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Posted on 08/28/2006 7:29:35 AM PDT by tang0r
It turns out that alcohol is legal for the simplest, most nostalgic, and most American reason of all. Despite its risks and harmful side-effects, adults are reserved right to drink because they are independent adults in a free country. For all of the empty rhetoric about economics and black markets, the end of Prohibition was due to a single principle: even if drinking may be bad for society, government has no right to keep the people from doing it. The ability to get drunk is an inalienable right that we have forever confirmed with the 18th Amendment.
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No way. Actually, if alcohol was invented today, you shouldn't be able to get it without a prescription. The cannabinoids and the vehicle that delivers them (marijuana) causes serious damage to short term memory. Go talk to an old hippie if you don't believe me.
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Not any more. Around here, Central FL, anybody who is Hispanic gets a cross check on their SSN# and EVERYBODY gets a drug test.
Anybody who hires a drug positive job applicant is begging for trouble because their insurance carrier will not cover one iota of injury caused by him or to him.
All job related accidents are followed by a drug test.
And if an applicant fails a subsequent test he is either fired or the insurance company cancels.
Agreed, pot affectsthe mind for a long time. To equate alcohol with pot is not accurate. Alcohol really hurts people when taken to excess. Pot really hurts people when taken at all. There is no social smoking with pot. One inhale makes a person high and that is the end of it.
Kind of sad that this keeps coming up. That being said, the penalties for possession are a little bit too stringent.
It was all in this documentary....
Well you got my point.
Could you please clone your police officers and elected officials and send them to the rest of the country. We need them all the same.
Clueless, but I'll give you a chance to defend yourself. You know this how, exactly?
LOL! Yeah, and communism failed because none of the communist countries practiced True Communism.
Wow, this time I agree with your spam. End the failed war on some drugs now.
Obviously, what is practiced by many people who call themselves "conservative" does not respect the basic conservative principle of small government.
What a load of bravo sierra.
Well, not if you get a rep for "bogarting" and nobody will share with you, no....
It's not the police and polilticians who are doing this.
It is the construction companies and insurance companies.
Granted not all of them might take it as seriously as some others do, but quality of work is up and workers' comp claims and unemployment are all down in that sector.
One site-development company I know personally is probably the strictest in the business. Their business has tripled since January 1 of this year with no insurance claims, workers' comp claims or people quitting.
They also reject about 50 job applicants a week for bad paper (10%) or drug test failures (90%).
I have the same take. In India a little cannabis was traditionally boiled in milk with herbs considered healthful for the brain. The equivalent to drinking a glass of wine with dinner, I think. Very different from deeply inhaling and holding the smoke in your lungs until you're "stoned", as nearly all users do.
I have read extensively on the subject.
Also, being a teenager when Woodstock occurred (I was to busy surfing at the time and was unaware of the "big" event). Also, I have seen enough others and the effects it has on them.
People who are into pot have real problems in their lives. I know that everyone has real problems, but the potheads are working through their problems at significantly lower level. Read some clinical literature, not that put out by a pot advocate or drug enforcer. Pot causes problems with short-term memory. People can not effectively deal with their problems in this state.
I do not believe that it is as destructive as some believe, and the penalties are too severe for possession. But it is bad news and should never be legalized. Logically possession of small amounts should be decriminalized, but the advocates would then be prone to declare total victory and twist the meaning of decriminalization beyond what it should be.
I can tell that the pot lobby is active.
"how often have you read of a murder or robbery for a pack of cigarettes or a sixpack of beer? Yes, it does happen but VERY infrequently"
Ahh, but how many times have we heard of vicious crimes being committed BY someone high on drugs?
How pithy of you. Doesn't change, however, the fact that your post was total bravo sierra.
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