What’s up with this? Most of the people that are 65 or over were the ones that were burning draft cards, smoking pot, dropping acid and trying to “stick it to the man” way back when. Now it looks as though they’ve collectively turned into staunch supporters of the status quo and have basically become cowards. They’ve forgotten what they were fighting for in the first place! How sad and how shameful.

uhhh… no. most people over 65 were looking scornfully at hippies while they were burning draft cards and sticking it to the man. the people you describe represented a small (though vocal) segment of the population at that time. if you follow this poll back to the 60s i think you’d find that the vast majority of the population was opposed to marijuana.

That means, barring complete economic collapse or fundamental change, we might legalize pot in 20 years.

Or if corporations go to the government with a “market plan” and ask for it.

It is only a matter of time.

I never got why so many people were down on weed. I get the beer and wine lobby always being down on weed. I get the pharmaceutical lobby recently being down on weed. I just don’t get anybody else being down on weed. If you don’t want to smoke pot, the obvious solution is don’t smoke it. Because the thing is, there are already people out there driving while high, working their jobs while high, going to the grocery store while high, (you can find those ones in the cookie aisle). Prohibition doesn’t work and though I can understand restrictions on substances that turn you into somebody you’re not, pot isn’t like that. It’s just prejudice.

Isn’t it strange that people are so opposed to pot, but take pills constantly to “alter” their mood? !

Yep. Not to mention alcohol and tobacco and I’ve gotta be honest, out of all the substances I’ve ever quit, cigarettes was the toughest by far and I’d be willing to bet that cigarette smoking costs society the most in associated health costs of any substance, again by far.

Link taxing weed to paying for SS or fixing Gov Walkers budget and those numbers should go up.

At least it’s just a matter of time. Too much time is what I’m afraid of.

uhhh… no. most people over 65 were looking scornfully at hippies

I think Turbocrusher means people who are over 65 now not people who

were 65 in the 60′s.

while they were burning draft cards and sticking it to the man. the people you describe represented a small (though vocal) segment of the population at that time. if you follow this poll back to the 60s i think you’d find that the vast majority of the population was opposed to marijuana.

Yes in the 60′s a vast majority opposed pot. Also like most parents and grand parents while the vast majority did things when young once they became parents and grandparents themselves they changed their minds about things.
For example the number of women who give up smoking during their first pregnancy chances are they also give up pot.

Don’t forget pain from a job like back ache pot becomes legal to grow your own joe Six pack a day after work because he can’t afford a doctor becomes Joe save a $5 a day and rolls his own.
The Oxy industry makes its money when the beer don’t work anymore.

grab your ankles

Now it’s on! Boehner grabs ahold of the third rail. Pledges to Cut Social Security and Medicare
Boehner Pledges to Cut Social Security and Medicare

House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) told the Wall Street Journal that he’s “determined to offer a budget this spring that curbs Social Security and Medicare, despite the political risks, and that Republicans will try to persuade voters that sacrifices are needed.”

Said Boehner: “People in Washington assume that Americans understand how big the problem is, but most Americans don’t have a clue… Once they understand how big the problem is, I think people will be more receptive to what the possible solutions may be.”

“Boehner also spoke forcefully in favor of raising the government’s debt limit, a move strongly opposed by many conservative House Republicans. He reiterated that the action would have to be coupled with significant spending cuts.”

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2011/03/03/boehner_pl…

Said Boehner: “People in Washington assume that Americans understand how big the problem is, but most Americans don’t have a clue… Once they understand how big the problem is, I think people will be more receptive to what the possible solutions may be.”

Its a manufactured crisis he had no problem with the bank bailout. He won’t even talk about taxing pot.
Oh no we can’t raise taxes on the rich in a recession. Tax cuts create jobs. Never mind the 8 Bush years show tax cuts for the rich don’t create jobs. Free Trade creates jobs in China at the expense of the the American economy. The 2 years of Obama has shown saving the banks does not create jobs in America or save our homes.

Actually, there should be an age divide over 65. Those between 65 and about 69 are young enough to have been part of the rebellion of the 1960′s. But much older than 69 or 70, and they may not have been part of it. I was part of it, and support legalization …

Plus the alcohol will destroy what’s left of your pain-racked body while the cannabis won’t (based on the research I’ve reviewed ad nauseam). I think that’s nothing but cruel.

Jon, thanks so much. I’m as anti-drug as the come, and especially after reading all the great work at FDL, I’m a vigorous supporter of de-criminalizaiton and taxation.

wrong! Most are not. The 1st wave of baby boomers is just reaching 65 this yr. It’s the 50′s generation that are the conservatives and never smoked pot. Boomers were just kids in the 50′s. It’s teh 50′s generation that gave us the Reagan youth of the 80′s generation X punks not us boomers. It’s these two uber-conservative groups that are fucking up America.

You know, the majority of college aged people in the late 1960s weren’t hippies. They had student-volunteers for hall monitors back then too, they just didn’t get any press.

Well, this 65 yr old, who is a Vietnam combat vet, an ex-cop (LEAP member) and law school grad that attended Woodstock, will have nothing to do with the status quo. I always travel with Cavalry Stetson and LEAP tee shirt. Always having those “little talks” (elevator comments).

And you can believe that I’ll fight til my dying day, simply for the oath I took at the age of 20, “…to faithfully uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of America, against all enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC!” Age doesn’t change crap!

this vast majority you speak of, was as brainwashed with propaganda then as you are today. If the constitution had been followed, then marijuana would not be illegal – It’s all about FEAR son . . .

FEAR, that someone with an open mind (e.g. pot smokers) won’t fall in the little government piggy line – and listen to all the gov. lies

Just about FEAR… nothing else… And once you get past the FEAR of Marijuana, and YOU realize that Reefer Madness REALLY WAS JUST GOV PROPAGANDA, NOT SCIENCE… you’ll forget you ever feared it to begin with!

chew on that one sport!