Dan Patrick's proposed THC ban triggers Texas GOP clash over cannabis

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[–]DaveMaverick 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (9 children)

Alcohol is a much, much, much, infinitely more dangerous drug to keep legal than pot.

The stoner friends I used to associate with are all still alive while my heavy-metal drunkard friends enjoy a vigorous 60% survival rate.

[–]American_Muskrat[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

Hiya Dave, welcome to the forum.

There shouldn't even be any talk of keeping anything legal. This is America not some God forsaken British nanny state.

If I want to pop the hatch of my tank to have a smoke and shoot up heroin that is my God given right as an American citizen.

[–]DaveMaverick 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

But if that needle full of Horse makes you need to commit crimes to do continue to so, that's a problem, we cannot have it, nor should you need to collect from anybody to get that Horse.

A drug like Heroin makes it almost impossible to be self-sufficient enough to sustain Heroin use so that's a social issue. Alcohol abuse makes it almost impossible to be self-sufficient to sustain alcohol abuse so that's a social issue, you don't have a right to waste your gifts on a life of chasing the dragon.

The things you have a right to are the things that edify and protect you, God doesn't give us life so that our gifts can be squandered, the words you attribute to our God Creator are false and blasphemous and you shouldn't allow falsehoods to escape from your tongue regarding our Good Lord.

[–]American_Muskrat[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.

God and me are bros, Dave. Bros. We're tight.

[–]DesertOfMirrors 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I don’t believe the state should be regulating substances. However, I do think that regular use of THC is destructive.

[–]WoodyWoodPecker 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I don't mind if you do it in your own house or whatever, just don't do it in public where I can smell weed as it smells like shit.

[–]American_Muskrat[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I do feel bad about the stank. My apologies Woody. 🙏🏻

[–]WoodyWoodPecker 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That's alright. Apology accepted.

[–]DirewolfGhost 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

We should view alcohol like transgenderism lol.

[–]DesertOfMirrors 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Transgender ideology is infinitely more destructive than alcohol, and that’s saying quite a bit.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

After smoking for 47 years I quit and I'll tell you why. If THEY are tampering with our food,they for sure are tampering with the weed. I don't miss smoking one bit!

[–]American_Muskrat[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Howdy Miss, welcome to the forum.

You can vape 95% pure thc or another cannabinoid analog right now and the only other thing in there is terpenes. Although yeah, I agree, bud is probably contaminated too. I don't think it's on purpose though.

I quit for years but my wife had me take it up again, said it makes me calmer. I don't know if I need it anymore, the reason I was high strung is gone.

[–]Jiminy 1 insightful - 3 fun1 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 3 fun -  (6 children)

It's good to make it illegal, so you can arrest idiots before they commit worse crimes. Look at crime skyrocketing since.

[–]Brewdabier 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Wow, the most insane shit for brain comment I've see all month.

[–]DaveMaverick 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Alcohol is at the root of so many more crimes though, why does it get off scot-free?

[–]DirewolfGhost 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Can't stop it. Happens when you put anything with calories in a bottle for long enough. Its not that they wouldn't love that control, its that they physically can't have that control.

[–]RedditButt 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They tried 100 years ago with prohibition. It turns out it's way too entrenched into our social culture to effectively ban, and no way to starve a supply chain of materials to make it.

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[–]Jiminy 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It is illegal when driving. They smell alcohol on you, you get arrested.

[–]American_Muskrat[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

We're like... too stoned to commit crimes man!

[–]Brewdabier 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Any educated person will point out the statistics proving cannabis is not a gateway drug, alcohol and tobacco is far more deadly than cannabis but the shit for brains have the first amendment so they can babble all they like.

[–]cunninglingus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

In Sunday sermon Dan Patrick says that if Christians don't fight, 'we lose'

Texas' lieutenant governor delivered the message at Houston's Second Baptist Church on Mother's Day, telling the congregation that the country is “under attack."

The Republican Southern Baptist told the SBC-affiliated megachurch that the nation is "under attack from true Marxist socialists," whom he alleges believe in government over God. These sort of folk, Patrick continued without evidence and without being more specific, want to "get rid of the family and get rid of God and make government everyone's family and everyone's God.

This is the kind of religious extremism you get with the Republican party, and now they'll rob the 99% to pay the .01%, while making an American Taliban across the US, banning drugs, human rights, &c.