Well, let’s do this rightly: Full Props for sticking around and engaging, and Full Props for not trying to simply drive up your hit count. Nods to ya.
Now for the debate:
Grass is a gateway drug to harder crap. It devolves you to the point where the only thing that matters is the next fix. Not only do you use drugs, you use people.
THC was in the bloodstream of Trayvon©, the Patron Saint of Skittles, when he beat GZ’s head into the pavement. The kid was also on Lean, a street drug with a harder buzz. Seems that grass just wasn’t good enough.
I have seen and read and heard enough Libertarians who have confided that the real platform of the LP is to smoke free dope. And if it’s taxpayer-funded dope, so much the better.
Throwing a Constitutional mantle over its shoulders does not disguise the underlying truth of life-altering narcotics.
And the life-altering nature of narcotics does not enumerate powers.
All of the arguments for continuing the drug war as it is now rely on denying there is any abuse of the Commerce Clause, or denying that it is of any consequence. Neither of these are arguments that we should be making. It makes us complicit in that abuse and leaves us compromised in any attempt to rectify the multitiude of other abuses it has spawned, and to reign in the exponential growth of the federal government that has resulted from it.
Amen! We aren’t buying the false substitution of “Liberty” for “Libertine.”
I'm throwing the maudlin melodramatic flag on this bravo sierra, Old Sarge.
I know and have known plenty of potheads, and even the crunchiest, Phishiest, most patchoulied up among them never reach the Reefer Madness-like state you suggest here.