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It's time to legalize recreational marijuana: Editorial endorsement
The Oregonian ^ | August 23, 2014 | The Oregonian Editorial Board

Posted on 08/28/2014 11:26:39 AM PDT by ConservingFreedom

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To: tacticalogic
"trust the States to make decisions"

The inhabitants of those states can make all the constitutionally sound decisions they like.

Previous inhabitants of Detroit made decisions too.
81 posted on 08/28/2014 1:12:08 PM PDT by indthkr
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To: rktman

Probably the same folks who decided .08% was the “acceptable” level of alcohol in the blood to constitute DUI.


82 posted on 08/28/2014 1:12:18 PM PDT by Hugin ("Do yourself a favor--first thing, get a firearm!)
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To: ConservingFreedom
It didn't - but it nicely summed up your hypocrisy.

For someone who thinks drugs = freedom, I'm not terribly interested in what you think is equals hypocrisy. I don't post that graphic to make any debatable point, I post it to demonstrate what an utter pack of whinny little brats Libertarians are about their pet drug issue.

I keep posting it to remind you that your constant comparison of pot to alcohol is both a Non-Sequitur AND a Tu Quoque argument.

I post it to point out to others that your intended point is deserving only of mockery, because it isn't a valid point. It is a silly assertion that we should put up with more bad results because we already have bad results from this other thing, as if there is some expectation that we ought to be "fair" to bad results causing substances or something.

83 posted on 08/28/2014 1:13:38 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp (Partus Sequitur Patrem)
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To: indthkr
The inhabitants of those states can make all the constitutionally sound decisions they like.

"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

84 posted on 08/28/2014 1:14:52 PM PDT by tacticalogic
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To: ConservingFreedom
Pot was legal at the time of the Founding Fathers - and for a century and a half afterward.

And they did something sensible with it. They made it into rope, for which it actually had some use.

85 posted on 08/28/2014 1:16:12 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp (Partus Sequitur Patrem)
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To: DiogenesLamp
I don't post that graphic to make any debatable point, I post it to demonstrate what an utter pack of whinny little brats Libertarians are about their pet drug issue.

IOWs you're not here to participate honestly in the FR forum you're just a disruptor type troll.

bkmk

86 posted on 08/28/2014 1:16:15 PM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" means something different to 0bama.)
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To: ConservingFreedom

Ending the “medical marijuana” fraud is worth legalizing it, IMO.


87 posted on 08/28/2014 1:17:37 PM PDT by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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To: Hugin

Typical response to officer, kinda like the old “I only had 2 beers and they were O’Douls”. “But officer, I only toked half a joint of home grown. Not the industrial strength stuff.”

Join DAMM now. Drunks Against Mad Mothers. :>}


88 posted on 08/28/2014 1:17:45 PM PDT by rktman (Ethnicity: Nascarian. Race: Daytonafivehundrian)
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To: TigersEye; DiogenesLamp
IOWs you're not here to participate honestly in the FR forum you're just a disruptor type troll.

That's a helluva load of crap to say to DL. Considering Conserving Freedom is a newbie retread troll whose primary purpose is to spread the Soros based message of legalizing marijuana.

 

89 posted on 08/28/2014 1:22:36 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

DL looks to be a noobie troll hisself. Apparently the rock I threw hit you too! LOL


90 posted on 08/28/2014 1:24:39 PM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" means something different to 0bama.)
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To: ConservingFreedom
Any rational person who has bothered to look at a globe and a calendar knows that modern America is not 19th century China.

And this is about the time I would knock you down, climb on top of you and just start punching you, all the while punctuating each and every punch with the words "Physiology. doesn't. change."

Once again, you have said something incredibly ignorant, and something of which my patience has had enough. Human physiology is the ONLY FACTOR.

Form of government does not affect drug addiction.

Place on Earth does not affect drug addiction.

Time in History does not affect drug addiction.

Language you speak does not affect drug addiction.

Culture you posses does not affect drug addiction.

The kinds of trees that grow down the way does not affect drug addiction.

Do you know what affects drug addiction?

HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY.

That's what affects drug addiction.

If you are a human, the chemicals will bind to your human brain and affect you. Your culture won't save you, your location won't save you, your time in history won't save you, and being an American won't save you.

It is just as stupid as presuming that your modern Americanism will save you from Ebola.

91 posted on 08/28/2014 1:28:24 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp (Partus Sequitur Patrem)
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To: TigersEye

Throwing rocks. Is that what you liberals are good for?

Make all the arguments for dope smoking you want. But it simply aligns you with George Soros, the liberal press...

And other DUmmies at the DUmp.


92 posted on 08/28/2014 1:29:18 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Make all of the insults you want. That’s all you two have and it’s a ten year old’s tactic. I don’t want to chat with ten year olds on the internet.


93 posted on 08/28/2014 1:31:16 PM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" means something different to 0bama.)
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To: ConservingFreedom; GeronL
There is no movement to ban alcohol in order to keep it away from kids

No, just signs that say WE ID UNDER 40.

Just BAC standards of 0.08 (as pressured by the federal government) that are headed down to 0.05 or even 0.03 (it is 0.01 in Sweden).

Just prosecutions in Dallas for "PI" if you are observed drinking more than 2 adult beverages in an hour.

Just calls for 0.01 BAC for ALL bar staff (including entertainers).

No, no movement to ban it per se. The founder of MADD left that organization decades ago when she determined it to be a neo-prohibitionist front.

94 posted on 08/28/2014 1:32:47 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (ISIS has started up a slave trade in Iraq. Mission accomplshed, Barack, Mission accomplished.)
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To: ConservingFreedom
Nonsense - libertarianism is a political philosophy and as such doesn't address the moral compass of God other than to say imposing it is not the proper function of government.

The Libertarians have been saying that for quite a long time, but it does not conform to our history. In fact, it is quite disconnected from it. Here is an example.

As a matter of fact, it is enforcing those Christian ideas of equality that more or less caused that civil war.

95 posted on 08/28/2014 1:33:34 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp (Partus Sequitur Patrem)
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To: indthkr
States like Washington, Colorado, and soon Oregon, are on their way to becoming malignant zones of failure - just like Somalia.

The problem is that a lot of the Locusts which destroyed them are migrating to other states, and there affecting the existing political balance with their insanity.

Colorado is the consequence of those dope smoking Californians leaving that utter mess they created over there.

96 posted on 08/28/2014 1:35:08 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp (Partus Sequitur Patrem)
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To: tacticalogic
We can't trust the States to make decisions, because they might not always make the right ones.

A Statement that has become demonstrably true with each passing election.

They gave us Obama. They are utterly clueless about what they are doing.

97 posted on 08/28/2014 1:36:16 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp (Partus Sequitur Patrem)
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To: ConservingFreedom
Which clause of the Constitution says that?

The Defense Clause. And you don't have to define a weapon, you just have to recognize the general class.

98 posted on 08/28/2014 1:37:11 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp (Partus Sequitur Patrem)
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To: TigersEye

I don’t want to chat with ten year olds on the internet.

____________________________________________________

Not any more, huh? Not since that “incident” you had back in 2011.

(lolol. Sorry. Had to do it. You set yourself up for that one)


99 posted on 08/28/2014 1:37:34 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: DiogenesLamp
I knew I should have put sarcasm tags on that.

robertpaulsen would have agreed with you.

100 posted on 08/28/2014 1:37:46 PM PDT by tacticalogic
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