Posted on 09/21/2002 9:29:32 PM PDT by JediGirl
Edited on 04/12/2004 5:44:31 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Some wit once defined a fanatic as a person who redoubles his effort just as he loses sight of his objective. That wit must have been thinking of U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft and Drug Enforcement Administrator Asa Hutchinson.
Their objective is supposed to be chasing drug traffickers who sell dangerous drugs such as methamphetamines and heroin to children. Instead, they are raiding plots that supply medical marijuana to grandmothers with cancer under the terms of California's Proposition 215.
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You really do need to get back on your medication.
No maybe I should read my post before i push the button. But that would take the fun out of it wouldn't it? Besides I have an excuse I am all screwed up on fresh air.
Drunk drives kill more people then people with guns but you can’t displace one with the other can you? Now if we displaced dopers with responsible beings you may have a solution :)
So it effects your brain does it? Gee how wonderful!
It also makes no sense to say pot does not displace booze. All intoxicants are positively known to displace others in the market and among users. For example, the "success" of cracking down on pot along the Mexican border recently has increased smuggling of higher-value drugs like cocaine. Brewers fear pot because it is a mild recreational intoxicant, grows like a weed (nobody actually needs to buy pot - it is as easy to grow as tomatos), and probably would displace beer. Prohibition vastly increased drinking of gin, rum and other hard liquor. Your example of guns not being able to replace cars is laughably inapplicable and irrelevent to actual documented events where one drug was displaced by another.
Do you have a workable plan for ridding the world of people who want to get a buzz on? And where in the Constitution does it say the government is allowed to tell adults what they are allowed to consume?
The failure of the Drug War is just another example of how the Founding Fathers were 100 times smarter than today's jackasses like Asa Hutchinson. Don't TRY to tell adults what to consume, they will naturally choose the least harmful path.
Sorry eno_ but your talking to a guy who spent the 60’s cleaning up after the carnage your “victim” dopers caused. I have been to the seen of hundreds of traffic accidents involving sober vs stoned drivers and 75% of the time the fault of the accident was the erratic criminal driving of the poor miss understood doper.
Not totally suprising since some athletes perform at elite levels while stoned.
You see a lot of pot head quarterbacks do you.. funny.
It also makes no sense to say pot does not displace booze. All intoxicants are positively known to displace others in the market and among users. For example, the "success" of cracking down on pot along the Mexican border recently has increased smuggling of higher-value drugs like cocaine.
So Pot smoking can lead to use of harder drugs.. interesting.
actual documented events where one drug was displaced by another.
Good reason to go after all of them isn’t it? By the way I love doper studies they get real creative.
Do you have a workable plan for ridding the world of people who want to get a buzz on?
Yes but it’s to late for you my grown up friend.
And where in the Constitution does it say the government is allowed to tell adults what they are allowed to consume?
”To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes” Affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court again and again and again.
Don't TRY to tell adults what to consume, they will naturally choose the least harmful path.
Lot of dead adult dopers out there that proves you wrong.
Not until that paragon of constitutionalism, FDR, stacked the court. Since the drug war does or did write your paycheck, you are an "FDR Republican." But then shame ain't your long suit, eh?
The “drug wars” has never written my paycheck but good try. Now maybe you can answer a question for me. I have always been told by pot heads that weed is not addictive. If that is the case why is it that a doper would have to replace his non dependency on dope rope with nose candy???? Humm
Could it be that marijuana is habit forming?
Thanks for making my point and being honest about your addiction.
Would that be down on 'Copperhead Road'?
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