Deal struck to legalize pot in New York

Before I continue I want to make clear that if your growing a pot plant in your back yard and want to smoke it, I couldn't give a $#!T, you're a grown adult. Just like having a few beers in your back yard in a cook out or anything for that matter. The problem is, it doesn't stop there!!! No different than drinking and driving, so I am on both sides of this fence. Drugs and $$$$$$$ make people die! I saw this daily. Nothing good becomes of drugs, EVER! Very few people can sit on their back porch and smoke a joint and just stay there! That would be AWESOME if it were true, but it's not. People say drugs are a victimless crime. That is the farthest thing from the truth, families are destroyed from drugs, taxpayer dollars are spend by the millions a month from hospital visits of over doses. Ask yourself this, I've been to Jamaica more than I care to count and if you walk around, 90% of the Island is STONED and the only place that is making money or doing anything is the resorts. Pot flows like water because it grows wild and it's pretty much free. What would this Country look like if that were the case here? Eric Schamell , I taught at the USCG Academy in New London, Ct. That town is PLASTERED with drugs and violence, you just don't hear it daily. My point to all this is, 90% of ALL shootings in the Inner cities are DIRECTLY related to drugs! Fact! Lastly on this topic, my childhood friend shot himself so full of Heroin that it killed him! His choice and I said that at his funeral as I looked him in the face in his coffin. He started with "A little pot" in high school. If Marijuana were as simple as some say... and in many eyes it is, but it's NOT! I've seen enough dead bodies because of drugs! If it were all so simple... And, think about where your Pot is coming from, somebody may have been KILLED for it!

 

Agree 100%

 

Or is it you? Don't like facts?

 

There was a couple heartbreaking stories in Colo after they legalized, mostly edibles, couple crazed murders, kids overdosing, and, dogs and cats overdosing.

 

Oh, you were being sarcastic. Disregard

 

Here is the one I was thinking of

Man Pleads Guilty To Shooting Wife After Eating Marijuana Edible

 

While not trying to diminish these horrible occurrences... I believe responsible firearms owners feel exactly the same way about those who make irresponsible or even reprehensible choices with guns.
Personal choice and personal responsibility must be the norm or we lose every right we’ve ever had.

 

Exactly... what was the status of their marriage, what baggage did either spouse carry, what else was left out of the picture?

 

X2

 

Like blaming a gun for aiming itself and pulling its own trigger...

 

Indeed.