Posted on 07/30/2012 10:38:42 AM PDT by Shout Bits
I've waked up in their parking lot a time or two.
I love the idiots who believe they can drive under the influence of performance unenhancing drugs.
It’s really a hoot to drive 35 miles an hour in a 55 zone while watching the slowpoke in front of you play tag with the lane marker lines.
Then, after they finally do speed up and slam into somebody, they argue that the drugs don’t impair them at all.
They didn’t get to watch the show from everyone else’s perspective.
Like that lady a couple years back on the Taconic in NY, stopped at a rest area, smoked some dope, then got onto the highway the wrong way, killed herself and a bunch of kids.
The dopers were quick to claim the drugs had nothing to do with it.
Personally, if someone wants to destroy themselves, fine by me.
Leave me out of your suicide plans and stay off the darn roads.
Well I have used both alcohol and pot, haven’t used either for 30 years. If one should be illegal it would be alcohol, more dangerous IMO as someone who had used both drugs.
It is no business of the government to tell you that you can’t use any plants that are part of the environment, synthetic/refined drugs developed by man is a different story.
That would be why I waked up in the parking lot, yo.
Yeah, they have a nice ambience.
Grunting shambling deer in the lawn, wobbling patons that moan and wail.
Great place.
Ever wake up strapped to the roof of a moving vehicle?
It’s an experience.
At one time, I honestly believed no State would behave as has California. At this time, I no longer discern a limit regarding the insanity of other states. Apart from that, my allusion to letting street gangs play with nuclear weapons is a metaphor intentionally exaggerated for effect.
They are trying to do "Gay Marriage" in California. Had they succeeded, it would have affected me in my home state as well.
You are confusing the term "addiction" with a tacit acknowledgement that we must have a government to enforce laws.
And the life-altering nature of narcotics does not enumerate powers.
All of the arguments for continuing the drug war as it is now rely on denying there is any abuse of the Commerce Clause, or denying that it is of any consequence. Neither of these are arguments that we should be making. It makes us complicit in that abuse and leaves us compromised in any attempt to rectify the multitiude of other abuses it has spawned, and to reign in the exponential growth of the federal government that has resulted from it.
I'm having a hard time establishing the moral equivalence between
(a) those who attack law-abiding merchants or travelers on the high seas, killing or kidnapping them and stealing their property, and
(b) those who wish to sell a product to citizens who would (other than their private use of said product) be considered law-abiding and respectful of their neighbors.
I guess it's just me.
Commerce does not apply to illegal activities. Importing Sex Slaves, or Drugs, or Anthrax spores do not constitute "Commerce."
This is commerce "with foreign nations", not interstate commerce. The were specified separately because "with" and "among" mean different things, and were intended to be treated differently. If it was all intended to be treated the same, they would simply have said "to regulate commerce" and left it at that.
Again, it is NOT Commerce because it is illegal. I also noticed that you did not answer my question. (Does the government have a right and a duty to ban the importation of fissile material?) The reason you did not answer my question is because you know that you must acknowledge that they can, and in doing so you destroy the basis for your own argument.
We The People... Have a Right and a Duty to ban dangerous and destructive substances.
I inspire madness.
Usually via my coffee.
“Wharbagarbble is my cry!”
Marijuana is a healing substance of high value, and for that reason its tie to drugs should be severed.
We should not allow our governments to regulate possession or use of any herb (except driving or operating machinery under the influence thereof).
Most of the force behind marijuana laws comes from those who would lose their cash cows if it were legalized, such as big pharma and the AMA.
I would like to nominate this statement for "Most Inept Analogy of the 21st Century So Far".
I disagree that the War on Drugs is a scam. It has produced very beneficial and positive results. In 1900, the addiction rate was something like ~2%. Today, the addiction rate is still around just ~2%. The natural progression of drug addiction without interdiction is a an exponential function that looks like this:
Chests of Opium imported into China
China is an example of what happens when you allow drugs to be legalized in your country. America is an example of what happens when you don't. The Fact that we have held the addiction rate down to ~2% demonstrates that our efforts have been a great success. Had we not waged a war on drugs, our addiction rate would very likely be in the +30% range by now.
Amen! We aren’t buying the false substitution of “Liberty” for “Libertine.”
Fair enough. Now, which level of government are you going to use to do it? If you're going to have your state do it, then all you need is for the legislature to enact that prohibition and make the necessary provisions to enforce it. If you want the national government to do it, then you need to enumerate a power for that, because there is currently no "dangerous substances" power granted to Congress by the States, and enumerated in the Constitution.
I agree with you that Alcohol appears to be far more dangerous. It kills 100,000 people every year. Pot? Not so much.
It is no business of the government to tell you that you cant use any plants that are part of the environment, synthetic/refined drugs developed by man is a different story.
Up to a point. The Debate is whether or not Marijuana is on one side of the line or the other. Mushrooms are natural parts of the environment. Which side of the line do you regard them to be on?
I haven’t quite recovered just yet from the last time I drank your coffee, sweetie. Only a few more fingers and my nose still have to grow back, though. Give me a few more hours.
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