No offense paulsen, but, you sure don't sound happy.
Sound kind of paranoid, not that it's a bad thing but...
"Like other crimes, it won't go away -- the best we can do is to minimize it."
Yea.
To places *like* Las Vegas, for example? ;^)
>These neighbors don't give a damn what anyone thinks of them"
"Of course they don't. They're a bunch of selfish, self-centered, immature, immoral hedonists. This is all about them and to hell with everyone else."
Perhaps they are, but my friend they *vote*.
The homosexuals have figured it out so in the state I live today we're voting on whether or not the state's Constitution be altered to define "marriage" as between a man & a woman.
Follow?
Lemme tell you something I've learned first hand on the matter of gay marriage et al in the past several months since it was announced the issue would be on the ballot.
I cannot BELIEVE the numbers of self professed "Christian" peoples I've personally spoken with who're all for gay marriage, for a variety of reason(s) & to hell with what the Bible says.
Makes me feel *quite out-of-touch* paulsen, so if the drug issue ever comes up I'll know just how you feel.
The pro-WOD crowd had better damned well *pray* the Liberal-Socialists don't realize the huge numbers of those who enjoy some type of recreational drug -- 99% favoring smoke -- who virtually ALL work in every type of job and/or profession, imaginable -- besides nicotine & alcohol have to be 1,000,000 times the number of the Gay's & their lobby.
So help me God the Republicans may never see anything more important than Dog Catcher if the Libs figure this out.
I dare say before that'd ever be allowed to happen we might all see the Republican Party going anti-WOD just as Las Vegas/NV would, if conditions were right.
That's my gut on this issue.
People who "use" but otherwise lead what appear to be normal lives, have families, pay taxes, contribute to their community as any other socially "normal" person and are NOT "criminal" for anything except their habit are SICK to DEATH of a society making a "criminal" out of them.
Understand?
The referendums for decriminalization -- one in CO & the other slips my mind -- are going to be mighty interesting.
Those two contests will -- for the most part -- settle the issue, because if they pass or fail they'll set a precedent.
A precedent that'll touch us all.
...soon. ;^)
I'm not. I said if it stays at 5%, I'm happy.
The percentage has been creeping up because of cities like Las Vegas sending the message that marijuana isn't so bad after all.
"The pro-WOD crowd had better damned well *pray* the Liberal-Socialists don't realize the huge numbers of those who enjoy some type of recreational drug -- 99% favoring smoke -- "
Of those who use some type of recreational drug, 99% favor marijuana? Where do you get your statistics -- you simply pull them out of some orifice?
Let's see. We have 120 million people who have consumed alcohol in the last 30 days. 20 million who have used any other recreational drug, which includes 14 million who used marijuana.
That's a total of 140 million "recreational drug users" of which 14 million are smokers. Looks more like 10% than 99%, huh?
Quit wasting my time with your phony statistics.
"The referendums for decriminalization."
Mob rule. Do you favor a pure democracy like that over a representative republic?
I'm happy again.
The South Dakota medical marijuana initiative is losing by 52% to 48% with more than two-thirds of the votes counted. The Nevada "tax and regulate" initiative is losing by 56% to 44%. The Colorado legalization initiative is losing by 61% to 39% with 47% of the vote counted.
Since, by your own words, this sets a precedent, I hope this ends your propaganda campaign.