Posted on 01/08/2002 11:15:02 AM PST by Texaggie79
Let's see...5'9", 165 pounds. Not skinny, but not very heavy either. Fairly average....
And I'm the same way with tobacco as well. I can have a smoke occasionally, but quitting (since I average 1-2 cigs a month) wasn't hard at all. For other people, I hear it's the hardest thing in the world.
The world hasn't had near enough quality cheese and moose discussions though, so I'm still there for those.
LOL! You are the one in reply #110 who couldn't answer the question and decided to go on a bitter tirade(trying to mask it as humor).
The real humor in this thread is your bitterness at losing the arguement.
You shouldn't give up your day job to become a stand up comedian, but I can understand why you would want to give up your day job as a trial lawyer. It must be tough on the conscience as you put small businesses out of business with friovolous lawsuits that drive up insurance and other costs of business.
If it happening out on the street, it affects my property values, brings down the quality of life in the neighborhood, etc.etc..
You will recall that this thread is about marijuana. Do you think it is a good thing to lock up a 92-year old woman to "send her a message?"
The other study that has caused concern was concluded by Dr. Robert Heath at the Tulane University School of Medicine. Heath recorded the brain waves of six rhesus monkeys before, during, and after exposure to marijuana smoke and found that the monkeys showed changes for as long as five days after such exposure. In addition, two of the monkeys suffered "structural alteration of cells in the spetal region of the brain," and Heath stated that previous correlations between monkeys and human beings suggested that the chronic smoking of marijuana produces irreversible damage in humans.
Heath's report was made public at a Senate subcommittee hearing investigating marijuana and health. Dr. Julius Axelrod, who received the Nobel Prize in 1970 for his work on the effects of drugs on the brain, was asked to evaluate the Heath study. He told the senators that the amount of smoke inhaled by the monkeys was equivalent to a human being smoking over a hundred marijuana cigarettes each day for six months. "The results indicate that marijuana causes an irreversible damage to the brain," said Axelrod. "But the amounts used are so large that one wonders whether it's due to the large toxic amounts Dr. Heath has given." A large enough dose of almost any substance will produce negative results in animals or human beings, said Axelrod, who believed that Heath should have administered doses of varying degrees to determine which effects would have been produced by different levels of marijuana. Lester Grinspoon, another critic of the Heath study, points out that the monkeys in the experiment were forced to ingest excessive amounts of marijuana smoke, although a monkey's lung size is only about one-fifteenth as large as that of a human being.
Actually my original post was to dead about his blanket statement about "the state of incarceration being the 38th largest state", which I thought basically stated that all incarceration is bad for society and then I got into a discussion saying that tough law and order mayors such as Guiliani have brought crime down.
You will recall that this thread is about marijuana. Do you think it is a good thing to lock up a 92-year old woman to "send her a message?"
Marijuana is against the law and she has been on probation four times before. You can debate if marijuana should be legal or not. You think that marijuana should be legal, I don't. I beleive that marijuana is a gateway into the drug culture.
But that brings me back to my Guiliani arguement. Guiliani cracked down on small and minor crimes and that in turn brought down rates of major crimes and you can't argue against that success. So yes if grandma is being a 4 time offender, yes she should go to jail, IMHO
Surely you must realize that Grandma's customers will find another source. The supply will always be filled.
"Closing the borders" with the War On Terrorism has had no effect as most marijuana consumed in this country is now produced here. The only way to eliminate drug crime is to eliminate drug laws.
Millions of people over thousands of years have enjoyed the effects of marijuana. The damage has been far, far less than from alcohol; indeed, less than from aspirin.
The only damage to our society, and specifically our Constitution, that can be attributed to marijuana comes from the corrupt War On Drugs.
So if a grandma committed murder she shouldn't go to jail because of the children? Are grandmothers exmpt from the law?
Millions of people over thousands of years have enjoyed the effects of marijuana. The damage has been far, far less than from alcohol; indeed, less than from aspirin
Sorry I don't think of becoming a burnout as a beneficial effect. I don't go for the marijuana is a "wonderweed" arguement.
The only damage to our society, and specifically our Constitution, that can be attributed to marijuana comes from the corrupt War On Drugs
That's your opinion, but I don't think that the US Constitution stands on the right to smoke dope anytime, anywhere.
The Constitution does not permit pot smoking. That would be because the Constitution was written to restrain the government. Anything not prohibited in the Constitution is allowed by definition (cf: Civics 101).
She broke the law. You may not like the law, but she broke it and she had been on probation before.
Your main defense of her was this,
And when Grandma goes to jail, I'll bet it will have a great effect on her grandchildren. "Where's your grandma?" "Jail."
As I asked you, should grandmas be exempt from the law?
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