Why have Republicans as a whole, left this issue to the Liberal Democrats? There are many single issue voters out there and I'm guessing this issue is one that gets a lot of them actually motivated to go vote...
I know a dozen or more people that registered to vote for the first time, just so they could vote to legalize in Arizona, thankfully the majority of them will be voting for Trump, but not sure that is typical...
While the Lazy pothead stereotype is common, and does happen with those already inclined to be lazy, its not the general truth I know in real life... I know far too many educated people that smoke pot regularly in social situations or now have their medical card that nobody ever had the first clue they would be pot smokers.
I have also watched what has happened to all my old beer drinking buddies that did not stop drinking when I did, 30 years ago... One that drinks two handles of Ten High a week now, a fully functional alcoholic that goes to work (most) every day he is supposed too... Its a progression I see over and over with alcohol and one I have never seen happen to anywhere close to that extent with weed... at some point most pot smokers finally learn what Gallagher used to joke about, quit smoking when your high, you don't get any higher, just end up with less weed...
God created cliffs and manzanita and poppy seeds and toxic mold, too. Not a good reason to imbibe anything. He created all kinds of things we should not ingest at all and many things we should only ingest for good reason and/or in small doses. Our criteria for “should we ingest it” should not be “did GOD make it?” Or we’d be drinking rattlesnake venom. This line of “reasoning” is preposterous
Uh... NO. And a resounding hell no, at that.
It is still schedule 1 and should remain there.
Jesus created Satan too. And Hillary.
God made toadstools too
Isn’t this the same argument as “God created gays?”
Jesus also created scorpions and all sorts of deadly critters. Doesn’t mean I want them as pets.
1 : an element in experience or in artistic representation evoking pity or compassion
2 : an emotion of sympathetic pity
No logic, all emotion.
They have certainly picked the right name for their blog.
The bible calls abuse of pharmaceuticals “sorcery”.
The Greek word is pharmakeia
Here is a link to Strong’s concordance: http://biblehub.com/greek/5331.htm
Strong wrote in the mid to late 1800’s, well before our current war on drugs.
Smokey (Chris Tucker) from the movie "Friday.
Hey liberals, Jesus also created arsonic. Start with that.
He created the plant it is made from. He didn’t tell you how to make it into a drug. He also created the tobacco plant. So here we are - you are against smoking tobacco, but not against smoking marijuana.
He created Uranium too, so why can’t I own an A-Bomb ?
Were George Washington alive today, he would be subject to a lengthy mandatory prison sentence for growing a few acres of hemp, even though it wouldn't even get anyone high!
The intellectual somersaults that the Prohibitionist Mind must resort to in its misguided attempt to rationalize Tyrannical Law are quite amusing.
Self-righteous left-wing nanny-staters and right-wing nanny-staters have at least one thing in common: they're both authoritarian demagogues who would have Free Individuals "choose" between competing (and equally illegitimate) flavors of Tyranny.
No thanks, Drug War fascists. No thanks, phony believers in limited government. I'll take actual Freedom with all of its opportunities, pitfalls, challenges, inconveniences, and risks.
When the State is empowered to impose arbitrary Law in the way that Prohibitionists endorse, there is no practical limit to the Tyranny that can be imposed. It's shameful to embrace principles so antithetical to Liberty, and so conducive to oppression. The ever expanding State law enforcement apparatus required to enforce contraband law is a necessary component of the Drug war, will all of its attendant disregard for the Fourth Amendment, Privacy, due process, etc., etc.
Flame away and Vote Trump!
Marijuana has its dangers certainly, like most other recreational drugs it produces an artificial euphoria which turns out to be fleeting, leaving the user over time less happy or satisfied than they might have been had they pursued more meaningful and substantive avenues toward happiness and satisfaction. That said, the direct harmful effects of marijuana are relatively mild, and it’s not physically addictive, so those who choose to quit and/or use sparingly, can freely do so. It also seems to be medically beneficial to some people.
I live in coastal California where it has been functionally legal for over a decades. Let me tell you that legalization will not have a big impact. There are very few people who would use marijuana, but don’t, only because it’s illegal. The vast majority have their mind made up about it already, and the legality is a minor factor. Most people simply don’t like it, and that will not change. Some do, and they’ll use it whether or not it’s legal. That won’t change either. At the margins a few people here or there will take advantage of its legality, but not enough to really be very noticeable. Much ado about nothing.
Jesus ... a Mexican drug runner?
LOL. I love how these liberal scolds are supremely confident that they know how Reagan supporters think. Ronald Reagan is one of my political idols. When I was in college, I smoked pot like a chimney. Then when I graduated, I stopped and grew up. I don't care if other people do as long as they don't smoke and drive or put others in danger.
Persons without enough common sense not to use hallucinogens deserve the consequences. If a steady supply would calm the violent underclass, I could be a supporter.
Robert Hooke was a Brit scientist in he 1600s. Was at the early edge of discovering gravity caused the motions of planets later proved by Newton.
He tested pot and gave a lecture to to the Royal Society of Science that described the social, psychiatric and therapeutic uses it. Hooke informed his audience about its ‘very general and frequent’ use in India, and how his source (Knox) ‘hath made many Trials of it, on himself, with very good Effect’. This suggests that Knox had become accustomed to using bhang on his travels and could well have imported some for his own use.
Hooke instructed how the bhang was to be consumed, and described the onset of the ‘Operation’:
The Patient understands not, nor remembereth any Thing … but becomes, as it were, a mere Natural, being unable to speak a Word of Sense; yet is he very merry, and laughs, and sings … yet is he not giddy, or drunk, but walks and dances … after a little Time he falls asleep, and sleepeth very soundly and quietly; and when he wakes, he finds himself mightily refresh’d, and exceeding hungry.
Hooke also specifically mentioned Knox’s illness in Ceylon, ‘which troubled his Stomach, or Head’. Yet after the bhang, he noted dramatically, Knox had been ‘perfectly carried off without leaving any ill Symptom, as Giddiness, Pain in the Head or Stomach, or Defect of Memory’.
He said the main risk was laughter.