1. I haven't smoked pot since the first Bush administration. The crap just made me paranoid.
2. The first line: "News that Al Gore's 24-year-old son, Al Gore III, was busted for pot and assorted prescription pills has unleashed a torrent of mirth in certain quarters." means that Ms. Parker has been reading the right wing blogs and websites including FR and saw the thread that I am thinking of here. (these columnists don't live in a cave and I could do their job a lot better than they do if the damn pay wasn't so miserable)
3. You just have to love the logic of aging liberal hippie douchebags who think pot smoking is OK (it is in my book, just not for me) but clamor for tobacco smoker bans and higher excise taxes on cigarettes "for the greater good" to reduce smoking rates and reduce health care costs.
4. If it was President Bush's daughters who were caught with illegal contraband, would the compliant MSM who support authoritarian policies suddenly find their libertarian streak?
Has anyone every studied the health effects of smoking marijuana on the lungs? Seems to me that smoking tobacco puts one at risk of roughly 1 in 11 of contracting lung cancer. But being a dried leaf like tobacco, isn’t marijuana smoking likely to present the same or similar cancer risks?
One thing everyone is ignoring is that Al Gore was a seriesly hugh pot smoker in his day according to his college roommate.
I just can’t understand someone going 100 after smoking weed. You can usually tell someone is smoking weed and driving because they are usually going 10 mph below the speed limit.
I’m still trying to figure out how you can make a Prius go 100 m.p.h. without tossing it out of an airplane.
Re-think???
Since when has thinking, apart from a certain feral cunning, had anything to do with marijuana laws?
No thinking please, we're just civilians!
His son is a repeat offender.
There was no national discussion of how drunk driving accidents are from those much higher than 0.08 BA level or how smoking bans are a new prohibition or how an adult at Chuy's should've refused the Bush daughters illegal service instead of serving them and then calling 911 and the press.
But the Inconvenient Son gets busted AGAIN and now we need to look at changing laws. And they say that Paris Hilton got a break.
Marijuana will just Posion the mind.
I didn’t like it,
I didn’t inhale(I only contracted my diaphram),
and it won’t enhance the quality of life.
Why not rethink prescription drug laws and speeding laws while we are at it? Why is it that pot-heads only care about the pot laws?
(1) Buyers must be 21 & show valid state ID or driver's license (must be state they live in no out-of-state purchases)
(2) Can only purchase during daytime hours
(3) Fine or jail sentence if caught giving it to minors
(4) DUI laws still apply
Place a 5% sales tax surcharge on it, and states wouldn't have to confiscate my hard-earned money as much to support their socialist lifestyle.
P.S. - Legalize industrial hemp too, for clothing and fuel, so our farmers can have another crop to grow. Drugs such as cocaine and heroin should remain illegal.
Artist: Association
Song: Along Comes Mary
(Tandyn Almer)
Every time I think that I’m the only one who’s lonely
Someone calls on me
And every now and then I spend my time at rhyme and verse
And curse those faults in me
And then along comes Mary
And does she want to give me kicks, and be my steady chick
And give me pick of memories
Or maybe rather gather tales from all the fails and tribulations
No one ever sees
When we met I was sure out to lunch
Now my empty cup tastes as sweet as the punch
When vague desire is the fire in the eyes of chicks
Whose sickness is the games they play
And when the masquerade is played and neighbor folks make jokes
At who is most to blame today
And then along comes Mary
And does she want to set them free, and let them see reality
From where she got her name
And will they struggle much, when told that such a tender touch of hers
Will make them not the same
When we met I was sure out to lunch
Now my empty cup tastes as sweet as the punch
And when the morning of the warning’s passed, the gassed and flaccid kids
Are flung across the stars
The psychodramas and the traumas gone
The songs are left unsung and hung upon the scars
And then along comes Mary
And does she want to see the stains, the dead remains of all the pains
She left the night before
Or will their waking eyes, reflect the lies, and make them realize
Their urgent cry for sight no more
When we met I was sure out to lunch
Now my empty cup tastes as sweet as the punch
Big Bamboo man.
This is what I love about Free Republic. The comments are almost always better than the article posted. Fascinating thread. The Milton Friedman quotes are so dead on. Thanks for posting.
The failed war on some drugs should be defunded. There’s a liquor store on every corner.
my grandmother used to use it before it was made illegal for her migraine headaches. She was an RN, and it helped her continue her life without pain. When it was made illegal, she had to lie in bed for days to get over the horrendous migraine headaches she got pretty regularly.
I agree about changing pot laws. But Al Gore’s son, like Rush Limbaugh, is also apparantly an abuser of pharmies. Dopers will find their dope. So what then? Legalize everything? I like pot, but I don’t see easy solutions. I will say that I’m a better judge of my self interest than the gubmint.
Want to see drug abuse? Look no further than the medical/pharmaceutical establishment. When people need spreadsheets to keep track of medications, you know things have gotten out of hand.
But I'll say this, for the record- I wish they'd legalize, regulate, and tax the smelly stuff like tobacco, and be done with it.
make marijuana legal along the same guidelines as alcohol: 21 to buy (or 18), no driving under the influence. Quit increasing pushers’ profits. Let individuals grow for their own use but not for sale. Let grown-ups run their own lives and get rid of the wasteful spending on this part of the war on drugs.
Don’t forget that he was also caught with other “controlled” scheduled drugs that are supposedly useful for treating ailments via a physicians’s prescription.
The point being, if people want to use chemicals for recreation they will no matter how strict the govt. is or isn’t regarding prohibition.
His real crime was driving while high and at a speed that could kill someone, but that happens with sober people all the time too.