Posted on 01/21/2014 4:29:12 AM PST by Kaslin
I remember when my mother made mashed potatoes from scratch she heated the milk in a pot to the boiling point the added it to mashed up potatoes.
You make a good point. Our relatively recently established history of NOT holding individuals responsible for the end results of their life-choices does make it difficult to change to a policy of “freedom with responsibility”.
By not holding up the responsibility side of the equation, we make freedom almost meaningless.
However, this does not mean that we should not work our society closer to “freedom with responsibility”.
Don’t forget the Kennedies. Prohibition gave us them, too.
Societal problems stem from NOT holding people responsible for the end results of their choices.
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Welfare and crime. No one is denying that legalizing marijuana will open up the floodgates to more welfare and greater degrees of crime.
These are obvious societal problems. The burden we must pay for illegal drug use runs into trillions of dollars. How can anyone argue that LEGALIZING dope will not add more users and add more millions and even billions of dollars lost in welfare and criminal activity?
I admit; the price we pay to fight the WOD is horrible. But the alternative - to surrender - would cost an even greater price.
You understand that is an opinion of the author in the link and like the famous saying goes: Everyone is entitled to his or her opinion, no matter how ridiculous.
The only way to profit from illegal drugs is to grow, manufacture, transport or sell drugs. Not many on this thread fit that description.
Not true. Every federal employee in the DEA makes his/her living from the "war on drugs" - as do an uncomfortably high percentage of state and local police officers.
zeugma was referring to people attracted to this thread. Not sure everyone on here is DEA agent - but maybe.
“The only way to profit from illegal drugs is to grow, manufacture, transport or sell drugs.”
Thousands of police departments around the country that fund their budgets with asset forfeiture laws would beg to differ.
Again for possible cranial penetration: zeugma was referring to people attracted to this thread. Not sure everyone on here is DEA agent - but maybe.
One evening all the neighbors were sitting outside drinking, smoking and bsing. I went outside to sit with them. As soon as I smelled that stinking weed I got up and went back into the house.
His first sentence is what I took issue with, not the second. That’s why I quoted the first sentence specifically. Can that concept penetrate your cranium?
Sorry, but that is nowhere near accurate. See 'civil foreiture', no-knock raids, , militarization of police, the prison industry, and the legal industry. There is plenty of loot to go around, and it's well spread around by the police state to ensure continued support.
Funny how such mellow pot smokers can get really nasty sometimes.
and “Polly want a cracker. NOW!”
Yeah, how could I have forgotten the Constitution shredding DEA in my last post?
#1 - Who said I was a “pot smoker”?
#2 - I just repeated your phrasing back to you, so if you are looking for the source of the nastiness, look in the mirror, buddy.
Everybody I know got drunk years before they got high. And smoked cigs.
I observed booze a the gateway.
I’ve witnessed what this stuff can do to destroy the brain and personality of someone I love.
And the problem is ... Because it appears to halt maturation and self awareness .... She is convinced EVERYONE ELSE is the problem!
This is a person who started very young.
It’s hard enough keeping young people from messing with it by keeping it illegal.
So now we remove any penalty - remove any stigma - and pretend it isn’t any different than drinking when we know that’s not true.
The kids will damage their brains - their ambitions - their natural skills before they are old enough to enter the work force - IF they enter the workforce.
You’re absolutely right. It’s a matter of timing. I can see defacto legalization because the government is too small to bother with it. The current path will lead to a crap hole.
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