Make Peace With Pot

NY Times ^ | April 26, 2004 | ERIC SCHLOSSER

[Jaysun]

You know buying weed supports terrorists...biggest lie I have ever heard. What a joke.

Yea, I would think that terrorist are more likely to profit from smack and fake Rolex watched than pot.

[William Terrell]

LBJ! Slowly I turn, step by step. . .

[tdadams]

Quite a sensible, well reasoned article.

[tdadams]

have you ever heard that Ozzie Osborn says that smoking pot led his son Jack to experiment with harder and more addictive drugs?

Oh, well, since we have Ozzy's word for it, I guess that settles the matter.

[Cultural Jihad]

Interesting article, but I'd give it a C- in the unspun facts competition.

[BrooklynGOP]

Let's prohibit alcohol as well for the children...please

That's what I say! Junk food, too!

[philman_36]

He railed for years about people with long hair and I've seen photos of him with long hair late in his life.
A two way street with a one way street mentality.

[Joe Hadenuf]

About 700,000 people were arrested in the United States for violating marijuana laws in 2002

What a joke, as that many are entering our country illegally every year creating epic fraud, crime, choking off all of our social services, overcrowding our already over crowded classrooms etc, etc etc as our so called leaders stand in silence.

[robertpaulsen]

"Quite a sensible, well reasoned article."

I bet I can find as many exaggerations in the above article as in the ONDCP letter.

For example: "In Louisiana, selling one ounce can lead to a 20-year prison sentence." This is true. But, Louisiana doesn't break it down -- selling less than 60 pounds is a felony, 5-30 years in prison. And get this, you can possess any amount of marijuana and it's only a misdemeanor.

[tacticalogic]

Oh, well, since we have Ozzy's word for it, I guess that settles the matter.

Now we can move on to what Sarah Brady says handguns did to her husband.

[William Terrell]

Probably the worse elite asshole we had, right up there with FDR(! Slowly I turn. . .). I noticed that when he took over the office, he did things that Kennedy was rumored to have refused to do. If I were more conspiracy minded. . .

[tacticalogic]

I bet I can find as many exaggerations in the above article as in the ONDCP letter.

Maybe so. Now convince me that public servants, paid by the taxpayers, shouldn't be held to any higher standard of ethics and veracity than a newspaper editorial writer.

[Cultural Jihad]

I bet I can find as many exaggerations in the above article as in the ONDCP letter.

For example: "In Louisiana, selling one ounce can lead to a 20-year prison sentence." This is true. But, Louisiana doesn't break it down -- selling less than 60 pounds is a felony, 5-30 years in prison. And get this, you can possess any amount of marijuana and it's only a misdemeanor.

Good example, but we can't let Reality interfere with the spinning of statistics to fit a pre-conceived notion! ;-)

[u-89]

>the government, which charges about $110 an ounce, supplies lousy pot.

How typical - government can't do anything right. Why oh why do people have such faith in it????

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>The Bush administration has escalated the war on marijuana, raiding clinics that offer medical marijuana and staging a nationwide roundup of manufacturers of drug paraphernalia.

And at the same time there is a bumper crop of poppies in Afghanistan under Uncle Sam's watchful eye.

[tacticalogic]

we can't let Reality interfere with the spinning of statistics to fit a pre-conceived notion! ;-)

Do tell.

[philman_36]

How do you get an exaggeration out of that? Selling 60 pounds or one ounce gets you jail time...period.
And as far as possessing "any" amount of marijuana...come on! If someone is caught with 60 pounds of weed then it falls to "intent to distribute" as no prosecutor would consider 60 pounds as a "personal use" amount.
And before you say "that isn't so" then check out this case...
In this matter, Defendant Anthony Kelly appeals both his conviction for possession with intent to distribute marijuana and the subsequent multiple offender finding.

[u-89]

>Ozzie Osborn says that smoking pot led his son Jack to experiment with harder and more addictive drugs

You don't suppose poor parenting and a poor example had anything to do with it do yah? Nooo it must be pot's fault.

[tpaine]

Interesting article, but I'd give it a C- in the unspun facts competition.
25 -CJ-


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Fancy yourself as a credible expert in the MJ facts dept, do you, CJ?

-- How droll, considering your complete lack of ANY established bona fide's.

[Ol' Sparky]

Alcohol can be used responsibly. The only purpose of drug use is to get high and getting high is a negligent act that endangers innocent people.

It's no wonder a far left-wing nation like Canada would allow pot to be sold. Decriminalizing marijuana in other left-wing nations like the Netherlands has resulted in all drug use dramatically increasing as well as an increase in crime and the loss of innocent lives.

Only left-wingers and drug-using libertarians want to legalize drugs.

[tacticalogic]

Alcohol can be used responsibly.

That much is true, and defensible. The rest is textbook propaganda.