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What should marijuana opponents do when their cause fails? A lesson from Prohibition
The Boston Globe ^ | June 23rd, 2018 | Stephanie Schorow

Posted on 06/23/2018 2:47:03 PM PDT by Mariner

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To: DouglasKC

My post said nothing about what caused those numbers. I doubt the legal status of pot has much to do with any of them. My point is that it is possible have legal pot along with low crime, safe highways and low rates of OD.


121 posted on 06/23/2018 9:53:47 PM PDT by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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To: DouglasKC

“CALIFORNIA. The place where homosexuality, child molestation and HOLLYWOOD are rampant?”

Yes, and it’s finally being exposed, in no small part thanks to Trump. I want all the child molesters in Hollywood to go to prison.

I want these child molesting Drug Warriors to go to prison as well, but it will never happen => https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3665634/posts?page=66#66

That’s several hundred underage victims of drug cops. Don’t you want them to be tried and sentenced to prison like the Hollywood molesters?

Don’t you ever wonder about rampant child molestation by Drug Warriors?


122 posted on 06/23/2018 10:12:02 PM PDT by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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To: Ken H
I want these child molesting Drug Warriors to go to prison as well, but it will never happen => https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3665634/posts?page=66#66 That’s several hundred underage victims of drug cops. Don’t you want them to be tried and sentenced to prison like the Hollywood molesters? Don’t you ever wonder about rampant child molestation by Drug Warriors?

Nope. There is no such thing as a "drug warrior". It's a leftist term used to make mind altering and mind controlling drugs more acceptable to the public. The goal of the left is to denigrate all laws, to elevate all lawlessness, to destroy families and American culture. They do this by calling their enslavement method "recreational" use of drugs. Like it's no more dangerous then taking a vacation.

123 posted on 06/23/2018 10:19:43 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: DouglasKC

“There is no such thing as a “drug warrior”.”

Fine, we’ll just call them “cops”.

Do you want these child molesting cops who victimized hundreds of underage students to be prosecuted and imprisoned if found guilty?

Do you wonder how rampant this sort of behavior is by cops?


124 posted on 06/23/2018 10:28:20 PM PDT by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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To: SaxxonWoods; Mariner

>> It just makes them feel superior to curse the pro-pot people

You know that with certainty?

As far as I’m concerned, we should vote to decriminalize all forms of narcotics including heroin, meth, opioids.

You agree, right?


125 posted on 06/23/2018 10:35:10 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Ken H
“There is no such thing as a “drug warrior”.” Fine, we’ll just call them “cops”. Do you want these child molesting cops who victimized hundreds of underage students to be prosecuted and imprisoned if found guilty? Do you wonder how rampant this sort of behavior is by cops?

Nope. Most cops are selfless good people with a tough job. Most dopers are selfish leftists with no morals or ethics. I would rather carry the water of a cop then carry the water of a leftist.

You though apparently don't have a problem taking the side of leftists.

126 posted on 06/23/2018 10:51:25 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: DouglasKC

So you’re apparently fine with the actions of the cops who molested hundreds of innocent underage victims. Sad.

As for your charge of siding with leftists, I side with President Trump. He recently announced he will support getting fedgov out of mj regulation in the states.

That will do more to loosen the floodgates for marijuana legalization than all of FR combined.

Here is President Trump throwing prohibitionists under the bus in less than 17 seconds =>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M53XLBd54Y

Now go snark on him for being a lefty.


127 posted on 06/23/2018 11:09:39 PM PDT by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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To: exDemMom

Legalize all of them, but no money for treatment or rehabilitation.
Only federal requirement should be “can only be sold in PURE FORM”.
States shall be responsible for picking up the overdose corpses and disposing of the garbage.


128 posted on 06/23/2018 11:16:51 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: barbarianbabs

“DAVE’S NOT HERE”.


129 posted on 06/23/2018 11:24:25 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: Ken H
That will do more to loosen the floodgates for marijuana legalization than all of FR combined. Here is President Trump throwing prohibitionists under the bus in less than 17 seconds => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M53XLBd54Y Now go snark on him for being a lefty.

