Intellectually having more people on the streets with altered or fried brains is dumb.
Think of the work place, fork lift drivers on MJ.. Don't we have enough problems with illegal drugs, and alcohol and they want to add to that number by making MJ legal. First it's medical MJ then with a foot in the door it's R&R MJ use. Much of the violence on our streets is the result of people high on some drug. MJ is a stepping stone to harder drugs. I'm against legalized MJ. The "Quality Of Life" in Oklahoma and Tulsa is fine it's what you make of it. The RiverParks offers miles of jogging trails, the low cost of living, mild climate, shops & museums make Oklahoma a fine place to raise a family and live. BTW Oklahoma has some the cheapest gasoline prices in the nation.
So, stay off the streets!!
And as always, most of this is for others, since you appear to have such limited capability to grasp simple concepts.... Tobacco and alcohol are the biggest "stepping stone" - gateway drugs - to other drugs. (I'm betting you are a smoker, too.) National Institutes of Health says that people who use marijuana are most likely NOT to move on to harder drugs.
Marijuana as Gateway Drug - The Myth that Will Not Die... It is a gateway drug in exactly the same way that people move to harder drugs have also tried chocolate. Or swallowed their own spit.... It is only the ignorant and feeble minded or companies who stand to lose billions from expensive drugs that really don't do what they should, or what we need, who won't investigate past the Faux News, RWRE, DuPont, and Richard Nixon intellectual cesspools, who still believe all that nonsense. Which are you? Drug company lackey??
As for your inane, trite, repetitious, and wrong comparative example.... well, geez.... Really?? You don't want marijuana users driving forklifts? Why not? Would they drive too slow for ya?? Typical Faux News garbage argument. Watch some PBS and listen to some NPR!! It might start a de-tox process of your system.... Nobody wants forklift drivers, or any other job related activity to be performed by an impaired person. But yet, the incidence of impairment is vastly higher with alcohol and tobacco than ever has been or will be by marijuana users. Think dangerous actions with alcohol, and massive losses in productivity by smokers (you have all seen and worked with the 2 - 3 hours per day 'smoke break' people...)
Violence - yep, MOST of it is drug related. NONE of it by marijuana users - they are all way too mellow and smiley-faced (meaning "sh$t-eatin' grin!) to be violent. It's ALL caused by the prohibition, which, as we have proven repeatedly, does NOT stop undesirable activity, but indeed increases it and creates opportunity for high profits and massive criminal organizations to thrive. Which we see now, just as we saw with alcohol during it's prohibition term.
Conflating marijuana use with
"Much of the violence on our streets is the result of people high on some drug" - your quote - is an ignorant, extremist, feeble attempt at an analogy. Again, wrong.
"BTW Oklahoma has some the cheapest gasoline prices in the nation."Your quote. And the nation as a whole has some of the cheapest gas prices in many years. No thanks to Mary Failin'....