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Pat Robertson: Pot should be legal like alcohol
Associated Press ^ | Thursday, Mar. 8, 2012 | MICHAEL FELBERBAUM

Posted on 03/08/2012 9:21:14 PM PST by Mariner

RICHMOND, Va. -- Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson says marijuana should be legalized and treated like alcohol because the government's war on drugs has failed.

The outspoken evangelical Christian and host of "The 700 Club" on the Virginia Beach-based Christian Broadcasting Network he founded said the war on drugs is costing taxpayers billions of dollars. He said people should not be sent to prison for marijuana possession.

The 81-year-old first became a self-proclaimed "hero of the hippie culture" in 2010 when he called for ending mandatory prison sentences for marijuana possession convictions.

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To: Mariner

Pat is getting good at taking patently stupid positions as of late. I wonder if he has an itch for some media attention.

“Pat Robertson: GOP Base Is Becoming Too Extreme”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2797397/posts


21 posted on 03/08/2012 9:38:33 PM PST by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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To: Mariner

In many ways I agree. I think libs would be dying at a faster rate. Just my guess. But the CHILRUN! That worries me. But then SWAT can take them out.


22 posted on 03/08/2012 9:39:32 PM PST by Mark (Don't argue with my posts. I typed while under sniper fire..)
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To: LukeL

Why not? Knock yourself out, as long as you aren’t harming anyone else in the process.(driving under the influence, or in public laws should apply)


23 posted on 03/08/2012 9:39:39 PM PST by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: LukeL
As most already know Coke was made with Coke. Didn't seem to bother anyone then. They should have at the least told us what is in it though.

if you want to regulate it fine. Do what you want. I like the old concept of freedom myself.

24 posted on 03/08/2012 9:42:32 PM PST by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: Mariner

I’ve been giving this issue some serious consideration and wondering what the potential consequences could be. Maybe I’m naive, but could legalizing marajuana also help reduce illegal immigration?

Much of the Northern part of Mexico is rampant with drug cartels and the violence and corruption inherently associated with such. Many illegal immigrants come to Texas to escape the violence, corruption, and decaying cities/towns of Northern Mexico. If marajuana were legal, perhaps the drug cartels would embrace free-market capitalism and the violence and corruption in Mexico would decrease. Mexicans might then be able to create a life for themselves in their own cities and towns. They might even begin to prosper in time.

(It was just a thought. Don’t freak out.)


25 posted on 03/08/2012 9:42:40 PM PST by BuckeyeTexan (Man is not free unless government is limited. ~Ronald Reagan)
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The drug war has long been over and has turned into a war on our rights.

All of the same arguments the drug warriors use can be used for banning guns. And all of the Wild West, blood-in-the-streets scenarios won’t happen when drugs are decriminalized and legalized.

Decriminalization is an inevitability. Some 12 states, even the Statist State of Mass., have decriminalized or are moving to decriminalize possession and use of pot.

The super-majority controlled Republican House of New Hampshire just voted in favor of decriminalization of pot:

http://www.unionleader.com/article/20120308/NEWS06/120309913

10+ years of study here on Portugal’s experiment:

http://www.cato.org/publications/white-paper/drug-decriminalization-portugal-lessons-creating-fair-successful-drug-policies


26 posted on 03/08/2012 9:42:55 PM PST by AlmaKing
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To: AnotherUnixGeek
Even Pat Robertson can see that - who can't at this point?

It took a bout of senility for Robertson to come out with this. Frankly, anyone who thinks legalizing drugs would be good for society isn't playing with a full deck. As if the rot in our culture isn't pervasive enough, we want to make it even worse by taking the drug culture mainstream.

Ask yourself this. If the country has a liberal-tarian brain infarction and legalizes drugs, what's to keep the big recreational drug companies that spring up from advertising their products everywhere? Answer: Nothing. There will be big *legal* money involved and the drug purveyors will get whatever they want.

