Posted on 04/15/2006 2:21:22 PM PDT by Know your rights
SCOTTISH police officers have sparked anger after calling for the legalisation of all drugs - including heroin and cocaine.
The Strathclyde Police Federation has called for a dramatic change of direction in the battle on drugs crime, and the issue will be debated later this month.
The body, which represents 7000 officers, is set to argue that all drugs should be licensed in the same way as cigarettes and alcohol. Officers claim this would cut drug deaths and divert police resources to other crime-fighting priorities. It is the first time that an organisation representing officers has made such a demand.
Opponents today said the move would only increase the availability of drugs. But the federation believes millions of pounds are wasted on enforcing existing laws, with little impact on the availability of drugs on the street.
Inspector Jim Duffy, chairman of the federation, said: "We are not winning the war against drugs and we need to think about different ways to tackle it."
The Scottish Executive said that drug legislation is reserved to Westminster.
Look, the Second Amendment recognizes my God-given right to keep and bear arms. Find the Amendment that says you can smoke dope.
The 9th says all rights are not enumerated. -- The 14th says that our rights to life, liberty, or property cannot be deprived without due process. Prohibitions on 'smoking' our property deprive us of due process.
The "my right to property" argument as the sole reason for anything went down the tubes with the Civil War.
Weird reasoning, seeing that the 14th wasn't passed till after the war in 1868. -- Admit it, you haven't a clue on how to constitutionally justify prohibitions.
You'all should have looked to your dope, not your slaves, when you started the conflict. Too late now.
Give it up kid, - you're not making a bit of sense.
How is it you can imagine a few grams of plant material in a cigarette paper burning violently enough to set a person on fire, but cannot seem to grasp the potential consequences of having entire fields of it?
Frankly, if you want the courts, and the legislative bodies, and the various executives, of the United States to accept your reading of the Constitution, it's long overdue for you to get to work. At the moment none of them agree with you.
Hey, don't plant it. But if you do, be careful when you try to harvest it. Wouldn't smoke if I were you.
Who's going to harvest what you want the government to plant? Or do we just let it go wild and start spreading into populated areas? If you're going to have any substantial affect on the drug crop you'll have to plant it just about everywhere.
Seems to me that if the government announces that a couple of major beds have been "seeded" with this new variety, it puts all of the growers at risk.
Look, the Second Amendment recognizes my God-given right to keep and bear arms. Find the Amendment that says you can smoke dope.
The 9th says all rights are not enumerated. -- The 14th says that our rights to life, liberty, or property cannot be deprived without due process. Prohibitions on 'smoking' our property deprive us of due process.
The "my right to property" argument as the sole reason for anything went down the tubes with the Civil War.
Weird reasoning, seeing that the 14th wasn't passed till after the war in 1868. -- Admit it, you haven't a clue on how to constitutionally justify prohibitions.
You'all should have looked to your dope, not your slaves, when you started the conflict. Too late now.
Give it up kid, - you're not making a bit of sense.
It's pretty obvious you don't understand anything about the legal history of the United States.
No, what is "pretty obvious" is that you are a very confused person. -- Nothing in our exchange could possibly lead you to say that I "--don't understand anything about the legal history of the United States.--"
Frankly, if you want the courts, and the legislative bodies, and the various executives, of the United States to accept your reading of the Constitution,
Millions of people have been arguing the anti-prohibition position since the Constitution was ratified. -- Hell, we even won on prohibiting booze..
it's long overdue for you to get to work. At the moment none of them agree with you.
Dream on kiddo. As a prohibitionist you are blinded by your own agenda. -- Millions of people agree that our Constitution finds repugnant laws that ignore due process in either their writing or enforcing.
Earlier they didn't quite have that authority.
So, what is it you are talking about?
It is a simple matter to rotate backwards through a FreeRepublic thread to find out what else the Freeper had to say.
You don't have to use that "copy all of it over" nonsense that you find in the inferior threads carved out for the use of children.
The Constitution provides that the states may regulate alcohol as they wish.
The Constitution provides that the states may reasonably regulate alcohol as long as their laws comply with due process of law. [see the 14th]
Earlier they didn't quite have that authority. So, what is it you are talking about?
Good of you to admit you're confused. What specifically did I 'talk about' that you can't understand?
After posting to juvenile personalities at FR since early '98, I've found it wise to keep discussions in context.
It is a simple matter to rotate backwards through a FreeRepublic thread to find out what else the Freeper had to say.
Yes, it is. -- But some here try to divert discussions, when they find they can't debate the issue using logic.
You don't have to use that "copy all of it over" nonsense that you find in the inferior threads carved out for the use of children.
I find it useful when debating at certain lower levels.
I'm starting to think you and your ideas are a stone waste of time and money. If the plants with the enzyme are no more dangerous than the ones without, then we're going to spend a bunch of money on R&D, more to cultivate a seed crop, and them some more to plant it, and after all that not get anyone to set fire to themselves.
muawiyah: Do we?
You just said it would be done very shortly:
muawiyah: Very shortly you will find vast plantings of "switch grass" all over the nation. [post 171]
Do you even believe what you write?
Your refusal to accept the future, and change, is not a good sign.
No doubt something more subtle will be used ~ for instance, an enzyme that turns THC into chocolate when baked at 350 degrees.
It would appear you are not keeping up with the news.
Not often I get to see ignorance and arrogance at the same time...oh wait, you're a drug warrior!
Then it shouldn't be too hard to have coacoa that turns chocolate into THC. You're just full of good ideas!
Same old tired argument.
Either he does which makes him an idiot, or he doesn't which makes him a troll.
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