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[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 134 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Teachers can bring guns, let the kids bring weed.

[–] PumpkinEscobar@lemmy.world 44 points 6 months ago (5 children)

It’s the best way to keep everyone calm with all those guns around

[–] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)

When the shooting starts, the joints come out

[–] macarthur_park@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago

Tactical spliffs

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[–] toomanypancakes@lemmy.world 78 points 6 months ago (7 children)

That sounds awful! If you're gonna bring something to class, you need to bring enough for everyone.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 27 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Maybe he's touting smaller class sizes?

[–] simplejack@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago

True. Republicans famously love funding public education.

[–] ThePantser@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Puff puff pass with 20 joints seems like enough for everyone.

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[–] PancakeTrebuchet@lemmy.world 66 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

People can already bring 20 joints into a school if they want to. Has Ron looked at other states that have legalized it and observed schools bursting at the seems with pot?

prevalent odor of cannabis that he says would result from the reform

Oh no! Another smell to go along with car exhaust and low tide!

[–] EleventhHour@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago

Don’t forget the stink of sprinklers spraying shitty hard water so it smells like diarrhea everywhere.

[–] ATDA@lemmy.world 47 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Ok so ban booze and guns.

Oh wait he's talking out of his ass politically, ideologically, and logically.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Ok, how about we compromise and have teachers armed with joints to protect the kids from the drug dealers?

The best defense against a bad guy with a joint is a good guy with a joint.

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[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 35 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I remember the FUD that was spread when Colorado and Washington State legalized. None of it happened. A local TV News crew created an exercise where they would make different levels of cannabis user drive a course while traffic cops would evaluate their abilities to operate a motor vehicle.

Every driver considered themselves to stoned to drive safely even though the cops said they didn't drive like it. The Stoner girl said she was way to high to drive and wouldn't even try in real life but she passed the tests.

And the smell thing.... Pioneer Square in Seattle has a smell to it, if it hasn't rained in a while. Lots of pissing in the alley type behavior. I worked for a hospital that ran a clinic there. Usually the area stinks.

A long comes accessable cannabis for all. IDK if you don't like the smell of pot smoking.

It's by far better than the smell of piss.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

We also have a drinking culture where doing it alone at home is considered taboo. You're supposed to go out to a bar and do it, and then get home somehow.

Cannabis use doesn't have that culture, not even in legalized states.

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[–] HotboxedSubmersible@lemmy.world 31 points 6 months ago

Those kids can find their own weed. I'm not going to give out my weed to a bunch of kids. Insert Any George Carlin quote here

[–] gila@lemm.ee 31 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Reminder that teaching while drunk is perfectly legal in Florida

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[–] elliot_crane@lemmy.world 28 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Reminds me of the fear mongering a conservative family member was spouting when my state legalized weed. She was going on and on about how car accidents were going to “skyrocket” because everyone would be driving high. We’ve been legalized for about four years now, the first time I heard about any high driving incident was a couple of weeks ago when two people died. Now, obviously the number of high drivers is probably more than that, and any kind of intoxicated driving is irresponsible, but that’s the first time I heard a case make the news, meanwhile NHTSA says an average of 37 people die due to drunk driving per day.

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[–] pyre@lemmy.world 27 points 6 months ago

well you can't stop people from bringing joints by making it illegal; that way only the bad guys would bring joints. instead everyone should bring joints to school because the only thing that can stop a bad guy with a joint is a good guy with a joint.

[–] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 26 points 6 months ago

Pro Life Republicans: Legalizing weed will bring weed into Schools! Also Pro Life Republicans: ANY AND ALL REGULATION ON GUNS IS ILLEGAL!

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 25 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Leary said: “LSD is a psychedelic drug which occasionally causes psychotic behavior in people who have NOT taken it.”

I think this applies just as much to something like the Devil's lettuce.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 15 points 6 months ago

I can’t even imagine being a full-grown adult who doesn’t know what it feels like to have consciousness altered by drugs.

It’s like meeting someone who was born in a car, and they’ve just never ever gotten out of that car.

Like there’s a door in your wall marked “to alien universe” and you just walked by it for 40 years and never wanted to peek inside? What?