The day that happens is the day I start looking to emigrate.
27 posted on 03/08/2012 9:44:10 PM PST by Antoninus (In states where Newt is ahead, vote Newt. In states where Rick is ahead, vote Rick. Defeat Romney.)
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To: KoRn
This modern drug prohibition has FAILED.(as the alcohol prohibition did)

LOL. Want to see "failure"? Legalize drugs and watch what happens to this country. It will be uninhabitable by decent people.
28 posted on 03/08/2012 9:46:20 PM PST by Antoninus (In states where Newt is ahead, vote Newt. In states where Rick is ahead, vote Rick. Defeat Romney.)
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To: BuckeyeTexan
"Much of the Northern part of Mexico is rampant with drug cartels and the violence and corruption inherently associated with such. "

According to PBS a couple of years ago (Lisa Ling did a special on pot) marijuana still amounts to over 60% of Mexican Drug cartel profits. These cartels also spoil public lands, kill intruders and import illegals with guns. The money is the foundation of their organization.

Over pot. Something at least 60% of America has used at least once and something 60% of America would use again if it were legal.

Already estimates are that those in the 3 West Coast states use at 25% at least once a year.

It is very, very common. I guess that makes all these people common criminals.

29 posted on 03/08/2012 9:48:31 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Steve Van Doorn

Yes, and Sears also sold a personal morphine/heroin kit. There are somethings which are too dangerous for anyone to do. This is why certain drugs are only given in a hospital or first tried in a hospital like sotalol


30 posted on 03/08/2012 9:49:38 PM PST by LukeL (Barack Obama: Jimmy Carter 2 Electric Boogaloo)
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To: Mariner

Legalize it. I won’t use it.


31 posted on 03/08/2012 9:50:25 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: Mariner; All
Thalimid or Thalidomide is used by cancer patients to reduce nausea.

You might remember the birth defects that drug caused, in England, when it was used there for morning sickness in women, years ago.

The stuff costs about $12,000.00 a month.

A Law Enforcement officer client of mine made me aware of how ridiculous this was. He had cancer.

He asked, “Can you think of anything cheaper, and safer, that might give me the munchies?”

Thalidomide is expensive because, if you drop a single pill, and a pregnant woman picks up that pill to place it on the counter, that woman's child is at HIGH risk for birth defects, just from the poison absorbed through her skin.

32 posted on 03/08/2012 9:51:20 PM PST by Kansas58
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To: Antoninus
"Frankly, anyone who thinks legalizing drugs would be good for society isn't playing with a full deck."

The suggestion is to legalize pot, not drugs. Well, unless you consider coffee and wine drugs. Or even opium.

However, whether you consider it rational for society or not, it appears inevitable. I'd like to hear all candidates position on the matter.

33 posted on 03/08/2012 9:51:57 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: All

This jackass still alive?... smoking the weed?...


34 posted on 03/08/2012 9:53:09 PM PST by ElPatriota (The SILENCE of the Catholic Church in protecting our culture from perversion is ** DEAFENING **)
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To: Mariner

It’s legal in Switzerland. But, I guess, the Swiss are just stupid.


35 posted on 03/08/2012 9:53:12 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: Proud2BeRight

Never met a dope smoking dope that I would hire or associate with.


I’d say you have associated with pot smokers but you didn’t realize it.

I smoke a little pot on occasion {probably once a year} and enjoy it. But I don’t get stoned. Just a “buzz” and that’s it.

Don’t freak out, man. LOL


36 posted on 03/08/2012 9:53:33 PM PST by unkus (Silence Is Consent)
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To: Mariner

“The three religions of the Book, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, are not well known for having drug cultures associated with them, so it comes as something as a surprise to learn that Islam, perhaps the most puritanical of the three, has a strong undercurrent of marijuana use throughout its long history.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/ID11Ak03.html


37 posted on 03/08/2012 9:53:47 PM PST by ansel12
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To: Mariner

Please see my Post 36.


38 posted on 03/08/2012 9:55:40 PM PST by unkus (Silence Is Consent)
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To: ansel12
"throughout its long history."

It's definitely a cultural issue.

Pot has been around as an intoxicant to man for at least 5,000 years. It reaches back there with alcohol.

39 posted on 03/08/2012 9:56:24 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner

I may take up Pot smokin if Obama wins again.


40 posted on 03/08/2012 9:59:07 PM PST by right way right (What's it gonna take?)
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