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    People can already bring 20 joints into a school if they want to. Has Ron looked at other states that have legalized it and observed schools bursting at the seems with pot?

    prevalent odor of cannabis that he says would result from the reform

    Oh no! Another smell to go along with car exhaust and low tide!

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    Reminds me of the fear mongering a conservative family member was spouting when my state legalized weed. She was going on and on about how car accidents were going to “skyrocket” because everyone would be driving high. We’ve been legalized for about four years now, the first time I heard about any high driving incident was a couple of weeks ago when two people died. Now, obviously the number of high drivers is probably more than that, and any kind of intoxicated driving is irresponsible, but that’s the first time I heard a case make the news, meanwhile NHTSA says an average of 37 people die due to drunk driving per day.

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      Alcohol is pretty unique as a drug in causing car accidents. Most other drugs will either relax/sedate you enough so you don’t want to go out (opiates, ketamine), make you anxious enough so you won’t want to drive (cannabis, hallucinogens), or stimulate you enough so that if you do drive you probably won’t be that bad (coke, meth). Only alcohol will keep you up enough to socialize, confident enough to drive, and impaired enough to crash. Even if you were to legalize all drugs alcohol would still probably be the largest cause by far for impaired driving accidents.

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    I remember the FUD that was spread when Colorado and Washington State legalized. None of it happened. A local TV News crew created an exercise where they would make different levels of cannabis user drive a course while traffic cops would evaluate their abilities to operate a motor vehicle.

    Every driver considered themselves to stoned to drive safely even though the cops said they didn’t drive like it. The Stoner girl said she was way to high to drive and wouldn’t even try in real life but she passed the tests.

    And the smell thing… Pioneer Square in Seattle has a smell to it, if it hasn’t rained in a while. Lots of pissing in the alley type behavior. I worked for a hospital that ran a clinic there. Usually the area stinks.

    A long comes accessable cannabis for all. IDK if you don’t like the smell of pot smoking.

    It’s by far better than the smell of piss.

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      We also have a drinking culture where doing it alone at home is considered taboo. You’re supposed to go out to a bar and do it, and then get home somehow.

      Cannabis use doesn’t have that culture, not even in legalized states.

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    Reminder that teaching while drunk is perfectly legal in Florida

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      Of course is legal to be drunk at your job as long as it doesn’t involve operation of dangerous machinery like automobiles or otherwise put someone in imminent danger.

      Whether or not it will get you fired is a completely different thing.

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    Ok so ban booze and guns.

    Oh wait he’s talking out of his ass politically, ideologically, and logically.

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    Yeah, but what I want to know is what happened to the Taco trucks on every street. It’s closing in on lunch.

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      Just think of how marijuana legalization would help the taco truck industry!

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    I mean not too big of a fan of Marijuana since it increases my risk of schizophrenia which im predisposed too but its hard not to find this extremely stupid when cigarettes are still legal their and they are 100x worse along with vapes and alcohol. I mean if you are gonna have some laws be consistent instead of favoring one cause you like it more and poisoning the air

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    Everytime a person or group is against something, they pull out the ol’ “what about kids and schools?!” Like they give a shit.

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    They already gutted Florida ballot initiative law so that it needs a minimum of a 60% majority to pass. They’ve openly rigged the marijuana ballot initiative part of the election to ensure it won’t pass. It won’t pass. If they think they still have to go hard on the propaganda to get enough people to vote against this thing maybe it’s time to read the writing on the walls.

    If Trump loses and isn’t around to provide red states the ammunition they need to put and end to marijuana reform, I think the war on marijuana will finally lose enough momentum to start collapsing, if that chain reaction hasn’t already started. They can’t keep this up for much longer. I hope.

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      Even needing 60% it’ll pass. Medical Marijuana passed 71-29 in 2016. We’ve had cbd stores and dispensaries on every other corner here in Tampa for the last five years and no one gives a shit. Floridians travel to Nevada, California, Colorado, and other states and see that’s its not a big deal.

      I predict at least 70% vote for it. I’ll be floored if it gets less than 65%.

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        If it does pass it’ll be a major win for marijuana reform. Florida has 22 million people living there. That will put a significant increase on the percentage of Americans living in a jurisdiction with fully legal weed.

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    If only there were states that passed similar laws that we could look at to see how things played out.

    Oh wait. We do. And none of this shit happened.