Posted on 03/08/2008 2:47:48 PM PST by K-oneTexas
#5 - Legalize it and tax it
According to a Mr. Sinclair, you left out
#10...When elected, Obama is going to reinstate that old Illinois tradition of back seat romps in the limo...nationwide. Makes Clinton look like a saint!
Nine reasons to vote for McCain...like him or not!
Unless Hussein is promising amnesty and a free car how can McCain be "well to the right of Obambi on this issue?
But I suspect that when the issue comes up, McCain will have to be more responsive to a massive Talk-Radio/letter-writing/e-mailing MASS campaign to keep things sane, at least more-so than Obumbi.
Another solid contribution from conservative John Hawkins.
There should be no doubt about it. With Obama in the Oval Office America will be set on a leftward course that will advance liberalism beyond anything we’ve come to know.
What on earth makes you think that the pushers and buyers would actually follow tax or other regulation laws, given their demonstrated penchant for criminal activity?
I agree, but that leaves him 1 for 9, which shouldn't get him into the starting lineup.
#5 - Legalize it and tax it.
Why stop with marijuana and cocaine? Might as well add meth, and heroin too. If were going to mess up our children this will be the way to do it. Get them all addicted then keep jacking up the taxes.
Look at cigarettes as an example.
If it’s your child who cares, If it’s my - child no way. I think that’s how Obama looks at the problem.
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the price would be so low that the profit motive that keeps pushers with weak product or trash would stop and only the tobacco companies would have the dope so to speak. they are all ready to proceed with pot sales.
Self interest. That and being undercut by the legal/taxed sellers.
Al Capone and his boys didn't continue selling untaxed booze once prohibition was repealed.
The criminal activity was a consequence of the illegality of the product. You don't see beer distributors doing drive bys over territory.
The War on Drugs has done more to erode liberty in this country in the last 25 years than any other single issue.
Nothing would be better than to legalize/decriminalize ALL drugs. Find ways to regulate distribution/sale of the hardest ones.
But the criminalization of marijuana is a joke. Even the late great Buckley advocated legalization of it. It’s simply not harmful enough to justify any regulation stronger than cigarettes (less so, really.)
Drug war is a mess and about as successful as the War on Poverty. All durgs must be made legal or all drugs banned. If you want to ban them each and every Ameican must be tested weekly and those who fail the test should be sent to “The Camps” where hard labor and anti-drug popaganda can change them into good happy workers. It will not work.
Really, there is no difference between Obama and McCain. Or, at least, that is what some people on this site claim...
You are right, of course. But too many people around here would rather hold on to their grudges than do what is better for America.
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