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Drug Laws as Cultural Lobotomy
Liberty Magazine ^ | 9/1995 | John Dentinger

Posted on 01/26/2003 6:20:50 AM PST by RJCogburn

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To: RJCogburn
"You seemed to be trying to suggest that the putative 'cure' for smoking, Dilantin, was worse than smoking."

Given the other alternatives, yes. I would no more use Dilatin to quit smoking than I would use it to grow hair.

141 posted on 01/27/2003 1:07:38 PM PST by robertpaulsen
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To: robertpaulsen
I would no more use Dilatin to quit smoking than I would use it to grow hair.

Gotta go with you on that, Bob. I cold-turkied successfully....but then, I'm one tough and determined fella.

142 posted on 01/27/2003 1:18:47 PM PST by RJCogburn (Yes, it's bold talk......)
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To: RJCogburn
Same here. Going on 5 years.
143 posted on 01/27/2003 2:27:15 PM PST by robertpaulsen
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To: William Terrell
I really really don't want to honor a website put up by people weak enough to let perception override actual reality with a hit.

You might want to check on who the domain is registered to before you attribute it's content to weakness or confusing perception with reality. These people know perfectly well the distinction between perception and reality. Their job is making sure you don't.

144 posted on 01/27/2003 2:50:54 PM PST by tacticalogic (If two plus two equals four, does to plus to equal for?)
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To: tacticalogic
Their job is making sure you don't.

They evidently did a damn good job on Roscoe.

145 posted on 01/27/2003 2:55:06 PM PST by William Terrell (Advertise in this space - Low rates)
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To: William Terrell
They evidently did a damn good job on Roscoe.

I'd hate to think we spent 152 million dollars and didn't get anything for it.

146 posted on 01/27/2003 3:35:24 PM PST by tacticalogic (If two plus two equals four, does to plus to equal for?)
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To: MrLeRoy
"smoking pot makes you pregnant says gov."

LOL!

I saw that one during the Super Bowl. What a joke!

I didn't notice a commercial saying "Watching the Super Bowl leads to alcoholism!" Why not? It's more realistic.

Besides, I heard you go sterile if you smoke too many seeds. :-)~``

 

147 posted on 01/27/2003 10:09:07 PM PST by md2576
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To: WORLD SUCKELS USAS BREAST
Well, they are numerous.

Yet I notice you haven't named a single one.

And who is going to do it if the govement doesn't.

I can't answer that till you tell me what those effects are.

149 posted on 01/28/2003 7:30:45 AM PST by MrLeRoy ("That government is best which governs least.")
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To: WORLD SUCKELS USAS BREAST
there are dangers taking drugs.

That has no bearing on your claim that "a drug users actions affects the rest of the population".

151 posted on 01/28/2003 7:37:36 AM PST by MrLeRoy ("That government is best which governs least.")
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And who is going to do it if the govement doesn't.

Seems you would let the government sweep away the garbage instead of doing it yourself with community involvement. Little did you know, what looked as if they were cleaning the streets with good intentions ended up costing you billions and meanwhile they dig through your trash to make sure they have all the info they need to relinquish any freedom you think you may still have.

Freedom has become a mood point that gets tossed aside at any sign of terror or loss of life.

When we gave up our freedoms to protect a few hundred people from a bomb attack. caused by 5 to 20 people in a "cell". it probably made the hundreds of thousands of people who died fighting for our freedom turn in their grave and look at us with disgust, while calling us the biggest chicken ships to ever have the privilege to call ourselves Americans.

The government has backed hundreds of laws because it thought it was doing the right thing. We now know, through intelligence, evolution and discovery, that they were in fact the most outrageous offenses to society and freedom.

If arguments against ones beliefs and rights are backed by the fact that the Government said so, then you may as well move to another web site and stop telling me your rights supercedes mine because you do not agree. Otherwise, if you continue to say it's right because it's the law, then you will get regurgitated arguments about segregation and so on.

 

152 posted on 01/28/2003 8:26:29 AM PST by md2576
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To: WORLD SUCKELS USAS BREAST
Almost all things in life, when abused, can be contributed to illwill against society. It is when we weigh the benefits with the adverse that we conceive laws.

Our arguments are not about letting dope heads impregnate our daughters, drive over kids through Burger King and supporting terrorism through a joint. It is merely showing the uninformed that marijuana costs billions for the government to outlaw while over 30% of the population agree that it is not harmful to them or their neighborhood.

The Pros to legalized marijuana are many.

The Cons are ........... please fill in here.

153 posted on 01/28/2003 8:41:15 AM PST by md2576
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One more thing,

If marijuana is such an addictive gateway drug then why do all addicts who go to harder drugs or alcoholism stop smoking or buying pot. Then, after rehabilitation, many go back to marijuana and do only that one herb for years and never have the urge to try anything else again. It is an obvious scene of addictive and experimental tendencies that most Americans have experienced in their own lives. Whether it be caffeine, cigarettes or even Reality TV shows, you cannot try and bulk a harmless human enjoyment with death, rape and the fall of society.

154 posted on 01/28/2003 8:49:25 AM PST by md2576
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To: WORLD SUCKELS USAS BREAST
there are dangers taking drugs.

That has no bearing on your claim that "a drug users actions affects the rest of the population".

You are incorrect.

No, I am correct by inspection; dangers one inflicts on oneself do not affect the rest of the population.

158 posted on 01/28/2003 10:42:48 AM PST by MrLeRoy ("That government is best which governs least.")
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To: WORLD SUCKELS USAS BREAST
Many falsehoods in your post. Care to post your source for this nonsense? I will bet these lies come from the same source that claim pot smokers fund terrorism. Those are ONCP stats, aren't they. From the same mind set as the first Drug Czar, who smoked pot then testified to Congress it turned him into a Bat...at the bottom of a 200 ft. deep inkwell.

So which gov.org site did you get those claims?
159 posted on 01/28/2003 10:44:54 AM PST by KDD (smoking pot makes you pregnant says gov.)
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