05-25-2021, 10:06 AM
(05-25-2021, 09:38 AM)beechnut79 Wrote:(05-25-2021, 12:43 AM)pbrower2a Wrote:(05-24-2021, 06:11 PM)Tim Randal Walker Wrote: Regarding marijuana....
This is a relatively mild stuff, compared to other drugs. legalization, or at least decriminalization, isn't particularly radical.
A 4T might have society relax on one old stricture (LGBT rights) while getting more rigid in enforcement on other matters of sexuality and marital life. People who got slaps on the wrist for messing with children now get long prison terms if they don't "off" themselves as did the late Jeffrey Epstein. Likewise we see more of a crackdown on domestic violence.
Marijuana obviously isn't as bad as opiates, meth, and date-rape drugs. Perhaps marijuana might serve as an exit from more dangerous drugs... and if not, it can be taxed like alcohol and tobacco. Tax revenue gets dicey in a 4T, which might be part of the explanation of FDR seeking the repeal of prohibition in the last 4T.
The scenario described here could be a prelude for the domino of prohibition against sex work to fall. It could be taxed as well. Do you think we’ See that before this turning is exhausted?
Legalized, taxed, and probably unionized... and whether I like or dislike "sex work" as an activity matters not in the least. Taxation is one sign of legitimacy of an action... and I can't imagine an activity in which one could more need a union as protection from exploitation and abuse. The absolute worst abuse in prostitution is violence in which a 'client' brutalizes and even murders prostitutes out of some sick version of judgment. One serial killer admitted in an interview "I always killed prostitutes".
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.
