dcwusmc: “In your zeal to control others’ lives by ignoring the Constitution, what exactly is it that would set you apart from the likes of Obambi, Pelousy or Harry Reid?”
Your logic is faulty and extreme.
http://www.ask.com/wiki/False_dilemma?qsrc=3044
If I don’t agree with you that drugs should be completely legalized, then I’m trashing the US Constitution. There’s no middle ground, only your definition of the US Constitution applies, and I’m trashing the document if I don’t agree. That’s faulty logic—a false dilemma.
Plus, you present another false dichotomy. Even if I was ignoring the US Constitution, it doesn’t mean I’m like Obama or Pelosi. Opposition to the unfettered distribution of hard drugs is not the same thing as taking property from one citizen to give to another, forcing people to enroll in government health care, etc.
You see the WOD as a simple black and white issue, but that is an extreme view of the US Constitution. I’m not trying to insult you. Even if you could stack the SCOTUS with sympathetic judges and overturn the WOD, the states would set an amendment speed record to grant that power back to the fed. No significant portion of the voting public will ever support the sale of meth, crack, etc. at Wal-Mart.
I’m not posting this to try and convince you to change your mind or because I have the “stones” to refute you. I’m posting this so that others will see the faulty logic in your posts.
Marijuana is the third most popular recreational drug in America (behind only alcohol and tobacco), and has been used by nearly 100 million Americans. According to government surveys, some 25 million Americans have smoked marijuana in the past year, and more than 14 million do so regularly despite harsh laws against its use. Our public policies should reflect this reality, not deny it.
Marijuana is far less dangerous than alcohol or tobacco. Around 50,000 people die each year from alcohol poisoning. Similarly, more than 400,000 deaths each year are attributed to tobacco smoking. By comparison, marijuana is nontoxic and cannot cause death by overdose. According to the prestigious European medical journal, The Lancet, “The smoking of cannabis, even long-term, is not harmful to health. ... It would be reasonable to judge cannabis as less of a threat ... than alcohol or tobacco.”
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Of those charged with marijuana violations, approximately 89 percent, 754,224 Americans were charged with possession only. The remaining 93,640 individuals were charged with “sale/manufacture,” a category that includes all cultivation offenses, even those where the marijuana was being grown for personal or medical use. In past years, roughly 30 percent of those arrested were age 19 or younger.
NORML supports the eventual development of a legally controlled market for marijuana, where consumers could buy marijuana for personal use from a safe legal source. This policy, generally known as legalization, exists on various levels in a handful of European countries like The Netherlands and Switzerland, both of which enjoy lower rates of adolescent marijuana use than the U.S. Such a system would reduce many of the problems presently associated with the prohibition of marijuana, including the crime, corruption and violence associated with a “black market.”