[highball]

This is a setback to the pro-drug crowd. Shouldn't this thrill us?

Here's the problem I have with most of the anti-drug crowd. They make it personal. They dislike drugs, so they dislike all people who don't favor drug laws.

It's not about tweaking the nose of people who disagree with you, it's about running roughshod over the Constitution.

They're not the only ones who fall into this trap - plenty of otherwise reasonable conservatives get fooled into thinking this is an issue of stoners vs. normal people. "Heck, I don't use drugs, why should I mind if the federal government increases its power to police drug use?"

[dread78645]

They're not the only ones who fall into this trap - plenty of otherwise reasonable conservatives get fooled into thinking this is an issue of stoners vs. normal people. "Heck, I don't use drugs, why should I mind if the federal government increases its power to police drug use?"

"What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long."

-- Thomas Sowell

[Protagoras]

Here's the problem I have with most of the anti-drug crowd. They make it personal. They dislike drugs, so they dislike all people who don't favor drug laws.

"What is ominous, is the ease with which some people go from stating that they don't like something, to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long."
Thomas Sowell

[mugs99]

They make it personal

They have to. Every legitimate scientific, medical and legal study has recommended decriminalisation of marijuana. Even the Shafer Commission appointed by Nixon in 1972 to prove the dangers of marijuana found just the opposite and recommended decriminalisation. Nixon promised he would support the recommendation of the commission. When they returned with a verdict that wasn't in line with his Quaker beliefs, he broke his promise, and launched the modern war on marijuana.

Marijuana prohibition is Faith Based and that makes it nearly impossible to deal with. You can't use fact and reason to convince those following religious dogma to change their minds and support Constitutional liberties.
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