Posted on 03/04/2005 4:15:11 PM PST by Clive
For one, do a little research on the difference between subtances in hailed and those swallowed.
http://web.cocc.edu/lisal/health/drug_consumption.htm#Inhalation
Hmmm. Seems we had the same problem during Prohibition. Then we legalized alcohol, and the gangs' power over the industry evaporated. Funny thing about those black markets when they are no longer black markets.
I know there are scientific differences. This is not what I was referring to. How are the effects of pot any different to both the individual and to the greater society?
Alcohol has far worse consequences for both.
If people hadn't demanded alcohol during Prohibition, organized crime wouldn't have reaped high profits. If frogs had wings, they wouldn't drag their butts on the ground. What's your point?
The point is, blame the losers that can't control their addictions.
There is no problem with alcohol unless it is abused at the criminal level.
Pot with smoking goes straight to the brain and if you followed other posts over the last couple of days here, use is connected to eventual brain disorders like schizophrenia.
Bottom line, it's a dangerous thing to even think about getting started with and if you fear alcohol as you seem to, then you know there is much wisdom in never adding to societies problems by advocation marijuana usage as the next bad available thing, right?
How is this difference relevant to their legal statuses, or to whether their users are "irresponsible losers"?
Look at how mrleroy aka know your rights is obsessed on drugs. Why would anyone want access to this stuff easier when that's what it does to people?
Whereas alcohol takes a few minutes longer. So what?
if you followed other posts over the last couple of days here, use is connected to eventual brain disorders like schizophrenia.
As I posted there, alcohol is even more strongly connected to schizophrenia.
never adding to societies problems by advocation marijuana usage
Why not subtract from society's problems by banning alcohol? Because we learned that the "cure" of criminalization was worse than the disease.
Blame drinkers for Al Capone, blame stoners for grow-ops ... what does your blame game accomplish for us? History has clearly shown that government can't eliminate those you blame, and its attempts only put inflated profits in criminal hands.
No amount of evidence with be enough for those that want what they want, or are addicted to what they now need.
Drinking during prohibition was different and you know it. People were already used to legal drinks. Nobody alive to day is used to have legal access to illegal drugs, except perhaps X for awhile in the 80's and some other new ones like Salvia.
Follow the law, it's not that hard. It's good for you too.
My guess, there is a connection to the sub-culture of drugs along with the libertarian cult.
I figure their presence here is mostly because they get no hits at their sites and though conservatives at FR either laugh at them or ignore them, at least they haven't booted them off the site and that is exciting for them.
Come on, what conservative has a drug lust, a desire to legalize crap?
They are NOT conservative by any stretch of the imagination.
I wonder how many are actually DU people. I do suspect some are that post on these drug threads advocating pot and other stuff.
Drugs are certainly an arena where libertarians and leftwingers shake hands on and agree. It's gotta be something to do with the mental damage the drugs are causing them.. Both their ideologies in general and especially on the drug topic.
With the Greens and LP parties joining up recently to fight Bush, I suspect this trend is kicking into high gear. Sometimes I find very little difference between extremist DU types and anarchist libertarians.
What is the relevance of your evidence?
"They are DEAD because of marijuana prohibition."
They are DEAD because some criminals shot them. QED
Again, you are talking about the rare criminal use of it instead of the typical use.
Alcohol is a food purifier going back to the Bible, can thin the blood helping many ailments if not used to criminal amounts.
Pot goes right to the brain, has lots of associations with the criminal side of the culture and is not something a responsible conservative advocates or pushes on others as good.
Many people are used to finding marijuana easily.
And even if your statement is true, what is its relevance? Drug criminalization is failing in all the ways that Prohibition failed, regardless of the differences you allege.
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