Smoking Pot and Tying the Knot

Townhall.com ^ | December 12, 2012 | Jacob Sullum

[stuartcr]

I think the turn-arounds seem fast because to most Americans, these two issues aren’t that important.

[RoosterRedux]

Though I firmly believe that pot is poison (for the individual and society), I believe the best way to control it is to treat it like a social stigma.

It's prohibition is extremely expensive and empowers the drug cartels.

[mbarker12474]

How soon will it be that cigars and cigarettes are banned from bars, restaurants, bowling alleys, the workplace, the dumpster outside the workplace, the home, the public sidewalks and the all-male public sauna, while marijuana smoking is openly promoted in the gay household living room and nursery and nursery school?

[Texas Eagle]

I'm starting to come to the point where I might be in favor of legalizing pot.

At the rate we're going, the only freedom we're going to have left is smoking weed.

For the time being, I'm just happy Warshington State and Colorado have legalized marijuana in hopes the potheads here in California will go there and destroy those states.

Maybe that'll give us a chance to turn things around here.

[ansel12]

How soon will it be that cigars and cigarettes are banned from bars, restaurants, bowling alleys, the workplace, the dumpster outside the workplace, the home, the public sidewalks and the all-male public sauna, while marijuana smoking is openly promoted in the gay household living room and nursery and nursery school?

You just proved something about the libertarians, in California cigarettes are even banned outdoors at beaches and parks, and the libertarians haven't made a peep, yet they are rightly famous for constantly harping on pot.

When confronted, the liberaltarians will of course say that they are pro-cigarette, we assume, but why after 40 years of being identified with promoting ALL drugs, do they even have to be asked?

They have been uninterested in 30 years of a new and increasing banning of cigarettes, of the imposition of a NEW prohibition against tobacco, yet frantic and screaming on the importance of legalizing drugs.

[xzins]

From an email I just received from a friend:

It all makes sense now. Gay marriage & marijuana being legalized on the same day. Leviticus 20:13- "If a man lays with another man he should be stoned." We were just interpreting it wrong.

[svcw]

The SC will probably rule that the feds can define marriage for their purposes and the states can as well.
MJ the same.

[Bon of Babble]

No matter... it is only a matter of time before legal recognition of same-sex unions is the NORM throughout the country.

Wait for it: soon, pedophiles will demand that their sick, aberrant behavior be codified as "the NORM," and then legalized.

Necrophiliacs after that.

Who are YOU (they'll say) to tell them what they can/can't do??

[svcw]

poison?

[Vaduz]

Ressults of dumbing down.Proof who is pResident.

[longtermmemmory]

has everyone noticed how all the MSM stories are directed at “inevitable”?

even glen beck surrendered to the hedonists.

[greene66]

Exactly. It’s one of the reasons I can never take libertarians seriously. Not a peep about cigarette bans, but loud obsessiveness over dope.

[bramps]

It's prohibition is extremely expensive and empowers the drug cartels.

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The damage that pot does to young brains and initiative is miles higher than the cost of prohibition. Laws simply need to be enforced and good people (most importantly, parents) need to stand up and call evil what it is. Pot's insidious because it seems relatively harmless. But anyone who's been around conversations with pot smokers knows that it's truly deadly to the brain.

[Tublecane]

I call absolute BS on your argument. Libertarians are not silent on smoking bans. If you notice their connection to other drugs more, I don’t know. Maybe it’s that the drug debate is more noticeable. Maybe it’s confirmation bias. Maybe they actually do spend more time and money on pot, but that’s because prohibition is worse than restriction.

There’s also the fact that anti-prohibition has a longer pedigree. The libs’ antismoking crusade didn’t explode until relatively recently. Here in MN, ground zero of tobacco lawsuits, libertarians have been more consistent than any others on our side of the “public health” debate.

[Strategerist]

But anyone who's been around conversations with pot smokers knows that it's truly deadly to the brain.

Did it ever occur to you that there are lots of people you've had conversations with that have smoked pot and you aren't aware of it?

[blueunicorn6]

Using illegal drugs to escape from reality is cowardice. Attempting to escape from reality also has another name.....insanity.
A male attempting to mate with another male’s anal canal is insane. A female trying to mate with another female with a rubber appliance is insane. It’s like having Aunt Rosie sitting at your dinner table trying to eat by sticking a turkey baster in her ear and telling you that’s just her lifestyle. It may be, but it’s also insane behavior.

[Missouri gal]

RE: The damage that pot does to young brains...

I completely agree. Also never mentioned by the dopers is that it causes genetic defects. Marijuana is an EXTREMELY unforgiving drug, and making it more common is death for America.

[ansel12]

LOL, you can praddle on, but you can’t change reality.

The anti-smoking crusade predates your birth, and by the 1970s smoking was being banned in stores and elevators in some places.

California went statewide in 1995, yet the liberaltarians have made barely a peep, and have no identification with tobbacco issues.

Drugs, porn, abortion, hookers, are what drives the libertarian crowd.

A new prohibition is being implemented in plain sight, in real time, today, and libertarians aren’t interested.

[dmz]

Using illegal drugs to escape from reality is cowardice. Attempting to escape from reality also has another name.....insanity.

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So remember kids, always use legal drugs to escape from reality, which indicates that you are brave and sane.