Veterans push for medical marijuana in conservative South

Re:Veterans push for medical marijuana in conservative South by LatteLazy on Monday August 16, 2021 @07:16AM (#28196841)

US Conservativism baffles me. It seems totally arbitrary what issues are personal freedom (guns, vaccination) and what are tightly socially controlled (drugs, abortion). I just don't get it. At least communists and libertarians are internally consistent.

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Re:Veterans push for medical marijuana in conservative South by skocznymroczny on Monday August 16, 2021 @08:26AM (#28197239)

Well, on the other side of the political spectrum you also have arbitrary boundaries on which issues are pro-science (vaccinations) and which aren't (nuclear power).

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Re:Veterans push for medical marijuana in conservative South by LatteLazy on Monday August 16, 2021 @08:46AM (#28197380)

No one is totally self consistent, but it seems weird to me: the dems can't quite manage it on nuclear power which is about 1% of their platform. The Reps can manage it on abortion, guns or the budget, which is aboht 95% of their platform...

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Re:Veterans push for medical marijuana in conservative South by triceratops on Monday August 16, 2021 @10:54AM (#28198824)

Is being anti-nuclear necessarily "anti-science"? How much have Chernobyl and Fukushima cost to clean up? Are there a lot of private insurers lining up to underwrite new plants?

Even if nuclear is perfectly safe (which it largely is), and waste disposal is a perfectly solved problem (which it's not), economically there's a big question mark over it. I don't understand why conservatives are so hot about something so fiscally reckless.

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Re:Veterans push for medical marijuana in conservative South by krapp on Monday August 16, 2021 @07:23AM (#28196874)

Conservative values are guided primarily by business interests, then traditional Christian dogma. The things they want to control and ban are contrary to one or the other.

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Re:Veterans push for medical marijuana in conservative South by LatteLazy on Monday August 16, 2021 @09:55AM (#28198105)

"Politics makes strange bedfellows" i guess. I guess you can make an alliance of single issue voters much more easily than an ideological one.

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Re:Veterans push for medical marijuana in conservative South by krapp on Monday August 16, 2021 @06:54PM (#28203929)

They've ended up with most of the Christians, most of the guns and most of the money on their side.

I deplore everything else about them but I have to respect the effectiveness of their propaganda.

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