Pot Smokers Comprise 75% Of Illicit Drug Users, Federal Study Says

NORML News ^ | September 9, 2004 | NORML

[Know your rights]

Taters dedrived the "anti-Christian" nature of drugs from their "anti-family" nature. Care to explain how marijuana is intrinsically more anti-family than alcohol?

[robertpaulsen]

Did sweet_taters use the word "intrinsically"? The only people I've seen use that word are of the weasel type when they wish to avoid reality. Ah, the Libertarian fantasy world.

Are you accurately portraying his statement when you ask how marijuana is intrinsically more anti-family than alcohol?

Or, did sweet_taters simply say "drugs are anti-family"?

Nasty habit of yours -- twisting the poster's words.

OK. You've pushed this thread to the >500 mark. Report to Soros that your job is complete and have him send your check. No need to drag this on any further with your stupid, irrelevant, off-topic, misrepresentative ramblings.

[tacticalogic]

Taters dedrived the "anti-Christian" nature of drugs from their "anti-family" nature.

He also declared that no conservative, Republican Christian would question the gateway theory. Somehow he managed to miss the fact that Raymond Shafer, who quite fits that description, and the Shafer Comission did exactly that.

[Know your rights]

Did sweet_taters use the word "intrinsically"?

He couldn't have meant by "drugs are anti-family" only that their use can get you arrested to the detriment of your family, because he offered that claim as a counterargument not to drug use but to an "open policy on drug use" (i.e. legalization).

The only people I've seen use that word are of the weasel type when they wish to avoid reality.

I never denied the reality that illegal drugs can get you arrested.

Are you accurately portraying his statement when you ask how marijuana is intrinsically more anti-family than alcohol?

It was not my intent to portray his statement at all. Is your foolish question an attempt to weasel out of answering mine?

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Somehow he managed to miss the fact

I can't think of a fact he hasn't missed.

[Know your rights]

Sorry, should have copied you on post 504.

[mugs99]

Listen, moron. Just because you found one wacko group of hippies pretending to be Christian does not prove anything. Drugs tear families apart. Do I need to show you a website about it, or can you take that fact on faith?

Moron I may be, but a dupe I'm not. I don't take anything on faith. Unless you can walk on water and raise the dead, your word has no more credibility than any other skid row wino.

If drugs tore a family apart, I don't think it was much of a family to begin with. Nothing can tear a good family apart!

Your method of scapegoating others can easily be used to scapegoat Christians, who are the majority of prison inmates.
Reference:
Denise Golumbaski
Research Analyst
Federal Bureau of Prisons

Catholic.............39.164%
Protestant...........35.008%
Rasta.................1.987%
Jewish................1.773%
Church of Christ......1.744%
Pentecostal...........1.463%
Jehovah Witness.......0.890%
Adventist.............0.831%
Orthodox..............0.502%
Mormon................0.399%
Atheist...............0.210%

Deist and Pagan did not even make the list.
Looking at the above, it's obvious that we can decrease the number of criminals in America by decreasing the number of Christians.

Outrages use of statistics? Of course it is...The same way you scapegoat hippies and druggies.

Be careful, your alienation of others may come back to haunt you. If you doubt that, remember the halocaust. It was the Jews last time, but could just as easily be Christians next time.

[robertpaulsen]

"Is your foolish question an attempt to weasel out of answering mine?"

You took a general statement and twisted it into a drug-specific, hypothetical comparison to alcohol. Of course I won't answer it. I told you I'm tired of your trying to compare marijuana to alcohol -- I'm certainly not going to encourage it.

Drugs are anti-family. Argue that, if you wish, since it is you who wish all drugs to be legal and freely available at the 7-11.

[Know your rights]

I'm tired of your trying to compare marijuana to alcohol

Of course you are, as it exposes your insincerity in the "principles" you put forth in support of drug criminalization.

Drugs are anti-family. Argue that, if you wish

Not until I know if you really believe that ... does it also apply to the drug alcohol?

it is you who wish all drugs to be legal and freely available at the 7-11.

When did I say that?

[Lord_Baltar]

"Dear Lord Snot:"

Wow, are we off our meds today?