Posted on 02/12/2014 8:37:23 PM PST by smokingfrog
Nope. I’m not saying put pot smokers in prison but I have no problem with fines. And it’s not just “because I find the aroma annoying.” You think that’s the only thing wrong with it? It’s the fact that it’s a mind-altering drug that to indulge in produces SMOKE, you know, that awful stuff that IF it comes from the end of a cigarette people look at you like you’re an antichrist, only other people do not get unwanted contact buzz from it. It’s not mind-altering. It doesn’t make you lazy. It doesn’t kill young peoples brain cells (there’s medical reports out there proving this.) Hell if we are going to legalize marijuana then why not cocaine or amphetimines? Seriously. After all, it’s not MY business if someone prefers to do an upper as opposed to a downer (pot.)Why are we discriminating against certain illegal substances while making others perfectly legal?
Do you support the states making those decisions, as the Tenth Amendment says?
One of the most corrupt states in the union. I know....I live in this bastion of liberal/secular progressivism. And a majority of the people up here are stuck on stupid. We’ve been run (ruined) by the democrats for the last 80 years.
Your remark that you find it annoying - a highly personal and subjective statement - really had no place in a logical discussion. The only other assertions you made were that it is "mind-altering" or makes one "spacey" and "dopey." But then you concede that "it’s not MY business if someone prefers to do an upper as opposed to a downer." So at least we can agree that the State has no business telling people what they can do to their minds and bodies.
You think that’s the only thing wrong with it? It’s the fact that it’s a mind-altering drug that to indulge in produces SMOKE, you know, that awful stuff that IF it comes from the end of a cigarette people look at you like you’re an antichrist, only other people do not get unwanted contact buzz from it. It’s not mind-altering. It doesn’t make you lazy. It doesn’t kill young peoples brain cells (there’s medical reports out there proving this.) Hell if we are going to legalize marijuana then why not cocaine or amphetimines? [...] Why are we discriminating against certain illegal substances while making others perfectly legal?
You are arguing against points that I did not make (maybe you have me confused with some other poster here?).
1) I said nothing about tobacco - neither pro nor con. For me, a comparison with conventional cigarettes is irrelevant. The fact that some rabid anti-tobacco people might want to imprison people for taking a puff in a public place has nothing to do with me or my arguments in favor of decriminalizes marijuana. Please do not try to refute my arguments by pointing to the illogic of crusaders against tobacco.
2) I also said nothing about cocaine or amphetamines - neither pro nor con. By introducing off-topic issues into the discussion you are "muddying the waters."
3) Catchword "contact buzz." As I stated in my first reply: "The right to swing your arms in any direction ends where my nose begins." So, of course, no one should be allowed to expose third-parties to their smoke.
I appreciate that you say that you are not a proponent of jail terms or prison sentences for mere possession of marijuana - but nothing you had said up until that point indicated that. I admit that I was, perhaps, wrong to infer that you were in favor of upholding the status quo, but that was the tenor of your vitriolic attacks against marijuana.
Regards,
I don’t support a state that takes a substance which has been labeled as a poison and restricted since the early 1900’s and just deciding to make it totally legal, no. One may be a conservative who doesn’t like all the government meddling but also see the value in said government to at least not openly condone illicit drug use. We should keep street drugs illegal, for the safety of our children and overall benefit to our society. I’m also for tighter FCC restrictions, border control/enforcement, continued FDA regulation of controlled substances, USDA oversight/food safety. Am pro-military, pro-family and pro-God.
When I was a teen I smoked some weed. Also got a laced joint once unknowingly, not a very good experience. Could have ended very badly. Almost did.
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