Posted on 07/25/2006 1:08:16 AM PDT by freepatriot32
Excuse me for a moment while I vent about the mind-boggling stupidity of the autocratic, bureaucratic, right-wing, Neanderthal numskulls who keep pushing an insane, inane, and inhumane holy war against marijuana which is, after all, a weed.
The most embarrassing thing for these holy warriors is that the weed is winning! They've been at this war since 1937, spending billions and billions of our tax dollars, militarizing our borders, and stomping on our Bill of Rights. They've used phone taps, garbage searches, jackbooted raids, and draconian prison terms to ... well, to do what? To nab peaceful, mellow tokers who aren't bothering anyone, that's what.
Despite 60 years of spending our money, they've failed: 85% of Americans say marijuana is easy to obtain today, a third of our population says they've tried it, nearly 15 million people partake of it at least monthly and more high school students now smoke marijuana than cigarettes!
Meanwhile, the holy warriors have become more fanatical and thuggish than ever. A marijuana arrest is made every 41 seconds in America nine out of 10 of them for mere possession. In 2004, 772,000 Americans were arrested on marijuana charges more than for all violent crimes combined.
Even sicker, the sanctimonious weed warriors have made it a crime for thousands of seriously sick people to get the medical benefits of using small amounts of doctor-prescribed marijuana. Weirdly, our doctors can prescribe cocaine for patients but not marijuana. Worse, drug thugs from the DEA and FBI bust down the doors of these patients, seize their dosages ... and haul them to jail.
For information and action to stop this absurd war, call the Marijuana Policy Project: 202/462-5747.
Profane, treating something sacred with abuse, irreverence or contempt. (As you do our language)
Obscene, disgusting to the senses.
Vulgar, merely common, colloquial.
Gotta 'nother type of cussin' to mis-label.
LMAO!!!! What a road of clap! I used to smoke the evil weed, and I am still glad I never drived under it's influence. I could barely remember to put the icecream box back in the freezer, let alone what color light to stop at.
I do remember how smart I thought I was when I got stoned, at least until I started recording some of those brilliant thoughts and looked at them sober. Put down the bong for a few months and get back to me when your brain is flushed of THC poisoning and you've learned to deal with reality without a hallucinogenic crutch.
But if he were to legalize only marijuana, you'd think differently of him?
What in the heck are you talking about?
Unitl then, I'll continue to ignore it.
Bravo Sierra.
If that were true, in Massachusetts, marijuana wouldn't simply be legal, it'd be required that each and every person grow a crop in his or her backyard. Such is not the case.
I do hope you're being hyperbolic in your posts, for anyone who bases his or her political philosophy on hate is extremely disturbed.
Then he was more than a "user".
Freedom does not mean the right to jack it in public, nor would a Libertarian argue that it does.
And -- on your way, protect it from the sunshine...
I believe they also said that during the 1920's.
Heh heh heh. Like most cops do, too, until they get the directive (and the new budget numbers need paddin').
And you will be forced to help fund the opposition through your tax dollars. It has gotten so twisted that in a supposedly self-governing nation we have a government agency who's job it is to prevent the people from changing the law if they want to.
So you support alcohol prohibition, too? How many gangs are funded via the illicit sale of alcohol today? Gangs need money to survive and recruit new members. Make drugs legal, and their only real source of income disappears.
Would said Libertarian be able to explain how that behavior harms another? Unless you're arguing that laws may be passed against behavior that merely offends another?
I guess you dont drink!.....thats what I thought
There are two wholly-separate standards for public and private behavior, are there not?
Our society is past the nanny statist point of no return, I'm afraid. I doubt they'll make the drug legal. More likely, they'll start urine screening drivers that used weed a month ago and give them drunk driving citations, even though they are a risk to no one.
As I said, during the 1920's I'm sure they said, "Make alcohol legal, and their only real source of income disappears".
I don't believe you. I don't believe the gangs will go away. I don't believe they'll all go out and get a real job.
Make drugs legal and they'll sell any drug not made legal to any age not allowed. Regulate the content and purity, and they'll sell something stronger. Tax it heavily and they'll sell it tax-free.
Legalize drugs and the gangs will get into the export market, selling legal American drugs to countries where it remains illegal. (They already have the pipelines established -- simply reverse the flow.)
We would have to legalize all drugs to all ages, unregulated, tax free, worldwide, to achieve your goal. Then the gangs would shift to smuggling guns, people, diamonds, donor organs, whatever.
What they WON'T do is get a job.
Currently, yes. But a Libertarian didn't write those laws.
I'm asking you how your Libertarian would be able to justify such a law based on the philosophy that laws should only constrain acts that harm another.
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