There was an interesting debate on freerepublic that i saw today over whether there is anything in the constitution that says we have a right to privacy...I'll have to find it.
Anyway, I like to think the Bill of Rights isn't the final say on all of our rights---that we have rights as human beings not necessarily listed in the Bill of Rights and that it's sad to need an amendment to the constitution to show that we really do deserve a certain right and to keep the government out of the areas of our lives in which it does not belong.
...we have rights as human beings not necessarily listed in the Bill of Rights...Yes, we do, but taking dope isn't one of them.
I'm sorry, but your continuing attempts to elevate free dope to the level of a civil right is just ludicrous.
It doesn't seem that way to you, because it is likely all you think about. But the laws are going to remain, and the War on Drugs--which we're winning--is going to continue, because the vast majority of people are NOT hopelessly addicted, and don't have the same mindset of those who are addicted and want to turn their addiction into some sort of pious virtue.
The rest of us, as I've said, see things a lot more clearly. We've all had and continue to have family or friends who are caught up in it, and we're sick of hearing how "wonderful" it is.
It's not. It's soul-destroying, and its effects reach far beyond the life of the single individual dope-addict.
That's why you can murmur and declaim all you want, but are no closer to "winning" on your issue than when I was a student in the 1970s.
Thanks for posting this, JediGirl.
The very real murder of Donald Scott was my reason for voting for the ballot initiative in Kalifornia to make marijuana legal. Of course we didn't know what we were voting for, so nanny kindly overruled us naughty children. I knew what I was voting for, an end to what's turned out to be the precursor of "Homeland Security".
I also remember when the elderly man in Compton was shot and his life savings stolen. There was a huge public outcry at the time.
We have rights unless the government decides their rights are more important than ours.