So Florida voters can amend the Florida State Constitution via the ballot. Next month has a number of amendments for voters to consider, most notably Amendment 3 to legalize marijuana. I've been increasingly skeptical about this simply because there is a very well funded TV advertising campaign. Someone is putting a lot of money into this, which I find suspicious.
Well, the devil is in the details, and the fine print for Amendment 3 is, shall we say, interesting. The Polk County sheriff cuts through a lot of the fog in a way that I find pretty convincing. While I'm not adverse to legal pot, this seems to be a pretty bad way to go about it. I'm not a fan of changing the Constitution so that particular interests can make money.
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Too much political activity these days is geared towards keeping people stoned, stupid, entertained, and thus, easy to control...
When Oregon legalized cannabis, they taxed it so highly that the illegal growers had every incentive to remain in business. Now Mexican cartels have illegal grow operations all over the state, and rural counties don't have the budget to eliminate them.
The pot industry is also saddled by so many complex regulations that it takes big money to get into it.
Oregon also opened up the industry to out-of-state investors and owners, and within a couple of years there was a huge glut of product on the market and most of the growers and processors couldn't make a profit. But the stoners are in seventh heaven: Weed has never been cheaper!
Earlier this year the Oregon Secretary of State resigned in disgrace after it came out that she'd been accepting $10,000 per month from one of the largest cannabis corporations.
Employers have extreme difficulty finding workers willing to take jobs requiring drug tests.
These are some of the problems, I'm sure there are others.
Same thing happened in Califrutopia: as predicted, the cartels, under no obligation to do things above-board, undercut legal weed, and are doing thriving business. And at the retail level, the amounts are legally untouchable.
Other observations:
Smuggling weed in is easy. So the cartels also bring in carfentanil (the garage-brew equivalent of fentanyl, only deadlier, and more addictive), along with methamphetamine, cocaine, and heroin, with the result that the entire state is now awash in all the drugs that are supposed to be illegal.
Addiction and overdoses are at all-time highs (no pun intended), along with the resultant deaths, hospital admissions, and total waste of emergency resources. We now get ODs in their pre-teens all the way to people in their 60s. Also, drunks used to be (back when I started in the ED) one a week, and ODs one a month, on average. Now its 3-5 of each every night, forever, with no end in sight.
Every single homeless psych patient is positive for weed; more than half are also positive for meth and/or opiates.
This is also not your grandad's ditch weed from the '60s: this stuff is GMO'ed to about 99% strength, so people using it legally come in for intractable nausea/vomiting, leading to a 50% admission rate, and a minimum of a 6-8 hour ED visit to get their symptoms under control.
Until weed was legal in this state, I never saw anyone for pot use in the ED. Now it's a minimum of 1/night, up to 3-4, every shift.
Throw in DUI/DWI increases, and the resultant auto and motorcycle accidents and trauma, and everything is just ducky for working in the ED if you want full employment for life, forever.
It's wasting literally billions of dollars annually in wasted medical resources, besides police and court costs, in return for negligible returns to the state from the legal weed shops.
It's literally become the gateway drug to hell on earth, with no end in sight, and legalizing it was the stupidest, most disastrous thing they could've done.
Just like we told anyone who'd listen, before and after.
Do your state a favor, and just say no.
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