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What are the Best reasons/arguments to keep marijuana illegal?
National Review ^ | July 29, 2008 | me_a_republic

Posted on 07/29/2008 8:38:33 PM PDT by me_a_republican

Dear fellow forum members,

What are the best reasons or arguments you can think of to keep marijuana illegal?

It would really really help to if you can reply only after reading http://www.nationalreview.com/12feb96/drug.html .

Thank you.


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To: 5thGenTexan

Nobody would grow it if it was available at the store to over 21 people. When I was in high school, I went to a shop and got all the equipment to make beer. Made one batch. It sucked and took alot of time. It was easier to get illegally than legally


21 posted on 07/29/2008 9:05:05 PM PDT by When do we get liberated? ((Ok, Im the official Pit Bull Defender/If you can't stand behind our troops, stand in front of them.)
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To: me_a_republican
There are NO REASONABLE arguments to LEGALIZE marijuana.
22 posted on 07/29/2008 9:05:17 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: ken21
We have an entire government bureaucracy dedicated to “The War on Drugs”. We cant let the decimalization of Marijuana effect these poor civil servants jobs.
23 posted on 07/29/2008 9:06:25 PM PDT by chaos_5
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To: me_a_republican

me_a_republican
Since Jul 29, 2008

Get a life troll!

Go back to DU and smoke up a storm.


24 posted on 07/29/2008 9:06:28 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: me_a_republican
zot
25 posted on 07/29/2008 9:06:39 PM PDT by darkangel82 (If you're not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. (Say no to RINOs))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

me_a_republican
Since Jul 29, 2008

A brain fried troll.


26 posted on 07/29/2008 9:07:13 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: A_perfect_lady

I’m neutral on the issue.


27 posted on 07/29/2008 9:07:23 PM PDT by RockinRight (I just paid $63 for gas. An icefield in Alaska is NOT the Grand Canyon. F--- the caribou.)
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To: me_a_republican

Personally, I’ve just always felt that it needs to be put in the proper perspective. Congress and the states regularly adopt laws that they believe promote the general welfare of the American people. From gun laws to gambling to prostitution and more – we allow sensible regulation if it is deemed to promote a healthy society. Drugs are no different. The problem seems to be in how to distinguish the seemingly harmless marijuana, from the more potent and clearly deleterious drugs like cocaine, and also from potentially equally harmful ones like alcohol. There is debate about marijuana’s effect on the brain, and hormonal changes that occur in the body, but generally it can be agreed upon as a matter of common sense that a drugged-out society is not a productive one. Moreover, it is widely conceded that marijuana is a gateway drug; that it leads to other drug use, so we have adopted a bright line rule regarding drug use that begins at marijuana. The theory is that if you can prevent people from using marijuana, you can prevent further, more harmful drug use. Undoubtedly were it to be legal, it would be more readily available, and more people would try it as a matter of course. That in turn could lead to potentially skyrocketing rates of heavy drug use. I submit that like with many other laws, we have simply adopted a bright line rule that is necessarily arbitrary, but not illogical. Most laws are arbitrary when it comes down to the finest application. It is no less arbitrary, in theory, than a person being a “minor” when they are 17 years, 364 days old, and an “adult” the following day. What difference does a day make? It is no less arbitrary than receiving a speeding ticket for traveling 61, when 60 would have been lawful. The one mile per hour is insignificant. However, society has to draw the line somewhere and apply the law rigidly, or all law becomes a meaningless relativistic exercise. Thus, we have decided that we will draw the line at marijuana. Perhaps alcohol is equally dangerous, but it is a historic part of society in ways that marijuana has never been, so it remains legal. Like adulthood, or speed laws, or a million other examples, marijuana is and probably ought to remain in my opinion the bright line on drug use.


28 posted on 07/29/2008 9:08:00 PM PDT by americanophile
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To: me_a_republican

29 posted on 07/29/2008 9:09:10 PM PDT by Charlespg (Peace= When we trod the ruins of Mecca and Medina under our infidel boots.)
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To: RockinRight

Dope.

