Lies our drug warriors told us

Reno News and Review ^ | August 24th, 2006 | Dennis Myers

[cryptical]

I've seen most of these lies repeated by drug warriors here on FR, just thought I'd toss this out for a Friday morning.

[Izzy Dunne]

plasters it into the pipe much as a Christian would fill a hole with putty

Hmmm - I didn't get the memo on that - is there a "Christian way" to fill a hole with putty?

[outofsalt]

Some people say Pot makes you forgetful. I say that, umh, I, umh...

[dljordan]

I'm going to go get some popcorn. Back in a minute.

[Lazamataz]

Hmmm - I didn't get the memo on that - is there a "Christian way" to fill a hole with putty?

Well, Roman Catholics use rhythm.

[RayStacy]

"The reporter, Mark Twain, whose Victorian sensibilities made him uncomfortable when faced with the scenes in Chinatown, nevertheless was one reporter who did not use his coverage of opium use to demonize the Chinese. Others were less principled. They set the pattern of much of the news coverage of drug use that followed in the next century and a half."

Sheriff Behan from the movie, "Tombstone" "I'm also Chairman of the non-partisan anti-Chinese league."

[CertainInalienableRights]

The controversy arose at a time when both Democrats and Republicans in Congress and President Reagan had sliced apart the "safety net" that had long existed for poor families. By 1985, prenatal care and nutrition were less accessible. Federal deregulation of the insurance industry had cut low-income families loose from health insurance. Federally funded medical care had been slashed

If I had been willing to give the author the benefit of the doubt on this article, the above paragraph was enough to erase it. Typical Leftist twaddle.

[Louis Foxwell]

This poo-pooing of efforts to explain the devastation of drug abuse is popular among most conspiracy theorists. Dismissing efforts to dissuade children from experimenting with addictive drugs is a fool's errand.
Certainly truth telling is critical to believability. For those trapped in a lifetime of addiction, however, no amount of reason will suffice. Nor will hand holding therapies.
Overcoming the attraction of trance inducing drugs is best pursued by debunking myths about such drugs as a means to deep spiritual experience, instant serenity, ecstatic pleasure and their ilk. Those are the lies that kill.

[cripplecreek]

Plenty of lies on both sides of the issue.

[woollyone]

I'm a bit confused here...and really trying not to hijack the thread...prolly just rhetorical question, but maybe one day the SCOTUS might face the same question...if it hasn't already (not certain)...

Why is it that the same folks who cry about "the right to choose what one does with one's own body"...it's a privacy issue when it comes to killing the unborn donchaknow...are the first to say that the argument doesn't apply to drug usage. Hypocracy.

I don't use drugs, but just the same...inquiring minds wanna know...

[Wolfie]

ping

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Well, Roman Catholics use rhythm.

Brilliant.

[ichabod1]

In the pursuit of hypocracy, that's probably not the best windmill to tilt against. I suspect a larger portion of the abortionists are pro recreational drug use.

[Moonman62]

Show me the successful societies that tolerate legal and widespread recreational drug use.

[ichabod1]

I think the refusal to get serious about defending the border does more to debunk the federal WOsD than anything else. We talk about the illegales but we rarely talk about the cheaper, more potent coke and pot that gets ferried across.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Why is it that the same folks who cry about "the right to choose what one does with one's own body"...it's a privacy issue when it comes to killing the unborn donchaknow...are the first to say that the argument doesn't apply to drug usage. Hypocracy.

Because the Drug War makes money for those on both sides of the political aisle. The Drug War is about control; a lust for control is one thing that Democrats and Republicans have in common.

[SouthernBoyupNorth]

HHoooooooWeeeee Talk about opening a can of worms.....

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Show me the successful societies that tolerate legal and widespread recreational drug use.

The United States of America, from 1620 to 1937.

[showme_the_Glory]

Don't they use tar baby.

[mother22wife21]

I found that observation to be a little flaky myself. Why use Christian? Why not Muslims, Hindus, or Atheists? Totally distracted me.