[mtbopfuyn]

Not this again.

[ConservativeMind]

Or we should outlaw alcohol again...

[in hoc signo vinces]

Great way to have a generation of kids only grow up to live in their parents basement playing X-box...

Stupid Stoner Krap Ping...

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Heaven forbid common sense enter into the pot issue . . .

[guitar4jesus]

AW GEEZ!

[BenLurkin]

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.

[redlocks322]

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?

[Lexington Green]

Drunkards are very intolerant...

[bencarter]

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.

[Al Gator]

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!!!

[Al Gator]

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!!!

[frogjerk]

Alcohol has little or no proven medicinal value

This is a blatent lie in the article.

[bandleader]

William F.Buckley Jr.AGREES!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ConservativeMind]

I wouldn't mind decriminalizing drugs if we could simply hold those who did something to another while under the influence as though it were premeditated.

That, coupled with a strong torture penalty, would let me go with legalizing drugs.

And you can put me first in line as a guest torturer.

[Moonman62]

For all of the empty rhetoric about economics and black markets, the end of Prohibition was due to a single principle:

Prohibition failed because it wasn't a prohibition. Possession was legal, doctors gave out millions of prescriptions for whiskey, low alcohol beer was legal, and law enforcement was banned from establishments that served alcohol.

[RayStacy]

Does anybody not agree that FEDERAL drug laws are unconstitutional? I thought we all worshipped the enumeration around here (I know I do). In the good old days when the Con. was respected, and the FED wanted to do something about a drug, they had the decency to do it right -- moving against alcohol through a legal Constitutional amendment process. My view is this -- NO fed. drug laws. If the state of TX wants to put you in jail for 10,000,000,000,000,000 years for merely thinking about pot, that's up to the people of the state of TX. If MASS wants to reward you with praise for smoking 10,000,000,000,000,000 pounds of pot, that's up to the people of the state of MASS.

[DungeonMaster]

Should it also be legal for soldiers to get stoned when off duty?

[frogjerk]

No one can - nor should try to - challenge the fact that alcoholism is a social disease, that youth drinking creates a net loss to society, that nearly all alcohol consumption is physically unhealthy, and that there is little medicinal or health benefit to the substance itself.

[hermgem]

Just think of the riches that will flow into City and State treasuries to prevent abuse with steep taxes similar to Cigarettes.
And all those lost income opportunities for hordes of the permanently non working part of society.
And, oh yes, how all of a sudden our law enforcing segment will swing into full action to eradicate free traders by enforcing the serious crime of tax cheating on pot.
Taxes as a moral deterrent, sounds so convincing coming from politicians.

[N. Theknow]

Try getting a job in construction with a positive test for marijuana.

They won't turn you in but they also will not hire you and if you do pass will fire you in a second if you fail subsequent tests.

Only a matter of time before some attorney makes a drug test part of his civil suit litigation in accidents.