Lefties and leftist water carriers like yourself ALWAYS get fooled by President Trump. What legislation has he pushed? What has he signed? What is the policy of the government. President Trump has figured out that you can fool leftist braindead idiots by SAYING things like this and not actually doing them.

130 posted on 06/23/2018 11:32:52 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: Mariner; shelterguy
“The argument that pot is harmless is a fantasy.” No rational person attempts to make such an argument. If they try, they should be immediately dismissed as an irrational idiot.

Those of us that have smoked pot and quit KNOW how dangerous and destructive it is. Unfortunately those who smoke still are literally drug addled. They're not in their right mind. Those who don't smoke and defend it are simply tools of the left...either wittingly or unwittingly.

131 posted on 06/23/2018 11:35:58 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: NobleFree
I understand why you'd rather battle your straw men than address what Ken actually posted.

I don't bother addressing what Ken actually posted because it's actually stupid. Pulling out traffic stats from CALIFORNIA to "prove" that marijuana is safe is like pulling traffic stats from Chicago to prove that gang violence isn't hurting anything.

132 posted on 06/23/2018 11:39:09 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: DouglasKC

Quite frankly, you’re grasping at a non-existent straw. For one, fedgov under Trump has not lifted a finger to interefere in state marijuana regulation. He has said not a word about VT in 2018 or the 4 states that legalized in 2016.

President Trump has said multiple times during the campaign and as President that it should be up to the states. It is not a leftist position. It’s consistent with the Constitution. It’s PDJT’s position. It’s time to face that reality.


133 posted on 06/24/2018 12:02:58 AM PDT by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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To: DouglasKC

“Pulling out traffic stats from CALIFORNIA...”

Pulling out traffic stats, crime stats, and OD stats from CA because it is the one state that has had enough time to see objective results in those 3 key areas.

“to “prove” that marijuana is safe...”

To provide evidence that legal pot does not lead to dire results in those 3 key areas that Drug Warriors warned would happen.

I’m with President Trump on this.


134 posted on 06/24/2018 1:14:02 AM PDT by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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To: DouglasKC

Still feeling very sorry for you.


135 posted on 06/24/2018 2:12:02 AM PDT by TheStickman (#MAGA all day every day!)
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To: TheStickman
This thread needs some comic relief!


136 posted on 06/24/2018 2:50:23 AM PDT by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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To: Ken H

LOL!!! I never imagined Dennis Rodman would so wonderfully humiliate Odumbo on CNN’s air but as with many things, what we imagine & what comes to be are usually very different. I’ve atched that clip with Rodman 20 times & LMAO each & every time.

Did you ever imagine a day when people would be ANGRY that someone who’s suffered from severe illness has experienced symptom relief from cannabis? Think about that for a minute. People are angry others experience symptom relief from cannabis.

We live in very interesting times, don’t we? Peace :)


137 posted on 06/24/2018 3:22:29 AM PDT by TheStickman (#MAGA all day every day!)
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To: higgmeister

I’m saying the consensus was that opiods waere the solution to so many pain issues and the government promoted it to where it is now. Overprescribed and doing as much harm as good.

Now the government is involved in marijuana - I see them causing similar probes down the road.


138 posted on 06/24/2018 4:51:03 AM PDT by airborne (I don't always scream at the TV but when I do it's hockey season!)
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To: higgmeister

I’m saying the consensus was that opiods waere the solution to so many pain issues and the government promoted it to where it is now. Overprescribed and doing as much harm as good.

Now the government is involved in marijuana - I see them causing similar probes down the road.


139 posted on 06/24/2018 4:52:23 AM PDT by airborne (I don't always scream at the TV but when I do it's hockey season!)
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To: airborne

probes = problems. Need coffee


140 posted on 06/24/2018 4:53:15 AM PDT by airborne (I don't always scream at the TV but when I do it's hockey season!)
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