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Posted on 01/13/2014 11:39:29 AM PST by Kaslin
Right now, China and Russia are having a great laugh at America’s expense. For a once proud country with strong moral character and intellectual ambition, we have become a nation intent on destroying itself from within. The publicly sanctioned and widespread celebration of indolent potheads toking themselves into oblivion in Colorado is only the latest example.
We have come a long way from Nancy Reagan’s largely successful “Just Say No” campaign to educate students on the dangers of drugs and their consequences. Call it “You Can Say Yes. “
In the minds of many conservatives, the lines are becoming quickly blurred on the legalization of mind-altering substances as well as the punishment of drug offenders. Libertarians are taking up the cause to push for universal legalization of marijuana around the country. Some are doing this because of Americans’ growing fear of our government’s intrusion into our private lives while others are doing it because of easier access to their favorite recreational pastime. Indeed, the latter motivation seems to be so popular, that it quickly turned into one of the most popular battle cries amongst the young adults for the election of Rep. Ron Paul in the 2012 Republican Primary.
Unfortunately, many traditional Conservatives are also getting on the drug bus because they have bought the Democrat lie that the money collected by drug users could be fiscally beneficial. In the most recent year, Colorado generated $9.1 million in retail sales tax from the sale of medical marijuana. This figure is bound to grow with the introduction of recreational sales and the additional 25% in excise and sales taxes since becoming legal on January 1st.
Looking beyond just the tax revenue, the industry generates millions of dollars every year for the state from licensing and application fees. To apply for and obtain a license to run a medical marijuana facility serving more than 500 patients, for instance, the necessary application and license fees alone approach $40,000. Colorado has agreed to take this new revenue and use it for the education of its children and construction of new schools. Does this mean at 18 every high school graduate will be handed their diploma and a doobie with the instructions to get addicted in order to help fund future generations’ educations?
We are now seeing a very odd mix of bedfellows. One of my favorite Tea Party Senators, Mike Lee of Utah, and one of the most odious liberals in the Senate today, Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois, both are now in agreement to reduce the mandatory jail sentence time on non-violent drug offenses in hopes of reducing prison expenses. A federal inmate’s yearly cost for one inmate ranges from $21,000 to $33,000 depending on the prison's level of security. Because of the current system, about half of the nation's more than 218,000 federal inmates are serving time for drug crimes with virtually all of them subjected by some form of mandatory minimum sentencing.
Am I living in the twilight zone right now? Has our country become so ignorant that we have abandoned one of the few positive goals of eliminating substances from our cultural landscape? Drugs that have reduced the productivity, health and advancement of our society? Don’t think drugs have a negative effect on the community? Just look to Washington State, where within the first 6 months of pot being legalized, 745 drivers stopped by the police tested positive for marijuana’s psychoactive ingredient THC and over half of those tested were over the state’s legal limit of 5 nanograms. This means there are more impaired drivers on the roads of Washington and now Colorado driving alongside families on their way to school and people on their way to work. Please tell me how a price can be put on their safety or tell me that drugs cannot hurt innocent bystanders? Please go ask a family who has lost a loved one to drug use or more importantly whose family was affected by someone under the influence.
We are witnessing the steady decline and intentional corrosion of America’s social structure. This is the ultimate goal of leftists: total control of the state that would make middle and lower class its feudal subjects. What better way to destroy a culture then to encourage mind altering substance use by the general public?
Ronald Reagan often quoted John Winthrop’s shining “City upon a Hill” but ultimately under these types of legislative policy, we might suffer more the fate as predicted by Alexis de Toqueville who said “America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.”
“Besides that, what’s going to happen to legal marijuana?”
-Same thing as alcohol, that legal drug has been destroying lives for generations.
Call all you want you make no sense. I said nothing about it being legal or not.
***The more taboo you make it, the more appealing it becomes.***
“Nonsense”
-Yeah all those under age high school and college kids drinking themselves into a oblivion is nonsense.
You are incoherent.
Has there been similar research done on the lingering effects of marijuana use by pilots?
More nonsense, people don’t drink because it is taboo.
Do they seek out child porn because it is taboo?
Yes. Air Force did the studies. Motor skills are reduced every bit as much as alcohol and for a similar period. The reason for the similarity is that the body excretes both substances at similar rates. My last AF flight physiology course covered the similarities in detail. The real danger is that a person can feel perfectly fine after alcohol or pot use at ground level but the minute effects are amplified many times over at higher altitudes. The regulations are being rewritten on many aspects of altitude, including minimum altitude for oxygen use, etc.
“More nonsense, people don’t drink because it is taboo.”
Really? Speakeasies weren’t ever for the taboo aspects? underage drinking isn’t because it is taboo? Just what planet do you live on?
Some things should be taboo
“I don’t think they had much problem with drugs.”
Then why did they need to apply the death penalty? Obviously, what they tried before did not work.
I must, really must, go to tje grocery store right now, so I don’t have time to return to your post point-by-point. I will try to remember to do it when i return.
For now, I have just enough time to say-no, I don’t hate Americans. I don’t hate America, what i consider to be America. Hate is not the correct word, and words matter. Also, what I consider to be America is not what she has become.
That’s all I have time to say right now, but I truly will try to remember (having old timer’s disease, you are welcome to remind me if it matters to you, and I’m not saying that my opinion should) to address your points more distinctly later.
Suffice it for now, I have my own ideas of what America was and should be (and no I don’t mean a theocracy of any kind), and what I see it becoming before my very eyes, is not that idea.
Drugs are bad. The drug war and freedoms reduced in the name of the drug war, is worse.
Of course not, how stoned are you? You think that people sought out bars because they were taboo? That is why you think the pub and nightclub has been around in the white world for thousands of years, because they are taboo?
You think that French teens and adults drink, or go to speakeasys because alcohol is taboo? You think everyone in America is seeking out child porn because it is taboo?
Thanks you for your civil, thoughtful response! God bless.
You’re rather incoherent as well, except for the liberal self pity victcrat syndrome.
You think forbidding homosexual marriage or gays in the military, is authoritarian? or conservative?
There was no prohibition in either the NT or OT, nor was there a suggestion that there should be. So how does the Bible justify secular drug laws?
You have a strange posting history.
You signed up 2/15/2010, used the account for about 6 weeks, stopped, and then suddenly started posting again, about 4 days ago
I’m surprised that even the elections of 2010 and 2012 didn’t draw a post from you.
Help me, because I honestly do not see any of them in the words I write. Please cut and paste an example of:
-- liberalism
-- self pity
-- victicrat mentality
from my posts. Thank you!
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