It's time to legalize pot

Sentinel Review ^ | 9/5/2002

[MrLeRoy]

It's enough for a big thumbs up ... or a big light up, if you prefer.

Canada should legalize marijuana use by adults, a Senate committee recommended Wednesday. The report comes on the heels of a two-year study of public policy relating to pot.

The present system of prohibition on marijuana just doesn't work, the committee found. Obviously, the committee learned something from early 20th-century history, when alcohol was prohibited in the United States. Then, prohibition simply gave gangsters a product to move and people to shoot.

Instead of the current system that penalizes people for having small quantities of pot on them, there should instead be a regulated system for marijuana, perhaps like our current system for alcohol, the committee determined.

"Scientific evidence overwhelmingly indicates that cannabis is substantially less harmful than alcohol and should be treated not as a criminal issue but as a social and health issue," said Senator Pierre Claude Nolin, the committee chair.

It's true that taking pot still involves the harmful intake of smoke, which the committee recognized. But, as the committee pointed out, it's more of a health issue than anything else.

In addition, making pot legal would clear the way for our police to tackle other, more harmful crimes relating to the public good. Really, would you rather see a pot smoker or a child molester behind bars?

Whether the federal government will ever adopt the Senate recommendations is up in the air. Hopefully the feds won't throw up a smokescreen on this to cloud the issue, and goes ahead with legalization.

[MrLeRoy]

You cut and paste like a champ, f. Now do you have any facts or logic to present?

[f.Christian]

Specious rights---thinking...you!

[Dakmar]

It's good to see you Dane, at least your hate filled rants are written in English.

[exmarine]

This is ridiculous. It's clear to any honest person that teh ONLY reason the forces-that-be want pot legalized is so they can smoke it recreationally. This was NEVER about medical marijuana - that was merely a smokescreen (like that pun?)

[MrLeRoy]

Specious rights---thinking...you!

Me Tarzan---you...Jane!

Seriously, though, are you lapsing into a diabetic coma or something? Should we call an ambulance?

[realpatriot71]

It's good to see you Dane, at least your hate filled rants are written in English.

Bwaaaaahahahaha!

[MrLeRoy]

teh ONLY reason the forces-that-be want pot legalized is so they can smoke it recreationally.

I use no drugs---including the deadly, addictive legal drugs tobacco and alcohol---and I want pot legalized.

[f.Christian]

spe·cious Pronunciation Key (spshs)
adj.
Having the ring of truth or plausibility but actually fallacious: a specious argument.
Deceptively attractive.

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[Middle English, attractive, from Latin specisus, from specis, appearance. See spek- in Indo-European Roots.]

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specious·ly adv.
speci·osi·ty (-sh-s-t) or specious·ness (-shs-ns) n.

Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

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specious

\Spe"cious\, a. [L. speciosusgood-looking, beautiful, specious, fr. species look, show, appearance; cf. F. sp['e]coeux. See Species.] 1. Presenting a pleasing appearance; pleasing in form or look; showy.

Some [serpents] specious and beautiful to the eye. --Bp. Richardson.

The rest, far greater part, Will deem in outward rites and specious forms Religion satisfied. --Milton.

2. Apparently right; superficially fair, just, or correct, but not so in reality; appearing well at first view; plausible; as, specious reasoning; a specious argument.

Misled for a moment by the specious names of religion, liberty, and property. --Macaulay.

In consequence of their greater command of specious expression. --J. Morley.

Syn: Plausible; showy; ostensible; colorable; feasible. See Plausible. -- Spe\"xious*ly, adv. -- Spe\"cious*ness, n.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.

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specious

adj 1: plausible but false; "specious reasoning"; "the spurious inferences from obsolescent notions of causality"- Ethel Albert [syn: spurious] 2: plausible but false; "a specious claim" 3: based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious praise"; "a meretricious argument" [syn: gilded, meretricious]
Source: WordNet ® 1.6, © 1997 Princeton University

[realpatriot71]

You're right that hasn't been about "medical marijuana" and I think if you'd have read the article and followed some of the thread you'd see this.

You're wrong about this being about dopers just wanting to smoke. People want the puritans to cut the apron strings and leave them alone. No one is trying to force you to smoke MJ, why do you insist on forcing your puritan attitude on them.

This is about principle my friend if you cannot understand that you have not the maturity to even enter the discussion.

[Dane]

It's good to see you Dane, at least your hate filled rants are written in English.

Huh, so someone who questions that "common sense" can come out of present day Canada is "hate filled" all of the sudden.

How Hillary of you.

[realpatriot71]

f.C, seriously man. We'd love to discuss this with you, but you're going to have to put together some coherent thoughts for discussion. Your posting "style" is ambiguos and esoteric. People in the evolution/religion threads might find this "quaint" but it doesn't cut it here. So if you want to discuss this, please use proper English syntax: sounds make letters, letters make words, words make phrases, phrases make sentences. You can then use sentences to complete thoughts for debate.

[MrLeRoy]

Control-C, Control-V. Very good. Have a cookie.

[Dakmar]

Yes, I've always been a fan of Sir Edmund Hillary, thank you.

[Dane]

Bwaaaaahahahaha!

Better be careful with your maniacal laughter, you may spill the bong releasing the bong water.

You know what pot smokers drink when they run out of weed, stems, and seeds.

[Dakmar]

BEER!

[realpatriot71]

Well, I've never drank bong water and nither has anyone I know (also as an aside no smokes stems either), but you're right, Maniacal laughter, if out of control, can spill the bong water.

[Dane]

Yes, I've always been a fan of Sir Edmund Hillary, thank you.

Youa and Hillary Clinton have more things in common, that I would have ever guessed.

You both admire pot and Sir Edmund Hillary.

Hillary especially after she said she was named after Sir Edmund Hillary, although she was born in 1947, and Sir Edmund Hillary did not become famous for being the first person to climb Mt. Everest until 1953.

She must have smoked a doob before making that comment.

[Dead Corpse]

This was NEVER about medical marijuana...

If you re-read the original article, you would realize that you are quite right. Also, no one on this thread has said it was only about medical marijuana.

Now that we got the cleared up, I'm curious. How does one get to be an ex-marine? I've been honorably discharged since '94 and still refer to myself a a Marine. Even kept the hair-cut, although I did grow a goatee at my wifes insistance.

[f.Christian]

I use to be for legalization merely to get the crime and the big bucks out of the drug trade. However, I finally decided I did not want to pay taxes to support all those drug addicted maligners who won't or can't work because they have to do drugs. I don't want to pay for raising their children or for agencies to come in and be sure the children are fed or are not murdered in a drug induced state by their loving mother and father.

I finally decided that since we can't depend on people to be smart enough to know that drugs are slave masters that will rule the lives of those opening the gate from then on, how would it help to make the slave master's product cheaper so more people could use their deep intellect to CHOOSE to willfully live their lives looking for the next fix?

This society needs productive healthy people - not dopeheads draining society.


202 posted on 9/3/02 1:53 PM Pacific by ClancyJ

[Dead Corpse]

Now that you've slandered and insulted just about everyone still active on this thread, was there a point you were going to get around to making?

Or should we just short-cut that and see who can hit the abuse button first?