Re: Bicycle outing with happy ending

On 5/25/2025 1:11 PM, Shadow wrote:

On Sun, 25 May 2025 09:54:24 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
 

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An opinion piece today:
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https://nypost.com/2025/05/24/opinion/casinos-marijuana-why-ny-should-stop-trying-to-legalize-vices/
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Note reader comments diametrically opposite the writer.

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The risks of unchecked consumption are no secret, including the weed’s
addictive properties that can lead to mental illness and
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 Cannabis is practically non- addictive (less so than tea or coffee)
and NEVER leads to mental illness.
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to abuse of stronger drugs, legal and illegal
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  Like alcohol ? I fully agree.
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There are now rumblings that New York may consider decriminalizing
prostitution. //
  It was decriminalized in Brazil a decade ago. And the number
of prostitutes did not increase. The number actually DECREASED.
  Who's this guy lobbying for, the Mafia? They are the only ones
that gain by prohibition...
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  I can't see any reader comments. Probably just social-media
mining. I block that.

Reader comments (largely along our own views) are below the first block of ads, low on the page.
As I noted yesterday, I take no position. I'm conflicted on this; extreme policies of many sorts ave failed. For example the Fiume debacle after The Great War, which descended into utter dissolution (morphine, cocaine and prostitution ) in short order.
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