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A heavy equipment operator with a lengthy rap sheet who is accused of being high on marijuana when a downtown building collapsed onto a thrift store, killing six people, surrendered Saturday to face charges in the deaths, police said.http://www.cbsnews.com/news/sean-benschop-equipment-operator-in-philadelphia-building-collapse-probe-surrenders/

Strangely enough, Mr. President, when the news came out about this tragedy, it wasn't mentioned whether he were smoking a cigarette.

1 posted on 01/19/2014 11:07:30 AM PST by gusopol3
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Aren’t they banning e-cigarettes only because they confuse the cigarette nazis?


2 posted on 01/19/2014 11:15:53 AM PST by Cowboy Bob (They are called "Liberals" because the word "parasite" was already taken.)
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LOL this is a joke right ??


3 posted on 01/19/2014 11:19:43 AM PST by expatguy (Donate to "An American Expat in SE Asia" By Paypal)
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Obama in an interview released Sunday said that using marijuana was not that different from smoking cigarettes

What kind of cigarettes was he smoking?
4 posted on 01/19/2014 11:20:06 AM PST by Girlene (Hey, NSA!)
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Obviously, the more logical comparison would be to ask if he was drunk.


5 posted on 01/19/2014 11:21:02 AM PST by Sherman Logan
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A heavy equipment operator with a lengthy rap sheet...

There's your problem right there (and his photo). Using that as an excuse to ban marijuana bears logical similarity to banning guns for the law abiding because criminals misuse them.

6 posted on 01/19/2014 11:21:48 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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I thought is was horrific when Clinton via the Lewinsky scandal introduced and condoned oral sex, a form of sodomy, to our youth, but now we have Obama encouraging the youth to break laws and smoke pot.

Furthermore, he gives them the false impression that pot is as harmless as alcohol.

He will destroy many teen lives, just like Clinton.


7 posted on 01/19/2014 11:22:45 AM PST by Oliviaforever
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The Pot has affected his pea size brain.

I live in the UP of Michigan medical marijuana is taking over the area. You go outside now and the distinctive odor of what is similar to a dead skunk is the preponderant odor. I cleaned off my roof of snow and nearly fell out of my wheelchair because of the odor was captured in the snow. Just found I have 7 neighbors whom use medical marijuana.

What a stench!


8 posted on 01/19/2014 11:22:54 AM PST by hondact200 (Candor dat viribos alas (sincerity gives wings to strength) and Nil desperandum (never despair))
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2ndDivisionVet: Hillary Clinton and Chris Christie ‘not very different’ from Barack Obama.


21 posted on 01/19/2014 11:37:17 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (Jealousy is when you count someone else's blessings instead of your own.)
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LOL, you don’t want to go there. Statistics for marijuana show it to be so far safer than alcohol or guns or even aspirin, that you’d be laughed out of the discussion.

But I will tell you where you can argue against marijuana - its effects on the brain development of children. Up to a certain point (late teens, I believe) it has a marked and measurable negative effect on all sorts of mental abilities, with associated negative emotional effects, from apathy to panic attacks.

After the brain reaches physical maturity, those negative effects drop off dramatically. But for kids and teens, marijuana is bad news.

On the other hand, for kids and teens, alcohol is bad news too - equally if not worse.

So there are deeper issues here than yes/no.


23 posted on 01/19/2014 11:40:04 AM PST by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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Obvious follow up questions:

When did you stop smoking marijuana?

At what age was the last time you smoked it?


27 posted on 01/19/2014 11:45:21 AM PST by savedbygrace (But God!)
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That guy looks a bit like an older Jimi Hendrix .. had he not died of an overdose and suffocating on his own vomit. Ah drugs .. what a glorious life.


29 posted on 01/19/2014 11:52:06 AM PST by plain talk
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Who is he kidding?


36 posted on 01/19/2014 12:23:59 PM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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Pot smoking = OK.

Eating potatoes in school = Not OK.


40 posted on 01/19/2014 12:34:15 PM PST by what's up
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Obama can be a poster child for why it is called “DOPE”.


41 posted on 01/19/2014 12:34:48 PM PST by Proud2BeRight
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Neither are cocaine or heroin, are they Barry?
45 posted on 01/19/2014 1:04:45 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Who knew that one day professional wrestling would be less fake than professional journalism?)
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I thought it was an addictive gate-way drug? That’s what they’ve been telling us for the last 50 years isn’t it?


46 posted on 01/19/2014 1:09:15 PM PST by Beowulf9
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DO TELL! Ok- lets go with that( it’s a lie, but what the hell). Pot is no different than tobacco- and we know tobacco is BAD for you, and we will prevent you from smoking it in public, in the open, in your home! We want what’s best for you so you will be taxed and hounded if you dare smoke tobacco....OR POT! Isn’t that how it’s going to work- or does the government only care about the health of tobacco smokers? Do they want pot smokers to DIE???


47 posted on 01/19/2014 1:11:29 PM PST by ClearBlueSky (When anyone says its not about Islam...it's about Islam. That death cult must be eradicated.)
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That’s no different than an alcoholic drinking while at work. Same crime, Same shame.

Responsible people just aren’t going to get high before or at work. Just like responsible people don’t get drunk or drink while at work.

Think about this ... It’s just like responsible people not running out and amassing personal armories and then going out and killing a bunch of school kids.


48 posted on 01/19/2014 1:25:23 PM PST by Usagi_yo
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“Dr.Obama” is now obviously trying to position himself as the next head of the FDA


52 posted on 01/19/2014 2:10:24 PM PST by Artie (We are surrounded by MORONS)
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Shut up, your stupidity is showing!


63 posted on 01/19/2014 5:02:48 PM PST by dalereed
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