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Tulsi Gabbard Endorses Legalizing Drugs
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| Jan 19, 2020,
| Tom Angell
Posted on 01/19/2020 3:44:01 PM PST by conservative98
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To: conservative98
If that includes prescription drugs the costs would come down. We trip to Taiwan on occasion and 99% of scrip drugs can be bought anywhere. Not narcotics though.
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posted on
01/19/2020 4:28:12 PM PST
by
oldasrocks
(Heavily Medicated for your Protection.)
To: conservative98
What a stupid answer. You can treat the junkie as a victim while drugs are illegal.
Our conservative Shariff does just that. They want to help the user and work with them to help them get clean, as long as they help build the case against the dealers.
Those they go after with a vengeance. It seems to be bearing some fruit. Overdose deaths were down 30% last year.
Legalizing them will only increase deaths and abuse.
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posted on
01/19/2020 4:30:29 PM PST
by
cyclotic
(Democrats must be politically eviscerated, disemboweled and demolished.)
To: Bommer
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posted on
01/19/2020 4:32:36 PM PST
by
NobleFree
("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
To: JudyinCanada
Lets make murder legalMurder has an unwilling victim - drugs are self-administered.
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posted on
01/19/2020 4:35:16 PM PST
by
NobleFree
("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
To: conservative98
I wonder if Tucker will have her on his program to talk about this!
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posted on
01/19/2020 4:36:21 PM PST
by
notaliberal
(St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle,)
To: LukeL
No one is going to legally make heroin or meth for the consumer marketSays who?
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posted on
01/19/2020 4:36:35 PM PST
by
NobleFree
("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
To: conservative98
She is a pandering fidiot. She says sh*t without any care of the actual consequences.
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posted on
01/19/2020 4:43:22 PM PST
by
shanover
(...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
To: thoughtomator
If we take that step to legalize and regulate, then we're no longer treating people who are struggling with substance addiction and abuse as criminals and instead getting them the help that they need,
If this is a statement regarding legalizing and regulating for *everyone*, it's so illogical and devoid of science that it's worthy of AOC.
I know someone very elderly and ill, who has a 'medical marijuana' prescription. Never having experienced marijuana myself, I can't judge how it may be helping him; he's anxious to die, and I suspect he probably wants a way to distance himself from pain, and escape rational thought. (Another friend used it during chemo, and said it did NOTHING for him. He wanted to LIVE.)
However, there's plenty of evidence that marijuana is Not Good for young people, or for those who tend toward various mental illnesses:
https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/marijuana-mental-illness-violence
(And as others have noted, there would still be a thriving black market.)
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posted on
01/19/2020 4:46:04 PM PST
by
Jamestown1630
("A Republic, if you can keep it")
To: conservative98
Um, no. If you need to be drugged to get through your day, you are pathetic. We don’t need your impaired judgment on the roads, in the office, or in the voting booth. Tulsi wants to eliminate the stigma. No, darlin’. There SHOULD be a stigma. It’s not normal to let the populace turn themselves into a bunch of tractable zombies. But that is precisely what the dummocraps would LIKE.
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posted on
01/19/2020 4:47:47 PM PST
by
EinNYC
To: conservative98
The stance also puts her a step further than former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg, a rival Democratic presidential candidate, who has endorsed simply decriminalizing possession of all drugs. Entrepreneur Andrew Yang, another contender, supports decriminalizing opioids and funding safe consumption sites for illegal drugs. He also wants to make psychedelic mushrooms more freely available.
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posted on
01/19/2020 4:48:21 PM PST
by
McGruff
To: conservative98
How does legalization spare people addiction?
She’s just a CIA mouthpiece.
To: conservative98
If legal is good, then legal and FREE would be even better!
Free at last!
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posted on
01/19/2020 4:50:46 PM PST
by
TChad
(The MSM, having nuked its own credibility, is now bombing the rubble.)
To: conservative98
A San Franshitco in every county of every state.
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posted on
01/19/2020 4:50:54 PM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Democrats only believe in democracy when they win the election.)
To: Leaning Right
As for me, I prefer the Singapore approach.NO question about that!
I've been there. The place is spotless. Their street food has to be one of the BEST around. No one gets sick...otherwise they would be out of business in a New York minute.
To: HighSierra5
Is she getting ready for a libertarian spoiler move?
Kasich/Gabbard?
To: stars & stripes forever
Many people don’t realize how poisonous her positions are.
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posted on
01/19/2020 4:56:54 PM PST
by
JayGalt
(You can't teach a donkey how to tap dance. Nemo me impune lacessit!)
To: JayGalt
Mommy coconut is a 4/10 at best without her stupid views.
To: Jamestown1630
marijuana is Not Good for young people, Marijuana criminalization has failed to keep that drug away from young people; they have been reporting since well before any state had legalized that they could get marijuana almost as easily as cigarettes or beer, although the latter two are much more widespread among adults. The available evidence indicates that the best way of keeping a drug away from young people is to legalize it for adults - which gives its sellers an economic incentive to confine their sales to adults, namely the risk of losing their legal adult market.
or for those who tend toward various mental illnesses
So we should ban for ALL adults whatever is bad for those susceptible to mental illness? Including alcohol?
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posted on
01/19/2020 5:03:49 PM PST
by
NobleFree
("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
To: JayGalt
“Many people dont realize how poisonous her positions are.”
Tucker Carlson seems to have a crush on her. Sometimes I wonder about that boy.
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posted on
01/19/2020 5:04:53 PM PST
by
43north
(Its hard to stop a man when he knows he's right and he keeps coming.)
To: conservative98
Drug dealers should be publicly executed.
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