here’s what I think. I think we have bigger fish to fry. I think there a few existential threats we need address before we start worrying about getting pot laws right.
I think home stills should be free of taxation and regulation.
drug addiction is a scourge of our society. Nothing but ill will come from it.
I don’t care if you want to get stoned out of your mind.
Smoke weed.
Shoot heroin.
Snort meth.
Good luck to you.
BUT....
The issue is whether I have to pay for you sitting on your a$$ because you’re a zombie, or your medical expenses when you screw up.
Because with welfare and Obamacare, I’ve got to pay for your idiocy.
So if you want to flush yourself down the toilet, it shouldn’t be on my dime.
I despise that simpering patrician WFB, who had no idea what he was talking about, because he never took drugs and didn’t have to live with anyone who did. I have no respect for him, his crappy novels or his libertarian views.
Why only “some?” And who gets to decide which ones?
State’s issue.
Also, non-issue, when looking at all of the other things we are facing
We’ll win the War on Drugs like we’ve won the War on Poverty. Next up is the War on Racism, and both Left and Right will join in a Kumbaya.
This Libertarian Bull Sh*t just gets tiring!
What say you?
Libertarians = liberals who can balance a checkbook
Libertarians = liberals who can balance a checkbook
I am willing to trade the drug wars for a much smaller government, so we can all live and let live. Those who take the risks will be responsible for the consequences, which means that they may need to seek out charities instead of relying on the government for compassion.
Are you willing to haggle?
You guys always lose your argument with me when you go into how we can save the planet by taxing pot. You need to delete that part of your argument. It ain’t gonna happen. You can grow pot in a pile of dog **** sitting on the floor in the middle of your living room. Who is going to pay for it?
The word “dope” is quite descripive.
I hope I don’t get in another big back and forth argument with a Libertarian, but since you asked,
no, I don’t think recreational drugs should be legal, because they, to a smaller or greater degree, lower your inhibitions, make you irrational, make you comatose, actually deliver brain damage, make you stupid, make you paranoid, and decrease your motor skills. When you commit crime, or lose your mind, we have to pick up the pieces. It is morally wrong to deliberately make yourself more likely to indulge in criminal behavior, and it is morally wrong to deliberately make yourself more likely to become insane or useless.
yes, I know that daily pot use will do far less damage than daily meth use. I realize it is a matter of degree.
yes, I know there are supposed to be a few people who get high all the time and still apparently are doing well. The exception doesn’t make the rule.
no, I don’t want to wait until the rape or the neglect or the accident or the murder or the robbery, and then arrest the drug abuser. I in fact think we should make it illegal to make ourselves irrational, comatose, hallucinatory, and/or stupid. Like we arrest drunk drivers before they cause an accident. I think that’s the right thing to do.
no, I don’t think alcohol should be illegal, and that’s not because I drink, because I don’t care for it. Alcohol is the ONLY drug, if used in moderation, which does not do any of the above and can actually benefit your health. I don’t think drunkenness should be legal, and I’ll put .10 blood alcohol as where I’d put the legal limit.
no, people don’t use other drugs in moderation. It’s theoretically possible to take one hit of marijuana or one grain of cocaine, but nobody does that, and I get irritated trying to pretend they do. Whereas people have a glass or two of wine, or a beer or two, routinely.
yes, if there is an actual medical purpose to a drug, like meth for 24 hour fliers in combat or pot for glaucoma sufferers, I’d support it (prescribed) if the benefits outweigh the risks.
Anyone who thinks otherwise, answer me this, would you leave your three year old with a babysitter who is snorting coke, or shooting heroin, or sucking on a bong? No you would not. Because you know better. Whereas you’d leave her with a babysitter who is having a glass of wine with her dinner. Because you know that’s fine.
I think you’ve already seen some good responses. What do you do about DUIs on marijuana (they’re already dealing with that in Colorado and Washington)? What do you do about juveniles getting high and being stupid off older peeps stash? ... In case you don’t know, there are a LOT of pot using peeps who don’t just sit around and get stoned ...
We have either given up everything once we’ve done that or we should give up. You think it’s bad now.
William F. Buckley is dead. William F. Buckley also believed that the Soviets, by targeting American educational institutions demonstrated, didn’t understand how America works.