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Libertarians Need to Rethink Support for Drug Legalization
Pajamas Media ^ | Dec. 22 | Mary Grabar

Posted on 12/22/2009 1:47:42 PM PST by AJKauf

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To: cripplecreek

Forget about Soros, he’s ANOTHER excuse for the WOD.

Here’s something right up your alley.

http://www.thedailypage.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=37&t=47210&start=60


41 posted on 12/22/2009 2:34:50 PM PST by wolfcreek (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsd7DGqVSIc)
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To: AJKauf

This has been one of my biggest problems with libertarians and is why I’m a solid Republican. Also the foreign policy insanity.


42 posted on 12/22/2009 2:36:23 PM PST by Tolsti2
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To: All

Legalize the MJ, regulate and tax it. It’s no more dangerous than booze and probably less.

I would rather go to a call where the folks have been getting their smoke on versus their drink on. People smoking weed in the privacy of their homes are only dangerous to snack food.

As far the rest, meth, heroin, crack, no freaking way. I have never locked up a car thief or burglar who said he needed MJ money. Crack, “hairon”, different story altogether. People don’t steal their families and friends credit cards or identification because they need some grass.

I have arrested alot of people both violent crimes and drug crimes. Don’t believe the hype about prisons being full of non-violent drug offenders. It’s pure BS. The prisons are packed full of very dangerous scumbags who are released with regular frequency when another new violent scumbag needs to do some time. Every dope dealer I ever investigated and/or arrested had violent history and nearly all them where armed at the time I took them into custody.

Drug abusers get probation and redirection over and over again.

If you want verification, seek out the administration of your local penal system and ask them for the offense breakdown of their facility.


43 posted on 12/22/2009 2:40:25 PM PST by Molon Labbie
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To: kAcknor
All the Anti-Nanny State conservatives will rise to tell us how the State should be the Nanny in the case of drugs.

Boy do I really agree with your comments. I've noticed some real inconsistencies with some who call themselves real conservatives and yet are completely in agreement with the insane war on drugs. They are so inconsistent that it isn't funny. They believe that if drugs were legal every other person would be a drug addict. I try to tell them that every other person isn't a alcoholic. They simple ignore that and say that if alcohol were invented today it should be illegal! Frightening that these people are walking around and calling themselves conservatives. These people give the conservative movement a bad rap.
44 posted on 12/22/2009 2:41:15 PM PST by truthguy (Good intentions are not enough!)
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To: thefactor

“How about the 1000’s killed every year due to the drug trade? Are those crimes?”

Yes. It’s called “murder”.

“Now go ahead, tell me that if drugs were legalized, there would be no need for drug crime.”

There would be no need for it, any more than there’s a need for crime over any other commodity. I hardly need to explain to you that drugs and crime are associated with one another for a very simple reason. Due to the threat of punishment, black markets attract people willing to risk punishment: i.e., criminals. It’s common sense. Take away the crime and you more or less take away the criminals.


45 posted on 12/22/2009 2:42:32 PM PST by Tublecane
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To: SaxxonWoods
Libertarians believe it best to criminalize only
those causing a real danger to others.

Agree
Criminalize only behavior that substantively
injures other by loss of property
or measurable person injury

46 posted on 12/22/2009 2:42:56 PM PST by HangnJudge
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To: AJKauf
In abandoning the duty to enforce social order

What!! Libertarians cannot abandon something they do not believe in.

47 posted on 12/22/2009 2:48:10 PM PST by org.whodat
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To: KosmicKitty
Can employers also test for alcohol impairment??

Yes, it's been that way for over ten years.

48 posted on 12/22/2009 2:50:07 PM PST by org.whodat
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To: Mariner

“Its legalization is supported by the same forces that promote Kevin Jennings, one-world government, Gaia worship, and legalized prostitution.”

All the pot smokers I know have no idea what the things mentioned in this sentence are.


49 posted on 12/22/2009 2:52:11 PM PST by dljordan (Psalm 109:8 "Let his days be few; and let another take his office. ")
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To: AJKauf

I am really not interested in talking or doing business with people who are too high to really understand what is going on.


50 posted on 12/22/2009 2:52:28 PM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: Hacksaw

“Vices have been criminalized since the founding of the nation.”

Wrong.


51 posted on 12/22/2009 2:54:31 PM PST by enduserindy (Conservative Dead Head)
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To: wolfcreek
And the pot didn’t kill him the bag/violence did.

Wrong, what killed the POS was nothing other than pure stupidity on his part.

52 posted on 12/22/2009 2:54:59 PM PST by org.whodat
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To: Tublecane

Why add the tax part?

I’ll give on the tax part to get to decriminalization. It won’t be possible to avoid sales tax. We have already learned that in Colorado.

Funny, I know 3 Coloradans who have obtained medical marijuana cards. All of them are millionaires who got there through years of hard work. Now I have to wave off their offers when I visit. (I’m a lightweight, the stuff makes me faint.)


53 posted on 12/22/2009 3:00:59 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (TIME Person Of The Year, 2006 (You can look it up!).)
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To: AJKauf

The dangers of marijuana on society?

A shortage of Cheetos?


54 posted on 12/22/2009 3:07:52 PM PST by antiRepublicrat
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To: swain_forkbeard
Another commerce clause rationalization, no doubt.

It started with the ability to tax. The Fed required a tax stamp, then refused to issue tax stamps. You can thank the racist, hypocritical anti-drug crusader Anslinger for that.

55 posted on 12/22/2009 3:09:24 PM PST by antiRepublicrat
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To: a fool in paradise

aptly chosen screen name.


56 posted on 12/22/2009 3:13:33 PM PST by steveo (2010 never again)
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To: truthguy

It’s the difference between governmental conservatives and social morality conservatives. IMHO the two positions are mutually exclusive in some areas, such as this one.

But after having read the article, I have come to the conclusion that the author is himself partaking of that which he wishes to keep banned.


57 posted on 12/22/2009 3:15:36 PM PST by antiRepublicrat
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To: AJKauf

There is a problem with legalizing MJ.

Insurance companies will not cover a person who is using drugs- either for workmen’s comp problems, or liability problems with driving a company truck.

This will kill small business.


58 posted on 12/22/2009 3:34:21 PM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: thefactor
Now go ahead, tell me that if drugs were legalized, there would be no need for drug crime. I love when I hear that.

See many Al Capones running shine and controling crime enterprises around it?

59 posted on 12/22/2009 4:02:43 PM PST by Phantom Lord (Fall on to your knees for the Phantom Lord)
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To: swain_forkbeard
What part of the COTUS empowers the federal government to decide what I amy eat, drink, or smoke? Another commerce clause rationalization, no doubt.

It's not un-Constitutional when we do it. /s

60 posted on 12/22/2009 4:05:29 PM PST by TigersEye (Tar & feathers! Pitchforks and torches! ... Get some while supplies last.)
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