What Are They Smoking

NRO ^ | 10/28/2003 | Deroy Murdock

[bassmaner]

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[JohnGalt]

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.

[Mike Darancette]

Even as a Neo-Con I find this a bit over the top.

[antiRepublicrat]

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.

[jmc813]

[jmc813]

That leftist pro-drug National Review is at it again.

[jmc813]

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.

[Arthur McGowan]

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.

[BrooklynGOP]

That's bull. I just ordered a hookah. Are they gonna arrest me?

[tdadams]

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.

[headsonpikes]

...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'.

[Callahan]

NR has always been pro-drug legalization/de-criminalization. Are they going to arrest people who make beer bongs too?

[Huck]

It's a shame. I like marijuana. I'd smoke it regularly if it were legal.

[tdadams]

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.

[Huck]

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.

[Lancey Howard]

[samtheman]

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.

[Kiss Me Hardy]

Interesting view on Chong, Ashcroft and the WOD here:

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/09/20/1063625257195.html?from=storyrhs

[DaveCooper]

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