You're conflating the two terms, when they're not even close to the same thing.
Posted on 01/06/2014 10:46:26 AM PST by Laissez-faire capitalist
OK, then. Why do you think marijuana should be criminalized? Where do you draw the line, and why?
I said make them all illegal, and keep the currently illegal ones illegal.
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Excellent points, and I would add this will all change when some knuckleheads start selling adulterated weed. Somebody is going to be sitting on several kilos of useless “Missouri Mild,” and will try to pass it off as “Colombian Gold” by spraying it with Raid roach killer. As the ERs start to fill, everybody’s going to demand FDA involvement.
Add that with “positive right “ progressives and you have a bread and circuses mob of Roman debauchery ..the lowest whims of the human nature will be served by the state..
Why hasn’t that happend over the last 40 years?
I didn’t realize your real name is Harry Anslinger, wow!
Ask the nurse in whatever mental institution you reside to tighten your jacket the next time she brings your meds.
Why what hasn’t happened? Adulterated drugs? Happens quite frequently.
Busybodies got to stay busy.
That’s why I say make them all illegal, cigs, pot, alcohol.
Then the busybodies can be happy that they have saved society, and people can make their own decisions about using the various substances, while aware of the possible price for doing so.
And the busybodies are right about one thing. There would be slightly less use if they were all illegal.
Besides moonshine is pretty awesome when done right.
I know you know. We’re having an instructive conversation for others. ;-)
So that politically well connected people can get the permits to do the selling, so that politicians have another way to reward their supporters. When a state government hands out permits there it is rarely on a first come, first served basis. For example, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health will pick the groups that get to enter and profit from the new medical marijuana market in Massachusetts.
"Former congressman Bill Delahunt looks to open three medical marijuana centers"
"Toward that end, Delahunt says his goal was to assemble a team with strong regulatory and law enforcement ties. He says those involved in his group include retired state police lieutenant Joe Flaherty, former state first deputy treasurer Grace Lee, Gosnold on Cape Cod president Ray Tamasi (Gosnold is an addition [sic] treatment center), and former Barnstable County Commissioner Mary LeClair."
Good grief! You have absolutely no clue what libertarian means, do you?
Here. Read. Educate yourself.
So many Americans are willingly being robbed of all things.
It's about tax revenue and creating yet another constituency of mind numbed idiots.
Strong temptation that the power over peoples money types (Marxists) cannot resist, they create from every whim an excuse to enslave.
The people blow in the wind and elect people by the whim of the day. The Left creates it and the right falls into temptation.
The tree of freedom will have to be watered.
“Those that fight by the sword shall die by the sword, those who submit to captivity, off to captivity they will go”
I can not accept captivity.
I know what matters the absolute most, they cannot take it.
GeronL has liberaltarians nailed. You think some 19th century French liberal is the epitome of libertarianism?
Google Ron Paul. Gary Johnson. Bill Buckley. See pro-dope agendas, pro-porn, pro-abortion, open borders, pro-queer sex agendas and more.
This. This is what modern libertarianism is all about. And legal marijuana stoners in Colorado are having their field day.
As well as some liberals here at FR.
See my tagline.
Yep. They’ve been arguing for decades to “legalize it and tax it.”
I'm coming to the point where the old labels aren't going to mean much. A big part of the problem these people have is that they just want to free-range their kids and turn every inch of the country into Nerf World, where all of the sharp edges are rounded over and they don't have to do any hands-on parenting. They don't care how much of our money and liberty it costs us. They just want to be lazy parents.
You're conflating the two terms, when they're not even close to the same thing.
What you are suggesting is pure nanny state bureaucracy.
Substitute alcohol, a far more dangerous drug, for marijuana in your proposal & see how irrational it sounds.
Note that pharmaceutical drugs are handled the way you suggest, but has not stopped millions of kids from raiding the medicine cabinet looking for a buzz.
Thirty + years ago, my neighbor died huffing Pam - spray cooking grease. My cousin nearly died from sniffing gasoline. Shall we strictly regulate the sale of every product that kids MIGHT use improperly?
Again, this is the irrationality of gun control, alcohol prohibition, & the drug war.
Only good parenting can possibly keep your kids from bad things.
I am surprised that such a big government proposal would come from someone calling themselves Laissez-faire capitalist.
As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation - Adolf Hitler
“Outlawing child prostitution is “big government” fascism in your book?”
Not at all. Its a reference to the ridiculous notion legalized drugs make kids hookers and government can prevent both. Fascism is a big word to put in my mouth. Learn that move from Obama or msnbc? Instead of intelligent debate you find it easier to put words in my mouth and twist things I have yet to say into a narrative of child hating, drug pushing, let illegals run wild kind of guy and that’s just sad on your part. My point to you sir is I have the will, faith, ability, concern, and passion to see my children past these issues and once past that danger maybe I’ll work on the hooker risks. I don’t need a tax for that. See what happens when you act like a democrat on wing and beer night.
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