(just kidding)


30 posted on 07/29/2008 9:13:55 PM PDT by darkangel82 (If you're not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. (Say no to RINOs))
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To: nmh
What are the odds of this me_a_republican character is an B.Hussein O. operative floating a balloon to conservatives on legalizing pot? I could be a new issue that obama could campaign on and could identify with.
31 posted on 07/29/2008 9:14:40 PM PDT by BreezyDog
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To: me_a_republican

Your opinion is obvious. I was told long ago that if we had known as much about alcohol as we do today, probation would have never been done away with. I hate to bust your bubble but there are meny health reasons not to use the drug. The main one for me is that the person smoking this crap always gets blasted,(drunk on his ass) there is no part way. I would look for alcohol to be outlawed before pot is lawful.


32 posted on 07/29/2008 9:16:27 PM PDT by Peacekeeper357 (God provided food for every bird but he didn't put it in their nest.)
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To: me_a_republican

Your opinion is obvious. I was told long ago that if we had known as much about alcohol as we do today, probation would have never been done away with. I hate to bust your bubble but there are meny health reasons not to use the drug. The main one for me is that the person smoking this crap always gets blasted,(drunk on his ass) there is no part way. I would look for alcohol to be outlawed before pot is lawful.


33 posted on 07/29/2008 9:16:34 PM PDT by Peacekeeper357 (God provided food for every bird but he didn't put it in their nest.)
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To: me_a_republican

Making pot “legal” wouldn’t do a damn thing except make more laws against using it. So you think “legal” pot would be OK? “Now that weed is legal, I can get high anywhere!” Wrong. You would be arrested for public intoxication just like booze. “I can grow my own and sell it and make thousands!”. Wrong! Government regulations and TAXES!!! “I can take weed anywhere and light up!” Wrong! Smoking weed in a public place won’t be tolerated. Second hand TH and high would be considered an infringement on others rights not to smoke weed. If public places ban tobacco smoking...don’t you think they would ban pot too?? Smoking pot while driving? Don’t make me laugh!


34 posted on 07/29/2008 9:17:24 PM PDT by Coffee200am ("We should all be living in mud huts and riding bicycles to avoid killing the polar bears..."/s)
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To: When do we get liberated?
Nobody would grow it if it was available at the store to over 21 people

I'm am in favor of drug legalization.why stomp all over the bill of rights for an activity thats practiced by less then 2%of the US population

Let the free market and darwin take care of the rest
That said this guy is trolling

35 posted on 07/29/2008 9:18:01 PM PDT by Charlespg (Peace= When we trod the ruins of Mecca and Medina under our infidel boots.)
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To: Peacekeeper357

We should ban peanuts.

They kill lots of people, many of them children.

think of the children.


36 posted on 07/29/2008 9:18:17 PM PDT by Redcoat1982 (A fast shutter speed of 1/2000 sec ensured that the bounding basset hound was frozen in the frame)
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To: BreezyDog
could be a new issue that obama could campaign on and could identify with.

I thought he was into blow...

37 posted on 07/29/2008 9:18:28 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
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To: Peacekeeper357
Your opinion is obvious. I was told long ago that if we had known as much about alcohol as we do today, probation would have never been done away with. I hate to bust your bubble but there are meny health reasons not to use the drug. The main one for me is that the person smoking this crap always gets blasted,(drunk on his ass) there is no part way. I would look for alcohol to be outlawed before pot is lawful.

How many drinks have you had tonight?

38 posted on 07/29/2008 9:19:56 PM PDT by BreezyDog
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To: Smokin' Joe
I thought he was into blow...

smoke and blow... but he did not inject the H

39 posted on 07/29/2008 9:23:35 PM PDT by BreezyDog
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To: traviskicks

bump


40 posted on 07/29/2008 9:23:38 PM PDT by bamahead (Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
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