There is a big difference bewtween being a Populist and a Conservative. Palin is a Populist. It's no wonder she endorses and campaigns for McPain!
I voted for Ronald Reagan, Mrs. Palin, and you're not Ronald Reagan.
Would Sarah want someone high on pot driving on the opposite side of the road she is driving on?
Does she not realize marijuana is a gateway drug that is proven to lead to other drug usage?
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080123104017.htm
Cannabis Addiction and Young People (Part 1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gI0DP9l24pI
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Legalization of Marijuana: Potential Impact on Youth -- Joffe et al. 113 (6): e632 -- Pediatrics
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What does marijuana do to the growing brain? | greatfallstribune.com | Great Falls Tribune
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Weeding out your significant other? Marijuana and relationships | Psychology Today
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Harmful Effects of Marijuana Use on Mental Health
Video 02 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duGqqqeCF5s
Michael Savage Argues with Marijuana Smoker over the Dangers of Pot - March 2nd, 2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dznkTwbFLY&feature=related Loveline Studio - Bill Nye, eyes of addiction
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The Thin Green Line : Put this in your pipe and smoke it
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CASA REPORT FINDS TEENS WHO HAVE INFREQUENT FAMILY DINNERS LIKELIER TO DRINK, SMOKE, USE MARIJUANA
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Obama's New Drug Strategy Opposes Legalizing Pot - Political Hotsheet - CBS News
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Cannabinoid hyperemesis: marijuana puts patients i... [Australas Psychiatry. 2007] - PubMed result
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The Associated Press: Canada's 'Prince of Pot' ordered extradited to US
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Long-term Affects of Smoking Marijuana
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Study finds marijuana smoking is risk factor for gum disease - icyou health videos
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Famous PSA- Partnership for a Drug Free America "Brain on Drugs"
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Drugs of Abuse Publication, Chapter 7
http://www.justice.gov/dea/pubs/abuse/7-pot.htm
Marijuana - The Real Facts, Educational Anti-Marijuana Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sb8Xcoxqx-E&feature=related
Marijuana Availability - National Drug Threat Assessment 2010
http://www.justice.gov/ndic/pubs38/38661/marijuana.htm
Marijuana or Cannabis Sativa // OADE // University of Notre Dame
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Associations between Marijuana Use During Emerging Adulthood and Aspects of the Significant Other Relationship in Young Adulthood
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NBC Nightly News- Marijuana far from 'harmless' for addicts
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Preteen Marijuana Use Linked to Comorbid Substance Abuse and Psychological Disorders - MDAAP
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Marijuana: Facts Parents Need to Know
http://www.drugabuse.gov/MarijBroch/MarijparentsN.html
Dispelling the myths about marijuana
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http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=322308606937&topic=15022
The impact of early-onset cannabis use on functional brain correlates of working memory
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Some marijuana users have increased risk of liver damage | AORN Journal | Find Articles at BNET
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Update on Marijuana
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ObamaCare's Medical Marijuana - Forbes.com
http://www.forbes.com/2009/08/13/george-soros-marijuana-legalization-opinions-contributors-rachel-ehrenfeld.html
Long-term consequences of a single treatment of mice with an ultra-low dose of Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol
(THC) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6SYP-4X85F54-1&_user=10&_coverDate=01/20/2010&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_searchStrId=1293419481&_rerunOrigin=scholar.google&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=6800f71be0a823d0c9df30be7aa4d453
Mfiles Marijuana User Impact
http://mfiles.org/Marijuana/user_impact/b3_source7.html
Pharmacology and effects of cannabis: a brief review
http://bjp.rcpsych.org/cgi/content/full/178/2/101?ijkey=9btUkNGEbPKfI
Marijuana Not Only Gets You High, It Damages Your DNA - Cancer - FOXNews.com
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,526842,00.html
BBC : Cannabis, The Evil Weed?
http://www.mefeedia.com/watch/26423068
Outcomes of occasional cannabis use in adolescence: 10-year follow-up study in Victoria, Australia -
http://bjp.rcpsych.org/cgi/content/abstract/196/4/290
Cannabis and adolescence
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-12/muhc-caa121709.php
Marijuana Use Linked to Testicular Cancer
http://www.medpagetoday.com/HematologyOncology/OtherCancers/12802 The DEA Position On Marijuana
http://www.justice.gov/dea/marijuana_position.html
Marijuana Users Experience Addiction Withdrawal Symptoms | Narconon Drug Rehab
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Marijuana the Escape to Nowhere DVD -- Hazelden
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Sleep Loss, Marijuana Use Linked in Teen Social Networks
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MARIJUANA DEPENDENCE AND ITS TREATMENT
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Because I Got High (Censored) Nothing exemplifies the life of a pothead better than this tune by Afroman.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw4Pygn9qF0
Good Video-Messing With Heads
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Smoking Pot Is A Waste Of Your Life / Anti-Marijuana PSA Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCbsEhvNIZ8
Cannabis use, cognitive performance and mood in a sample of workers
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Teen Brains Damaged by Heavy Marijuana Smoking
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Cannabis dependence in the San Francisco Family Study: Age of onset of use, DSM-IV symptoms, withdrawal, and heritability
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News > Science -- Study aims to clear haze surrounding pot addiction
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Teenagers Smoking K2 Have Authorities Incensed: Kids Who Smoke Incense Have Easy Access to the Legal
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DETOXING FROM MARIJUANA-Marijuana Anonymous World Services
http://www.marijuana-anonymous.org/detox.shtml
Marijuana: The Myths Are Killing Us
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Chronic use of cannabis and poor neural efficiency in verbal memory ability
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Teen Marijuana Use Might Have Lasting Effects on Mood, Anxiety Information on Healthline
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Does cannabis use affect prospective memory in young adults? -- Bartholomew et al. 24 (2): 241 -- Jo
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The Residual Cognitive Effects of Heavy Marijuana Use in College Students
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Cannabis use and risk of psychotic or affective mental health outcomes: a systematic review
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This headline is totally misleading. If you watched the program, Judge Napolitano was asking her about some police op where they went after this guy and made it into some Elian Gonzales type deal with a swat team and everything. She just said that in that case it was probably overdoing it.
