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Marijuana legalization: why tea party might support Prop. 19 (Whoa! Put down that Bong!)
Christian Science Monitor ^
| 11/01/2010
| Patrik Jonsson
Posted on 11/01/2010 3:27:51 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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Tea Partiers for Pot!
To: Responsibility2nd
I would rather there be less pot in America, not more, but I agree with Palin: this isn’t a big issue, especially now.
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posted on
11/01/2010 3:29:36 PM PDT
by
samtheman
To: Responsibility2nd
I think Tea Partiers in CA see this as a Sacramento scheme to get more tax revenue so they can keep spending beyond our means.
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posted on
11/01/2010 3:30:04 PM PDT
by
jiggyboy
(Ten per cent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
To: Responsibility2nd
Read the actual proposition. It’s not libertarian in the slightest.
To: Responsibility2nd
"But the Tea Party movement also has a strong libertarian streak, and its live-and-let-live approach to issues of personal morality troubles social and religious conservatives who think government should manage people's private lives."
More liberal clap-trap. Trying to define the Tea party to suit their own leftist agendas.
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posted on
11/01/2010 3:31:42 PM PDT
by
Responsibility2nd
(Yes, as a matter of fact, what you do in your bedroom IS my business.)
To: Responsibility2nd
Maybe some would because they believe that the WOD is stupid. Maybe not. Maybe they are individuals and can’t be conveniently put into boxes. Maybe the group isn’t everything. Sure, liberals are knee-jerk lock-step marching zombies but tea partiers aren’t.
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posted on
11/01/2010 3:31:52 PM PDT
by
Seruzawa
(If you agree with the French raise your hand - If you are French raise both hands.)
To: Responsibility2nd
Yet Prop. 19 could test how serious tea partyers are about states' rights. You are either for the Republic as founded or against it.
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posted on
11/01/2010 3:32:07 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(Who crashed the markets on 9/28/08 and why?)
To: Responsibility2nd
Unionize the labor picking that pot leaf and you’ll take all of the profit out of it (but not the corruption it breeds).
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posted on
11/01/2010 3:32:57 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(The establishment clause isn't just against my OWN government establishing state religion in America)
To: Responsibility2nd
Yeah, well it's not like the laws against use and possession of pot are working in Calif. In fact, they're just a huge joke.
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posted on
11/01/2010 3:33:12 PM PDT
by
Bullish
(Been to all 57 States.... Or is it 58?)
To: jiggyboy
I’m all for it. It would be a voluntary tax anyway. No doubt it would hurt the cartels and gangs.
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posted on
11/01/2010 3:33:31 PM PDT
by
Clump
(the tree of liberty is withering like a stricken fig tree)
To: Responsibility2nd
Prop. 19 could test how serious tea partyers are about states' rights. Nonsense. They could support State's Rights just as well by voting for a death penalty for potheads.
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posted on
11/01/2010 3:34:12 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This post is not a statement of fact. It is merely a personal opinion -- or humor -- or both.)
To: Responsibility2nd
Latest polls here in cali show it’s going down in defeat. But then again do stoners put down the oreo’s and answer the cell/phone to take the survey? We voted no on this. Seemed to pacify the druggies under the shroud taxation would bring more money. Doesn’t add up and very reluctant to fall for a potential long term scam.
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posted on
11/01/2010 3:34:36 PM PDT
by
cosmic_me
(Stop picking your nose. People are watching.)
To: Responsibility2nd
Dude,I can't remember if I supported it or not?
Is Frito Lay or Hostess backing it;)
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posted on
11/01/2010 3:34:38 PM PDT
by
mdittmar
(i)
To: Responsibility2nd
In a July story entitled "Why the tea party is the hidden force behind legal pot," Esquire magazine pointed to the growth of libertarianism as well as concerns about Mexico's violent drug war as reasons for the shift among many US conservatives toward legalization.
Must be true. Why Esquire wouldn't make up stuff like this, right??
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posted on
11/01/2010 3:35:03 PM PDT
by
Responsibility2nd
(Yes, as a matter of fact, what you do in your bedroom IS my business.)
To: Clump
Do you know the proposition does not allow companies to test their workers, or restrict it’s use?
To: Responsibility2nd
Idiots for Pot and that is about it.
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posted on
11/01/2010 3:37:25 PM PDT
by
A CA Guy
( God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
To: Responsibility2nd
Idiots for Pot and that is about it.
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posted on
11/01/2010 3:37:36 PM PDT
by
A CA Guy
( God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
To: jiggyboy
a Sacramento scheme to get more tax revenue so they can keep spending beyond our means.Probably...but don't harsh my mellow...I'm voting for it on the grounds it will breed confusion in the zombie ranks (whoa! with taxes, pot costs more? )
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posted on
11/01/2010 3:38:44 PM PDT
by
no-s
(B.L.O.A.T. and every day...because some day soon they won't be making any more...for you.)
To: Responsibility2nd
Yes and no.
Drug laws, like abortion or education or any number of things, should have been kept to the states. If it isn’t mentioned in Article 1, Section 8, then the federal government shouldn’t be involved.
No doubt drugs are awful for you - and I’m including marijuana here, having both smoked it and seen its effects back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth. I frankly don’t want it legal. Isn’t that the problem, though - using the power of the federal government to “do good” even though those things aren’t in the Constitution? You would think that we would have learned this lesson after federalizing prohibition of alcohol, but instead we’ve just kept federalizing one concern after another, until a large proportion of the citizenry think that the federal government’s job is to be ultimate fixer of problems.
If the people of California want legal pot, fine. Just don’t impose their ideas on the other 49 states.
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posted on
11/01/2010 3:38:44 PM PDT
by
redpoll
To: Responsibility2nd
Wishful thinking by Mexico and the libertarians - and various states that want a new tax revenue stream.
The last thing we need is a country of stoners. That’s one of our problems now, in fact. Too many young people with fried brains.
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posted on
11/01/2010 3:41:30 PM PDT
by
livius
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