FelixDeCat
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Its the slippery slope. First you let the pot heads get their legal pot and eventually resistance to drug use and acceptance of any substance becomes the norm regardless of societal effect.Weed is not really part of the issue. That doesn't have the same bad effects as all the hard stuff that people are doing. The people destroying the city are not the ones doing weed, or drinking alcohol. It's the ones doing meth, cocaine, fentanyl and who knows what else is out there these days. Once you get hooked to that stuff your mind is 110% focused on getting the next fix and doing anything to get it including completely destroying other people's property or even lives. We should have compassion and empathy towards the victims of all this crime, not the actual ones doing it.
This is why Texas is steadfast in keeping all drugs illegal. We also punish the shit out of people which means its relatively safe to go out at night.
Unfortunately you have two things going on here now - so many people are moving here from other parts of the country bringing their stupid ideas with them and more liberal cities are lowering the standard for possession from arrestable to ticketable amounts of drugs.
Also shops selling modified CBD vape pens are everywhere since its not technically illegal but have about the same effect as smoking weed.
Hopefully we can keep crime under control and keep people in jail who are dangers to society including pot heads, meth heads, fentanyl heads, etc. Drugs are a scourge upon society.

