[MrLeRoy]

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[VRWCmember]

Shouldn't this be posted over at ReeferPublic instead of FreeRepublic?

[E Rocc]

Prohibitionists counter: Ending marijuana prohibition "sends the wrong message" that legalizing drugs supposedly connotes societal approval of drug abuse. Oh, really? Then we need to bring back alcohol prohibition because, by that logic, legal alcohol sends the message that alcoholism and alcohol abuse are OK. Obviously, that's not true. And we're not going back to alcohol prohibition. We need to turn in a different direction.

This is probably the most important part of the article. It shows the truly statist mindset of the Drug Warriors. In its implication that legality implies government approval, it goes beyond mere statism and approaches totalitarianism.

-Eric

[Dane]

Since marijuana was first federally outlawed in 1937, prohibition has had the perverse effect of making marijuana more popular, particularly among youth and the counterculture.

Actually he got it partly right. Marijuana is the drug for the radical left counterculture, but before the radical leftist counterculture sprang up in the 60's, marijuana wasn't popular.

[SirFishalot]

What a crock of BS! Pot smoke contains just as many if not more carcinogens as tobacco. and BTW, I smoked the crap for 25 years so I consider myself somewhat of an expert on the subject. Uh, What were we talking about? LOL

[avenir]

"Alcohol is the original date-rape drug."

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!).

[CWOJackson]

Yawn. With intellects like those that assemble on your daily whines it's no wonder you folks have been winning the war on drugs all these years.

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.

[Bronco_Buster_FweetHyagh]

"A friend recently remarked to me, "Alcohol is the original date-rape drug." That's very sadly true. And it's why I found it hypocritical that the national drug czar's new ad equating marijuana use with teen pregnancy should debut during the Super Bowl, in which beer and sex were the dominant advertising themes."


Sorry, your point is much too logical for me. I would rather hide behind my adolescent lessons and images of pre-conceived notions.

When it comes to depriving mothers and children of needed assistance, I will use logic. When it comes to honestly examining the virtues and evils of the War on Drugs, I will not. Nancy Said "DRUGS ARE BAD MMMMKAY"

/sarcasm off

The level of intellectual dishonesty amongst my fellow conservatives is a tragedy.

[CyberSpartacus]

To all you drug warriors. What is the difference between jailing someone for peacefully smoking pot, and jailing them for peacefully having a gun? Your arguments will allways fail, and for one simple reason. Just like the filthy Democraps, you think it is your God given right to tell other people what to do. Until you get over your self-righteous arrogance this country has NO CHANCE of ever returning to a FREE REPUBLIC.

[MEGoody]

"Since marijuana was first federally outlawed in 1937, prohibition has had the perverse effect of making marijuana more popular"

There are more rapes and murders than there used to be too. Should we make those acts legal? Just because society is slidding downhill morally doesn't mean we should do away with all laws.

[jmc813]

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