Posted on 12/02/2018 11:29:00 AM PST by Simon Green
Let's be honest: there are certainly medical and economic benefits behind the legalization of pot, alcohol, and tobacco. There are also lots of wrecked families, societal carnage, and dead people owing to pot, alcohol, and tobacco.
But, again, we need honesty: Where in the Constitution is the Federal Government empowered to ban cannibus?
In short, there isn't such an explicitly enumerated power. That creates lots of problems in terms of finding an efficient means to prohibition. But there is a way to do so without acting like a Democrat.
If The government’s no.1 job is to protect the general population, then why stop at drugs? The laudable reasons behind banning drugs can also be applied to red meat, soda, candy, ammunition, and so on.
Please understand my quarrel isn't that drugs are great. They aren't. My quarrel is with a need for philosophical consistency. If we empower the govt to ban drugs without any enumerated power to do so, then we give a cheery two-thumbs up to every other act of a runaway government...and deadheads will be then LEAST of our problems.
OK, where’s the pic of “Soylent Green, now with more girls!!”
Here is the logic
Since the State pays for the treatment of overweight people, the State (or the employer) has a say in what that person eats.
Many insurance companies are quietly looking into this. You see, the anti smoking crusade worked, so all those activists have to do something now.
How about we allow people to stick their weiners in other peoples’ butts and praise those who do.
Says a liberal who probably drinks and smokes and is fat.
***my first vegan mockburger***
Highly processed soy bean burger. We were always warned about highly processed foods. GIVE ME MEAT!
Lol. I figured you were getting tired of soilent green. Doesn’t taste that good even with catsup which is short supply anyway. Girls? I didn’t think about that.
“On the other hand, what in the world is the “social harm” of eating the way we evolved to eat?”
But to be honest, a lot of that meat is full of GMOs, and all manner of chemicals these days.
Soy burgers will make you go soft and stay soft.
<< “Time for the nanny state to get more radical.” >>
Honesty from statists is always appreciated.
I once tried one of Burger King’s “veggie burgers”.
Tasted like crap - even with bacon and cheese.
So we are burning fossil fuels which cause Carbon Dioxide, which causes warming.
And we are causing Desertification which causes less Carbon Dioxide. Which causes cooling.
So we should eat less meat because meat eats plants, which causes less plants and more cooling.
But we should eat more plants which causes less plants and more cooling.
But the herds of natural wild buffalo, deer, and other wild life fart and cause carbon dioxide which causes warming.
I get the feeling that governments just want to have a reason to control all aspects of life. As the world will get colder or warmer on its own. As it has been far warmer and far cooler within the short period that man existed. But before we burned any fossil fuel other than wood.
Ever eaten at Umami Burger in L.A.? I went for the first time last year with a vegan friend of mine. Amazingly good burger. But he had their vegan option called “The Impossible Burger.” It’s supposed to taste, look, and even bleed like the real thing. After I finished my real burger I took a bite my friend’s unfinished (for good reason) fake one. Bad idea. Tasted like dreck, and made me feel even worse.
Look up The Simpsons: Soylent Green, Yellow, & Red, Now With More Girls!
I have heard of that impossible burger. One guy was eating it on the air and thought someone had fooled him, that it wasn’t really vegan. Funny stuff.
Hey, if you like the taste of juicy beef, whynot eat juicy beef?! Crazy thought.
It didn’t taste anything close to the real thing. Hard to believe anyone thinks it does. Maybe they’ve gone without eating beef for so long that they forgot what it tastes like.
“I hear the Chocolate ration is being raised to 20 grams!”
From 25 grams. YES!!!
We LET you foul our air with your noxious emissions. But that could change.
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