Posted on 10/28/2004 12:03:32 AM PDT by freedom44
A few years ago I asked an Alaska State Trooper, “If you had a choice of either having alcohol or marijuana legal which one would you pick?” Without hesitation he said, “Oh, marijuana! People who drink get drunk, get in their cars, drive fast, go home and beat up their families. People, who smoke marijuana get stoned, get in their cars, drive slowly, go home and eat and play with the kids.”
It’s always amazed me that alcohol and tobacco, two of the most insidious drugs available, are accepted by the government, while a relatively benign drug like marijuana is illegal.
Marijuana does not lead to harder drugs. If a person has an addictive personality, he or she will find something to be addicted to. If anything, it’s alcohol that will take a person closer to hard drugs. Alcohol and cocaine go hand in hand.
Let’s regulate marijuana and give the government another source of revenue.
P.S. I had considered voting for Murkowski until Ted Stevens got into the act. Does he really think that he is so indispensable? His arrogance is unbelievable. His pro-Murkowski ad borders on a threat. “Vote for Lisa or else.” So, Lisa, you lost my vote.
The cost in dollars, human life and the infringement upon our constitutional freedoms is incalculable.
Issue grower's licenses, $100 a year. No more than three plants at a time, personal use only. Subject to inspection.
It'd be a nice, swift kick in the moneymaker to our cartel friends down Mexico way, to boot.
Total BS.
agreed, in many ways it is not as bad , but bad nonetheless and causes many problems.
Why should the government allow more problems
Whether marijuana is any better than tobacco is questionable, but in any case marijuana is banned for historical reasons, not because it is a worse drug. Alcohol and tobacco are large industries with a long history in the United States, with products used by immense proportions of the public. Marijuana was a drug popular in other parts of the world that was used largely by immigrants and minorities in the US -- easy to ban in a xenophobic time.
It's hard to justify banning marijuana but not alcohol from a medical basis. It's always been a cultural thing. At the time, however, there was much debate over whether banning was constitutional -- that's why banning alcohol required a constitutional amendment -- so what they did was require a license that it was impossible to get. Nowadays, the government just bans things with no constitutional consideration given whatsoever.
If we could get HAMAS, the PIJ, the Wahabbis stoned, we could finally dream of a Wilsonian 'peace in our time.'
bump to later see where this thread goes.
I wondered where all the pot threads went to, seeing how there aren't any other important issues right now.
You can bet it will turn into an all-out rumble in a very short time (but I'll be back to look too)
And a more complacent and care free herd of sheeple to corral.
That is total nonsense. You can have a beer with dinner or a glass of champagne on your anniversary or attend a wine tasting and stay perfectly sober. NOONE smokes a joint unless they want to get intoxicated. And marijuana isn't as innocent as everyone would like to make it sound. It is the most readily available drug and is the drug that most drug addicts started with. We have enough dumb people in this country without giving everyone a new way of frying their gray matter.
I doubt it for if we were to be a major consumer also, we would go to war to maintain our source for "the need".
Driving slow is better?
Get stuck behind these guys and get some nice road rage going from some guy late for a meeting
I agree though that MJ is totally overlawed
The liver on the other hand is evil and must be destroyed!
Marijuana should be legal. Banning drugs is a progressive, liberal concept. Progressives started prohibition. Banning drugs is a waste of time, effort, and money. People are mistaken if they think people are going to run out and purchase heroin because it is legal. Legalization would prevent drugs from being a black market, which would drive the cost of illicit drugs down. This would prevent criminals like al-Qaeda and the FARC from using the illicit drug trade to fund terrorist activites. America is a free country, and when in doubt the government needs to mind their own business, especially when it can help us by saving money on enforcement, prosecution, and incarceration while eliminating the illicit drug trade. It will also free up our law enforcement to focus on terrorism.
For those people with addictive personality, marijuana, alcohol, and cigarettes are all bad for them.
Why would anyone smoke marijuana or cigarettes anyway. There are no benefits, but full of risks.
George Soros is funding all the legalize marijuana initatives that have been voted on recently. He wants to destroy the moral fiber of America. I'm against anything Soros is for.
Liberals are all about their supposed rights, and really could careless about world events as long as it doesn't interrupt their pathetic lives. They want to get high, screw at will, and chant to the trees at their tofu barbeques. Yet, when someone tries to better their communitites, tout values, and change the world for the better, they're the first to bitch. How ironic is it they never protested the human rights abuse in Iraq the years leading up to the war, but the minute something was done to help a suffering people, they had a problem with it. And they are the supposed humanitarians? There is one world to describe Liberals plain and simple...apathetic.
Most drug addicts as with most people start with Alcohol because it is the one legal drug. Marijuana is just the next logical step in the process of becoming an addict, you just don't go from nothing to crack! And as a Conservative I believe it's none of the governments business what I do in my home. By the way I don't smoke weed myself but know many who do.
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