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Posted on 02/03/2012 10:57:07 AM PST by gabriellah
Both drugs and alcohol have always been accessible to Americans. Drugs are accessible now to anyone who wants them, and at an affordable price. The drug war has utterly failed to control availability.
What you are apparently missing is the fact that the vast majority in this country has always chosen alcohol as its drug of choice. That was true even during the 20s when pot was legal and alcohol was prohibited. Your explanation simply doesn't stand up.
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Also, how do you justify supporting the ongoing violation of the Tenth Amendment that national prohibition requires?
It's about self interest. People argue in favor of that which they do. Mary Jane is a very seductive mistress. And lot of guys are here making passionate defenses of her. They get very irate if you slight her. You can clearly see this is personal, not at all academic.
I smoked the stuff for a very long time. I know the allure. She was my muse. I was only able to give it up forever when I started being honest with myself about what it was doing to my mind and my spirit and when I decided that my wife and family deserved a better me. I understood that God was not neutral in the choices I was making and I stopped.
I don't really have an opinion on legalization. I guess I'd be in favor of some kind of effective decriminalization that allowed industrious users to grow their own (it's not hard, I've done it myself several times). I have a hard time rationalizing the government telling anyone what they can grow. But seeing the stuff normalized to the point of being advertised and sold alongside cigarettes at the store would be an utter disaster for America. I don't know how many more disatsers this country can take at this point.
C’mon, you know the effect creeps up on you. Back in the 90’s, at the end of a very long shoot, one of the cast members had a bag of Alaskan that I’d never tried. Beautiful flower, sweetest thing I’d ever smelled. I took one hit. The bowl went around the set, minutes passed and it came back to me. I felt a very minor buzz, so he re-packed it and I took a second hit. Why not, I had an hour of work before wrapping out. About five minutes later, I felt like I’d just eaten a sheet of acid.
Long story short, when I had to drive home from Downtown to the Hollywood Hills — a 20 minute drive normally — I got so incredibly lost that I took the four-hour route by way of Santa Barbara. And I was still wrecked when I finally got home.
Who should make those decisions, fedgov or the states?
The feds can decide what crosses the borders. That’s their job. The states can decide if they’d like to decriminalize personal growing. If my state put the question before me, I’d vote for that. That’s my line.
So the gist of your argument is that the mob is still heavily involved with the production and distribution of alcohol? Or maybe they just moved on to something else then? Your argument lacks both logic and substance..the Mob of today is a nothing but a shadow of what they were back “in the day” let alone the complete lack of criminal involvement in the manufacture and distribution of spirits. You need to find a new argument...that dog don’t hunt.
Nonsense....
That's your choice - shouldn't your fellow adults be free to make their own choices?
Don’t worry... in the coming dystopia, you’ll have all the soma your heart desires.
All I desire is government limited to its proper function of defending individual rights.
>> “If I’m in pain, I’ll take hydrocodone or oxycodone...” <<
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That’s what cost Limbaugh his hearing, and he was warned.
Abusing them may have cost Rush his hearing. Taking them as prescribed for severe pain certainly didn’t.
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