Posted on 03/14/2009 2:20:58 PM PDT by Painesright
From the boneheaded comments that fall out of RP’s piehole, there is little doubt he has sampled canabis.
If that were really so, Obama would be a terrific president. Libertarians are generally against government interference in their lives. Modern liberals are in favor of it with a couple exceptions that they use to give the impression that they are the party of individual liberty, although ‘taint so.
They will be government controlled cash crops. It will be a controlled and regulated(mega)tax cash cow, like tobacco and alcohol is. Bootlegging and illegal cultivation will still give you serious prison time.
Is that the case with alcohol today? Is it a serious crime to make your own gin?
Libertarians are generally against government interference in their lives.
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I used to think so. But since the Libs won’t back off their support for marijuana - even in spite of the moral problems it poses - AND then you factor in the evidence that legalized pot will only GROW the size of government in terms of HIGHER TAXES, why you think the haze would clear up and they would see the light.
But NOOOooooo. They just keep chanting. “We are losing the drug war. We are losing the drug war. We are.....”
and so on.
There’s also a difference between a “seasoned” pot smokers perceived impairment from pot (and also the level of impairment depending on the quality of the pot)and person who only occasionally smokes pot.
A person who rarely smokes pot gets so stoned they can barely function, never mind drive a car.
I value freedom... are pot smokers the line I draw beyond which freedom must be curtailed? I think not.
Yep. Especially if you serve or sell a few bottles of it to your friends.
Of course not. Millions of people do it. Every day.
Just like 98% percent of smokers who do an end-run against cigarettte taxes by growing and rolling their own.
(do I really need a sarc tag?)
So. Here’s what is gonna happen when pot is legalized:
First of all we legitimize the drug cartels. All of a sudden MS-13 become like the Mafia. More power and control.
Next, we market it to kids. Like Joe Camel, remember?
Third, we open up the need to build new prisons for the stoners too lazy and stupid to work. They turn to crime.
Next, the welfare state explodes with triple digit growth.
And on and on we go!
There was virtually no mob before prohibition - they ran the numbers game in the ghettos and was the 'welfare department' for the neighborhood. Prohibition was the engine that gave them power and money, just like the prohibition of drugs has done with cartels and the gangs that distribute them today.
If the gov't ends up prohibiting tobacco or as is now, raising the tax so high, a new 'mob' will be (is) created to handle the demand - still around 28% of adults. Then we'll have another bloated agency or the BATFE expanded to handle those 'criminals'.
Our gov't was created to protect the rights of citizens from harm from others, not from themselves.
Ron Paul says legalize marijuana.
That should put an end to all the talk about him being a nut.
/s
Exactly, and there is no reason that the black market would be any larger with legal marijuana than it currently is with alcohol.
That means the cartels would take a big hit since most of their revenue comes from mj - 62% according to the ONDCP.
I don’t because he ramped it up because people taking the drugs were doig dumb-assed things to other people while high. NOt everyone who takes drugs is safe to those around them. You don’t generally put a drug user into the ‘responsible’ category to begin with.
Yeah, let’s let Socialized Medicine deal with the psychological expenses of long-term cannibis use.
I think you can get a license to distill small amounts for personal use. But you MUST get a license and meet a whole slough of requirements.
Hell, that statement just shows you're stupid.
I personally have never eaten a mj brownie but that alternative does exist. The thing that gets me about the whole marijuana controversy is the number of young college students that die from alcohol poisoning...how many people die each year from a pot overdose?
I doubt it. it will still be cheaper than government pot. Just like the bootleg booze and cigarettes are. that illegal industry is still quite large.
It's not called the Burrough(?) of alcohol, firearms and tobacco for nothing you know.
So enforce the laws against DUI
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.
So is alcohol and tobacco,If your kids can't be taught to say no or given real info on pot(what it can and can not do to you,not scare tactics)then you have more problems then consenting adults taking a toke.But by all means lets continue with the no knock warrants,the paramilitary raids by thugs with badges,The politicians and local jackboots using the drug war to wipe their a$$ with the bill of rights..
Lets do for the Children. /s
You said — “how many people die each year from a pot overdose?”
Well, in this instance I think the more appropriate question is how many people ever “get off the couch” in a pot overdose, and do anything in life? LOL...
I guess we could perpetually take care of those people who are continuously in that condition (and it does breed the “continuous effect” — that’s the “overdose condition, in that it “never stops”... LOL...).
I guess we can build places for them to live, send in the food when they need it and whatever other supplies they need, because I’ll guarantee you, in that condition, they’ll not be moving around too much or doing much of anything...
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