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Klobuchar backs legalizing marijuana

noonereal said:
Honest? Who the hell cares. We are on the verge of a hot civil war and we have a candidate for president worried about legalizing a drug?

WTF?
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Well to be honest some of us have fought for this for decades.

To those of us who have worked for and supported legalization this is a big deal.

For all those people that a small possession charge has followed them all there lives, this is a big deal.

I'm tempted to compare legalization to the e d of a war, and considering people have died the comparison may be fair, but I do not want to even appear to disrespect our troops who have fought for our freedom.

So I will compare it to getting out of jail, that moment when you take that first breath of free air and are overwhelmed with all the things you want to do.

That is a moment that you truly appreciate freedom, or so I'm told...:cool:
 
GDViking said:
Well to be honest some of us have fought for this for decades.

To those of us who have worked for and supported legalization this is a big deal.

For all those people that a small possession charge has followed them all there lives, this is a big deal.

I'm tempted to compare legalization to the e d of a war, and considering people have died the comparison may be fair, but I do not want to even appear to disrespect our troops who have fought for our freedom.

So I will compare it to getting out of jail, that moment when you take that first breath of free air and are overwhelmed with all the things you want to do.

That is a moment that you truly appreciate freedom, or so I'm told...:cool:
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I can see your point.

BTW, I'd have legalized most drugs decades ago.

Still, when you are in the middle of a civil war about to become hot, this stuff seems trite.

I respect your alternate perspective.
 
nota bene said:
You know she throws stuff at her staff, right? And has eaten salad with a comb? That's pretty resourceful, but I don't know that it's "common sense."

How Amy Klobuchar Treats Her Staff - The New York Times

Exposing Amy Klobuchar's Mistreatment Of Staff Is Not Sexist | HuffPost

Amy Klobuchar tried to torpedo staff’s future job prospects: report | Fox News
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Ah the right's message to try and sabotage her... "What a classless bitch." :roll: Good luck with that, it might backfire.
 
Mongidig said:
Lets stick to the topic folks!
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"Nothing to see here, move along, move along."

If you want to get the speck out of Klobuchar's eye then you must first get the plank out of Trump's. :)
 
justabubba said:
hillary ****ed up when she did not come out in support of it in 2016. had she, more young voters would have turned out for her

based on news reports about how terribly klobuchar treats her staff, she needs to start inhaling
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Seems pretty interesting that we're just supposed to take these ex-staffers' word for it. How do we know they didn't have a grudge against her? Maybe working for a woman boss got under their skin too easily?

Seriously, if the worst we can say about Klobuchar is that she was tough on lazy staffers and once ate a salad with a comb, then she's pretty clean as a candidate. :thumbs:

Next faux outrage, please!
 
Mongidig said:
I was just in Denver. Everybody smells like weed. It's disgusting.
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I.e. while there you smelled pot once or twice. :roll:

I've been there a couple of times post-legalization and didn't smell it at all. Some members of a wedding party did, they tell us, get high, but others in our party got drunk. Whatever people want to do is fine with me.
 
Mongidig said:
I was just in Denver. Everybody smells like weed. It's disgusting.
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I doubt you were just in Denver if you think everyone smells of weed.
 
Bucky said:
It has? How does recreational marijuana use help? Look at the states that legalized marijuana and crime and car accidents have gone up.
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Yet that cannot be attributed to pot use, nor has there been any studies to show it is.

Colorado, for one, is undergoing a huge population surge. Crime rate increased with that, and since so many people are from Texafornia and can't drive worth a **** in the slightest bit of weather, our car accidents have gone up as well. It's annoying as hell, I wish people from California and Texas would have the decency to just stay the hell put in their own damned states.
 
Good. Still not voting for her, but good. It's nice to see the tide turning.
 
Phys251 said:
Seems pretty interesting that we're just supposed to take these ex-staffers' word for it. How do we know they didn't have a grudge against her? Maybe working for a woman boss got under their skin too easily?

Seriously, if the worst we can say about Klobuchar is that she was tough on lazy staffers and once ate a salad with a comb, then she's pretty clean as a candidate. :thumbs:

Next faux outrage, please!
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not a fan of persons in authority abusing that authority. a bully
too many good people to elect another such person into the white house
 
Winchester said:
Ah the right's message to try and sabotage her... "What a classless bitch." :roll: Good luck with that, it might backfire.
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In what journalistic world is the NY Times part of the right? HuffPo part of the right? :roll:
 
TheGoverness said:
Good. Still not voting for her, but good. It's nice to see the tide turning.
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I'm not sure who I'm voting for in the primary yet, but this seems like a no-brainer position, especially for a Democrat.

In the most recent primaries, a Republican running for Governor ran ads on legalizing pot, and ran a clip of Trump supporting the effort as part of the ad. That's in Tennessee, bible belt, very red state, and she must have had polling indicating it was good strategy. She lost but she wasn't a great candidate otherwise.

Point is when red state Republicans in the Bible belt are running on the issue, it's a good sign that public perception has changed and we're near the end. I hope so, anyway.
 
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