Posted on 12/14/2012 9:19:49 AM PST by GSWarrior
It felt like Christmas had come early when I got my package of Buckyballs in the mail a few days ago. Buckyballs are small, super-strong spherical magnets made of the rare-earth metal Neodymium. A set of 216 Buckyballs fits comfortably in the palm of your hand.
Obviously Buckyballs are adult toys, and Maxfield and Oberton emphatically warns users not to give them to children, eat them, inhale them, or place them near objects (such as pacemakers) that are sensitive to magnets. However, for those who use Buckyballs with common sense and due care, they are reasonably safe—just like countless other objects in or around the home from hammers to knives to sugar to prescription drugs to firearms to bicycles to automobiles.
What has been the government’s response to Buckyballs? Has it been to recognize the outstanding productive achievements of the company that makes them? To leave the company in peace to conduct its business? Of course not. The government has put Maxfield and Oberton out of business so far as Buckyballs are concerned. The sets I ordered are among the last that will be produced, ever.
The unanswered question is, who will protect Americans from the risks posed to our lives, liberties, and happiness by rights-violating government regulators?
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Way to change the subject. I believe that is called a red herring.
If you noticed, I offered no opinion one way or another about legalizing or not legalizing. I simply corrected your false statement; people do die every day while under the influence of that commonly-occurring weed, period.
People die every day while under the influence of that commonly-occurring weed - they wreck their cars, fall off stuff, make bad decisions around machinery, etc.
Ditto for alcohol - should government ban it?
Way to change the subject.
It was the subject of the text you replied to: "The government banned ...".
If you noticed, I offered no opinion one way or another about legalizing or not legalizing. I simply corrected your false statement;
Not my statement.
people do die every day while under the influence of that commonly-occurring weed, period.
Nobody ever died from the proximate cause of using marijuana - but many have died from the proximate cause of using alcohol.
I had a bb gun, a bow and arrow, and lawn darts when I was a kid. I still have both eyes and fewer body piercings than the average barrista.
I simply corrected your false statement
No, you moved the goalposts. Marijuana itself kills nobody. What people do when they're impaired is another subject. Thus, when I bring up something else that impairs people, I didn't change the subject, you did.
Returning to the original topic, the injuries caused by this toy require somebody to do something irresponsible and contrary to copious warnings. Because of this stupidity, someone is trying to regulate the original product. It's the same thing for other things that can be used irresponsibly. Where do we draw the line?
We do have that right ~
A law against transferring pot to teens would suffice for that purpose.
Pot has killed plenty of people in 25000 years, don’t kid yourself. Perhaps you meant to say that no one ever overdosed on it.
I must have missed the sarcasm tag.
People die under the influence of perfectly legal products too. They also die under the influence of nothing. What can we do about that?
When I was a kid, I used to wonder at the stupidity of kids who would mistake a bottle of pills for candy.
I did know a kid who might have been stupid enough to eat a bottle of pills for fun. Far as I know, he never ate a bottle of pills, but he did do so many other stupid things as he grew older that he eventually ended up in jail.
I’m with you against prohibition, but would somebody explain to me why calling it a weed, plant, flower, or whatever is supposed to be part of the argument? I somehow never learner the principle of vegitation liberty.
But it did make black jazz musicians have sex with white women, according to the jack-booted thug bureaucrat who was the driving force behind its prohibition.
The most dangerous side effect of marijuana is prison rape.
Funny thing is, because laws against driving while under the influence of drugs don’t always prevent people from driving under the influence . . .
They have another law to prevent people from sitting still under the influence.
“Nobody ever died from the proximate cause of using marijuana - but many have died from the proximate cause of using alcohol.”
Correct and specific. Do you think we should not count marijuana-related/alcohol-related deaths when discussing the legalization question? Doesn’t that kind of distort the discussion?
Personally, my opinion is that we should legalize or quasi-legalize, but let’s be honost and open-eyed about it. We should not assert or imply that lives are not harmed by using the drug.
Sitting still in a motor vehicle? Or sitting still anywhere?
Correct and specific. Do you think we should not count marijuana-related/alcohol-related deaths when discussing the legalization question?
I think we should discuss either both or neither of marijuana-related and alcohol-related deaths - and that any legalization discussion should include not only the pros and cons of legalizing marijuana but also the pros and cons of (re)illegalizing alcohol.
Because there wasn’t one.
Here’s a quote worth remembering while the boot of the oppressor grows heavier:
“He who will not rule himself will be ruled by another.”
It is those who will not rule themselves that get my ire up, because I suffer under the oppressive restrictions they bring down on us all.
Like a teacher who says, “Nobody gets to go to recess until the entire class is quiet and finishes their work,”... or like a judge who says, “One more outburst like that and I’ll clear this entire courtroom,”... well, you get the point.
When a community polices itself instead of adopting that corrupt “live and let live” libertarian hogwash, government restraint is unnecessary. Such were the earlier days of America, and worthy of the term “self-government”.
We know how prohibition ended up. We also know that in other countries where quasi-legalization has been tried the usage rate stayed about the same.
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