• Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
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        Guns aren’t too concerning by themselves, but I think we all know a few teachers from our school years that should never, ever own one.

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          Yup we had one go nuts and dump out all our cubbies in 6th grade, because too many of us forgot to bring out work and she was convinced we hadn’t done it and left it in our bags.

          She retired at the end of that year.

          I had another in HS that threw a hammer at a kid (it was a vocational class), that annoyingly put me off a career in the trades. I wish now that I’d stuck with it. I much prefer working with my hands over temporarily organizing pixels.

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            It’s never to late to start. We just had a guy who was 45, and worked in an office his entire career, join our apprenticeship. Being a union electrician is a great gig. Our pay is great and the benefits are awesome.

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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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    Ok so ban booze and guns.

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

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      Ok, how about we compromise and have teachers armed with joints to protect the kids from the drug dealers?

      The best defense against a bad guy with a joint is a good guy with a joint.

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        The best defense against a bad guy with a joint is a good guy with a joint.

        I’m not a fan of pot but your logic is flawless.

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      The Florida government loves nothing more than a bunch of kids to get gunned down in a school shooting, as it means they can route that more money to police and less money to students.

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      I’m okay with banning anything to ban guns. Or, at least threatening it.

      Maybe someone should try to pass a law with a ban on all contraceptives, abortion pills, and rainbow flags…… with a gun ban tacked onto it. See how much they really care.

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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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        Idk about that. There weren’t cannibas bars because cannibas wasn’t legal. But the idea of going over to a friend’s house or on a date where you both smoke weed together is hardly new.

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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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    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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    well you can’t stop people from bringing joints by making it illegal; that way only the bad guys would bring joints. instead everyone should bring joints to school because the only thing that can stop a bad guy with a joint is a good guy with a joint.

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    Leary said: “LSD is a psychedelic drug which occasionally causes psychotic behavior in people who have NOT taken it.”

    I think this applies just as much to something like the Devil’s lettuce.

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      I can’t even imagine being a full-grown adult who doesn’t know what it feels like to have consciousness altered by drugs.

      It’s like meeting someone who was born in a car, and they’ve just never ever gotten out of that car.

      Like there’s a door in your wall marked “to alien universe” and you just walked by it for 40 years and never wanted to peek inside? What?

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      You think weed causes psychotic behavior? I’ve seen lots of reactions from weed… But psychotic is not a word I would use to describe any of them… Someone on a bad hallucinogenic trip that they can’t handle can definitely enter into a psycho episode though (unfortunately I have seen that).

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          Bah! First thing in the morning eyes! I didnt understand why you were getting upvotes. Ok fair enough. I’m gonna leave my mistake there anyhow. Drugs are great, I’m glad we are all in agreement!

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    Pro Life Republicans: Legalizing weed will bring weed into Schools! Also Pro Life Republicans: ANY AND ALL REGULATION ON GUNS IS ILLEGAL!

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    Ron. Ron, my guy. Do you know how much weed costs? Like hell am I bringing enough for the whole damn school, those little fuckers can buy their own.

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    Nobody brings that much marinuanans to an elementary school and even if they did they aren’t giving that shit away free to the kids. Shit costs money.

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      Yeah I don’t think DeSantis realizes that little 9 year old Tommy’s wallet just ain’t that big. Like…what dealer does he think is just frothing at the mouth to break into the elementary school market? 😭

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    Whats great is that elementary school kids can share a joint among like two or three of them so it is really cost effective