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Pot Smokers Comprise 75% Of Illicit Drug Users, Federal Study Says
NORML News ^ | September 9, 2004 | NORML

Posted on 09/10/2004 8:05:17 AM PDT by cryptical

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To: sweet_taters
Note that nowhere in the bible does Jesus smoke pot.

Note that nowhere in the bible does Jesus fry an egg, or empty His bladder. What's your point?

61 posted on 09/10/2004 10:40:51 AM PDT by Know your rights (The modern enlightened liberal doesn't care what you believe as long as you don't really believe it.)
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To: dmz
L2L saw that documentary, Reefer Madness.
62 posted on 09/10/2004 10:42:55 AM PDT by Know your rights (The modern enlightened liberal doesn't care what you believe as long as you don't really believe it.)
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To: Lurking2Long
[Pot smokers] are also the same brain dead individuals who then get the munchies and get in their car to go to 7-11

Many drinkers drive; is that a good argument for banning alcohol? (I say no.)

63 posted on 09/10/2004 10:45:23 AM PDT by Know your rights (The modern enlightened liberal doesn't care what you believe as long as you don't really believe it.)
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To: Lurking2Long
I think the original poster sounds like someone who believes in the radical notion of a smaller, less intrusive government.

Then he/she should drop the stupid "legalize drugs" plank from their platform

Why? Legalizing drugs would yield a less intrusive government.

64 posted on 09/10/2004 10:49:24 AM PDT by Know your rights (The modern enlightened liberal doesn't care what you believe as long as you don't really believe it.)
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To: sweet_taters
Pot is the drug of choice for the counter-culture. They use it as a recruiting tool.

I know many people who've regularly smoked pot but not joined the counterculture. And I think a large part of what makes pot countercultural is its illegality; legal drugs like alcohol aren't countercultural.

65 posted on 09/10/2004 10:53:38 AM PDT by Know your rights (The modern enlightened liberal doesn't care what you believe as long as you don't really believe it.)
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To: Know your rights
Why, yes it is!

Live life STRAIGHT!

66 posted on 09/10/2004 10:53:52 AM PDT by Lurking2Long
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To: Lurking2Long
Many drinkers drive; is that a good argument for banning alcohol?

Why, yes it is!

Banning alcohol was tried; we learned that the cure was worse than the disease. May we soon realize that the same is true about drug laws.

67 posted on 09/10/2004 10:55:56 AM PDT by Know your rights (The modern enlightened liberal doesn't care what you believe as long as you don't really believe it.)
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To: Know your rights
Why? Legalizing drugs would yield a less intrusive government.

Incredibly bad logic...it would just create yet ANOTHER LAW!!!

(There, I've run rings around your logic...)

68 posted on 09/10/2004 10:56:48 AM PDT by Lurking2Long
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To: Know your rights
we learned that the cure was worse than the disease

Untrue...that generation lost their resolve...

69 posted on 09/10/2004 10:58:20 AM PDT by Lurking2Long
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To: emmitt

No, they could never to that. It makes too much sense.


70 posted on 09/10/2004 11:00:46 AM PDT by muggs (Political Correctness and Pandering For Votes Is Going to Get Americans Killed!)
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To: Lurking2Long
Legalizing drugs would yield a less intrusive government.

Incredibly bad logic...it would just create yet ANOTHER LAW!!!

No, it would at most replace one law with another less restrictive law.

71 posted on 09/10/2004 11:00:48 AM PDT by Know your rights (The modern enlightened liberal doesn't care what you believe as long as you don't really believe it.)
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To: A CA Guy
What conservative would ever be interested in using illegal drugs anyway?

You've obviously never partied with College Republicans.

72 posted on 09/10/2004 11:01:08 AM PDT by Modernman (Hippies.They're everywhere. They wanna save the earth, but all they do is smoke pot and smell bad.)
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To: Modernman

Sure, children would be stupid still, I agree with that.


73 posted on 09/10/2004 11:02:50 AM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Lurking2Long
[During Prohibition] we learned that the cure was worse than the disease

Untrue...that generation lost their resolve...

Right, they should have ignored the enrichment of criminals and decreased respect for laws in general. Who cares about that?

74 posted on 09/10/2004 11:04:14 AM PDT by Know your rights (The modern enlightened liberal doesn't care what you believe as long as you don't really believe it.)
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To: sweet_taters
If you legalize it, you might as well just give this country over to the liberals, communists and homosexuals.

Not only that, but it makes white women sleep with black jazz musicians.

75 posted on 09/10/2004 11:05:02 AM PDT by Modernman (Hippies.They're everywhere. They wanna save the earth, but all they do is smoke pot and smell bad.)
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To: Know your rights
No, it would at most replace one law with another less restrictive law.

Wrong again!

Here's what would happen...

Less social pressure against drug use would lead to more drug users which would lead to more injuries and deaths from drug abuse which would lead to more court cases which would lead to increasing pressure from victim's rights group on politicians to create more and stricter laws to deal with the mounting deaths and injuries...

(There, I've run rings around your logic yet AGAIN)!

76 posted on 09/10/2004 11:10:17 AM PDT by Lurking2Long
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To: sweet_taters
Jesus threw the money changers from the temple. So yes, my guess is that he would have been anti-corporate.

So I guess my mutual funds are an affront to God?

Do you only engage in activities that Jesus specifically engaged in himself? Nowhere in the Bible did Jesus get vaccinated, so I guess that's a sin, too.

77 posted on 09/10/2004 11:11:18 AM PDT by Modernman (Hippies.They're everywhere. They wanna save the earth, but all they do is smoke pot and smell bad.)
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To: Lurking2Long
Less social pressure against drug use would lead to more drug users

Perhaps.

which would lead to more injuries and deaths from drug abuse

Utterly unclear. Many drug-related deaths stem from their illegality; for example, legalized drugs could be regulated for purity, lessening contaminant-caused deaths.

78 posted on 09/10/2004 11:13:21 AM PDT by Know your rights (The modern enlightened liberal doesn't care what you believe as long as you don't really believe it.)
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To: Lurking2Long
Untrue...that generation lost their resolve

No. They realized that the benefits of Prohibition (a decrease in alcohol use) were greatly outweighed by the negatives (the rise of organized crime, violent turf battles between moonshiners and the corruption of police forces, to just name a few).

Are you saying that the status quo on alcohol is worse than what went on in the 1920's?

79 posted on 09/10/2004 11:16:51 AM PDT by Modernman (Hippies.They're everywhere. They wanna save the earth, but all they do is smoke pot and smell bad.)
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To: Know your rights
The only other true thing I can say is that you are TRULY beyond help...

(Know Your Rights, Lose the Bonds of Earthly Logic and Fly FREE!!!)

80 posted on 09/10/2004 11:18:39 AM PDT by Lurking2Long
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