Posted on 08/28/2006 7:29:35 AM PDT by tang0r
It turns out that alcohol is legal for the simplest, most nostalgic, and most American reason of all. Despite its risks and harmful side-effects, adults are reserved right to drink because they are independent adults in a free country. For all of the empty rhetoric about economics and black markets, the end of Prohibition was due to a single principle: even if drinking may be bad for society, government has no right to keep the people from doing it. The ability to get drunk is an inalienable right that we have forever confirmed with the 18th Amendment.
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All drugs, including cocaine, should be legalized to those older than 18... the price would plummet, crime would fall...how often have you read of a murder or robbery for a pack of cigarettes or a sixpack of beer? Yes, it does happen but VERY infrequently...let people ruin their own lives if they want...if young people want to do drugs, tax it and when they die early, it takes away some of the financial liabilities that the pols have laid on the rest of us.
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So let me get this straight - there's a push to ban smoking cigarettes, but allow smoking pot???? Makes a whole lot of sense doesn't it? And they want to ban high-sugar sweets, but allow it to be cooked into brownies? :-)
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ROTFL, sorry it's so funny when I read posts of profound ignorance.
AH. isn't there a religion based upon that philosophy? Anyway, nice place to be if you can get there.
Let me help you out anyway. Alcohol is a poison. Drink enough and you die. You can never overdose on MJ. It's relatively harmless and benign compared to caffeine, nicotine, and alcohol, especially when you stack up the deaths caused by each substance. MJ has killed a whopping zero people since the beginning of time.
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No one should be in jail for possession of a plant. Period.
Hahahaha you keep going? No one believes that lie anymore. Give it a rest.
I know a number of people at a bereavement support group who would be horrified at that suggestion. They lost offspring to drug overdoses, generally cocaine or heroin. Interestingly, I do not believe that any of them were marijuana overdoses...
His list is a bunch of BS propaganda, nothing more.
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| I remember my grandma saying that wearing makeup was a gateway to permissiveness. She also said something similar about wearing nylons. :-) I don't know if you know who Eddie Izzard is, but grandma might have been right. :-)
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Does that mean that since prostitution is legal in Las Vegas, you'll be more inclined to have sex with a prostitute if you visit there? Is legality your moral code?
Of course you don't know anyone that OD'ed on MJ since it's physically impossible.
Why hasn't the government banned poison ivy? It is also a plant, causes harm and has fewer benefits than marijuana/hemp.
Comedy reefer madness propaganda ping sprinkled throughout thread
"Try getting a job in construction with a positive test for marijuana."
Illegals do every day.
I have lost a couple of relatives to drugs - each was educated and upper middle class - each made choices...we are made with free will - we live and/or die with that...
Mexican drug cartels don't want legal drugs. They would lose their monopoly.
Legalize pot! Imagine all the jobs in Doritos factories that would be created.
No, as a matter of fact; I don't have any friends.
Prostitution is illegal in Clark County (where Las Vegas is) and Washoe County (where Reno is) and it is legal in the more rural counties of Nevada.
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