Posted on 10/22/2012 9:09:50 AM PDT by Jayster
"There' a rising tide of acceptance of the fact that people are going to smoke marijuana, and it's like the prohibition against alcohol in the 1930s. There's a recognition that perhaps the laws are causing more harm than the drugs themselves," says Rick Steves, author and travel host.
Steves and others attended "The Final Days of Prohibition" conference in downtown Los Angeles in early October. The conference was put on by the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), and Reason TV was on the scene to ask about the future of marijuana laws in the U.S., particularly in the upcoming election where the states of Oregon, Washington, and Colorado all have marijuana legalization initiatives on the ballot.
About 3 minutes.
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Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln.....
I can just imagine ads for Magic Brownie Mix......
Operating a vehicle in an intoxicated state seems to be the issue here. Does it make a material difference if the vehicle's operator became intoxicated from alcohol or marijuana?
Alcohol is legal.
You can fire someone for abusing alcohol.
Your point is invalid.
The driving-impairing drug alcohol is legal, yet businesses can get insurance coverage.
Is this "Kill 'em all" trolling a feeble attempt to put a turd in the punch bowl?
They'll be braver if we keep marijuana illegal? Would they become braver still if we re-banned the drug alcohol?
Just as we do with inebriates, we can have severe penalties in place for operating under the influence of marijuana. Legalizing this mild drug should reduce somewhat the recent rise of totalitarianism in this country.
“Yes, a murderous, totalitarian government is really what we need.”
We’ve had that for years.
Meanwhile, tobacco is under attack.
Firstly, because marijuana is illegal its users don't advertise their use, so the only ones whose use becomes known to you are the goofy and lazy ones.
Secondly, it's at least as likely that any cause and effect relationship runs the opposite way: that people who are already goofy and lazy are likelier than average to turn to marijuana use.
Authoritarians come in all flavors. And yes, it baffles me to that many here on FR claim to be for freedom and the pursuit of happiness, but then want to control people who are stupid enough to drug themselves.
But he is wanting to take it up to Soviet Stalin levels.
Which is worse than prohibition how?
taxation
If this is an argument for keeping illegal things illegal, it's equally an argument for making legal taxable things illegal.
and corruption.
Whereas no corruption results from the prohibition of marijuana?
So should alcohol be banned?
I agree with whatever.
(Its not important enough for me to waste my time arguing about)
Now go bother someone else.
But it was important enough for you to waste your time posting ignorant easily-rebutted twaddle?
Now go bother someone else.
Rebutting your ignorant twaddle is "bothering" you? Have a hankie. And next time, stay out of the kitchen if you can't take the heat.
No. People will get tired of the potheads disturbing their lives and robbing them, just like last time.
((shrug))
Having reached adulthood in the mid-sixties when penalties were greater, people volunteered their use of marihootchie, as if the smell that permeated their clothes, hair, and lungs wasn't a dead give away. And the more powerful versions of the last few decades are even more aromatic.
Co-workers who stepped out for a J always thought they were pulling a fast one on the rest of us in much the same way the three vodka martini lunch crowd thought their breathe was sweet. And coincidentally work performance for both classes was sub-par and mistake ridden, standing in stark contrast to their delusional self image.
Thanks for Mr Natural recollections and the chuckles.
Keep on truckin' dude...hahahaha
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