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Posted on 06/23/2009 1:35:51 PM PDT by mikelets456
Pot is already in vast, widespread use. It is not more addictive than cigarettes or alcohol. It is arguably less intoxicating than alcohol.
All we’ve got by criminalizing pot is a bunch of Al Capones with hispanic surnames, and an unstable narco-country on our southern border.
Criminalization has failed. Uterly. Repeatedly. Over long periods of time. In spite of our best hopes.
Decriminalize pot, and spend a fraction of the money on education and dissuasion (no drunk driving = no high driving).
It would be very very difficult for things to get worse.
No Siree, my spirits are high that it shall rise up from the grave of Prohibition.
If it is taxed too high, people will go through other channels. It's a lot easier to grow in a lot of places. Tobacco is not something most people will ever try to grow in their basement or back yard.
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I’m in favor of legalizing the entire Constitution.
“E.G., a stoner drives a car into a bus and kills 10 people it will be treated like he planned and blew it up with an RPG.”
Same for a soccer mom, putting on makeup, chomping fastfood, talking on cell phone?
I’m in favor of legalizing the entire Constitution.
I’m guessing you got all your information on the effects of marijuana from watching “Reefer Madness”. At least Barney Frank got something right for once.
You can’t make a substance legal and then penalize a particular portion of the population (welfare louts) for using it.
“What you’re proposing is “everything’s legal” as long as you’re responsible?”
If I want to do something that is utterly stupid, pointless, but harms no other person-—yes, conservatism once said that was my personal, God given freedom.
But when that act harms another, my freedom has gone too far-—and we punish the ACT of harming another person.
That would be old school conservatism, or classical liberalism as once derived.
Milton Friedman, Barry Goldwater.
On nights when I have little to keep me awake, I concern myself with the recruiting habits of gay prostitutes.
(Just kidding....I’ve never really concerned myself with that.)
pandering to the potheads!
Even the Mongol empire did one good deed for mankind i.e. annihilated the Ismailian kingdom. This could turn out to be Barney’s good deed in life. The “War on drugs(TM) is over and it’s a shame to have a loser like Frank recognize it before pubbie pols do.
Sure you can, government sets terms and conditions on everything. You can’t work fulltime and receive welfare (which is otherwise legal), you can’t be rich and receive it (unless you are GM or ACORN).
Not receiving welfare in this case would not be a penalty. You can opt out of the program if you want to smoke pot. Since there is no constitutional “right” to either smoke pot or receive welfare the government can regulate either or both and currently does.
make pot legal and then see what coercion you have to force people into rehab
the big lie about pot and jail is that most of the people in jail for pot- committed other crimes to support their habit, or were dealers- and repeat offenders at that
I don’t particularly see us prospering as a 300 million person libertine Holland.
And having lost a child to drug overdose, who started with pot, I don’t see the gateway as a myth but a reality that changed my life and the world (the rest of you just dont know what you lost when he died, I do).
I never met a kid in hard drug rehab (many fruitless classes) who did not start with pot. Count me as a NO for legalization.
This is coming from Bwarney Fwank?!?
Legalize pot and forget about having a military. Also welfare spending will zoom through the roof to pay for all these self-lobotomized bums. It’s bad enough as it is
You will have 12 year olds smoking pot and ruining their brains for good
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