Posted on 12/23/2010 9:47:12 AM PST by Second Amendment First
Chalk this one up to a real head-scratcher.
Pat Robertson, the televangelist who once ran for president, said on his show, the 700 Club, that he thinks marijuana should be legalized.
Yep, the Christian conservative preacher who said the Katrina hurricane was Gods way of punishing America for abortion policy is now on the side of the pot lobby.
Im not exactly for the use of drugs, dont get me wrong, but I just believe that criminalizing marijuana, criminalizing the possession of a few ounces of pot, that kinda thing its just, its costing us a fortune and its ruining young people, Robertson said. Young people go into prisons, they go in as youths and come out as hardened criminals. Thats not a good thing.
Of course, Mr. Robertson is not alone in his thinking. Californias proposition 19, which would have legalized marijuana in that state, failed in November, but not before lining up an impressive list of supporters from across the political spectrum.
Representative Ron Paul, the Texas lawmaker who ran for president in 2008, has advocated leaving the decision about marijuana up to the states. And even Sarah Palin, who opposes legalizing pot, has said she thinks police shouldnt spend a lot of time hunting down offenders.
If somebodys gonna to smoke a joint in their house and not do anybody else any harm, then, um perhaps there are other things that are cops should be looking at to engage in, Ms. Palin said on Fox News last summer.
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Anyone who proposes legalizing this, without a law that allows the government to tax it, is insane.
Weak. Come on, you can do better than that.
Get your quoths right. It’s “The pump dont work
Cause the vandals took the handles
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Or brain cells that talk to each other.
He’s turning into a HUGE IDIOT!!
I agree with Pat Robertson..legalize IT.
I respectfully disagree with you.
Telling people that it’s legal to smoke cigarettes and drink alcohol, but not OK to smoke pot, strikes me as absurd.
Cigs and booze, much worse for you then pot. In my humble experiances. The arguement that it harms some people who do it PALES to the number of people harmed by cigs and booze.
And no, I do not advocate prohibition of booze and cigs.
And hard drugs, such as cocaine or heroin, should clearly remain illegal.
“Pot should definitely not be legalized. It’s already robbed many kids of their full potential...”
You seem to be arguing that prohibition has NOT WORKED.
I see some libertarian heads exploding...
There are clinical pathological effects including psychosis, paranoia, and memory loss. It is not like alcohol - it is a psychedelic drug and does often lead to experimentation with more dangerous drugs.
Went to college with a guy who was a heavy pot user. Nice guy, very laid back who succeeded in destroying his short term memory. Couldn’t remember a thing, had difficulty performing any task that required more than a few simple sequential steps. Actually locked himself out of his car with the engine running once. Very sad to see what he did to himself.
Pat Robertson is very wrong on this along with several other issues. I don’t know what’s happened to him but he has clearly abandoned God’s Word in several areas and substituted his own feeble reasoning.
There's no way it should be legalized. Kids who take it are hurting their future.
You're comparing apples and oranges. Cigarettes are physically threatening and booze if abused, can be physically threatening as well and also can become addictive.
The issue with pot is its psychological damage to the user including an almost immediate issue with paranoia and some degree of psychosis. Over a long time of use, it can be psychologically very damaging.
Well, enforcement another issue. I'm simply saying that pot is psychologically destructive and shouldn't be legalized. We should be aware of its dangers and get smart about how to deal with the problem of its use in society. I think the fact of its illegality at least has some kind of deterrent effect and that's good.
I'm angry at Pat for saying these things.
He’s probably going to sell it and call it Holy Land high.
Legalize consensual behavior? Yes. It’s my body and I own it so let me put in it what I choose to.
Certainly not cigarette smokers. Of course, they're getting closer and closer to getting locked up themselves, so there ya go.
Smoking tobacco and drinking alcolhol lead to more tobacco smoking and alcohol drinking and whatever physical and behavioral baggage comes along with it.
Smoking dope not only has its own undesired effects, it very often leads to use and abuse of other, more deadly drugs.
I am always amazed at the numbers of hypocritical rabid anti-tobacco zealots who avidly promote the legalization of pot.
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