Yeah, and there is no escape!
Posted on 09/21/2002 5:49:50 PM PDT by Libloather
Texas? Life? Maybe you two should talk...
Cannabis should remain illegal. In fact, the more things the government makes illegal, the more business I have. I am really holding out for the criminalization of tobacco and alcohol so I can retire early.
Get used to it...
As far as I know, there is no law against smoking MJ and therefore no one has been charged with or jailed for such an offense.
People do use the terms smoking and possession interchangeably. LL thinks he has stumbled onto something profound by pointing out the inaccurate mixing of the terms.
It is just plain silly.
Thus the loudest voices for the legalization of dope today belong to libertarians and Marxists. They sing the tune in raucous harmony.
Donald Scott inherited a few thousand acres in the Santa Monica mountains outside of Los Angeles that the county wanted him to turn over to them so they could make it into a park, and he refused.
So the county Sheriffs colluded with the county parks people to phony up accusations of pot cultivation on Scott's lands. They did raids and gathered supposed evidence and one fine morning they raided his home and accosted him and his girl friend.
Scott heard his girl friend scream and came out of the bedroom with a gun. He had rushed out and didn't have his glasses on and saw a bunch of people, in plain clothes, accosting his girl friend. When he tried to protect his own girl friend, in his own home, on his own land, he was shot dead.
It was later proven that the charges of cultivation were entirely made up, there was no cultivation taking place, and Scott was killed without cause.
I am not a Libertarian but this is the actual result of the draconian drug laws we have in this country today. I can site example after example of innocent people ruined by the stupidity of our current laws.
The question:
As far as anyone can tell, not ONE person has been placed behind bars for smoking pot.
is a trick question. The question is, how many innocent lives have been damaged by marijuana laws? How many people have died? How many have spent years of their life fighting false charges?
This whole issue is a red herring. When did we decide that the government could tell people what to do with their lives? How to live? Where is freedom? Quoth the Raven, 'Nevermore.'
Frankly, I think we should just let these people drug themselves to death. If drugs were legal the prices would be cheap and these people would quickly burn out and die.
Let reality solve the problem.
The world-wide-web is waiting - will you ever answer the original question?
Well, will you?
Yeah, and there is no escape!
Cops and judges don't. Why do you? Who ARE you?
And the "poor doper-victim" argument watzes in, a prelude to the liberal Democrat multi-billion dollar nanny government, "kill 'em with kindness, free medical care, plenty of marijuana 'medicine,' and supplemental special security" policies.
Call it what you will ("socialism" fits). Just don't call it libertarianism.
BTW, should taxpayers be made to provide these poor victimized dolts with reparations? A lot of libertarians believe so. Do you?
Must be a bitch being consistently wrong - eh?
But I believe the haze is in for the long haul.
They do that a lot.
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