Posted on 01/21/2014 4:29:12 AM PST by Kaslin
Agree totally. Why is it that conservatives who want government out of our lives want the government to control substance abuse? If it failed with alcohol why would it succeed with drugs? Why is pot illegal but not bourbon?
Correct, booze and cigarettes are the primary “gateway drugs”. Anyone who is scare mongering about “gateway drugs”, but not mentioning booze and cigarettes is either intellectually dishonest, or simply doesn’t know what they are talking about.
Great post. They have been telling us lies about marijuana for decades. Apparently it causes impotence, abortions and murder.
Exactly. I don’t think God intended for us to legislate all the rules in the Torah.
The only way to profit from illegal drugs is to grow, manufacture, transport or sell drugs.
Unfortunately I witnessed the opposite with a loved one .... Paranoia - violence - and overall demeanor of a rattlesnake.
I was just a kid having to deal with that crap and I feel sorry for all the innocents who will - most definitely - have to put up with the loser - so called “adults” that insist on destroying their lives instead of looking out for the kids.
Since you’re wrong, there are several possibilities of why you’re wrong.
1. You’ve sought no further than popular legalization theories that ignore observation and common sense.
A. Because you like the idea of legal pot.
B. Because you’re just trying out the theory as an academic exercise.
2. You know you’re wrong, but having an agenda, beat the drum to influence others.
We would probably agree on more things than we disagree. However, this country is a disaster. If you get your way it’ll only be worse. Since legalization would and does lead to more people using, there’s little hope of reversing this mess.
Blah, blah, blah. These tyrants said the same thing years ago about medical pot...but none of it came true.
It’s posts like that, that keep me coming back to FR. Well done!
Delayed resulting in they fall asleep.
Terrible.
The reason(s) you didn't use it is because you a) didn't want to or b) used will power/discipline and told yourself not to and backed it up with a reason strong enough.
Because perhaps you found something else that was legal?
Or perhaps you haven't found any reason stronger than your reason(s) not to?
I know a few "Higher Powered" Christians who've never smoked, drank alcohol, used foul language, etc. and never had reason to.
Mine is not to judge and I'm not trying to be nosy. It's hard enough to find His steps, let alone walk them wearing those shoes. I'm just offering a neighborly view.
Some strange things happened on my way to getting old. I've had more than a few of my "youthful judgments" explained to me with experience and I now wear the shoes I was once critical of and have become, in some ways, the person I used to laugh at.
Karma...never saw that coming.
Cheers!
Yeah, and I bet they all drank milk as babies.
There’s your real “gateway drug”.
Haven't you heard the latest meme?
Potheads don't have car accidents and it's "unfair" to drug test them for drugs in their system.
Never mind that the 0.08BAC alcohol standard isn't about "accidents", it's about convictions.
The druggies damned themselves by demonizing tobacco and alcohol. If the same standard of use is to be applied, it could only be purchased within restricted hours, in restricted quantities, heavily taxed, fines for public use (in city parks you are restricted in drinking and smoking), ATF raids for evading taxes on it, and only by those who've reached the age of majority (which means the wittle teen aged dope smokers are STILL going to jail).
I don't look at this as waving a white flag at all. It's more a direct hit amidships to the cartels wallet. Pot finances much of the costs associated with their other narcotic endeavors.
If you are lucky, they fall asleep. If you are unlucky, they go for a drive.
Re-read our Bill of Rights keeping the framers' intent in mind.
If states want to pursue the war on drugs approach and all that comes with it, that's their right, but it's beyond the scope of the Fed and gives it "reasons to do things in a crisis" to remove the checks and balances on its power.
To this end, you're fighting human nature's desire to gain pleasure and eliminate pain, built in to all animals, btw, by locking down human nature?
And, failing at that, then compromising with hypocritical choices that say this poison is okay, but this God made neurochemical key with matching lock in the brain is not?
This is one thing we will not agree on, nor should we.
To me, this quote from Heinlein sums things up nicely:
"Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria.Our Constitution was designed for the latter, as I seem to be also.The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire."
Brownies are popular method among the local HS kids and there are issues with “overdosing” because it is a delayed high.
...one time in my life I ate marijuana brownies...horrible taste...disgusting, really...
I don’t look at this as waving a white flag at all. It’s more a direct hit amidships to the cartels wallet. Pot finances much of the costs associated with their other narcotic endeavors.
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“...a direct hit amidships to the cartels wallet”
Huh?
If drugs are made legal, the Cartels win. They have a trillion dollar stranglehold on the market and no one expects them to gracefully bow out and let anyone else take over if drugs become legal. In fact the Cartels will suddenly become no different that Budweiser or RJ Reynolds as they also become legitimate tax paying corporations.
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