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Drug laws won't be on the fall ballot, but tobacco money will
Detroit Free Press ^ | September 11, 2002 | DAWSON BELL

Posted on 09/11/2002 4:55:57 AM PDT by VA Advogado

Edited on 05/07/2004 7:12:39 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

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Its nice to see the good guys win one. These billionare foreign drug pushers need to find a new hobby. America can do better than this.
1 posted on 09/11/2002 4:55:58 AM PDT by VA Advogado
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To: sinkspur; Kevin Curry; Dane; Roscoe; Cultural Jihad; tpaine; Texasforever
Bump for the America.
2 posted on 09/11/2002 4:56:53 AM PDT by VA Advogado
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To: VA Advogado
Misfits want to warp America in their image with illegal drugs.
3 posted on 09/11/2002 4:59:48 AM PDT by A CA Guy
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To: VA Advogado
Indeed a sad day for the Libertarians....they will have to continue taking their drugs illegally.
4 posted on 09/11/2002 5:00:04 AM PDT by Moby Grape
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To: Impeach the Boy
Indeed a sad day for the Libertarians....they will have to continue taking their drugs illegally.

Excellent day for drug dealers and cartels. Drugs stay illegal, profits stay robust.

5 posted on 09/11/2002 5:02:36 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: VA Advogado
Good news.

I find it fascinating that the self-appointed guardians of free will, the so-called libertarians, are so strongly in favor of using substances that erase free will and enslave people.

Luckily, sanity prevailed.

6 posted on 09/11/2002 5:03:06 AM PDT by wideawake
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To: VA Advogado
Yeah, before all you socialists start "getting off" on your so-called "victory":

But a technical error in drafting the language for the proposal proved fatal. The campaign's amendment called for the creation of a new Section 24 to Article 1 of the state Constitution. The state Constitution already has a Section 24, adopted by voters in 1988 to protect crime victims' rights.

Someone goofed in the writing of the proposal. That is what killed it, not some Socialist people to "save people from themselves, since the State owns your body" All folks have to do is draft a corrected proposal for next time.

Of course, when the good people of DC voted for medical marijuana TWICE, and twice had the Senate invalidate their votes..I'm sure you would have all approved of the voices of the voters being squelched in that regard as well...
7 posted on 09/11/2002 5:07:13 AM PDT by WyldKard
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Execute dealers of hard drugs. Hard means cocaine/heroin/LSD and some others. Marijuana dealers, just boot them out of this wonderful nation. Pay Mexico (or bribe Vincete Fox) 4 million and they will take them.
8 posted on 09/11/2002 5:08:49 AM PDT by dennisw
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To: VA Advogado
I guess it would have been horrible to let Michigan voters actually make the choice.

I don't see how anyone can be happy when something is kept off the ballot because of a technical error.

Let the people vote.

Is that such a horrible idea?
9 posted on 09/11/2002 5:10:23 AM PDT by Freeper 007
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I don't see how anyone can be happy when something is kept off the ballot because of a technical error.

Technical errors happen when people are stoned. I dont want my airline pilot, lawyer or gas tanker truck driver high on drugs. We all win when these things can be killed in the earlest stages. Kudos for the Michigan courts.

10 posted on 09/11/2002 5:12:33 AM PDT by VA Advogado
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To: Bill D. Berger
Great idea, don't let citizens decide what's best for themselves.

I think the judges in Michigan are elected. I'm all for letting elected representatives decide these issues.

12 posted on 09/11/2002 5:14:11 AM PDT by VA Advogado
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To: wideawake
I find it fascinating that the self-appointed guardians of free will, the so-called libertarians, are so strongly in favor of using substances that erase free will and enslave people.

No one here that I know of actively advocates full on drug usage, although I suppose people like you need to say that in order to pump up your strawman arguments. What we ARE saying is that the Federal Government doesn't have the authority to run a War on Drugs, and that the current War on Drugs is a socialist, burecratic nightmare that shreds the Constitution, fosters corruption in law enforcement, bloats the government, and creates more crime and problems than it attempts to solve. Many people who don't approve of drug usage are against the War on Drugs. Including the owner of Free Republic itself.

When you accuse drugs of "erasing free will", you blame objects, instead of the people using them. What are you going to tell us next, that guns kill children? That fatty food is all to blame for making children obese? Why do you insist on giving people excuses for their own weak will and lack of self-control? That is a classic Socialist tactic.

Luckily, sanity prevailed. Wasn't sanity. Someone screwed up when they wrote the proposal, and it was rejected on a legal technicality, nothing more.
13 posted on 09/11/2002 5:14:14 AM PDT by WyldKard
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To: Impeach the Boy
Indeed a sad day for the Libertarians....they will have to continue taking their drugs illegally.

I wonder if this techincal mistake happened because the lawyer that wrote it was under the influence of illegal drugs? Can America take risks like that?

14 posted on 09/11/2002 5:15:25 AM PDT by VA Advogado
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Technical errors happen when people are stoned. I dont want my airline pilot, lawyer or gas tanker truck driver high on drugs

No one wants that, and you know that damn well. However, the legality of an intoxicant won't have any bearing on that sort of thing. It sure didn't stop those drunk airline pilots...pilots who consumed a LEGAL drug I might add...
15 posted on 09/11/2002 5:16:02 AM PDT by WyldKard
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To: WyldKard
It sure didn't stop those drunk airline pilots...pilots who consumed a LEGAL drug I might add...

LAW ENFORCEMENT stopped those drunk pilots. And while alcohol is legal, they used it in an illegal manner. The law works. Try having some respect for it.

17 posted on 09/11/2002 5:17:33 AM PDT by VA Advogado
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here's nothimg in here that calls for legalizing drus, it's basically just sentencing reform.

LOL Sentencing reform? Yes, instead of going to jail for drug use, the state must pay to house you in some country club 'drug treatment' program that is corrupt and doesn't work. The only thing that works is a cement cell and steel bars.

18 posted on 09/11/2002 5:19:12 AM PDT by VA Advogado
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To: VA Advogado
The law works. Try having some respect for it.

Voting works too. Try having some respect for it!

19 posted on 09/11/2002 5:19:49 AM PDT by JoeSixPack1
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To: WyldKard
What we ARE saying is that the Federal Government doesn't have the authority to run a War on Drugs, and that the current War on Drugs is a socialist, burecratic nightmare that shreds the Constitution, fosters corruption in law enforcement, ...... yada, yada, yada

You druggies are getting tiresome.

20 posted on 09/11/2002 5:19:51 AM PDT by ladtx
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