Posted on 07/25/2008 8:49:03 PM PDT by bamahead
I do not use illegal drugs. Surprised? I only use oxycontin, morhpine, sleeping pills, dilaudid, you know all the USUAL legal DRUGS. I even cannot use marinol (the ok pot given in a pill) because the dose is too strong.
I know you are so shocked.
I am sick of the billions being wasted on the war on drugs. I don’t give a crap what it is called.
Her friends chose the perps.
And there was no reason to suspect that a gangbanger with a history of violent assaults against officers had a weapon when he went searching for one under the car seat. And there's no reason to question the word of his gangbanger father with a criminal hisory.
That would be contrary to your obsessive hatred of police and our drug laws. The sheriffs should have waited until one of them took a bullet before firing. And then they should have used tasers.
No, you're hysterical over the success of our drug laws.
I doubt you haven’t used them.. You’re on those harmful legal drugs, but want just as (and more) harmless drugs legalized at the local 7-11?!?
Well, vote 666.. I menat you want just as harmless and porbably more than you’re legal ones legalized..
That’s all I can say. I want harm reduction, and legalizing more drugs isn’t it.
You didn’t read any of my other posts associated with this one, did you?
I don’t care if pot is legal or not. It won’t affect me either way. I was making the point that the girl died because she was doing something illegal.
However, I will say that in this instance, no, the police were not doing their job. The cops are the ones certified and trained for law enforcement. They should have let a judge handle this girls future. They had no authority to authorize a civillian sting operation.
Source?
FYI, it looks like Islamic Iran is failing even worse than Singapore in the WOD. From a June 2004 BBC article:
Iran has the highest proportion of heroin addicts in the world and a growing Aids problem.
--news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/this_world/3791889.stm
If any one you drug supports would ADMIT to using or use in the past, it would help so much in the discussion.
You people act all weird about the subject. Supporting it, but denying use. The only answer I can say is, if you don’t use it, don’t worry if it’s illegal.
If you use it, talk about it. Explain the need for your use.
Wow, what a thing to say in this case.
Stop this inane "drug war". We have a real war to fight now.
Our policies cause the worst of the consequences for far more people - crime, botched raids, corrupt police and things like this.
Can you imagine a 23 year old among your family or friends making such a mistake? This was sad and wrong. You don't use a 23 year old girl in a sting with violent criminals. It's insane and it's immoral and very sad.
And ask yourself this. Why wasn't Jeb Bush's daughter, or John Ashcroft's nephew or Al Gore's son used in sting operations? They were all busted for drugs too.
And honestly where do you see these three if they weren’t smoking pot? Brain surgeons? Corporate executives? Rocket scientists?
Laziness and a lack of motivation is common. Is it a surprise that unmotivated, lazy people spend all their time smoking pot?
How sensible is it to spend billions fighting this “drug war” when our soldiers who are fighting a real war have to struggle to get proper equipment.
A large number of our casualties in Iraq were from IEDs. Did you know we have vehicles that are resistant to IEDs? Most of our soldiers are not equipped with them. Why? We have finite resources and we have to decide how we use them.
How many of our soldiers have we allowed to be maimed or killed because we were spending on our money on a futile attempt to keep pot out of the hands of 23 year old girls?
If for no other reason but our limited resources and priorities let us end the drug war and then re-visit the idea again when there aren’t people out there who want to blow up our soldiers and detonate nukes in NY and LA.
Billions and billions and billions and billion...down the drain...such a waste.
“If I had my way anyone using drugs should on the spot execution.”
Wow! I am utterly amazed. I was just perscribed a tiny little pill that I now take daily, it is supposed to help me lower my cholesterol. I better not go into your region of CA. I was considering getting a Chantax perscription, I better be careful I don’t get executed as I leave the drug store.
I don’t throw the “taliban” reference around litely, but you remind me of the Islamofascists.
Actually, I did...and agree with most of what you posted.
It was my error in wording my response in a manner that was misinterpreted.
When I referred to "if you want to change the law contact your elected representatives..." I meant that in the general sense. It wasn't directed at you personally.
“What, now we’re against letting adults make their own choices to be informants?!”
So, we should consider it our individual right to put our physical beings in harms way on behalf of the police, free of coersion? But, at the same time, we should not be allowed the individual rights to use that same physical being to ingest anything we see fit, free of coersion?
“Arsenic, also put here by God, along with myriad’s of poisonous plants, all there for you to use at your pleasure.”
A myriad of manufactured products require the use of arsenic in the manufacturing process. Are you advocating that the federal government prohibit the posession, use or sale of arsenic?
Except for thyroid you are right.
I'm guessing that you have a pretty lame music collection.
My friends and I occasionally enjoy bubbler rips. Amongst these friends are two business owners, 3 school teachers, a physician, and one of the top women marathon runners from New Jersey.
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