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To: mysterio
No, I am sick and tired of seeing the Constitution get stomped for the sole purpose of keeping people from using drugs.

I am sick and tired of people disregarding the dangers of drug use in order to feed some need they have.

38 posted on 07/05/2005 10:02:51 AM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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To: MEGoody
I am sick and tired of people disregarding the dangers of drug use in order to feed some need they have.

Yep, drug use is dangerous. And smoking is dangerous. And drinking is dangerous. And eating fatty foods is dangerous. And NASCAR is dangerous. And bungee jumping is dangerous.

What does not follow is that the appropriate response to danger is prohibition.

45 posted on 07/05/2005 10:10:03 AM PDT by Politicalities (http://www.politicalities.com)
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To: MEGoody
Yes, I have a need. A need to see America's Constitution restored. The WOD has been one of the biggest blows to the Constitution. And the problem it attempted to solve was not worth the solution imposed.

And read this again, slowly : I am not a drug user. Shall I send you a urine sample to prove it?
54 posted on 07/05/2005 10:17:19 AM PDT by mysterio
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To: MEGoody
""I am sick and tired of people disregarding the dangers of drug use in order to feed some need they have.""


There are real dangers and there are inflated dangers.

Real danger is the effects of alcohol on the motor system and ones ability to function at a safe level.

Inflated danger is that the effects of Pot is as bad as meth, cocaine, heroin etc..


Reasonable reaction to problem, determine what drugs can be used in a reasonably safe manor. Then put safety limits on its use. Then anyone using it in a many to be deemed unsafe will be punished. If cocaine, meth and heroin are determined to have a level of effect that could not be considered reasonably safe then it doesn't get legalized.

You would have to set a bench make as to what drugs effects are beyond the level of safety. Is alcohols effects the bench make? If it is then by all accounts pot should be legal, cocaine, meth and heroin are questionable by my knowledge of the drugs.

I heard many drug warriors say that if you want pot legal you then want all drugs legal. That answer to that is no all drugs effects are not equal, nor should the law treat them that way.
185 posted on 07/05/2005 12:07:22 PM PDT by commonerX
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To: MEGoody
I am sick and tired of people disregarding the dangers of drug use in order to feed some need they have.



It's called individual rights. Any questions?

334 posted on 07/05/2005 7:37:19 PM PDT by philman_36 ("It’s a legal document, and legal documents do not change." Scalia)
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