Posted on 01/07/2014 2:37:38 PM PST by nickcarraway
Funny you should mention tobacco along with marjuana. Do you also support banning tobacco and waging a war on tobacco with no knock raids, police in SWAT gear, people in jail for owning a few cigarettes, dogs being shot, the works? And wasn’t it liberals who started the whole fear mongering about second hand smoke in the first place? I am not sure why you would suddenly decide to latch on to their strategy.
Ending the federal war on drugs will give the police state less power and is not the only key for ending the police state, but it is a one important step. No more police going on about how “WE GOT HIM! Mission accomplished” when their jail someone for merely having some of the stuff in their car or home.
Actually it was what you were pushing, and what I responded to.
Just drop that line of argument if you don’t believe it as being truthful or honest.
lol
Put me down for a fruit basket.
So it isn’t pot you are promoting but all drugs.
You also want to get the feds to treat them as legal, and then let each state fight the international drug trade, on it’s own.
You are also pushing the lie that legalizing drugs, solves the police state problems, trust me, it won’t.
You like to throw around accusations.
Brave New World ping, thanks nickcarraway.
It isn’t an ‘accusation”, aren’t you reading what you are posting? You are using the 1930s church production for propaganda on this thread.
Meh.
Society encourages bad choices and the government salivates over the revenue.
Its Ironic that in the state Washington people voted the state out of the liquor business and then handed the control of legalized pot to the state of Washington.
Both by initive.
Our state is mob rule, sometimes good, other times not so good.
The inituative process by-passes our “representation” so the wacky whim of the people can rule also at times.
“Washington the Evergreen state”.
No. It’s been studied to death for centuries. You are simply recalling popular counter culture propaganda. It was outlawed because people were indeed getting hurt; because people love and crave intoxication. Hell, who doesn’t? There will, however, be a price paid. I lived it, in the U.S. and abroad. Saw the damage being done to our government, law enforcement, military, and young folks. Crossed paths with young Americans living like beggars, on “Freak Street” in Bombay, and Kathmandu. All there for the “excellent hash, man.” There is no such thing as a “harmless” drug. There will be a price.
It was made long before I was born, or the "counter culture" existed.
There is no such thing as a “harmless” drug. There will be a price.
There will be a price to save everyone from themselves, too.
People in their teens might as well start smoking dope all day. It’s what most young Americans will be doing for the rest of their lives, at least as long as the government checks keep coming.
Fixed it for you.
Wow, impressive, a 1930s church made video that isn’t up to CBS standards, you really blew the lid off this.
Agreed. I gave up trying to save others long ago. I support legalization. Smoke to your heart’s content, with the proviso that I may take whatever measures needed to maintain a firewall between myself and those who make poor choices; be they tobacco users, alcoholics, or dopers, and that the govt. not be charged with cleaning up their mess, and providing social supports...but you and I know that’s not how it works. One way or another, we’re going to pay for it.
Yes, we will.
We'll either have the price of the government trying to save people from the consequences of bad decisions which will be measured in dollars, or the price of making sure they can't make bad decisions which will be measured in rights and freedom.
I was being facetious. One thing’s for sure...we’ve damn well found at least one thing where the “rugged individualists” of the conservative movement WANT Big Government to decide for us.
I have no doubt that, once corporate America gets involved, they’ll send the cannabis industry jobs overseas as well.
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