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What Are They Smoking
NRO ^ | 10/28/2003 | Deroy Murdock

Posted on 10/28/2003 8:58:48 AM PST by bassmaner

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1 posted on 10/28/2003 8:58:49 AM PST by bassmaner
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To: jmc813
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2 posted on 10/28/2003 8:59:11 AM PST by bassmaner (Let's take back the word "liberal" from the commies!!)
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To: bassmaner
NR bothers to throw a bone the libertarian's way, must be coming up on an election year. Somewhere between Mute to Supportive on the PATRIOT ACT, but they 'boldly' defend Tommy Chong knowing nothing will happen.



3 posted on 10/28/2003 9:01:06 AM PST by JohnGalt (Attention Pseudocons: Wilsonianrepublic.com is still available)
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To: bassmaner
Even as a Neo-Con I find this a bit over the top.
4 posted on 10/28/2003 9:02:55 AM PST by Mike Darancette (No Taxation Without Respiration - Repeal Death Taxes!)
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To: bassmaner
An honest, national debate on the war on drugs in general

That'll never happen, too much money involved on both sides.

It's like that old Bloom County comic strip where the cocaine smuggler's association gave Opus a big wad of cash to make sure that drugs stay illegal. Don't want to mess with the profit margins of the drug lords, or that of the law inforcement industry.

5 posted on 10/28/2003 9:04:43 AM PST by antiRepublicrat
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6 posted on 10/28/2003 9:07:30 AM PST by jmc813 (Michael Schiavo is a bigger scumbag than Bill Clinton)
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To: Dane
That leftist pro-drug National Review is at it again.
7 posted on 10/28/2003 9:08:05 AM PST by jmc813 (Michael Schiavo is a bigger scumbag than Bill Clinton)
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Even Drug Czar John Walters may see this issue slipping from his iron fist. While campaigning against I-75 on September 10, Seattle Weekly reported, Walters could have preached zero tolerance. Instead, he said, "The real issue is should we legalize marijuana." He added, "Let's have a debate about that." In a September 17 letter to Walters, Robert Kampia, executive director of the Marijuana Policy Project, wrote: "It's time to have that debate, so I am pleased to accept your invitation."

If that pu$$y Walters ever responds, I'll be shocked.

8 posted on 10/28/2003 9:09:00 AM PST by jmc813 (Michael Schiavo is a bigger scumbag than Bill Clinton)
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To: bassmaner
As the country's morals continue to slide into the cesspool, a few, select issues must be cultivated, so that we can feel "moral." So, as we legalize gay marriage, continue to abort 4000 babies a day, etc., etc., the crackdown on alcohol, tobacco, drugs, and "hate speech" will intensify.
9 posted on 10/28/2003 9:14:37 AM PST by Arthur McGowan
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That's bull. I just ordered a hookah. Are they gonna arrest me?
10 posted on 10/28/2003 9:19:27 AM PST by BrooklynGOP (www.logicandsanity.com)
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To: bassmaner
The war on marijuana was ridiculous from the very outset and has only gotten wackier as time goes by. Now, you can't even buy a hemp necklace legally because it may contain an infinitesimal amount of THC. Can't take any chances you know.
11 posted on 10/28/2003 9:21:45 AM PST by tdadams
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To: antiRepublicrat
...too much money involved...

The WOD is the enforcement mechanism of the cartels.

Bought and paid for many times over.

Mere citizens should know better than to mess with their 'thing'.

12 posted on 10/28/2003 9:23:29 AM PST by headsonpikes (Spirit of '76 bttt!)
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To: headsonpikes
NR has always been pro-drug legalization/de-criminalization. Are they going to arrest people who make beer bongs too?
13 posted on 10/28/2003 9:25:53 AM PST by Callahan
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To: tdadams
It's a shame. I like marijuana. I'd smoke it regularly if it were legal.
14 posted on 10/28/2003 9:30:13 AM PST by Huck
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To: Huck
I've never smoked it and have no intention to even if it was legal. And another thing, if I wanted to smoke it, the fact that it's illegal wouldn't stop me, just like it stops very few other people.
15 posted on 10/28/2003 9:33:07 AM PST by tdadams
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It's not the "fact that it's illegal" that stops me. It's the lack of access. I don't have any drug dealers in my rolodex. At some point, a sensible person will also have to weigh the copnsequences of getting busted against their responsibilities to their family. Risk getting busted with little mouths to feed? That's irresponsible.
16 posted on 10/28/2003 9:37:45 AM PST by Huck
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17 posted on 10/28/2003 9:40:24 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Mike Darancette
I also am a Neo-Con. But pipes are pipes, not drugs. I don't get this at all. There are some prosecutors and judges here who should be quickly, rudely and permanently de-frocked.

Chong should get out of jail.
18 posted on 10/28/2003 9:54:05 AM PST by samtheman
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To: bassmaner
Interesting view on Chong, Ashcroft and the WOD here:

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/09/20/1063625257195.html?from=storyrhs
19 posted on 10/28/2003 10:04:29 AM PST by Kiss Me Hardy
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Ping.
20 posted on 10/28/2003 10:14:21 AM PST by DaveCooper
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