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[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 22 points 6 months ago

Ron. Ron, my guy. Do you know how much weed costs? Like hell am I bringing enough for the whole damn school, those little fuckers can buy their own.

[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 21 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Whats great is that elementary school kids can share a joint among like two or three of them so it is really cost effective

[–] numberfour002@lemmy.world 21 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Nobody brings that much marinuanans to an elementary school and even if they did they aren't giving that shit away free to the kids. Shit costs money.

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[–] reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.ml 20 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Wouldn't it be nice if Ron died a horrible, slow, painful death ?

[–] MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago

Anything less than Rabies is better than he deserves.

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[–] Rapidcreek@lemmy.world 18 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, but what I want to know is what happened to the Taco trucks on every street. It's closing in on lunch.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 10 points 6 months ago

Just think of how marijuana legalization would help the taco truck industry!

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 18 points 6 months ago

If you're going to bring weed to class, you better bring enough for everyone.

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 18 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

20 joints?

That's not nearly enough to share with everyone.

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 19 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Most of the kids have already been shot so we should be good.

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[–] outsideno1877@lemmy.world 17 points 6 months ago

I mean not too big of a fan of Marijuana since it increases my risk of schizophrenia which im predisposed too but its hard not to find this extremely stupid when cigarettes are still legal their and they are 100x worse along with vapes and alcohol. I mean if you are gonna have some laws be consistent instead of favoring one cause you like it more and poisoning the air

[–] heavy@sh.itjust.works 15 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Everytime a person or group is against something, they pull out the ol' "what about kids and schools?!" Like they give a shit.

[–] thegr8goldfish@startrek.website 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Oh, they definitely do care about schools.That's where middle age conservatives meet their wives.

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[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago

Joints are better than guns.

But I guess DeShitStain hasn’t quite thought that through.

[–] robocall@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] RunningInRVA@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

He probably does, but of course he has a persona to uphold.

[–] PenisWenisGenius@lemmynsfw.com 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

They already gutted Florida ballot initiative law so that it needs a minimum of a 60% majority to pass. They've openly rigged the marijuana ballot initiative part of the election to ensure it won't pass. It won't pass. If they think they still have to go hard on the propaganda to get enough people to vote against this thing maybe it's time to read the writing on the walls.

If Trump loses and isn't around to provide red states the ammunition they need to put and end to marijuana reform, I think the war on marijuana will finally lose enough momentum to start collapsing, if that chain reaction hasn't already started. They can't keep this up for much longer. I hope.

[–] ashok36@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Even needing 60% it'll pass. Medical Marijuana passed 71-29 in 2016. We've had cbd stores and dispensaries on every other corner here in Tampa for the last five years and no one gives a shit. Floridians travel to Nevada, California, Colorado, and other states and see that's its not a big deal.

I predict at least 70% vote for it. I'll be floored if it gets less than 65%.

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[–] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This is the same clown that released a Neo-Nazi campaign video right?

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[–] mechoman444@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago

Well, as long as it's not 19 or 21 then we're good.

[–] todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I am confused. When I was in school, a third of the faculty smoked. I was surrounded by hundreds of cigarettes all day every day at school.

What do they think is going to happen? The kids will get high by osmosis?

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[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago

20 joints? Bad!
20 guns? Go right ahead sir!

[–] simplejack@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago

If only there were states that passed similar laws that we could look at to see how things played out.

Oh wait. We do. And none of this shit happened.

[–] MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

He smiles so so terribly.

[–] El_guapazo@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They'll do something once someone builds an AR15 that shoots marijuana joints into people's mouth. Imagine 20 joint extended magazines.

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[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I live in Canada where marijuana is fully legal.

Ron DeSantis is a fucking idiot. Anyone who believes his bullshit is an even bigger fucking idiot.

[–] xantoxis@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

Look, teachers gotta be able to wind down in the break room.

[–] smokin_shinobi@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago (2 children)

South Florida is turning into New Atlantis and this fucking idiot is complaining about weed. I hope he gets hit by a meteor.

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[–] doctortofu@reddthat.com 8 points 6 months ago

Yes,and then the trans drag queens will start raping children with those joints and their BLT BBQ agenda! And the sun will go dark, and the milk in cows' udders will go sour, and then banned books are going to rain from the sky, right Ron?

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