Prosecutors are urged to fight against legalizing drugs like marijuana

Standard Democrat(Mississippi) | 12/29/02 | Scott Welton

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Good God, this was embarrassing to read. Note to the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy: it's not the 1930s any more. People can actually get their own "information" about marijuana on this little thing called the "Internet."

[Mudboy Slim]

"They did everything they could to keep the data from becoming public. It would be funny if it wasn't tragic."

Good point, Newbie...MUD

[banjo joe]

The prosecuter gig is the first rung on the ladder. Collect enough scalps, impress the right people, make the right contacts, scratch the right backs: bigger and better things are on the way. State AG? Governor? US con-gress?

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Guess what? They found that potheads are the LEAST likely to get in accidents and LEAST likely to drive in a manner to get pulled over and get a ticket......

You wouldn't happen to have a link to this research, would you? Not calling you out or anything, just interested . . .

[Mudboy Slim]

"Job protection at its worst."

Excellent point...without the abysmal failure of the WarOnSomeDrugs, these prosecutors might haveta prosecute some real criminals and not folks smoking a weed in the privacy of their own home.

Marijuana will be De-Criminalized at the Federal Level by the end of Dubyuh's second term...SITYS!!

FReegards...MUD

[Kevin Curry]

Marijuana, Burns writes in the letter, is not harmless but has risen as a factor in emergency room visits 176 percent since 1994, surpassing heroin.[emphasis added]

Emergency rooms are the most expensive form of medicine there is. The dopers who end up there don't pay the full tabs or even a substantial portion of the tabs for these visits. Other people do, whether as taxpayers or via increased insurance premiums.

Dopers and socialism go together like screws and nuts.

[HELLRAISER II]

I've never met anyone that got hurt much less sent to the Emergency room when they were stoned. Alcohol is a different story, these stats are Crap.

[Kevin Curry]

Marijuana will be De-Criminalized at the Federal Level by the end of Dubyuh's second term...SITYS!!

And all the pro-dope ersatz conservatives posting here will cheer the dawning of a new age of nanny state socialism.

[strela]

People can actually get their own "information" about marijuana on this little thing called the "Internet."

You've convinced me. If its on the Internet, it must be true, right?

[Kevin Curry]

I've never met anyone that got hurt much less sent to the Emergency room when they were stoned. Alcohol is a different story, these stats are Crap.

So, what you personally have seen (or wanted to see) constitutes a valid statistical sampling? LOL!

Your anecdotal opinion is crap.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

The dopers who end up there don't pay the full tabs or even a substantial portion of the tabs for these visits. Other people do, whether as taxpayers or via increased insurance premiums.

Your proof?

[jayef]

Hook, line, sinker.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

You've convinced me. If its on the Internet, it must be true, right?

Yes, especially if it comes from me. Would you like to buy some farmland in Argentina from me? I'll give you an excellent price.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Actually, I think that doing drugs is stupid. And so is bungee jumping and playing your stereo so loud that it damages your hearing but I am not so anal as to try to pass a law preventing you from doing so.

[TBall]

"Marijuana, Burns writes in the letter, is not harmless but has risen as a factor in emergency room visits 176 percent since 1994,surpassing heroin.[emphasis added]" It would be helpful if they included the actual numbers that make up the percentages. In 1994 were there 10,000 emergency room visits and now there are over 25,000 per year?

[fporretto]

Softballs. Feh.

Ha! Well, yes, but I'm a nice guy, and besides, it's only January 2. I need a little time to get that holiday glow out of my system. I will grant, though, that your inquiry cuts rather deeply, and should be posed to prosecutors, or other politicians, who campaign against citizen initiatives -- any citizen initiatives.

By the way, why don't we have provisions for citizen recall in most states and municipal districts? Or am I being inflammatory?

Freedom, Wealth, and Peace,
Francis W. Porretto
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[strela]

Would you like to buy some farmland in Argentina from me? I'll give you an excellent price.

Only if I can use some prime Florida wetland that happens to be in my family as collateral. You could start a gator farm or buy one of those airboats and be a country squire on your own little fiefdom.

[HELLRAISER II]

Have you ever worked in a Hospital? No you haven't, well I have and my best friend is a Paramedic so just like I said these stats are Bull$hit, just like your paranoid opinion.