Posted on 12/23/2008 10:20:03 AM PST by kennedy
Actually, it was the lumber companies that lobbied Congress to criminalize it. For paper.
I suspect that the authorities had the family in their sights as suspects in that murder and needed to make the case.
How many men should have been put on the manhunt to find Eric Rudolph, domestic terrorist? What number would it have taken to get the job done in a year?
I agree it should be decrimmed.
Like you I have no desire to par take.
Not a smoker of any kind and my lifestyle is dependant on being quick on the mental agility/innovative.
And Dude I dont need any incentive to enjoy food.
I am thinking of all the tax payer money that can be saved from the govt coffers on prosecuting/incarcerating casual users.
Only thing is there should be a test like testing for booze intoxication so users dont show up on the job stoned.
He can’t do anything. He is not a Naturalized Citizen of the United States of America.
In a free society, some people will use their freedom unwisely. They'll eat too much fatty food. They'll become alcoholics. They'll waste their lives doing drugs.
I still haven't heard a convincing argument as to why the government should use its power to protect people from their own stupidity.
Bawney Fwank thinks the second coming of the New Deal is around the corner, and on this, I believe him.
Can we drug test anyone who’s on government assistance?
“I suspect that the authorities had the family in their sights as suspects in that murder and needed to make the case.”
The girl’s body was a few blocks away from her home! For how many months? We aren’t talking about searching the nation, or acres of forest (like in Eric Rudolph’s case). We are talking about a wooded lot in her own neighborhood. And my dad’s point was how many man hours were put on searching cars for suspected pot when the hours could have been better spent searching for her body which might have had better evidence to get a surer conviction out of her murderer. No tissue left means no cause of death since no bones broken. Not that there were thousands of hours used for searching for pot, or booking for pot or guarding roadside cleanup of convicted pot dealers/users. But even 100 hours might have helped.
I understand what his point was. Pull the deputies off petty crap and put them to better use, you know? He just used the most recent ridiculous case brought to mind to make his point.
From the linked article:
“ in 2007, the last year for which statistics are available, 782,000 Americans were arrested for marijuana-related crimes (90 percent of them for possession), with approximately 60,000 to 85,000 of them serving sentences in jail or prison.”
Ridiculous!
For the record, Hussein can do very little that doesn’t cross the desk of Princess Nancy first
...I thought almost all drugs were decriminalized. Except for un-taxed drugs. Alchohol and tobacco, taxed drugs. Good drugs. Marijuana, cocaine and heroin, un-taxed drugs. Bad drugs...
so that an ever-skyrocketing demand for Fritos Corn Chips will drive a strong economic recovery....
Nothing like a good BIG war to get the economy going huh?
...Bravo, good on yer and rhe FFF Brothers...
“Why Obama Really Might Decriminalize Marijuana”
And why he won’t.....Mexico.
He’s not about to take away one of their biggest sources of income. Between what they bring in with the aliens and thousands of acres under cultivation in our own national parks and forests by Mexican Drug cartels....I don’t think he’ll legalize it.
The drug squad and the manhunt forensics are different departments.
However President Clinton had the FBI resources (not just one department in one city) focused on a non-existent “rash” of “racist” church fires in the South. This at the same time that the 9-11 hijackers were in America training for their deadly mission.
If you really want to jump-start the economy, forget weed and legalize oil-drilling.
How much money was collected in fines? How many people who are charged with DWI pay fines and have no jail time?
Revenue tickets fund city budgets (and fund lawyers who lobby politicians).
On the other hand, if they legalize pot, maybe I can go to the pot bars to smoke my cigar.
Your child could well have been tempted by the "forbidden fruit" and wanting to rebel, we can't know but you probably do. Marijuana laws lead to less respect for the law in general. People don't see the average pot smoker as a criminal, therefore they lose respect for the law. People who self-medicate tend to have unresolved issues. Attacking the addiction and the drugs are not the answer. Finding out why they feel they must escape is the key to avoiding excessive vice.
Of course we mourn the loss of your son and all those who self destruct. Prohibition wont stop them though
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