Posted on 02/01/2005 10:22:25 AM PST by .cnI redruM
WASHINGTON — Pot. Cannabis. Hemp. Weed. Grass.
The herb takes many names. But in the nation’s capital, where the marijuana lobby (search) was once the recreational diversion of Playboy Magazine's Hugh Hefner, pro-pot special interest groups have crystallized the divergent issues behind the plant and gained a seemingly unified voice.
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"It’s a no-brainer. It makes no sense putting old and sick folks in jail for an herb that makes them feel better," said Bruce Mirken, spokesman for the Marijuana Policy Project (search), which was established in 1995 by Rob Kampia, a former mainstay at the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, the first pro-pot lobby in Washington, D.C.
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The real question is; why is it any of your business what others do so long as they don't violate your rights?
Free people do not ask "WHY should things be legal?" They ask "Why would we want to make things illegal?"
You have it PRECISELY backwards.
Carolyn
There are plenty of people with both right here on FR that do argue legalization on the merits.
There are others here on FR that wouldn't listen to them if they had a bullhorn to their ears.
Which is to take the wrong tack. They should be put in jail for committing crimes, not for committing crimes for some particular reason.
I don't care why a man stole my car, only that he did. I don't care why a man broke into my house, only that he did.
If he violated my rights, it's a problem no matter what his motive. If he did not violate my rights, he is free to go his way. That is the proper way to think about it in a free society.
No real point, just bored, and didn't really like your attitude.
I do have a question though about abuse. Who determines if it's abused, or just used? And what exactly is abuse of plant matter? Burning it, enjoying it, feeling good? Don't people already abuse alcohol, and that has to be manufactured specifically in order to abuse it.
Gotta go.
"The real point has nothing whatsoever to do with pot, or even drugs. It has to do with whether we should be a free country or not."
I agree with you there. I just get tired of making the same arguments over and over again. Feels like banging my head against the wall, except not as much fun.
I really have no idea. If you think they belong there, you are free to write the Attorney General and ask him to place them there.
"The US government supplies it to 7 people for medical purposes. Why is it a Schedule I drug?"
Those 7 are what remains of an old government marijuana study that has been discontinued. Technically, they're supposed to be submitting reports.
Yeah, sure, thats why the needlebutts and brownshirts go into full derision mode. Scared of the sophistication they revel their own ignorance.
I asked, "Why legalize marijuana?" Your answer would apply to any drug, even crack cocaine. Especially crack cocaine.
Do you think crack cocaine should be legalized to reduce the high profits placed in criminal hands, and to increase liberty?
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.
... those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
-C. S. Lewis
This is all great but meanwhile kids are tripping on bottles of Robotusin.
So you admint that MJ has some medical use and should not be subject to the stardards set forth, yet are not bothered by the obvious oversight by the government of the two substances that they prefer. You're a good, rule of law conservative, right?
What have we to gain by the relegalization of an herb gifted by God?
Perhaps it is integrity!
Maybe, it is just common sense?
Probably, the greatest gain will be in the ability to feed and cloth the masses.
There is ethanol, composites, and decrreased deforestation, too.
We've got to balance out the needlebutt cackling, who are worse than freeloaders and parasites for they wallow in their fear and would gladly trade liberty for security. Fearful little people, teaching their children with deceit, teaching them to be little cowards like their parents. The nudie bars are filled with the daughters of needlebutts.
Right next to your 9th amendment "right" to do drugs is my 9th amendment "right" to raise my children in a drug free environment.
Oh, I don't have rights? Only the dopers have rights?
So? Heroin is much more benign than meth. Also, heroin is not God's Gift. It is manmade, God's Gift refined. This gift in its morphine form is true compassion for dying people.
No such right exists. Your right to your "environment" ends at your front door.
Otherwise, I would have a right to raise my children without you in my environment.
Don't let this dude bust your chops. He really enjoys division.
I was talking about the pot lobby, specifically. They spend far too much time and effort trying to convince the public that pot is medicine. It's not.
The case for legalization can be made effectively without the medicinal marijuana lie.
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