Posted on 02/17/2006 7:09:46 PM PST by Know your rights
bump.. securing popcorn and beer for this one ;)
Same reason that punishments for other crimes are dispensed by judges and not parents. Unless one is a Kennedy.
Judges should punish real crimes with actual victims, like Mary Jo Kopechne. Victimless youth "crimes" should be punished at parents' discretion.
Then your argument is that laws should be changed, not which authorities are charged with punishing whom.
Every stoner east of the Mississippi will flock to Mass, increasing the IQ of both places.
The arguments made here are worthy, but this is MA after all. I suggest a rewriting of the state constitution and reducing it to one phrase consisting of two words---Anything goes.
Having done that, they can then dismiss their judges, lawyers, law enforcement people, prison guards, etc.
Only think of all the money saved on trials, prisons, police and such. Teddy and company would be comfortable ad any dissenters can join us redstaters.
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The two are not mutually exclusive.
Anything that violates nobody else's rights goes.
any dissenters can join us redstaters.
That's federalism as established by our Founding Fathers. I'm all for it ... are you?
Except those in states like Ohio, which also don't treat marijuana possession as a serious crime.
In PA, possession of marijuana in the amount of 30 grams or less is a misdeameanor and considered a low-grade crime like getting a speeding ticket. Has been for about 20 years.
But that hasn't stopped the college kids from overdosing on alcohol and dying. We get a few of those a year.
Which can't happen with marijuana.
We get a few of those a year.
Alcohol is the real gateway drug.
No one has ever been recorded as dying from the physiological effects of marijuana.
The Journal of the American Medical Association, Jan. 19, 2005, Vol. 293, No. 3, p. 298, reported on the leading causes of death in the United States:
Tobacco (435,000 deaths; 18.1% of total US deaths)
Poor diet and physical inactivity (400,000 deaths; 16.6%)
Alcohol consumption (85,000 deaths; 3.5%)
Presumably that's next on the "strong government conservatives'" hit list.
They are already gearing up to attack food. Physical inactivity has been condemmed since JFK was president, but not real strongly...yet!
Our keepers think they know what is best for us. Eating certain foods that they do not want you to eat will become a crime. Not exercising will become a crime.
I have no desire to live in such a world.
How can alcohol be blamed for 100,000 deaths each year?
5% of all deaths from diseases of the circulatory system are attributed to alcohol.
15% of all deaths from diseases of the respiratory system are attributed to alcohol.
30% of all deaths from accidents caused by fire and flames are attributed to alcohol.
30% of all accidental drownings are attributed to alcohol.
30% of all suicides are attributed to alcohol.
40% of all deaths due to accidental falls are attributed to alcohol.
45% of all deaths in automobile accidents are attributed to alcohol.
60% of all homicides are attributed to alcohol.
(Sources: NIDA Report, the Scientific American and Addiction Research Foundation of Ontario.) Also see Alcohol Consumption and Mortality, Alcohol poisoning deaths, CDC report,
100,000 deaths. That's more than a statistic. That is 100,000 individuals with faces. 100,000 individuals with lives not fully lived. 100,000 individuals grieved by mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, and children. Every year.
Despite the fact that I am a proud pot smoker, I think it's very reasonable for the state to set age limits for those of us who use marijuana responsibly. A minimum age of 21 sounds good to me re: marijuana.
It should be the same as the age to drink, IMHO.
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