Posted on 02/28/2009 8:55:36 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
GLENN BECK, HOST: Marijuana brownies, anyone? This is the worst — the people in our green room, I'm happy to say it's clear they've never been high.
I'm going to ask you what's wrong with this picture. Chicago is trying to fix $50 million budget — their budget gap by taxing car rentals in suburban areas. And now, California is talking about legalizing marijuana and taxing marijuana to solve their budget problems.
Rob Kampia is the executive director for the Marijuana Policy Project.
How are you doing — how are you doing, Rob?
ROB KAMPIA, MARIJUANA POLICY PROJECT: Doing well.
BECK: All right. Do you smoke marijuana? Do you have any those marijuana's...
KAMPIA: Occasionally.
BECK: Occasionally?
KAMPIA: Yes.
BECK: It's against the law, you know.
KAMPIA: Yes. So, is speeding, a lot of people do that, also.
BECK: Wow. OK. You used to work for NORML, did you not?
KAMPIA: Yes.
BECK: Yes?
KAMPIA: Fourteen years ago.
BECK: Fourteen years ago. And is it true that you quit working with NORML because they were stoned all the time and that's all they really wanted to do was get high? They weren't serious about changing the laws?
KAMPIA: No, everyone there is very serious about changing the laws.
BECK: Really? OK.
KAMPIA: And the reason that — the reason that I left and started up the Marijuana Policy Project because I wanted to focus almost exclusively on lobbying and ballot initiatives.
BECK: OK. So, tell me because — look, I'm a libertarian. You want to legalize marijuana; you want to legalize drugs — that's fine.
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(The irony that taxing anything leads to bigger government; yet taxing dope is OK seems to escape them.)
But.... Free Republic is very liberal with respect to moral issues. And Libertarians rule this place.
So I'll stand down and allows the libs to bring on today's insults.
Having both legalized marijuana and the food police is like putting a humidifier and a dehumidifier in a room at the same time.
Oh really?
Satire? FR is a Conservative site, not a Libertarian one.
On drugs, the US had legal drugs up to 1909, we did okay.
Now we have our friend to the South on the verge of collapse. Joy.
This libertarian wants to see an end to the failed drug war, not new taxes.
Well, considering that the Fed’s are not going to be going after pot anymore, they BETTER legalize it or we will have Mexican gangs living in our national forests growing weed. THAT is NOT something we need. If they don’t legalize it and regulate it we will have Mexican drug wars HERE inside our borders and no one will be able to go into the forests.
I have to wonder if these artards EVER think things all the way through. For certain, not enforcing the laws is going to lead to violence if they don’t regulate it.
Its taxed and going to go higher.
Smoke?
Taxes are going up also if you can find a place to smoke.
Liberals, Libertarians and Conservatives can find some areas that are a bit mushy finding a few from the other side in their corner.
Me? The big problem with legalizing drugs will be the great number of “victims” added to the roles of SSI.
A lot of people who aren’t Libertarians are for legalizing marijuana too. Most people who are for legalizing marijuana are not for legalizing all drugs.
Well...
There is a large contingent of libertarians
who are active posters on this site
and are not generally frowned upon
If I showed you posts that called out for a response from Jim Robinson to refute this charge - and he made no response - then what you you think?
Personally, I am in favor of legalizing marijuana. It’s not a bigger public health problem than alcohol, and we allow that.
If you tax it, you make it more expensive to produce legally, thus helping the drug cartels (or so we hear)
I’m ok with people growing for their own use but I don’t want to pay for the rainbow of new laws that would be enacted to deal with that.
For those who claim to want it legal to end cartel violence. You’re lying. If you really wanted to end the cartel violence you would quit smoking it. I did and I survived just fine. Changing laws takes years and sometimes never happens, quitting only takes an instant and achieves the same result much faster and cheaper.
Perhaps if drugs are legalized, we'll see fewer SWAT teams busting down peoples' doors on trumped up drug charges.
They try to, they forever try to post their anti anything government as a conservative position.
Wrong. Ending prohibition lead to what? Higher taxes.
Let me ignore the immoral viewpoints about turning America into a Nation of stoners for a moment.....
And focus on the huge Governmental Machinery that would be placed in effect to run the Department of Dope...
Higher taxes for All!. (And I do mean High!!!)
Do we see organized crime rackets causing trouble by smuggling cigarettes and booze?
Your point illustrates why we need to invade Mexico.
The WOD is no less serious than the WOT.
It amazes me that Libertarians are hard up to fight one war, but are all too eager to surrender on the other.
Dittoes.
Bears Repeating:
Me? The big problem with legalizing drugs will be the great number of “victims” added to the roles of SSI.
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