So, you think cannabis should not be legalized because it would cause at a lesser degree what it is causing now? 
Posted on 02/11/2003 6:49:57 AM PST by MrLeRoy
Anecdotes are not evidence.
In my reading on drug use,
What did you read?
This link seems to discuss the 60's connection fairly well if you're interested: Marijuana and Ginsberg
No evidence for your claim there.
Who can deny alcohol has been a contributing factor in all kinds of sexual adventures? It's ability to lead you where you couldn't go otherwise—due to morals/inhibitions/complexes/etc.—is legendary.
Little secret about pot, though: If you have a sex drive prepare to have it magnified. Pot magnifies alot of things, especially when you are a chronic user working the happy-happy tip (before Mary J drags you down-down into depression...oh, it magnifies that too!).
So, you think cannabis should not be legalized because it would cause at a lesser degree what it is causing now?
All the better. The more resources they spend chasing after the tobacco folks, the less spent on chasing me.
Provide evidence for your claim.
I can only see legalization leading to the same scenario as above. That means to me that trial lawyers will benefit,
I don't like trial lawyers---or used car salesmen. Shall we ban used car sales so used car salesmen don't benefit?
taxes will affect the poor far more than anyone else,
They have the choice to not buy the taxed item and thus not pay the tax.
and bootlegging will thrive anyways.
Cigarette bootlegging is small potatoes compared to marijuana smuggling; how many innocents have died in shootouts between cigarette bootleggers?
Provide evidence for your claim. Then explain how a woman's enhanced sex drive could lead to her being raped.
That is an excellent point. For the drug war zealots, the government is the nexus of and final arbiter of societal standards and morals. This is where supporters of the drug wars find kinship with socialism, yet they deride the libertarian minded and try to link them with the left on this issue - how ironic.
I know when I watched the news this morning it was full of stories on how the public is rising up and demanding the government remove the yoke of drug laws from their neck; protesters in every street.
The newspaper was just as grim. Article after article on how the public was overwhelming in support of making dope legal and was tired of the Bush administration's lies about drug use.
Well...actually there anything on the TV news other then a meth lab was busted and it's freedom fighters arrested. Damn, three more libertarian voters who won't vote next time around.
I completely agree. The prohibitionists are obsessed.
Even more amusing is you, here, always posting the exact same "who cares" eye-roller to every W.o.D. thread. If you don't care, or if you think the issue's frivolous, why the hell are you always on these threads?
It's not; what's your point? The public is not rising up and demanding the government go to war with Iraq, either---so should we not go?
Ah, that's easy. It's so much fun to remind you folks just how impotent you are in the war on drugs. It drives you folks insane knowing that everyday you post the same thing, and every day a few more of your friends are going to do time and that the public just doesn't listen to you.
I get a kick out of stirring the pot(heads) and watching them go ballistic in reply.
So basically, you're a narcissist. Go whack off elsewhere then, will ya?
And miss the morning doper circle jerk? I don't think so.
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