California Republican Party Opposes Tax Cannabis Innitiative

[Skyhigh420]

SACRAMENTO – California Republican Party Chairman Ron Nehring today issued the following statement:

"The last thing California needs is hundreds of thousands of more people getting high, and the costs to society that would come from widely expanded drug use.

"We know a top factor behind whether young people try drugs is cost, and legalization would certainly bring the cost of dope down, making it much more widely accessible. We also know that if a person makes it to age 21 without trying drugs, they’re very unlikely to ever get started down the path of drug use beginning with dope and leading to much harder drugs like meth and cocaine.

"Proponents of legalizing ‘and taxing’ dope are trying to mask their efforts as some kind of revenue generator for state government. Whatever ‘taxes’ dope smokers would pay would not come even close to covering the societal costs of hundreds of thousands of more Californians getting high, the accidents and health problems they would cause, and other societal costs.
"California Republicans will fight this and any other measure to expand drug use in California. When it comes to this kind of legislation, there's a reason they call it 'dope.'"

http://www.cagop.org/index.cfm/statement_1085.htm
Get your boxing gloves on California Freedom Fighters, you're in for a fight.

 

[Preacher]

FT. WORTH - Texas lone nut John [redacted] today issued the following statement:

"The last thing California needs is hundreds of thousands of more people getting high, and the costs to society that would come from widely expanded drug use."

"We know a top factor behind whether young people try drugs is the drug's legal status, and legalization would certainly bring the taboo of dope down, counterbalancing it being much more widely accessible. We also know that our government's own scientifically-funded study proved eleven years ago that the gateway theory is at best false and at worst caused by prohibition, and anyone who still brings it up today must be an intellectually dishonest jackass"

"Opponents of legalizing 'and taxing' dope are trying to mask their efforts as some kind of moral public safety crusade. Whatever loose 'logic' they would use would not come even close to the findings of considerably better-reasoned and researched scientific studies like this one, explicitly spelling out the societal costs of hundreds of thousands of more Californians getting high, the accidents and health problems they would cause, and other societal costs- which is to say, none"
"Texas lone nuts will fight Republicans and any other crooks that would restrict drug use in California. When it comes to this kind of legislation, there's a reason they call it 'dope'- they invented the term themselves"

Check the link in the quote.

 

[krunchbubble]

http://www.cagop.org/index.cfm/statement_1085.htm
Get your boxing gloves on California Freedom Fighters, you're in for a fight.

about time!

 

[Voodoo]

Contributing to alcoholism is a much more viable investment apparently...

paging Cindy McCain...

 

[ChronJohn]

Check the link in the quote.

I like your version better

 

[Preacher]

Why thank you. Have you ever noticed that the pro-weed reasoning takes more words to convey than the anti-weed reasoning even when both are as much stripped down as possible? I think the Republicans are doing what they do with about every other issue lately- make it presentable to the intellectually lazy while counting on them looking no more into the matter. Hell I used a link in one place because there was just no way I could strip it down at all.