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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All you hysterical prohibitionist biddies can suck it. Commence crying.

"This is young white man 5hlt. No one else spends two seconds thinking about this"

[i][b]Maryland votes to legalize marijuana, reflecting the nation’s shift[/b][/i]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/11/08/maryland-marijuana-legalization-results-question-4/

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Yup.  It's very sad.   Progressives better never again claim to care about marginalized communities.   They are as self serving as the MAGA crowd. [/quote]

What a weird take on this.  I don't understand why some people were so adamant against this.  [/quote]

People want to smoke weed but don't care how legalization will affect more vulnerable communities.   No leader has discussed it.  No leader has planned for it.   The person who hit and killed an elderly couple yesterday at the polls was tested for driving under the influence.   Absent a more robust safety framework, we will have more of that.    We will have more people with substance misuse disorder with no increase in treatment options.  We will have an increase in Emergency Department admissions, even though they are at capacity and have been for years.   We are supposed to be a smart state.   Why is it so bad to plan harm mitigation strategies before legalizing it?  [/quote]

I don't see it this way at all.  People are going to do what people are going to do.  Clearly no one should drive while intoxicated or while under the influence of any drugs but it still happens.  People shouldn't drive erratically while sober or engage in road rage but it still happens.  What you're basically saying here is that no one should be allowed to do X because some person somewhere is going to get hurt.  Well I can make X anything, including swimming in a pool because people will drown every year.  That doesn't mean X should be banned from the majority of the population because some people do X in a way that is not appropriate.  [/quote]

That is not what I said. I said legislators should have proactively worked to mitigate the known harms before legalizing it. Instead all they care about is tax revenue.

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It is declining tax revenue to boot. The rosy projections are not panning out.
https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/cannabis-tax-revenue-down-some-states-and-maybe-thats-okay

Add in how it abets more illegal production (and violence) that requires additional policing and the additional costs for the regulatory structure and this thing is probably a net negative as far as revenues go.
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