She never said it should be legalized or anything and in fact said it shouldn’t be. She just said in the big scheme of things, it’s not high on the totem pole in terms of what the police should be focusing on compared to murders, kidnappings, and other crimes.
In any event, it’s really a local issue and she was just giving a personal opinion.
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Populist? She is actually correct on this IMHO... I see not much difference between smoking pot or drinking beer... both get your impaired... cocaine, heroin and meth are different stories.
I agree 100% with Sarah Palin on this.
Frankly, if we had cops going door to door busting people for pot possession and/or use in this neighborhood they wouldn't make it past the first embassy guy with a machinegun ~ and there are a fair number of those folks around.
Really, the "crime" she's referring to would take door to door sorts of raids in neighborhoods which are USUALLY not done in this country.
Conservatives only rarely advocate "door to door" and almost always sarcastically.
It's not currently Conservative policy in this country to advocate door to door raids on private homes for the purpose of seeking out crimes.
"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 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.”
Palin then urged law enforcement to “not concentrate on such a, relatively speaking, minimal problem we have in the country.”
Some other background:
answers.com (I don't see a date, so this may have changed since the answer)
Is marijuana legal in Alaska?
Yes, to an extent.
Possession: Residents may possess up to one ounce of marijuana for their own personal use in their home. Possession of 1-4 ounces is a misdemeanor, while anything over four ounces is a felony.
Cultivation: The state constitution's right to privacy allows up to 24 plants to be cultivated in one's home. However, maintaining a grow operation of any size outside one's home is a felony.
Sale: Selling less than one ounce is a misdemeanor; more than one ounce is a felony.
The state also has a medical marijuana registry maintained by the Bureau of Vital Statistics.
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is known as a staunch social conservative. She's a life long NRA member, belongs to an anti-abortion-rights group called Feminists for Life and opposes civil unions.
But the self-proclaimed "hockey mom" had some youthful indiscretions.
Palin has said she smoked marijuana but didn't enjoy it and doesn't smoke anymore.
"I can't claim a Bill Clinton and say that I never inhaled,” she told the Anchorage Daily News in 2006.
At the time, marijuana was legal under Alaska's liberal drug laws.
A 1975 Alaska Supreme Court decision allowed adults to possess small amounts of marijuana for personal use. In June 2006, a law signed by then-Republican Gov. Frank Murkowski re-criminalized the drug. The American Civil Liberties Union later sued the state, alleging that the law violates Alaskans' state constitutional right to privacy.
Palin has said she doesn't support legalizing the drug, fearing the message it would send to her five children.
I agree with her on this issue. I don’t think pot should be legalized, but cops do need to prioritize their time. Focus first on the crimes that hurt innocent people, then, if they still have time for it, then start in on the smaller stuff.
Your title is very misleading. That is not what Palin is saying at all.
More common sense from Governor Palin. Gawd I hope this woman runs for President.
Palin didn’t say it wasn’t a big deal; she said there were higher priorities to deal with before (not instead of) going into someone’s house to arrest them for smoking marijuana (unless children are in the house). I’m conservative, and I agree. It doesn’t mean I don’t want drug crimes to be ignored, but limited resources call for prioritizing. It’s not populism, it’s simply common sense.
Marijuana being illegal, and the subsequent elimination of the hemp industry is one the stupidest policies in the US. Absolutely, flagrantly idiotic.
Wanting to put people in jail for growing and smoking a plant is NOT a conservative social policy. To whatever degree the whole idea of the “drug war” is a policy of Conservatism, I reject it totally.
5% of the world population and 25% of the world’s prisoners, most from drug laws, is NOT a conservative policy. Letting the prison industry and unions influence lawmaking is an absurdly stupid idea.
They are by far an abomination that absolutely ruins lives beyond repair. (personal anecdote)
Gov. Palin has it right this time. There are pressing issues these days that need to be dealt with using limited resources. Lighting up a joint in the privacy of your own home does not even register on my scale of importance.
This thread reeks of Patchouli oil.
She’s right.
Since when is it a conservative ideal to spend lots of money on police and government to pursue citizens that enjoy smoking a dried out plant? Seems ridiculous.
Distortion of the story and her position.
She is on the record for NOT making pot legal. Still holds the position.
However, she recognizes that pursuing user is time consuming process. There are other things much more needful to be done by law enforcement.
I actually agree with part of the libertarian argument: What a grown adult does in the privacy of their own home is not the governments business. However, I add the caveat that if what you are doing, OR THE RESULTS OF WHAT YOU ARE DOING, comes out of the house and causes a danger or burden on society, then it becomes the government’s business.