Posted on 07/29/2008 8:38:33 PM PDT by me_a_republican
Lemme tell you why people should smoke pot...it's because....ummmm....I forgot, man...
-Bob Bitchin
Anyone with a few buckets, a few water pumps and 50 bucks worth of nutrients and materials, plus some indoor lighting can grow whatever they want.
If people grow on their own the mexican drug gangs don’t have anyone to sell to. I don’t see them crossing the border to find Bob in Tulsa.
Supply and demand
If you make it legal, ther’d be no reason to go to Dead concerts ?
Pot is a gateway drug
Know why pot is a gateway drug? Because you have to go see a drug dealer to get it. You have to hide it and conform aspects of your day to day life (got to be careful who you let in your house or car, gotta jock it in the car etc...) in the same manner as a hard drug user. But most of the gateway is the fact that it is illegal.
Before you go pulling my profile and calling me a DUer, I am a sane hard working, tax paying conservative. I also work in a business where drug and alcohol use is rampant. I have seen and lived with my share of people destroyed, and I don’t use the term lightly, by cocaine or it’s derivative. I’ve had friends rob me and in retrospect I don’t blame them, I blame cocaine. The old white lady was calling and there wasn’t hell, high water or lost friendships that would stop them from getting her.
But pot? Drawing the line a bit early my friend. Make cigarettes illegal out of altruistic concern for my health and I would believe that you believe in your premise. The prohibition of pot is far more dangerous to your rights than you realize. Want to end it? Taxpayer funded urine tests every two weeks for 250 million people. Massive investment in infrasructure (Jails, courts, counselors etc...) Police rights to pull and search your home or vehicle anytime they want. Gonna be a bummer when you or someone you know has their home broken into at night and lost their 2nd amendment rights. Having everything you own rifled through by agents of your local government..I am sure I could think of a few more, but it is late. Want to live in that America? I don’t. This is a free country. Or at least in most respects it is.
I think it should be legal for adults to grow it and use it. I worry greatly, however, about it falling into the hands of teens and younger kids.
But selling it may be a different matter. Jose may want a cut of the profits...without no negotiation...
Yeah, but if people grow their own, Jose won’t have anyone to sell to.
And then he goes out of business.
McCain could jump the shark early on this and smoke (pun intended) Obamas hold on the 18-whenever I get to the real world crowd. He did join TODAY!
On the one hand, I told a completely true story where I burned two ultraliberal friends as my first post and was flamed all to hell.
Two liberal friends (married) picked me up at work and gave me a ride home. The wife was regurgitating liberal crap from college about moral relativity and how we can never say anouther culture is wrong because we didn’t grow up there. I sat through it all the 45 min way home.
We got to my place and as was the custom, they came in and had a few drinks.
They had a piece on about the Beslan massacre. a solid hour of scenes like a 12 year old describing what he saw at 10 years old as his father’s head exploded from point blank fire. All the time he was hoping Superman would come in and save him. An hour of watching the havoc wreaked on innocent children.
At the end, as the credits started, I said “Well, they didn’t do anything wrong there, they were right in their own way” Pan to two liberals silently walking out..
That was my first post in less words and detail and everyone assumed I was a troll.
PS They are great people and we are friends to this day.
jobs.
What? I heard he was into jobs...
Not unless Jose decides to control the “market”.
Jose can’t control the market if he doesn’t know about it and, if enough people grow their own, what the hell will he do, go door to door?
Supply and demand works for everything.
Here is the postion to take. Seems very clear.
“Things being as they are, and people as they are, there is no way to prevent somebody, somewhere, from concluding that ``NATIONAL REVIEW favors drugs.’’ We don’t; we deplore their use; we urge the stiffest feasible sentences against anyone convicted of selling a drug to a minor. But that said, it is our judgment that the war on drugs has failed, that it is diverting intelligent energy away from how to deal with the problem of addiction, that it is wasting our resources, and that it is encouraging civil, judicial, and penal procedures associated with police states. We all agree on movement toward legalization, even though we may differ on just how far.”
“WE ARE speaking of a plague that consumes an estimated $75 billion per year of public money, exacts an estimated $70 billion a year from consumers, is responsible for nearly 50 per cent of the million Americans who are today in jail, occupies an estimated 50 per cent of the trial time of our judiciary, and takes the time of 400,000 policemen — yet a plague for which no cure is at hand, nor in prospect. “
Dude! You drunk or stoned or what? You hit the enter button twice and double posted.
It causes black jazz musicians to crave white wimmin.
Pauly Shore.
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