Posted on 04/17/2014 3:46:00 PM PDT by kingattax
Yes please shut up, I saw what a decade of pot use did to my sis and her husband, neglect of their boys. LA LA Land, not pain relief. Munches as well for you to get FAT. with all the health conditions that go with it.
Pot use causes damage in youth
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2605454/Using-cannabis-just-week-harms-young-brains.html
Ditto
You fail to take note of the fact that marijuana is a narcotic and alcohol is not a narcotic. Due to the fact a substance is a narcotic makes it subject to control no matter which jurisdiction the narcotic is in, because narcotics deprive are addictive and harmful in ways that most non-narcotic substances do not. The latest medical studies reconfirm how marijuana is a harmful narcotic unlike non-narcotic substances tha may nevertheless addictive in a different manner with different consequences.
Exactly. And add to that extra JBT SWAT powers to “protect” society at large from the zombies.
Zombie Apotcalypse. The roadblocks won’t be for them.
“...and you demand that society PREVENT STOPPING this self abuse is actually Desireable???”
The cure is worse than the disease. It would be a major project by legal historians to document how much of American liberty has been lost, between alcohol prohibition and drug prohibition. As a people we have lost much of our substance, our purpose, our freedom.
And because of the judicial idea of ‘Stare decisis et non quieta movere’: “to stand by decisions and not disturb the undisturbed”, bad law piles up on bad law, indifferent to reason or logic (that was a Supreme Court decision as well), to the point that we live in a damned fishbowl.
All to keep self destructive people from destroying themselves, against their own wish to do so.
Are you willing to destroy our culture, our future, to save such people from harming themselves? We are well on our way to doing so. Perhaps if we turn back now, let the lemmings jump of the cliff, we might someday be able to recover what we had.
But so many obstinate people demand to control the lives of others, they do not care if we all are wiped out and end up as slaves in a tyranny, because we tried (and failed) to make people obey us, to be like us. It does not matter if millions suffer and die, we MUST HAVE OUR WAY!
No one denies the effects of alcohol, laregly because of the many deaths associated with drunk driving. Perhaps now, more studies will be done on it’s long term effects and ‘dosages’ recommended. Pot heads have no idea what a can of worms they’ve opened. I agree that casual users shouldn’t be clogging up prisons and such, but there are effects that shouldn’t be ignored.
Mark Stern once said that it's impossible to be fiscally conservative while simultaneously socially liberal.
Your argument falls into this trap.
Charity will pay for only a small part of the rehab resulting from the pot-headedness that your argument permits.
Instead, taxpayers will pay for the bulk of the rehab, either through outright taxes (obamacare) or rising medical insurance premiums to cover the increased rehab usage.
Not Mark Stern, instead, Mark Steyn.
That is why I would argue for government to stay out of it. But, the pot heads want it both ways - smoke pot, become useless and have someone else support them. That’s nuts!
I agree with you that marijuana is harmful. But the federal government never had the constitutional authority to outlaw intrastate marijuana. That's why I menitoned the 18th Amendment in conjuction with intoxicating beverages. The states had delegated to the feds the power to regulate intrastate alcohol only between the times of the ratification the 18th and 21st amendments by the states.
The reason that it was bad for the feds to unconstitutionally regulate intrastate marijuana by prohibiting its production is that the states likewise needed to grant Congress the specific power to do so via the Constitution, as opposed to the feds wrongly dealing with marijuana outside the framework of the Constitution as they have been doing.
Also, FDR's activist justices wrongly gave the green light to Congress to overstep its limited Commerce Clause powers and interfere with intrastate commerce. This is evidenced by the fact that the Supreme Court had previously clarified that intrastate commerce is off-limitts to Congress.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress. (emphases added)” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
Otherwise, I think that the feds reasonably have the constitutional authority to define marijuana as a narcotic for interstate Commerce Clause purposes.
lol!
Although brain abnormalities from pot use is bad, the potheads should thank their weedy god that pot doesn’t give them Marty Feldman Eyes.
Prohibitionists, of course, will completely avoid the constitutional issues raised in your post.
no
the disease is worse than the cure
If you arent smoking dope, then what cure ails you?
If you are smoking dope, then the cure...CURES...you
If you smoke dope and you think you dont need a cure...then YOU need the cure!
In 1925, H. L. Mencken wrote an impassioned plea: “Prohibition has not only failed in its promises but actually created additional serious and disturbing social problems throughout society. There is not less drunkenness in the Republic but more. There is not less crime, but more. ... The cost of government is not smaller, but vastly greater. Respect for law has not increased, but diminished.”
So, please list what good has come from the prohibition against marijuana. Not what good *might* come, but what good has actually come. At least in your opinion.
It would probably be best to abbreviate it in a numbered bullet format.
“...well, having a bunch of self inflicted losers who then are a drain on society, cannot perform work right, cannot think right, cannot make judgements right.”
You could abbreviate this by calling them “Democrats”, and I agree that they are a burden and pestilence on society. However, they were such long before marijuana had become popular.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.