Why don't you find a joint and familiarize yourself with the product before jumping on the pot bandwagon. If you think drinking is "lethal addictive" and pot is fine, you have never done either. Using your logic, we should legalize gay marriage because when you get down to it, it doesn't really effect anyone else, right?
Because that's the conservative position - just like legalizing alcohol and ending Prohibition was the conservative position.
That is a canard. All the people who supported Prohibition are the ones who about faced and called for repeal after the whole thing blew up in their faces with crime. If you are not aware, FDR used repeal as a campaign issue in '32 and it was a Rat campaign plank. Some Conservative that FDR was.
And yet you're hell-bent on continuing Prohibition II . . .
Man.
Why don't you find a joint and familiarize yourself with the product
Where did I say I'd never smoked pot?
before jumping on the pot bandwagon. If you think drinking is "lethal addictive"
It's an easily observed fact. Do you really need proof?
and pot is fine
Where did I say that?
Because that's the conservative position - just like legalizing alcohol and ending Prohibition was the conservative position.
That is a canard. All the people who supported Prohibition are the ones who about faced and called for repeal after the whole thing blew up in their faces with crime. If you are not aware, FDR used repeal as a campaign issue in '32 and it was a Rat campaign plank. Some Conservative that FDR was.
So if some liberals agree with the conservative position, it's no longer conservative? I guess since 0bama wears pants I'd better stop wearing them.
'These two conservative Republicans shared opinions as to the flaws of national prohibition. Murphy told a congressional committee that World War I had accustomed him to rigid, centralized government and that therefore, at the outset, he had fully expected the liquor ban to succeed. He joined Stayton's organization after concluding that the Eighteenth Amendment was "absolutely contrary to the spirit of the rest of the Constitution" and that it led to further contrary acts by the government, such as wiretapping, bribery, and the careless shooting of innocent people by prohibition agents. Respect for the Constitution had been "materially weakened." Furthermore, said Murphy, prohibition produced much crime and furnished the underworld with a large, steady income. Finally, the law interfered with established social customs and deprived the state of an opportunity to regulate the flow of liquor. Cassatt believed, as well, that prohibition was out of place in the Constitution. It seemed to him also that prohibition was leading to infringement of hitherto constitutionally protected personal rights. As did Murphy, he felt the United States too large and the customs too varied for one national law governing personal habits. Neither man liked instability, and both came to regard prohibition as a dangerous unsettling influence on government and society.'
- Repealing National Prohibition, by David Kyvig, Copyright 1979 by the University of Chicago