And Statistics ... (War On Drugs hysteria)

National Review Online ^ | 9/26/2010 | Andrew Stuttaford

[bassmaner]

Love Bill Bennett's morning show, but have to turn him off when he becomes as statist as any out-of-the-closet leftist when the issue of illegal drugs is raised.

[misterrob]

Just bet him that he is wrong.....

(snicker)

[bassmaner]

LOL!

[ansel12]

Love Bill Bennett's morning show, but have to turn him off when he becomes as statist as any out-of-the-closet leftist when the issue of illegal drugs is raised.

Leftists are all pro legalizing drugs, that is one of the left's fundamental principals, like outlawing abortion is to conservatives.

[Huck]

Nevermind that. Ask all of these “return to Constitutional limits” people where the Constitutional power can be found that authorized the Controlled Substance Act or the DEA. The best they can do is say the Commerce Clause,which puts them on all fours with FDR and the worst liberals we’ve ever had. So it goes.

[rickb308]

“Could it be because killing yourself with a marijuana overdose would require rather more energy than most stoners can manage? Food for thought,”

Hehe hehe hehe hehe. Stoned. Food. MUNCHIES! I’ve got dibs on the White Castles! LOL.

You could never get that stoned. You’d pass out first. Or forget where you put your stash.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

FReepers LOVE the big government Commerce Clause.

They help keep the left in power because without the New Deal Commerce Clause, you need a Prohibition Amendment.

FReepers love the War on Drugs more than they dislike Socialism.

Bennett is a tool of the Left.

I win the debate.

[misterrob]

And they are against tobacco, booze, gambling and other personal vice like stuff too that the Constitution says are illegal....

Or did no one here get that addendum?

[ansel12]

Right, before the leftist/libertarians made their massive gains in the 1960s and after, the American people were very conservative, and maintained control over their culture and vice laws.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

Leftists are all pro legalizing drugs

They are just waiting until they have enough power that they don't need your support of the nanny state and New Deal Commerce clause anymore. Then you'll have drugs and socialism - until the socialists need more workers to keep the machines running and don't need the doper vote to stay in power - then you'll have drug-free puritanical communism and no vote like the old Soviet Union.

[bassmaner]

Leftists are all pro legalizing drugs, that is one of the left's fundamental principals

The first national drug prohibition law was passed 1914 and signed into law by Woodrow Wilson.

The first national marijuana prohibition law was passed in 1937 and signed into law by FDR.

Che Guevara constantly railed against drugs and alcohol because they inhibited 'revolutionary fervor'.

Now what side's 'fundamental principles' are being violated by the re-legalization of certain drugs?

[DBrow]

“Leftists are all pro legalizing drugs, “

I’m not sure of this. The left in Congress vote in all the tough dope laws. Nobody runs on a pro-dope platform that I know of (except the fringe parties, Peace&Freedom, www.maybelogic.com/gunsanddopeparty/ )

[a fool in paradise]

Since the abuse of prescription drugs is included in this drug abuse statistic, are you against prescriptions being required for any substance?

If they were over the counter, insurance companies would cheer because they wouldn’t have to offer a “co-pay” anymore.

There are nations that have such policy.

[ansel12]

You really are not aware that it is the left that drives the pro dope position? That is your honest confession?

[ansel12]

I didn’t notice you denying that “Leftists are all pro legalizing drugs, that is one of the left’s fundamental principals”.

[Notary Sojac]

It's appropriate to ask whether the criminalization of drugs is an legitimate Constitutional function of the Federal government. In my opinion the answer to that is no.

The fact that some leftists may want to decriminalize drugs on a Federal level does not, repeat not, make the opposite position a Constitutional one.

[ansel12]

Since the drug trade is an international war against America involving dozens of nations, it would be pretty hard to deal with it on a purely state by state basis. Nebraska might like Afghan Opium and Cannabis products but them dealing directly with Afghanistan or for Colombian Cocaine supplies would sure complicate things.

[DBrow]

My limited look at voting records suggests that the lefties in congress frequently vote for anti-drug laws.

On the state level, the recent vote to ban salvia in Delaware was supported by dems and pubbies.

[ansel12]

You do not think that the left is the primary force behind pushing the pro drug agenda in America?

[DBrow]

I don’t know. Why do you think they are?