bigfoot
I have to vehemently disagree with you on the possibility of legalizing recreational cannabis. I know from personal experience of people I knew who were addicted to it and how devastating it can be in so many facets of their lives.
For so many people it is definitely a gateway drug to other drugs that are far worse than.

Did having it illegal stop those people? I’m not denying what you said about some having issues with it and some maybe starting with it and moving on to more concerning drugs. I for one was one that had an issue with it and haven’t touched it in 16 years come February.

I know way more people that gatewayed from alcohol than weed. But for some reason, a much more damaging to your health drug, is normalized and doesn’t carry that “gate way” tag. Alcohol by far, is the largest gate way drug in the US and the most abused. I for one am guilty of abusing it on occasions and not abusing it multiple times per week. So, I am no way anti-alcohol, pro weed. We saw what happened with prohibition, not really being a viable system. That and the money generated from the industry. Many never touched weed and fell off the edge from being prescribed pain pills. The majority of the opioid epidemic is from legally prescribed pain pills.

Ohio is (my bad I thought WV too, only bordering state to PA that is illegal) far more conservative than PA, legalized. Those states and many others have researched the available data. PA will eventually do it. The amount in taxation and cutting the head off of drug trade is common sense at this point. Focus LEO efforts on the more harmful drugs. Maybe even forces some of the current and future dealers under the current system to seek legal employment?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvdVLIfRdyU

Manipulative people you can see right through but are so full of themselves they think they got over on ya.
Then they wonder why they never get invited back

bigfoot
I have to vehemently disagree with you on the possibility of legalizing recreational cannabis. I know from personal experience of people I knew who were addicted to it and how devastating it can be in so many facets of their lives.
For so many people it is definitely a gateway drug to other drugs that are far worse than.

 
as a recovered (by the Grace of God) alkie and opiate addict that ran with the alkies and addicts from 13 to 33, (and never met a drug I wouldn't try) as well as  helping those that want recovery help for the last 30+ years,  I'll can only share that's certainly not my experience, my friend 
I strongly suspect the lives you've seen ruined wasn't due to pot. 
I'll bet the farm there were other drugs/alcohol and/or serious wrong personal life choices involved that caused their fall 
 
and I'll suggest alcohol is the gateway drug.
It's the drug most of us experienced our first "love for the buzz" of recreational drugs (yes, alcohol is a drug, and yes, those that imbibe ARE drug users)
and distilled spirits are a "hard drug" 
 
 
 
..KTF  

genieman77
and distilled spirits are a "hard drug" 

100%. I don’t ever recall back in my pot smoking days ever blacking out for hours like the distilled stuff does. Now sure, stuck to a chair for an hour but not stumbling around acting a fool. Just stuck there not bothering anyone, obviously foolish too. Once I gave pot up, never any sort of physical sensation that “I had to get a puff”. Alcohol, there is definitely a physical pull. If it is a weekend after dinner time, I have a distinct urge for a beer. I’ve cut back drastically from 10 years ago when I was in my 30s and hangovers weren’t as bad. Probably should completely quit, but am able to enjoy 1-2 and don’t feel the need for more (at times I will though). I rarely touch the distilled stuff and haven’t done the act a fool blackout hard stuff in over 20 years. Even then, was very rare, maybe cabin trips or other things with others doing the same. Enough dumb moments from beer alone to feel the need to be dumberer.

Porktown

100%. I don’t ever recall back in my pot smoking days ever blacking out for hours like the distilled stuff does. Now sure, stuck to a chair for an hour but not stumbling around acting a fool. Just stuck there not bothering anyone, obviously foolish too. Once I gave pot up, never any sort of physical sensation that “I had to get a puff”. Alcohol, there is definitely a physical pull. If it is a weekend after dinner time, I have a distinct urge for a beer. I’ve cut back drastically from 10 years ago when I was in my 30s and hangovers weren’t as bad. Probably should completely quit, but am able to enjoy 1-2 and don’t feel the need for more (at times I will though). I rarely touch the distilled stuff and haven’t done the act a fool blackout hard stuff in over 20 years. Even then, was very rare, maybe cabin trips or other things with others doing the same. Enough dumb moments from beer alone to feel the need to be dumberer.

 
 
thing is, folks that have never used other drugs besides alcohol have no clue what their effects are.
Many of them think fentanyl, meth, LSD, shrooms, PCP,  coke, pot  are all the same and their use dooms    the user  to be a Kensington street zombie 
 
truth is, alcohol causes more death, pain and suffering directly and indirectly than ALL the other drugs COMBINED!!!!
Yet,  it's marketed and PROMOTED for crying out loud 
 
For the record, I'm an advocate or ending all prohibition laws and end the losing "war on drugs" (it's biggest trillion dollar boondoggle there is)
 
Drug abuse is a social issue, not a criminal one as long as you're not robbing or stealing to get high
 
BUTT....Just me, if drug abuse is the concern they want to fix, I'd suggest they focus on the drug that causes the most problems BY FAR...alcohol 
 
..KTF 
 
 
 
 

Back to being aggravated, just sat in the left turn lane for 3 sets of lights, the discovered that someone in the middle of the string was leaving 5 vehicle lengths between them and the next vehicle.

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DarDys
Back to being aggravated, just sat in the left turn lane for 3 sets of lights, the discovered that someone in the middle of the string was leaving 5 vehicle lengths between them and the next vehicle.

Sorry about that. I was posting on Fishusa while driving, then watching some YouTube flat earth videos, then reading a book….

I have actually seen multiple people reading books while driving down the interstate. My mind was blown after seeing it for the second and third time! One was in a Tesla and assume their autonomous driver mode. But others were in regular sedans, struggling to stay in the lanes. Safely sped passed them and looked over to see if they were sleeping and a dang book open on their steering wheel. I honked at one and almost crashed…. So have decided to not honk at that any longer.

Why is it every time a new archeological find is made it has to be directly associated with a famous past person or the finding of Noah's arc.
with all the hyped up news articles about it.
Why not just some bored old ancient guy with a chisel pounding on a rock