Just one more thing I disagree with Soros on, this will drag America down further
but on you way out of town... pay your taxes....
Never be legalized, imo. The jail system is big, big business and pot busts are a major vehicle to filling up the jails. Lot of income and cop jobs in the “war on drugs”.
I agree that all drugs should be legal and minimally taxed, no more tax than the equivalent alcohol drinker would pay. High taxes would just cause a black market and reintroduce the violence that legalization would otherwise remove. We should have learned this lesson 75 years ago with Prohibition and the later Repeal of it.
Soros’ race-baiting arguments aside, I’d have to agree with him on this point.
That said, both MJ smoke and tobacco cigarette smoke give me a headache — even a little secondhand smoke from 50 feet away. I don’t think smoking should be allowed in any public place, not even on restaurant outdoor patios, unless powerful ventilation is used to pull that smoke up and away.
Posted on October 25, 2010 8:21:07 PM PDT by Michael2000
Hi Freepers,
My friend posted this and I wanted all of you to see it in case you missed it yesterday. Also Frank Pastore made a great point today on his show that if we legalize marijuana then the people who are making illegal marijuana money will most likely move on to selling harder drugs. This is not good for our kids.
How To Decide in Less Than A Minute on How to Vote on Proposition 19
For those of you in a hurry, here is a quick question to ask yourself. Do you want marijuana smoke in your house or apartment?
If the answer is “no”, then VOTE NO on Proposition 19. It’s as simple as that. Proposition 19 strips away your rights to stop marijuana smoke from entering your home.
Things I Found Out About Proposition 19
•Proposition 19 has no protections for the public from exposure airborne marijuana, either vaporized or burned. There isn’t a word in there about this. A vote for Proposition 19 is a vote to strip yourself of your right not to be exposed to marijuana smoke. You can’t just call the police when you are smoked out.
•Proposition 19 creates a new protected class of people in California, marijuana users. It has anti-discrimination language with protections similar to those you might find for disabled people. It’s amazing what’s in Proposition 19.
•Proposition 19 has fewer controls on usage than even alcohol. For instance, California law prohibits open containers of alcohol in a moving vehicle, and consumption by anyone in the vehicle. Not so with marijuana and Proposition 19. Marijuana can be present in the passenger compartment, and passengers can consume marijuana on the road. There is not even a limitation on smoking it with the windows closed, so the driver ends up with a “contact high”.
•Proposition 19 will make California companies ineligible, and in violation of Federal contract requirements for a Drug Free workplace. Thousands of Californians who are employed under Federal contracts would have to move or be let go.
(Excerpt) Read more at CAProp19Info.com ...
“Our” laws?? Is Soros even an American citizen??
I don’t give a flying freep what George Soros thinks! The man should be hung for treason.
The ones who love their drugs would, that’s about it IMO.
I would not even listen to someone that thinks his is G-D.
Soros: “I Fancied Myself As Some Kind Of God.” “A passage in his book The Alchemy of Finance, published in 1987, distinguishes Soros from all other financiers, ever. ‘I have always harboured an exaggerated view of my self-importance,’ he wrote. ‘To put it bluntly, I fancied myself as some kind of god or an economic reformer like Keynes, or, even better, like Einstein. My sense of reality was strong enough to make me realise that these expectations were excessive, and I kept them hidden as a guilty secret. This was a source of considerable unhappiness through much of my adult life. As I made my way in the world, reality came close enough to my fantasy to allow me to admit my secret, at least to myself. Needless to say, I feel much happier as a result.’” (Stephen Fay, “Profile: George Soros: God Of All He Surveys,” The Independent [London], 5/17/98)
I agree with him although I want comprehensive drug reform. Legalize it. Don’t tax it. Then abolish welfare. If you smoke yourself jobless then don’t expect the taxpayers to help you out with welfare. Simple.
I agree with him although I want comprehensive drug reform. Legalize it. Don’t tax it. Then abolish welfare. If you smoke yourself jobless then don’t expect the taxpayers to help you out with welfare. Simple.
It’s not that I agree with Soros, who is nothing to me, it’s that I agree with the idea that marijuana should be legalized.
I’ll go the liquor store to pick up a sixpack of beer, and I see people with a couple of quart bottles of Jack Daniel’s. And I can promise you that smoking a joint does not impair a person anywhere near the impairment of a person who’s been knocking back shots of hard liquor, there’s no comparison.
If marijuana did all the bad things that anti-legalization adherents say it does, this country would be in a much worse state than it is right now.
No matter how you slice it drinking is a much worse problem in this country than smoking marijuana is.
Ping for later
I agree with his conclusion. I’m not going to bother reading his reasons.
He believes in it because it breaks down society which he is a big supporter of.
I so detest Soros and everything he stands for!!!
I was neutral on the Pot issue, but if George wants it I’m bitterly opposed!
I support it too. We waste spectacular amounts of money trying to stamp out pot and trample civil liberties to do it. As a libertarian i’d love to see this epic big government waste of money stop.
Tokin' Resistance
By Howard Stansfield, 12/12/96
Soros, who declined to comment for this story, writes that “the drug problem as primarily a criminal problem is a misconception” and that “eradicating the drug problem is a false idea.”http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/1996-12-12/news/tokin-resistance/“A drug-free America is simply not possible. You can discourage the use of drugs, you can forbid the use of drugs, you can treat people who are addicted to drugs, but you cannot eradicate drugs.”
So what would he do?
“I would establish a strictly controlled distribution network through which I would make most drugs, excluding the most dangerous ones like crack, legally available,” he writes. “Initially, I would keep the prices low enough to destroy the drug trade. Once that objective was obtained, I would keep raising the prices, very much like an excise duty on cigarettes, but I would make an exception for registered addicts in order to discourage crime.”