Posted on 03/08/2012 9:21:14 PM PST by Mariner
RICHMOND, Va. -- Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson says marijuana should be legalized and treated like alcohol because the government's war on drugs has failed.
The outspoken evangelical Christian and host of "The 700 Club" on the Virginia Beach-based Christian Broadcasting Network he founded said the war on drugs is costing taxpayers billions of dollars. He said people should not be sent to prison for marijuana possession.
The 81-year-old first became a self-proclaimed "hero of the hippie culture" in 2010 when he called for ending mandatory prison sentences for marijuana possession convictions.
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A truth-bomb blows “arguments” like this apart six ways from Sunday.
That's just not true. Drug companies are now manufacturing a THC nose spray to control severe pain. Patients get the pain relief but not the high. There are actually benefits to marajuana.
My dad, a proud Korea vet and Teamster smoked it to the day he died.
Neat.
My Dad was in China-Burma-India in World War II.
He had very bad migrane headaches and the last 10 years of his life he would smoke a little pot and it helped quite a bit. He was always very discreet.
{He was a full Colonel and as conservative as he could be}.
you bet and the Mafia disappeared when the prohibition on alcohol was lifted. Get real. Criminal activity will continue and it is brutal in a way that few Americans understand
The ban never really went away; this was a wink and nod zone. The same supply chain issues existed.
Taking a strict Constitutionalist view, I don’t want the government telling me what I can, and cannot do with my own body. If I want to destroy it through the ingestion of harmful substances, that’s my right - ignorant and irresponsible as it may be.
Having absolute sovereignty over ones own physical body is at the very root of natural property rights. No government has a right to the disposition and function of my very flesh and bones.
Now, I don’t personally use drugs of any kind, unless prescribed by a doctor, but I can choose not to take those, if I wish. I also have a right to ingest them, if I think they’re beneficial to me in some way.
I oppose any push to grant government rights over my body.
After? Nah, before!
For the record the Mexican cartels grow in northern California and Oregon. They have killed police officers and civilians who just stumbled on the grow sites. This is a bad business all around. Nothing good comes from drugs
That's one of the most ridiculous, co-dependent contentions I've heard in a very long time.
If those family and friends don't like it, they should remove that person from their life. When children are involved the sober parent should keep the kids.
Besides, I have lived in CA and WA all my civilian years and I have not seen any evidence of the use of pot by a parent harming a child. I have seen dozens of case where alcohol harms a family/child. That's just MY experience...but one that most people on planet earth can attest to for their own.
The Mafia’s grip weakened at the end of the prohibition period compared to what it had been during that period, although the prohibition period let them get their tentacles into things they wouldn’t have otherwise. Getting real means looking at truth even if it contradicts your previous beliefs.
Alcohol occurs in nature.
God himself made alcohol for consumption at a wedding.
I believe that pot seriously damages the brain. Heavy users in their teens or early twenties who I know are impaired. I know that these guys are very intelligent, who would have been hugely successful, but the drug use has them into idiots. I am not kidding.
They may not admit it, but it is obvious. The drug changes the neural pathways and distorts personalities.
Yes, and don't forget Bill Buckley for decades before him.
It's the BIG C Conservative position for thinking people.
The prohibitionary status quo, however well meant, brings much more trouble into conjunction with drugs than the drugs themselves ever could.
I dedicate “One Toke Over the Line” to Pat.
Anything that is driven into underworld status takes a change in character for the worse. There was no widespread plague of kids doping out to this degree before the marijuana bans.
Good point. The Mafia was fortunate that the government left them other prohibited substances that there was a demand for so they could maintain their income.
You are probably not aware of the recent shootings at 2 pharmacies on Long Island, NY in the past 6 months - 5 people dead because a couple pain killer addicted losers went in to steal pain killers.
Also, a very good friend of mine’s wife is hooked on pain killers and their young children are a disaster.
Similar story: Mine had a Bronze Star, two Purple Hearts and 3 Campaign Ribbons. Bugle and 21 Gun Salute at the VA site in Riverside.
Pot smoker war hero from about the age of 17 onwards.
A real miscreant and drag on society and Good Order and Discipline.
In the less hobbled-up past, physicians would either accommodate such cases with maintenance doses or attempt to wean the patient off very slowly — practices which will now get them in dutch with the DEA quicker than you can say expensive medical career in the toilet.
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