from a drug overdose, and I remember a few years back before he started having drug problems his mom continuously caught him with marijuana. That stuff is scary and seems to make kids lazy and not focused.

I ahree eith you PP. Look at DC struggling with the synthetic K2 overdoses, not to mention the rest of the country is struggling with heroin & opioid addiction. I support marijuana for medicinal purposes only. Marijuana for recreational use is a gateway drug for stronger drugs later down the line. Hogan just clinched my vote against Jealous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is why I am not voting for him. Yes alcohol is bad, but marijuana turns kids into stoners and potentially worse. The kid at the end of my street died from a drug overdose, and I remember a few years back before he started having drug problems his mom continuously caught him with marijuana. That stuff is scary and seems to make kids lazy and not focused.

I ahree eith you PP. Look at DC struggling with the synthetic K2 overdoses, not to mention the rest of the country is struggling with heroin & opioid addiction. I support marijuana for medicinal purposes only. Marijuana for recreational use is a gateway drug for stronger drugs later down the line. Hogan just clinched my vote against Jealous.

It’s a “gateway drug” because right now it’s an illegal drug and getting it involves dealers who also sell other illegal drugs wanting to upsell their customers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ben Jealous wants to legalize pot= Ben Jealous is trying to buy votes.

So running on a platform of wanting to enact any popular policy is “buying votes”?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is why I am not voting for him. Yes alcohol is bad, but marijuana turns kids into stoners and potentially worse. The kid at the end of my street died from a drug overdose, and I remember a few years back before he started having drug problems his mom continuously caught him with marijuana. That stuff is scary and seems to make kids lazy and not focused.

I ahree eith you PP. Look at DC struggling with the synthetic K2 overdoses, not to mention the rest of the country is struggling with heroin & opioid addiction. I support marijuana for medicinal purposes only. Marijuana for recreational use is a gateway drug for stronger drugs later down the line. Hogan just clinched my vote against Jealous.

It’s a “gateway drug” because right now it’s an illegal drug and getting it involves dealers who also sell other illegal drugs wanting to upsell their customers.

+1

If marijuana is legal, that means legal dispensaries that have to pass inspections, pay taxes, guarantee quality control of their products, etc. The K2 overdoses wouldn’t have happened with product from a legal dispensary.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't smoke it, but am all for legalization and taxation of pot. Will be voting for Jealous now.

Have been on the fence, but don't know if I can vote for any Republican now, and I like Hogan (and voted for him last time )

It’s not a popular concept in Maryland really.

It is a popular concept in Maryland.

+1.

“In Maryland, the idea is popular: each spring for the past three years, about 60 percent of residents tell the Goucher Poll they support legalized marijuana.”
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/politics/bs-md-legal-marijuana-democrats-20180420-story.html

It didn’t help Alec at all.
That polling question might not be designed very well because the vibe I get from people is more cautionary and uncomfortable than ‘yea, pot for everybody!’

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is why I am not voting for him. Yes alcohol is bad, but marijuana turns kids into stoners and potentially worse. The kid at the end of my street died from a drug overdose, and I remember a few years back before he started having drug problems his mom continuously caught him with marijuana. That stuff is scary and seems to make kids lazy and not focused.

I ahree eith you PP. Look at DC struggling with the synthetic K2 overdoses, not to mention the rest of the country is struggling with heroin & opioid addiction. I support marijuana for medicinal purposes only. Marijuana for recreational use is a gateway drug for stronger drugs later down the line. Hogan just clinched my vote against Jealous.

It’s a “gateway drug” because right now it’s an illegal drug and getting it involves dealers who also sell other illegal drugs wanting to upsell their customers.

+1

If marijuana is legal, that means legal dispensaries that have to pass inspections, pay taxes, guarantee quality control of their products, etc. The K2 overdoses wouldn’t have happened with product from a legal dispensary.

We already have legal dispensaries in Maryland as marijuana is legal for medical uses ( prescribed by a doc).

We already

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is why I am not voting for him. Yes alcohol is bad, but marijuana turns kids into stoners and potentially worse. The kid at the end of my street died from a drug overdose, and I remember a few years back before he started having drug problems his mom continuously caught him with marijuana. That stuff is scary and seems to make kids lazy and not focused.

I ahree eith you PP. Look at DC struggling with the synthetic K2 overdoses, not to mention the rest of the country is struggling with heroin & opioid addiction. I support marijuana for medicinal purposes only. Marijuana for recreational use is a gateway drug for stronger drugs later down the line. Hogan just clinched my vote against Jealous.

It’s a “gateway drug” because right now it’s an illegal drug and getting it involves dealers who also sell other illegal drugs wanting to upsell their customers.

+1

If marijuana is legal, that means legal dispensaries that have to pass inspections, pay taxes, guarantee quality control of their products, etc. The K2 overdoses wouldn’t have happened with product from a legal dispensary.

We already have legal dispensaries in Maryland as marijuana is legal for medical uses ( prescribed by a doc).

We already

Yes. And if recreational marijuana was legal, the same controls would apply.

(While also, by the way, free up spaces in prisons for offenders who commit harsher crimes than having an ounce of pot on them...)