Posted on 02/03/2012 10:57:07 AM PST by gabriellah
Sure there is. If you smoke it, you can control the dosage.
There are plenty of complaints from medical marijuana patients who have taken Marinol stating it leaves them barely able to function and hold a conversation.
Liberals are not on FR. Those advocating legalization are most likely constitutionalists or libertarians
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Like I said.... Liberals.
(changing tagline back to what I used to have...)
I think she was seen smoking a cig...........
Probably right.......
Like I said.... Liberals.
Constitutionalists are liberals in your book?
‘If a person of reasonable intelligence thinks about the issue for more than five seconds, he will realize that legalization will have no meaningful impact on “the narco-terrorists” - just as the end of Prohibition had negligible impact on organized crime in America.
Unless you are prepared to argue that the mob ceased to exist on December 5, 1933.’
I find that to be a specious argument also, as the number of criminals dropped from a large percentage of the population to a small percentage. A large class of crimes disappeared, which in turn meant fewer criminals.
The ‘mob’ moved on to other profitable crimes, like illegal drugs. In fact, I’d argue that the mob has profited greatly by the War on Drugs. The government keeps this racket going.
And if people were to grow their own, it would be nearly impossible to tax and people could compete with corporations/businesses interested in growing and selling it.
I'm convinced those reasons are why marijuana is not legalized or decriminalized. If Government knew it could make tons of tax money off it and businesses could reap untold profits, like with cigarettes and alcohol, marijuana would have been (re)legalized a long, long time ago.
Full legalization would allow people to grow their own. No crime associated with that.
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Really? Can you grow your own tobacco? Can you distill your own booze?
Not without a ton of gubmint interference, you can’t.
And the same thing would happen if ever pot was legalized. If you think Big Brother would let you grow a few plants in your back yard without taxing them, then you are missing the point.
The main point of legalizing dope is to tax it and increase the size of government.
Again... just like with tobacco and booze.
But libertarians (who claim they are for smaller government) are too stupid to realize that.
In Los Angeles, police report that areas surrounding cannabis clubs have experienced a 200 percent increase in robberies, a 52.2 percent increase in burglaries, a 57.1 percent increase in aggravated assault, and a 130.8 percent increase in burglaries from automobiles.
No evidence there that crimes have been created rather than simply relocated. Do you even understand the difference?
Should have rolled her own. She could have passed. ;-)
Yep. At least the ones (like Ron Paul) who use the Constitution as Toilet Paper.
Not without a ton of gubmint interference, you can’t.
Apart from limits on amount, what "gubmint interference" is there on home-brewing?
And the same thing would happen if ever pot was legalized. If you think Big Brother would let you grow a few plants in your back yard without taxing them, then you are missing the point.
Home brewed alcohol is not taxed (as far as I know).
The main point of legalizing dope is to tax it and increase the size of government.
Again... just like with tobacco and booze.
So it would be better to ban tobacco and booze than to let government tax them? You really think that's the small-government position?
I'll take a libertarian who says it's no one's business what someone puts in their body over a "conservative" nanny-stater who supports a failed War on Drugs, the destruction of the Fourth Amendment, and a government that engages in both.
Yep. At least the ones (like Ron Paul) who use the Constitution as Toilet Paper.
If he uses the Constitution as toilet paper, he's not a constitutionalist.
What part of the Constitution authorizes federal regulation of intrastate drug making, selling, or using?
The girl's with Boone's Farm on their lips were alot easier in those days too. I don't know why people worry about the weed. ;-)
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