Felons and Welfare ... marijuana

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Belly35
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Aug 27, 2015 12:27pm
Should convicted (2 time) Felons be permitted to legally purchase marijuana when it becomes legal?
Should welfare recipients (2 years participants) be permitted to legally purchase marijuana when it becomes legal?
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Automatik
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Aug 27, 2015 12:30pm
Get a fucking job.
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queencitybuckeye
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Aug 27, 2015 12:34pm
Belly35;1747385 wrote:Should convicted (2 time) Felons be permitted to legally purchase marijuana when it becomes legal?
Should welfare recipients (2 years participants) be permitted to legally purchase marijuana when it becomes legal?
As compared to the cost of the bureaucracy that would be put in place to prevent it? Yes, let them smoke dope.
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Belly35
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Aug 27, 2015 1:20pm
queencitybuckeye;1747388 wrote:As compared to the cost of the bureaucracy that would be put in place to prevent it? Yes, let them smoke dope.
Good point


With the potential sales of pot legally in Ohio ( vote on the issue)

Will this increase the potential for more break-ins and robbery becaues of lost welfare and felons income?
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rydawg5
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Aug 27, 2015 1:23pm
Should Elderly be given health insurance? They keep dying on us. Costs us money. We probably shouldn't have to treat them because it's a waste of money since the inevitable is going to happen. #Belly'd
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gut
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Aug 27, 2015 1:33pm
Why shouldn't felons be able to purchase legal marijuana? They can buy alcohol, can't they?

And really there are many, many things people on welfare should not be allowed to buy. But even if you could enforce it effectively and affordably, it would still be very easy to circumvent.
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MontyBrunswick
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Aug 27, 2015 2:59pm
gut;1747405 wrote:Why shouldn't felons be able to purchase legal marijuana? They can buy alcohol, can't they?
they can buy virtually everything else too
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justincredible
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Aug 27, 2015 3:54pm
Belly35;1747385 wrote:Should convicted (2 time) Felons be permitted to legally purchase marijuana when it becomes legal?
Should welfare recipients (2 years participants) be permitted to legally purchase marijuana when it becomes legal?
Yes. The end.

Like qcb said, it would be far too costly to prevent it.
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Heretic
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Aug 27, 2015 4:03pm
Nothing is as refreshing as watching a supposed "small gubment" dude starting a series of threads to determine if people want really, really ungodly big gubment in order to look over everyone's shoulders and serve as watchdogs to make sure that people aren't doing things he feels they shouldn't be doing.
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j_crazy
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Aug 27, 2015 4:05pm
lest we forget, due to the archaic and asinine drug laws we enforce in this country, it stands to reason that the felon is likely a felon due to a past marijuana possession.
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rydawg5
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Aug 27, 2015 4:50pm
Rehabilitate people are not less human and deserve 100% of the rights they lost when they get of prison IMO.
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gut
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Aug 28, 2015 2:28am
j_crazy;1747444 wrote:lest we forget, due to the archaic and asinine drug laws we enforce in this country, it stands to reason that the felon is likely a felon due to a past marijuana possession.
I figure that was Belly's logic: their in prison because of weed, so make it illegal for them to buy weed and they won't commit any more crimes
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gut
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Aug 28, 2015 2:29am
Heretic;1747442 wrote:Nothing is as refreshing as watching a supposed "small gubment" dude starting a series of threads to determine if people want really, really ungodly big gubment in order to look over everyone's shoulders and serve as watchdogs to make sure that people aren't doing things he feels they shouldn't be doing.
To be fair, you could simply pass a law making it illegal for places to sell to felons. I imagine it would work about as well as gun laws.
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isadore
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Aug 28, 2015 6:51pm
no weed as a condition of parole is one thing, but once they have finished their sentence if others can buy it legally so should they.
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Belly35
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Aug 28, 2015 10:35pm
gut;1747557 wrote:I figure that was Belly's logic: their in prison because of weed, so make it illegal for them to buy weed and they won't commit any more crimes
i only ask the question, never gave my opinion on the thread topic....

Gut not a bad logic however.. :)