Posted on 11/27/2005 7:24:36 PM PST by Stoat
That was not my argument.
All secretions of the body are now property of the state.
You will be forced to turn over your secretions and to pay
for purity testing of your secretions. Failure to do so will
warrant termination of citizenship and forced servitude to
all others of purity ad infinitum. Welcome to your world.
I have some puke here for waiting for you to examine.
most of the violence in just about any drug use comes from the user not being able to get more, seller warfare, or in avoiding arrest. all could be mostly cured by legalisation. usage on most drugs would go down due to more frequent OD deaths or people that no longer bother because it has lost its attraction as a rebellious act.
legalise and tax, then transfer DEA to border control.
Didn't you leave out the part where you get to execute any intoxicated person that comes near you? Or have you altered your criteria somewhat?
Come wet sand a while.
What a false dichotomy you set up there.
There are an array of beliefs and worldviews that you left out, but you are far more concerned with demonizing your opposition than being truthful or considered in your arguments.
Bingo. Does anyone remember their science education at all? Remember the concept of controls. Now, in this doctor's observations of the effects of marijuana on behavior, tell me exactly what is and is not controlled?
Sorry, but horseshit dressed up as science is still horseshit.
Dashwood is an abomination unto Free Republic.
Okay, cite some examples. What other world view is there besides the two I mentioned? And please note that I am not coming from a narrow sectarian viewpoint.
Either a person recognizes that there exist eternal, universal absolute truths, or he rejects them. What third alternative is there? It's like day or night. There is no third alternative. Of course, there's dawn and dusk, so similarly some people try to straddle the two world views. But that's like sitting on a fence - neither comfortable nor secure.
By "demonize" what exactly do you mean? That I said something you don't agree with?
My head says yes, but my heart says no. Maybe pot, but I have visions of needle park in Zurich tatooed on my inner eyelids. I can't think that any rational person would advocate more of that as a good thing.
However, to say "this is wrong" is not the same as saying "this should be illegal." If you want to know why, I have a few biblical and secular examples for you.
To say that we live in a universe of moral absolutes is not the same as saying that those moral absolutes should be enshrined in civil law. As a matter of fact, if you are a Christian, I would think you would argue that the civil law should NOT be coterminous to the moral law, simply because of the ultimate rebellion against all law this would provoke.
The question is not "is it wrong" but "should it be illegal" and the two are vastly different questions.
Or do the friendly and "let's talk about this to see if we can understand each other" tone of your posts have some other happy source that I missed somewhere?
You would know.
I didn't see the Ku Klux Kennedy fortune diminish either
Red herring ... I never said it did, only that retaining Prohibition would have continued the easy cash flow that they otherwise had to work harder for. Do you really think de-"legitimizing" the Kennedys would have been a good enough reason to retain Prohibition?
Legalizing use only in a small public area was about the dumbest way to legalize; I'd advocate a different approach.
I agree that there are. One of them is that the only proper function of government is to defend individual liberties.
That'd be a saner criterion than anything that's been offered in support of the alcohol-yes-marijuana-no status quo.
Same rule for the deadly, addictive, violence-inducing drug alcohol? If not, why not?
"source that I missed somewhere?"
http://www.controverscial.com/Sir%20Francis%20Dashwood.htm
So many adverse effects...so little time.
http://www.nida.nih.gov/Infofacts/marijuana.html
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