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To: Dapper 26
Quite frankly, I don’t care if some people want to smoke pot. And, I don’t want them to go to jail either. I also don’t want to pay for their rehab or give them preferential medical treatment. When they want treatment, they will have to rely on the charity of their neighbors.

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.

68 posted on 04/17/2014 8:36:41 PM PDT by Vision Thing (obama wants his suicidal worshipers to become suicidal bombers.)
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To: Vision Thing

Not Mark Stern, instead, Mark Steyn.


69 posted on 04/17/2014 8:42:23 PM PDT by Vision Thing (obama wants his suicidal worshipers to become suicidal bombers.)
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To: Vision Thing

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!


71 posted on 04/17/2014 8:59:07 PM PDT by Dapper 26
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