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Cannabis should be decriminalized for the same reasons that alcohol is
The Prometheus Institute ^
| 8/28/2006
| Editorial
Posted on 08/28/2006 7:29:35 AM PDT by tang0r
It turns out that alcohol is legal for the simplest, most nostalgic, and most American reason of all. Despite its risks and harmful side-effects, adults are reserved right to drink because they are independent adults in a free country. For all of the empty rhetoric about economics and black markets, the end of Prohibition was due to a single principle: even if drinking may be bad for society, government has no right to keep the people from doing it. The ability to get drunk is an inalienable right that we have forever confirmed with the 18th Amendment.
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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; Philosophy
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posted on
08/28/2006 7:29:35 AM PDT
by
tang0r
To: tang0r
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posted on
08/28/2006 7:30:33 AM PDT
by
mtbopfuyn
(I think the border is kind of an artificial barrier - San Antonio councilwoman Patti Radle)
To: tang0r
Or we should outlaw alcohol again...
To: tang0r
Great way to have a generation of kids only grow up to live in their parents basement playing X-box...
Stupid Stoner Krap Ping...
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posted on
08/28/2006 7:32:03 AM PDT
by
in hoc signo vinces
("Houston, TX...a waiting quagmire for jihadis. American gals are worth fighting for!")
Comment #5 Removed by Moderator
To: tang0r
Heaven forbid common sense enter into the pot issue . . .
To: mtbopfuyn
Not this again.
--chuckle--
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posted on
08/28/2006 7:32:58 AM PDT
by
frogjerk
(REUTERS: We give smoke and mirrors a bad name)
To: tang0r
AW GEEZ!
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posted on
08/28/2006 7:33:44 AM PDT
by
guitar4jesus
(Black, Conservative . . . and I vote!)
To: tang0r
Alcohol is a bad thing. Drink enough and you can be impaired for a day or even two.
Marijuana, however, impairs a user for weeks. It's use is also tied to the development of schizophrenia and clinical depression.
Equating the two is pointless.
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posted on
08/28/2006 7:33:46 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
("The entire remedy is with the people." - W. H. Harrison)
To: in hoc signo vinces
The South Park guys had the best philosophy about pot.
It just makes you content with being bored.
To: in hoc signo vinces
Don't we have that already?
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posted on
08/28/2006 7:34:05 AM PDT
by
thoughtomator
(There is no "Islamofascism" - there is only Islam)
To: tang0r
So let me get this straight - there's a push to ban smoking cigarettes, but allow smoking pot???? Makes a whole lot of sense doesn't it?
To: tang0r
Drunkards are very intolerant...
To: Hong Kong Expat
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posted on
08/28/2006 7:36:15 AM PDT
by
frogjerk
(REUTERS: We give smoke and mirrors a bad name)
To: tang0r
while there may be merit from a legal/criminal/common sense standpoint, this must never be allowed to happen because then the hippies will have won.
To: tang0r
Nice logical libertarian argument.
Now watch the single-minded, blue-nosed "conservatives" here, flame broil you for lunch.
Sigh, now I've gone and done it!! FLAME ON!!!
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posted on
08/28/2006 7:36:53 AM PDT
by
Al Gator
(Refusing to "stoop to your enemy's level", gets you cut off at the knees.)
To: ConservativeMind
Or we should outlaw alcohol again...Are you advocating that?
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posted on
08/28/2006 7:38:08 AM PDT
by
Protagoras
(Lay down with dogs, get up with fleas)
To: tang0r
Nice logical libertarian argument.
Now watch the single-minded, blue-nosed "conservatives" here, flame broil you for lunch.
Sigh, now I've gone and done it!! FLAME ON!!!
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posted on
08/28/2006 7:39:10 AM PDT
by
Al Gator
(Refusing to "stoop to your enemy's level", gets you cut off at the knees.)
To: tang0r
Alcohol has little or no proven medicinal valueThis is a blatent lie in the article.
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posted on
08/28/2006 7:39:11 AM PDT
by
frogjerk
(REUTERS: We give smoke and mirrors a bad name)
To: mtbopfuyn
When the George Soros backed Democrat liberals begin winning elections you will see the move toward legalization of drugs. I understand Soros wants drugs legalized. The carnage on the roads from alcohol consumption is ugly. Anyone have numbers from the pot smokers accident numbers?
I have been told they are not even close.
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