Posted on 03/14/2009 2:20:58 PM PDT by Painesright
Good idea. Why waste time keeping it illegal. You can get it easier than a coke and a burger anyway.
No difference.
You are very misinformed. A Libertarian has no desire to exert control over your person or your property. They will fight for your 2nd Amendment rights. They will not tax your eye teeth or take your property for the "common good".
While they are weak on foreign policy relative to exerting military power outside of the confines of our border, they will protect the country AT the border. Some of us, the traditionalists, just think that in today's world that waiting for the bad guys at the border is a touch late.
So going back to Prohobition would shrink the federal goverment?
I think you got it. The stupid party. They remind me of Elmer Fudd trying to catch Bugs. The Republicans are LOST.
If being stoned makes you drive slower wouldn't your reflexes also be slower?
B.S. Impaired is impaired, no matter what you're impaired on.
Driving too slow causes more accidents than anything else, because it causes everyone to take chances passing the idiot driving 20 miles an hour in a 60, whether they are sober or drunk.
Then there are the pot heads that day dream through red lights and stop signs, run over children playing in the streets, rear enders because their reactions are too slow.
Pot is every bit as bad as booze.
Pot is also just as bad as smoking, it contains all the same harmful toxins as tobacco except nicotine.
Pot smoking is VERY harmfull to the children with still developing minds that smoke it, which is when most people are introduced to pot, around 12-13 years old.
Pot smokers who think legalized pot would be wonderful, and eliminate their legal problems are terribly mistaken. This shows what pot smoking does to the mind. Pot smokers can't think rationally.
Growing pt would still be illegal. Selling pot would still be illegal. Smuggling pot would still be illegal.
Pot would simply become government controlled, like booze. All smuggling, growing(distilling) selling without a license (and proper taxation) would still be illegal.
All legalizing pot would accomplish is government control over it's quality, and taxation.
Legalizing pot will just turn even more kids into useless, unproductive, lazy dopes, a condition that seems to last throughout a pot heads lifetime. (along with their t-shits with MJ leaves printed on them)
I thought they just supported it being regulated by the states.
Get the fed out of our lives that much more.
Well said. I wish more “conservatives” could just let other people alone, as long as others did the same to them.
Get rid of the welfare state, and then folks will have to deal with consequences for themselves.
That's the problem with smoking pot. You don't want to leave the basement and see what goes on in the world.
LOL..., well, that would eliminate that complaint, wouldn’t it?
A very long time ago, I worked for BLM (Bureau of Land Management) and was out of town working with a survey crew in Southern Oregon. And there were two fellows on the crew who went around to different areas, working as fire fighters, one time, and then on BLM on other jobs. They rode motorcycles around and were always smoking up a storm with their joints. But, anyway, they told me about how one time they were crossing the U.S./Canadian border and had a bunch of “brownies” with them. They were going into Canada and while talking to the border guard, they gave him some of their brownies. I wonder how he did afterwards... LOL...
Oh yeah, as if a nation full of lazy, tired pot heads will vote in a government (full of non-pot heads) that will get rid of the welfare state...
Smoke much?
What’s always bugged me about the attitude towards pot is that it’s part of a larger attitude that says the government can control morality. It can’t. We can’t—we just don’t want to admit it.
Our OWN morality should be our focus. Using the government to tell other people how to behave according to OUR personal morality makes people like the Obamoids itch to get into the WH and Congress, so THEY can start working to control US.
What part of “get government off of my back” do some “conservatives” not understand?
That is a very good question
(Again!)
I’m sure you posed this question with sarcasm in mind.
But I’m not sure. I don’t know. Perhaps.
Not at all, actually. And, yes they might, if only to stop being sent to jail for their bad habit.
LOL!
Growing a basement full of "Hydro" will still land them in Jail for cultivation and possession for the purposes of trafficking
Let them keep that schwagg.....most of the good stuff is US grown....it's the top cash crop in this country:
http://www.drugscience.org/Archive/bcr2/cashcrops.html
Then theres Hawaii ;-)
We should be exporting to them.
You are right that there is impairment, no matter the agent causing it. I found that, driving in residential or otherwise regular roads, there didn't seem to be an impairment, or at least the impairment was much less than if drunk. Where I found the impairment was on a Freeway, where the tendency was to drive slow, despite the effort to maintain 60 MPH.
I'm sure there are studies that would explain the difference between the impairments as between alcohol and MJ. I'm also certain there is a difference, a difference that is meaningful in terms of damage and safety is concerned.
Please do not take my comments as condoning any form of impaired driving, I do not. I just wish to explore the fact that there is a difference.
BTW, My experiences are 30+ years old so they are somewhat dated.
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