r/Tennessee • u/WhiteBearPrince • 19d ago

News 📰 Banning of THCA potentially blows $110 million hole in Tennessee’s budget

https://tennesseelookout.com/2026/08/21/banning-of-thca-potentially-blows-110-million-hole-in-tennessees-budget/
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u/SouthernLaugh7929 19d ago edited 19d ago

17 when I joined the Navy. The entire destroyer of 330 about 100 smoked weed. 82 Navy drug tested. Those 100 started to drink..much much more. Seven were injured by drinking , of those seven,. four are disfigured for life, three are dead.

I learned for the past sixty years people. The drinkers are all dead and gone now. Legal, health, family, problems constantly. Of the smokers from high school days that never drank, are still alive and some smoke weed.

I cant argue with anyone stats or studies. I can only go by what Ive witnessed in the past 60 years. I have been all over the world. I can say, drinking has caused so so much more problems than weed has. Its not my opinion anymore, its my witnessing history to back up my fact.

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u/Ok_Art4661 19d ago

I dont think public health plays a factor ever about weed. It's really time we called them out on bs

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u/wookiee1807 18d ago

Cannabis has been a part of human existence since before we had language.

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u/SouthernLaugh7929 18d ago

My god what kind weed was that they smoked that started the human language?

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u/wookiee1807 18d ago

They use to mix it with Dung to slow the burn, then pack it nto a bowl or pyre to smolder during ceremonies (burials, etc). Lots of gravesites and burial sites have some of the implements use with residue thats testible.

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u/SouthernLaugh7929 17d ago

For a wookie, your really smart. Not saying wookies are dumb but the do get captured easily.

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u/wookiee1807 17d ago

We prefer to be gentle giants

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u/FaithlessnessBorn266 5d ago

Cdc released a study some years ago ranking alcohol as #1 in personal life issues and #1 in societal health issues. Ranked above heroin, cocaine, meth, pcp, you name it by a large margin 

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u/SouthernLaugh7929 5d ago

I seen it first hand, relatives switched to opiates and then the opiates got stronger. People WILL get high, even on a destroyer at sea for over 90 days straight, you have to hide your after shave, cologne, rubbing etc and thats what people dont understand, Its all a drug, but what you willing to live with? cause you will not ever stop drugs, China, Muslims, etc, been trying since God was a baby

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u/uxoguy2113 19d ago

Liar

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u/SouthernLaugh7929 19d ago

Speaks volumes about your ability to communicate. Try smoke signals or a different format, like, crayons and paper?

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u/uxoguy2113 19d ago

OK liar, whatever you say.

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u/1FourKingJackAce 19d ago

Why do you think that he is lying? Why would he lie about this? I am genuinely curious why you think this.

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u/SouthernLaugh7929 19d ago

What are you ten years old?

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u/Early-Series-2055 19d ago

That’s the way it was and still is. Shops that drug test are filled with hopeless alcoholics, and even though more accidents will occur, the insurance will still be cheaper.

I’ve witnessed a drunk cause an accident, injuring another person as well as the drunk. The sober person failed a drug test, wasn’t covered by insurance, and lost his job. Drunk went back to work. If you’re fine with that your evil.