Nevada Conservatives Against the War on Drugs

mother jones ^ | 08.11.06 | Sasha Abramsky

[muir_redwoods]

I am sick and tired of paying to protct drug addicts from their stupidity. I don't drink, smoke or use drugs and I don't care who does. My tax dollars have much better uses in my bank account then out there pointlessly putting cops at risk trying to keep fools from the cosequences of their actions.

[MAD-AS-HELL]

Legailize prostitution and drugs. Tax it tax it and tax it. And watch the crime rate drop.

And no, I don't do drugs or frequent hookers. If I want sex, i just take a woman out for an expensive dinner and tell her I can get her an acting gig. :)

[From many - one.]

Well said and ditto

[AlexandriaDuke]

...The “tax and regulate” measure ...

They had me up to there. Just what we need ... government corrupting another industry.

[DTwistedSisterS]

tax it. :-p solve the money problems. heh heh.

[EEDUDE]

You can't protect people from themselves.

Legalize the stuff and watch the supply drop.

[A CA Guy]

Possession of an ounce will be against Federal law which stands up most recently at the top courts.

Waste of time.

[Biblebelter]

How can you have a war on drugs when our borders are so porous that millions of people can permanently penetrate them? The war on drugs is an absolute joke, but are borders are a bigger joke.

[Coleus]

and just wait until congress and the president pass the FTAA.  the floodgates of illegal immigrants and drugs will be opened further.

[Delphinium]

it is the biggest, costliest policy of failure

I agree, but the fact that they have a log cabin Republican working with them tells me they might be liberal on all the social issues.

I don't take any drug except caffiene, and haven't for years. But years of experience knowing people who smoke pot has caused me to know that we shouldn't be spending so much money to control it.

[Enterprise]

I guess it depends on where you are if you are going to get prosecuted by the Feds for pot. If let's say, you are in California and you are running a pot clinic, they're going to come after you. On the other hand, if you are an illegal alien smuggling less that 500 pounds into Arizona, the U.S. Attorney's office won't prosecute. It will leave that up to the Arizona authorities. The U.S. Attorney's office in Arizona says they simply don't have the resources to prosecute these cases. However, I guess the U.S. Attorney's office in California is brimming with funds to prosecute petty crimes.

[308MBR]

Maybe so, but if you're in Kentucky anything up to EIGHT OUNCES only nets you a max of 90 days and $100 by state law.

[A CA Guy]

I think most tickets are given for car stops of for having things in plain view if they had subpoenas to search for other stuff.

It is almost always an issue of quantity I think.

[Moonman62]

Well, if it's in Mother Jones, it must be true.

[A CA Guy]

Pretty amazing, I would hope repeat offenders get stiffer fines and such. For total stupidity if nothing else.

[11B40]

The WOD is a failure by any objective standard. The sooner it is ended the better. The WOD destroys more lives than the drugs ever could.

[Total Package]

Possession of an ounce will be against Federal law which stands up most recently at the top courts.

True, but if the local and state police will not enforce it the feds will not know one has it. The only power government has is to make criminals of it's people.

[Zon]

Law Enforcement Against Prohibition -- LEAP. In the trenches, judges, prosecutors, LEOs, DEA, FBI etc. that have witnessed the WOD from the inside. Watch the 13 minute introduction video. Its excellent.

[308MBR]

Nope. That's the max.

It seems most sensible. Now if a fed busts you in KY, you're in deep doo doo, and wind up taking up space in a federal pen for many years that would be far better utilized to hold a child porner or some loopy islamist.