You are more optimistic than I am.
I've heard your quote dozens of times over the decades. The Net is our hope to change all this.
Posted on 03/03/2006 5:46:33 AM PST by headsonpikes
Pot crusader Marc Emery says his appearance on the news program 60 Minutes on Sunday will be an opportunity for Americans to see him as just an ordinary guy who regards himself as the Luke Skywalker against their government's Darth Vader tactics.
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I love your posts. Real world expert fact instead of the copy and paste nonsense that always clutters up these threads.
You are more optimistic than I am.
I've heard your quote dozens of times over the decades. The Net is our hope to change all this.
On a lighter Freedom note, did you see this popular Turin Olympics pot cartoon?
Sounds like a fun plan. I don't care much for Harrelson, but Amazon.com make it appear that he has some salient points in this production.
"...I would probably meet a host of substance users of every stripe. Some of these people might even become long term associates."
That's probably a worse problem for the juveniles because most of them are sent off to a thirty day inpatient program for their first offense marijuana possession where they have time to make lots of new "friends." That's the way it was here until just recently at least. Whether the local treatment provider who also assesses what treatment the juveniles need recommends them for inpatient or outpatient treatment seems to depend on whether the provider have beds available for inpatient treatment. They try to milk all the government dollars they can get. I've seen their evaluation checklists and cross examined their counselors. They do not follow DSM-IV criterion for diagnosing addictions. They have their own which are about as vague and broad as they can get. It's getting better though because Medicaid, who pays for almost all this treatment, is finally catching on to these outfits and are now making it much more difficult for them to stick people into inpatient treatment that don't need it. Just recently these outfits have had to start providing outpatient treatment first and then inpatient treatment only if the people are caught with drugs again, admit further drug use, or fail drug tests. That should save the government a lot of money.
It could have been captioned, "and the winner is!"
I haven't seen it, but here's what RottenTomatoes says about the movie:
"http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1097829-grass/"
Sounds kinda intersesting.
But isn't the real point here that The Woodman is really nothing but a celebrity with an opinion? I don't think he exactly carries the philosophical weight of an Ayn Rand.
Harrelson's politics are a little too liberal for my tastes, but even a blind pig finds an acorn once in awhile. From an objective viewpoint, even Woody might've struck "gold" on this one.
Sounds like the California "medical marijuana" scam.
How have the tenets of California's medical marijuana movement been refuted by outcomes of their implementation? Are sick people using doctor-recommended marijuana and deriving no benefit?
I've enjoyed all of your posts on the Marc Emery thread. Be sure to tune in to 60 Minutes - We'll probably have some post interview discussing to do.
LOL!
Whether we read all about it or just a little, it's our choice. We still make up our minds. I don't like Harrelson, either, but truth is everywhere for you to sort it out. The more you read, the more you know.
Thanks for the reminder. Considering how this thread has run, the show could be a letdown. LOL!
Mr Emery is an Ayn Rand fan. Just thought you might like to know.:>
The scam was sold to the public as a means for a handful of seriously ill patients to have their "primary caregivers" grow small amounts for them. It's turned into dope dens calling themselves clinics selling designer dope for hundreds of dollars an ounce to 150,000+ potheads claiming to have symptoms like insomnia or a headache.
"All kinds of people today call themselves “libertarians,” especially something calling itself the New Right, which consists of hippies, except that they’re anarchists instead of collectivists. But of course, anarchists are collectivists. Capitalism is the one system that requires absolute objective law, yet they want to combine capitalism and anarchism. That is worse than anything the New Left has proposed. It’s a mockery of philosophy and ideology. They sling slogans and try to ride on two bandwagons. They want to be hippies, but don’t want to preach collectivism, because those jobs are already taken."--Ayn Rand
The NAMBLA rationalization.
"The aim of NAMBLA's small but determined membership was to attack social and legal proscriptions against sexual relations between adults and pubescent or teenage boys. NAMBLA's argument was and remains a libertarian one: age of consent laws are an unnecessary, punitive intervention by government into the lives of its citizens."
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