Posted on 01/02/2010 5:35:36 PM PST by Graybeard58
You state that prohibition should be the way to go, going so far as to say that it’s ‘absurd’ to even contemplate anything else.
So it should be *VERY* easy to state the reasons why.
Please do so.
Indeed. But why waste my time ? Will you change your mind ? You dodged that point. You know them as well as I, but you’ll come up with the same “rationalizations” all the pro-drugs types have for why it’s just an issue of “personal choice” (like abortion), “liberty” (chortles) and how nobody will be harmed by it except the single individual, and all the crime will disappear and everything will be sunshine and lollipops. Right ?
“Just wanted to mention that “The Pusher” was written by the late, great Hoyt Axton.”
My favorite Hoyt Axton song was Greenback Dollar. I first heard it performed by the original Kingston Trio with Dave Guard, Bob Shane and Nick Reynolds. I think Bob Shane did the lead vocal.
Check that... John Stewart was the banjo player when the Kingston Trio recorded Greenback Dollar.
As long as were going through Axton's bio, it should be noted that his cousin is Oklahaoma's former Governor, then Senator, and current President of the University of Oklahoma, David Boren (the only democrat for whom I've ever voted).
We won’t actually know that for sure unless you post your reasons, now will we?
Furthermore, *OTHERS* who might read your posts might actually have their convictions changed or strengthened.
Considering the considerable effort you are making *NOT* to post your reasons is starting to lead me to believe that you have none, other than a simple knee-jerk attitude of ‘it’s bad, m’kay’.
Of course they don’t, however most of those actions impair the judgment at the moment. It is what happens at that moment or afterward that I am talking about. How many people are in court,hospital,bankruptcy or morgue every year because of a voluntary action like drugs or alcohol irregardless if they are an addict or not.
Yeah, I recall having heard that. There are only a very few around the music thing with whom I will “talk politics”. As bad as any lefty can be if you get their panties in a wad by disagreeing, the tempermental “artist/writer” can be exponentially worse.
Actually, you nailed it right there. It is that simple. I know to you cultural elites, it's something to mock and scorn. How square ! He opposes something that has killed and harmed millions of Americans alone and how dare he say, "It's bad !" Gee whiz ! What's next ? Saying abortion and slavery is bad, too ? What a buzzkill !
And how many aren’t because they don’t have a drinking or drug problem even though they have the occasional drink or drug? You’ll never change my viewpoint. And you’re talking to a recovering drunk here. Prohibition never solved anything and never will. So are we to drag this pointless prohibition in this century as well? To what end? What success did it accomplish in the last?
I see your point, I think I would agree with drugs being legal in one’s home. But not “under the influence” on the street. Yet I see drawbacks.
but....see my tagline
I don’t care what any of the people on this thread say, but all the complaining about liberty and so on is simply about their addiction to drugs. They want to get their weed or whatever at the nearest 7-11 and that is IT. They are thinking with their primitive drug addled minds period. It’s like listening to Tiger Woods when it comes to women.
Daring to blame users for ANYTHING will get an extreme online reaction from the users because when you attack drugs or using them, you are attacking them. They are their baby and dammit you aren’t going to bash it!
I get the feeling a lot of the pro-drug people on here have arrest records for drugs, if not all of them. If you listen to them, you’d think they’ve all been raided by the DEA every other night. And probably some have been.
Heh. I’m sure some have. The rest are “intellectuals” who seem to have all the answers on how to “manage” this situation under the guise of “freedom and liberty”, and like all theorists, it always works out for them in their heads or on paper, but almost never when put into practice. At least one of them was honest the other day when they stated that they didn’t CARE if the rest of America became addicts following legalization. Tells you a lot.
Not only do they not care, but some actually believe drug use rates will drop if it’s legal.
I proved my point once when someone said they have done cigarettes and beer, but nothing illegal. I didn’t really believe them, but if true that proves that when it’s legal and OTC people will tend to impulse try it.
I’ve drank and smoked cigs, but haven’t tried anything illegal because it’s illegal. I know I’m not the only one like that either. If they were legal, sure I’d have tried them too.
It doesn’t sound any different than what is said about alcohol and cigarettes, so... again, what is your reasons for saying that we need to keep drugs illegal?
It's just astonishing. One would have to be high to come to such a conclusion. Sort of like the same mentality behind the argument that nationalizing healthcare will bring down costs. Yes, these great intellectuals will be the death of us.
Drug legalization, were it enacted should come with exactly the same penalties as being under the influence of alcohol i.e.,driving, consuming while driving, providing to minors,etc. No free pass.
I don’t believe for a moment you ever opposed legalization. It’s a convenient trick, sorta like all the Socialists that call in C-Span and say how they “used to be Republicans.”
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