Posted on 08/01/2002 5:16:08 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
Edited on 05/07/2004 8:00:51 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
As we endeavor toward a more lucid and informed discussion of substance abuse, let's deconstruct the mystique of marijuana and recognize it for the dangerous drug that it is.
Marijuana is a substance that's worthy of our concern. It is the most prevalent of all illicit drugs used in the country. The 2000 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse reported that 34 percent of Americans have used marijuana in their lifetime and 5 percent are current users.
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I don't beleive that a company should be able to demand an employee to check their God given rights at the company door. The contract between an employer and employee is one of a business nature and not one of servitude.
Each party is free to refuse entering into contract thus there cannot be servitude. Likewise the company can refuse to employee a person if they suspect the person would harm the company just as the prospective employee can refuse a job offer if they think the employer will harm them. Nobody is initiating force on anyone. How do you feel about having brain surgery done by an alcoholic brain surgeon?
When you invite a person onto your property do you judge there conduct according to the constitution or according to the rules that you have set? Sure the constitution says that they have freedom of speech and can watch and create pornographic videos, but does that mean you have to allow your visitors to do it on your property?
Yeah all you WODies can ride to the event together in that little bus you ride / used to ride to school
So in one breath you slander your opponents...
It's an immature attitude, defended primarily by slandering honest conservatives and calling us names
And in the next you complain that you are being slandered. That is hardly the hallmark of an honest conservative...
Colorado has decriminalized posession of up to an ounce into a summary offense. It has not become a pothead magnet. There were pot users in Colorado before they changed the law, and there were pot users in Colorado after they changed the law. All they did was make a decision to quit wasting valuable court and prison resouces on pot.
I was born in 1968. Quit watching Forest Gump.
Seems to me the 'big picture' keeps getting bigger and bigger.
It gets bigger all the way to the point of identifying politicians and bureaucrats as being the problem and individuals that are employees or employers in the private sector are the solution.
War of Two Worlds
Value Creators versus Value Destroyers
Politics is not the solution. It's the problem!
The first thing civilization must have is business/science. It's what the family needs so that its members can live creative, productive, happy lives. Business/science can survive, even thrive without government/bureaucracy.
Government/bureaucracy cannot survive without business/science. In general, business/science and family is the host and government/bureaucracy is a parasite.
Aside from that, keep valid government services that protect individual rights and property. Military defense, FBI, CIA, police and courts. With the rest of government striped away those few valid services would be several fold more efficient and effective than they are today.
Underwriters Laboratory is a private sector business that has to compete in a capitalist market. Underwriters laboratory is a good example of success where government fails.
Any government agency that is a value to the people and society -- which there are but a few -- could better serve the people by being in the private sector where competition demands maximum performance.
Wake up! They are the parasites. We are the host. We don't need them. They need us.
I've seen this tactic used before. I don't hold your position as a "joke" as it impacts the liberty of many innocent and productive people, is instrumental in trashing some of the most cherished provisions in our Constitution, spreads corruption among the very agencies that are to safegard out rights and invades our homes without leave.
Joke? Not hardly. You might as well joke about the legless man begging on the street. Take your "jokes" elsewhere. 
Exactly what the Marxist ideologues tell the so-called wage-slaves about the thieving robber-baron bosses. LOL!
And I posted a clear example out of many that it does not. Believe what you will in spite of the reams of objective research that, in addition to my ancedote, proves otherwise. Just don't advocate using the indescriminate and brutal power of the state to enforce your beliefs.
HOWELL -- The unsuccessful May 20 drug raid of a Howell family's home nearly cost the Livingston and Washtenaw Narcotic Enforcement Team (LAWNET) the support of its only municipal member, the city of Howell.
City Council debated Monday whether to sign a new two-year agreement with LAWNET, the county's only drug-fighting task force. Council members said they were concerned about possible abuse of the state's new anti-terrorism laws by LAWNET officers during and after the raid.
The raid was perhaps the state's first known instance of law enforcement officers using new anti-terrorism police powers in a case unrelated to terrorism, according to the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan. But Brighton criminal defense Attorney Ron Plunkett said it's not the first time LAWNET has been heavy-handed.
LAWNET officers failed to leave a copy of the search warrant at the residence, the home of a single mother and her three children. Only a 17-year-old boy was home at the time of the raid, which produced no evidence of criminal activity.
Later, Livingston County Circuit Court officials refused to provide the mother with the affidavits that justified the search warrant.
Court and law enforcement officials cited the new anti-terrorism laws, signed into law in April, which make search warrant affidavits nonpublic. Last week, a new law sponsored by state Sen. Bill Bullard, R-Highland, was signed into law, making such affidavits public after 56 days.
ACLU Communication Director Wendy Wagenheim said the Howell raid was the first she's heard of in which officials tried to use new police powers designed to fight terrorism. It's just the kind of abuse the ACLU has feared could occur as a result of the federal USA Patriot Act approved by Congress in October and Michigan adopted in April.
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