Reality … |

“ Of all tyrannies , a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep , his cupidity may at some point be satiated ; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be ” cured ” against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will ; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.” – C.S. Lewis

This is what happens when you screw with things above your IQ.

Now you see the problem arguing with people , using facts and logic , in trying to convince idiots who didn’t reach their positions using facts and logic. You’re trying to teach a pig to whistle.

It’s like throwing tennis balls at tanks.

And they keep overlooking the 800 pound gorilla in the room :

The cartels exist now.

They’re rich beyond the dreams of Croessus , brutal , utterly ruthless , and will not stop unless you’re going to kill them , in your quixotic quest to get the 1-5% dopers of society their high , legally.

Tell me how you’re going to deal with them without making things 10-20 times worse by simultaneously legalizing everything , everywhere.

Before pot legalization here, I never -zero , nada , zilch , not once in fifteen years – saw anyone in the ER for pot use. It simply didn’t happen …

Now I get two to three a night, 24/7/365/forever …
At multiple ERs I’ve worked in just the last 5 years …
Three potheads in a ten-bed ER is a big deal …
Three potheads in every ER is yuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge …