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Sarah Palin: Marijuana is a 'minimal problem'
Politico ^ | 6/17/10 | Andy Barr

Posted on 06/17/2010 7:52:51 AM PDT by pissant

Former Alaska GOP Gov. Sarah Palin said Wednesday night that law enforcement should not focus its energy on the “minimal problem” of marijuana.

Palin made the comment during an appearance on the Fox Business Network with Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas).

The libertarian Paul said enforcing marijuana restrictions specifically and war on drugs more generally is a “useless battle,” a point Palin somewhat agreed with though she was clear that she does not support legalization.

"If we're talking about pot, I'm not for the legalization of pot,” Palin said. “I think that would just encourage our young people to think that it was OK to go ahead and use it.”

“However I think we need to prioritize our law enforcement efforts,” Palin added. “If somebody's gonna to smoke a joint in their house and not do anybody any harm, then perhaps there are other things our cops should be looking at to engage in and try to clean up some of the other problems we have in society.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: commonsense; dopersrights; drugs; lping; maryjane; palin; ronpaul; sarahpalin; wosd
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To: dirtboy

I think Alaska still has some of the tamest drug laws in the nation.


61 posted on 06/17/2010 8:37:52 AM PDT by eclecticEel (Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: 7/4/1776 - 3/21/2010)
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To: teenyelliott

“Making something illegal doesn’t mean people will stop doing it, it just means more people will go to jail and/or get killed.”

And more property will be siezed...


62 posted on 06/17/2010 8:38:17 AM PDT by Crim (The Obama Doctrine : A doctrine based on complete ignorance,applied with extreme incompitence..)
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To: MrB

I dint say “god want you to smoke pot”

God also gave you free will..

You are NOT your bothers keeper...when you take your bothers free will even for his own good...that is an offront to the word of god.


63 posted on 06/17/2010 8:40:12 AM PDT by Crim (The Obama Doctrine : A doctrine based on complete ignorance,applied with extreme incompitence..)
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To: Wuli

”If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.“ - William Penn

If folks were not saved from the consequences of their choices at the expense of others,
they’d make a lot fewer foolish choices.


64 posted on 06/17/2010 8:40:16 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: dfwgator

Yeah I’m stonger on math and type too fast..

Thanks.


65 posted on 06/17/2010 8:41:17 AM PDT by Crim (The Obama Doctrine : A doctrine based on complete ignorance,applied with extreme incompitence..)
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To: BillM
Singapore has long bitter experience with drugs. It has controlled the problem by HANGING trafficers. That is the solution. To stop the organized crime portion you take out the distribution.

I take the opposite tack: MANDATORY pot use, and HANGING those who do not comply.

66 posted on 06/17/2010 8:41:25 AM PDT by Lazamataz ("We beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them." -- Lazamataz, 2005)
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To: MrB
Sarah Palin: Marijuana is a 'minimal problem'


67 posted on 06/17/2010 8:41:48 AM PDT by GSWarrior (Be wary of all politicians..... especially ones that you admire.)
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To: Bob J

I didn’t get that at all. When I read this article, I think what she is trying to say is that we should simply put to death anyone caught smoking pot in their homes. This way you only have to deal with them once and then you’re done. It’s brilliant and quite simplistic. sarc/


68 posted on 06/17/2010 8:42:25 AM PDT by curth (Sarah Palin: 1.5M Facebook fans. "I'm In For $15 - Donate $15 to Sarahpac to celebrate!)
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To: SJSAMPLE

I’m sorry, historically, Singapore was at the focus of the opium trade between China and Europe. The common availability of Opium led to the destruction of the culture.
They no longer have this problem thanks to the noose.


69 posted on 06/17/2010 8:42:45 AM PDT by BillM
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To: Huck

I think she’s simply talking priorities. You have ma and pa hippies next door smoking a joint from pot they grew in their back yard (depending on the state it’s legal if you have a medical marijuana license) or next door you have a 65 year old grandmother being beat up and robbed. Resources are finite. Besides, the war on drugs is a miserable failure. I honestly don’t know what approach to take but I do know the one we’ve been using hasn’t worked. After this many decades you’d think people would realize that.

Cindie


70 posted on 06/17/2010 8:43:24 AM PDT by gardencatz (Proud mom US Marine! It can't always be someone else's son.)
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To: Lazamataz
Ok..that made me laugh my ass off...
71 posted on 06/17/2010 8:43:56 AM PDT by Crim (The Obama Doctrine : A doctrine based on complete ignorance,applied with extreme incompitence..)
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To: MrB
“God wants us to smoke pot” isn’t going to fly.

I don't think that is the argument.

To me, the idea that the government has the power to make a God given plant illegal is insulting.

72 posted on 06/17/2010 8:45:53 AM PDT by teenyelliott (www.thewaterrock.com)
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To: Yo-Yo

Caning is for minor crimes. Here we put kids into the criminal justice system and screw up their lives for years. There, they quickly try the case and if found guilty the perp is punished promptly. They don’t even miss a day of school. Oh, and by the way the recidivism rate is very low.

Kids caught with soft drugs get a seven week drug rehab couse.


73 posted on 06/17/2010 8:46:52 AM PDT by BillM
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To: pissant
Alcohol is proof God loves his children.

Oh yeah, I forgot I was talking to a Catholic. ; )

I'll never understand human behavior. People defend and rationalize their chosen vice, then get behind the persecution of those who choose differently.

74 posted on 06/17/2010 8:51:32 AM PDT by teenyelliott (www.thewaterrock.com)
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To: Lazamataz
MANDATORY pot use, and HANGING those who do not comply.

Now that's what I'm talkin 'bout!....heh

75 posted on 06/17/2010 8:53:00 AM PDT by getsoutalive
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To: teenyelliott

Yes, but as you know, alcohol in moderation is very healthy, both physically and mentally. Hard to make that claim about heroine, PCP, Meth and LSD


76 posted on 06/17/2010 8:53:37 AM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: MrB
”If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.“ - William Penn

Thanks for that one. Simple. Brilliant.

77 posted on 06/17/2010 8:54:33 AM PDT by getsoutalive
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To: TexasCajun
Pot Smokers usually can’t get off the couch and out of the frig or out from in front of the TV to commit crime.

This is something my LEO brother in law mentioned. I don't want the harder drugs legalized, but what if it were legal to grow their own and use it? Ha! Sounds like Prohibition, doesn't it? You can have it as long as you didn't buy it.

78 posted on 06/17/2010 8:57:21 AM PDT by HungarianGypsy
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To: Crim
And more property will be siezed...

Grrrrr...that is another discussion. The fact that we only "own" things until Big Brother decides we don't goes against everything on which this country was founded.

79 posted on 06/17/2010 8:58:30 AM PDT by teenyelliott (www.thewaterrock.com)
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To: teenyelliott

“To me, the idea that the government has the power to make a God given plant illegal is insulting.”

Bingo!


80 posted on 06/17/2010 9:06:29 AM PDT by Crim (The Obama Doctrine : A doctrine based on complete ignorance,applied with extreme incompitence..)
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