No I don't. I lump you in with the honest conservative who have been duped. There are plenty of issues dealing with constitutionality that you could be spending your time and effort on. How about a few hundred threads on abortion and Roe V. Wade? Abolishing Roe V. Wade would put abortion back to where it belongs, with the states. That's a real conservative issue that will save many many more lives than legalizing drugs will.
Most of us agree with JR's take on the issue; - he said: "-- I don't honestly know whether I could live with legalized drugs or not. All I'm trying to do is get a real debate started. I know that the current drug war is a colossal failure, and I know that it is destroying our Constitution. I want my rights back. All of them. Don't you? You asked a while ago, why I allow the people who are for legalized drugs to post. Well, many of them are not as nutty as you might believe. They take a purely Constitutional stand and from that viewpoint I have to agree. --"
As I said, I don't think it's the best hill to defend and die on. And if these threads were kept on a purely constitutional argument I would welcome the debate. But instead we've got the "medical" marijuana propagandists, the "hemp is great" propagandists and the juveniles who like to brag about lighting up joints and how they score pot illegally. They make Freerepublic look like a Cheech and Chong movie.
No I don't. I lump you in with the honest conservative who have been duped.
Which ignores the fact that the Constitution is being violated in an futile effort to 'control' human liberty. -- You have been duped into believing that our government is authorized by the Constitution to infringe in order to control.
There are plenty of issues dealing with constitutionality that you could be spending your time and effort on.
Few are violating our liberties worse than the drug war.
if these threads were kept on a purely constitutional argument I would welcome the debate. But instead we've got the "medical" marijuana propagandists, the "hemp is great" propagandists and the juveniles who like to brag about lighting up joints and how they score pot illegally. They make Freerepublic look like a Cheech and Chong movie.
Typically, you want to control even the debate. -- And actually, if you look at most of the juvenile aspects of these debates, -- they are a direct result of the juvenile goading & trolling of certain 'warriors'; -- its even possible that their goading is a deliberate effort to make FR 'look bad'.