Cannabis Sponsor
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Agreed. ..
Also, people don't lose their life savings and become addicts with the lottery like what can occur with the other very negative sides of gambling. Just saying that it really isn't an apples to apples comparison that applies well here.
Here in SoCal the lottery was supposedly to benefit schools.. but schools here
still have old floors, no AC, etc.
They just steal the money to pay salaries and pensions.. same thing with our gas taxes,
it's supposed to be for road repairs, but they don't repair anything.
Are you going to vote to repeal some of the gas tax? I sure am. I always vote against or to repeal any tax.
I think this is a great question, and brings up a good topic. The reality for tobacco and alcohol is that they have caused way more harm than we ever thought they would when they were originally allowed. The number of alcohol related deaths in car accidents and from abuse was never anticipated, and the effects of tobacco on health was not known when originally allowed. We would be much better off as a society if they were never allowed. As we have seen with prohibition though, you are never getting either back now that they are legal. If alcohol could be used appropriately socially, it wouldn't be an issue, but we have proven that a fairly large part of the population can't do that.
Why in the world do we want to enter into that problem with another substance that is unfiltered as compared to tobacco, and is already causing a significant increase in problems like deaths from car accidents in Colorado. The only answers I see to that question, are the tax dollars, which I think is a despicable reason, and the desire to have fun with it recreationally, which is an area where I think the problems far outweigh the benefits.
To more directly answer your questions, tobacco advertising has already been greatly limited due to its harmful effects, so I don't believe you can see that as a sponsor (correct me if I am wrong). Alcohol is a little tougher as much of pool is played in places that sell the product. I personally wouldn't want either as a sponsor, but its easy to see why it would be.
Part of the idea of it being picky can be simply the fact that cannabis carries a poor image still, and would only bring the pool image down further. You could argue that tobacco and alcohol should be on a parallel playing field with cannabis in its effects (which I probably wouldn't agree with completely), but it still isn't overall in the public's eyes.
Very well thought out post.
You make some reasonable and valid points.
But for the record I am in favor of legal pot.
It hasn't turned out to be the end of the world here in Colorado.
Yes we have had some problems with it but it is still a new thing.
I'm in favor of 50 state legalization not so much for the tax revenues but to free up cops for more important issues and to stop fining and jailing people.
And the people most prosecuted are minorities and the poor.
If how win the MaryJane Open you take home a lifetime of weed.
interesting tidbit,the wife as in your agent?
Either way, strong play and professionally entertaining will work for both entities,
rock on.
Let's make a movie.
You can get hired for a job if you are obese or diabetic, but if you cant pass a drug test you cant get a job, or at least a good one.
Ken
What's missing from that comparison is any sense of relative scale. Marijuana is a tiny fraction as dangerous as either alcohol or tobacco.
And even though alcohol and tobacco are much more dangerous, they can be used responsibly and don't get over my high bar for abridging freedom of choice - I wouldn't prohibit them either, even in hindsight.
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We should make a movie. A movie where every sport on the planet including table tennis, aka ping pong, has sponsors like AT&T and NBC but billiards does not because pool players drink, smoke and gamble and that's unacceptable. Wait we don't need a movie because that is the reality we live in. Except for the latter of course. We all know this is not allowed and the people who do represent the numerically small population of every sport who do.
Wouldnt a methamphetamine sponsor be more appropriate?
Would not work for 1P as it would Speed the game up. Heroin would not work either as everyone would be sleeping. As for cannabis why not...promote it...peoples kids and grand kids could get fkd up real early in life. Never know what being un-fogged is like.
I do not care what responsible people do. Do we have to (no pun) blow it in everyones face.
ayn.. somewhat maybe, what ever the reasons are for these vises' to reach this point
in our culture, its now an annuity for the forces in charge.
There still would be graft and political embellishment, I'd prefer the net proceeds go
in the direction of health care in a competitive form, at least the money would be
circulating among the users and gamblers.
It would also be an easy way to have losing lottery tickets be a coupon at the pharmacy.
Hell, yeah.. the jig's up with politicians and 'officials' trying to raise taxes
so they can make off with the money for pet projects and giving themselves
raises. "This time it's only for the roads and bridges".. yeah, right.
What's the old saying.. "Fool me once.."
Oh, and in Cali , they only legalized pot so they could tax that too.. turns out the
millions they thought they'd be getting hasn't materialized.
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Team Bong could play The EZ Widers.
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I spend $30 a week on lottery drawings.
I do win very small amounts here and there but still its a negative cash flow.
Scratch off tickets randomly maybe another $10 to $20 week.
Casinos about $300 to $400 every 2 months if I lose,which is most of the time.
I dont think i'm an addict and I can afford it.