Posted on 01/20/2014 7:39:50 AM PST by Biggirl
President Obama said in an interview published Sunday he does not believe marijuana is more dangerous than alcohol and that it was “important” that the legalization of the drug in some states to “go forward” because it would prevent unfair penalties for some users.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Post #10, meet post #8.
Finally, after yakking mindlessly for five or six years, the a$$wipe says something true.
Broken clock and all that...
Huxley’s SOMA. Keep the masses sedated.
...even a stopped clock...
Spoken like a true pothead.
Yeah, and the Mexican Drug Cartels will stand by and do nothing, while watching billions of $’s if not trillions of $’s disappear from their yearly take disappear.
As reported on Drudge: The Pot Bowl.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/01/16/214755/pot-backers-cheer-for-a-seattle.html
See the posted news article in post 27, and take a good look at the comments, I could not believe what I had been reading, even on poster cited Bible sources on pot!
Every pot smoker I have ever had this conversation with told me that, since I have never tried marijuana, I am not qualified to comment on it. That said, I do enjoy certain adult beverages in moderation and have never been in trouble for anything associated with my imbibing of libations.
Color me biased.
My biggest protest to the legalization of marijuana is that we can test for its residues in your body, but we can’t test for recent use, or current specific levels, as we do now for alcohol. So, it’s legal to drink, but we can prohibit drunk driving. If we could as a practical matter detect and punish those who drive stoned, I’d be more comfortable with its legalization for use when not driving.
Promoting pot is just another tool for Obama to make people comfortable with reduced expectations for their lives — meaning the 9 million more able-bodied people out of a job since November ‘09, the “end of the recession”.
The nation is going to pot.
WOW, Obama has evolved on this just like he did on gay marriage.(Dems are big on legalized gambling here too)
Our liberties just increase under his rule.
Long live the King!
... vs. the same types of cases directly connected to alcohol.
Of course you're qualified to comment! It doesn't mean your comments come from an informed POV.
“Yeah. Great. A stoned populace who are too lazy to work and too stoned to care they are being deceived.
Who benefits?”
Jail free marijuana and ready available marijuana and probably soon, free “medical marijuana” will suck in millions of those who don’t want to really work and remove them from the work place.
Businesses will seek out the non users with functioning brains and the will to work for a living. Businesses will hire them, treat them well, and pay them well to keep competitors from hiring them.
Again, who will benefit from the upcoming flood of legal and free marijuana?
Answer: Those of us, who don’t use it, our children, grandchildren, nieces and nephews, who don’t use it.
About a decade ago when I turned 65, I stopped fighting the abortion war and now the marijuana war. Hopefully, my DNA gene pool will realize how suicidal and harmful for any gene pool group, abortion and legalized and non legal mental alternating drugs are.
The same DNA survival genes hope that our country grows up, stands aside and lets the Islamo fascists go at each other and allow Allah to sort it out between them.
And if you HAD gotten in trouble with something associated with your imbibing of libations, would you then be questioning the right or wrongness of said libations being legal? Would the trouble be due to the libations, or to YOU?
And if you hold the drinker rather than the alcohol responsible for the accidents and violence and harm connected to alcohol use ... why would you hold a literal weed that can grow wild nearly anywhere, responsible for the trouble a lazy, hedonistic, poorly-disciplined amoral person gets into after smoking it? Or do you think it was the weed that made the person that way?
So if you want to outlaw weed, fine -- but isn't it supremely hypocritical not to call equally for outlawing alcohol? And isn't it supremely hypocritical not to outlaw guns and booze for all because some people abuse them, but to enthusiastically outlaw, on the same premise, a weed that will grow all by itself in a friggin' abandoned vacant lot?
AMEN, Dave. You've got it right.
Thanks Finny.
I still really like to read your home page how you rebelled against your teacher with your “singing”.
I would not have such a problem with him pushing this if he was lifting the country up on other fronts, but he is not. He has turned America into a ghetto, complete with this nonsense.
I don’t know if I care near as much one way or another as I used too. I know two types of pot users. So my opinion is based on life observations of folks I know starting back in college.
One type has tried it and may do it every rare now and then but rarely to never “buys” it. The other keeps it stocked and spends a good amount of time and energy finding it, using it and hiding it. The latter of the two types would be the equivalent of alcoholics I suppose. I’m not suggesting one is better than the other. But I have never known an individual in the latter category that restricted their drug use to marijuana. And I’ve known several. The most ambitious of these folks seem to get “into the business” to support the their own use. Acid, cocaine, heroin, opiates, prescription drugs, rufies, etc.
I don’t want my kids dabbling. They might like it. I avoided it and will advocate the same. I worry about the influence (same as misuse of alcohol) it has on society. I counter the influences with aggressive and loving parenting. Otherwise, I think the devolution of our society helps reduce the competition to succeed in America. Personally, there are a great many more important things that need to be debated. Whether or not to waste time prosecuting pot sales and use is not my most important political topic. It’s easier for me to just be against it.
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