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Reps. Frank and Paul: Let states legalize pot
Seattle Post Intelligencer ^ | June 22, 2011 | Joel Connelly

Posted on 06/22/2011 1:23:14 PM PDT by Second Amendment First

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To: Berlin_Freeper

Marijuana addiction? That’s pretty funny. Only losers claim to be addicted to pot in order to get out of taking responsibility for their actions. Bigger losers let them get away with those lame excuses.


221 posted on 06/22/2011 10:34:53 PM PDT by TigersEye (Who crashed the markets on 9/15/08 and why?)
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To: ManyMoonsAgo

Quality of life is a non-argument. Unless it directly (note - DIRECTLY) interferes with the rights of another, it should be legal. Victimless crimes need to be taken off the books.


222 posted on 06/23/2011 3:44:09 AM PDT by arderkrag (Georgia is God's Country.----------In the same way Rush is balance, I am consensus.)
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To: Buddygirl
All I said was pot was safer than alcohol.

Your rant makes me think you believe alcohol is safer than pot.

...has to be, right? ...it's legal.

Don't make me pull stats on DUI deaths and other violent deaths contributed to alcohol.

Maybe your bf or hubby's lack of sexual interest & schizophrenia is based on something other than his pot smoking? ...Huh?

223 posted on 06/23/2011 4:15:44 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: TigersEye
A farmer was growing wheat for use as feed on his own farm and the Feds decided he needed to pay taxes on it. Or something close to that.

He wasn't taxed, he was fined for growing more than his quota, as set by the federal government.

224 posted on 06/23/2011 4:22:23 AM PDT by tacticalogic
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To: TexasCajun

Your rant is funny! ROTFL I don’t have a hubby or bf right now.
Don’t get me started on alcohol, either. I am afraid of it and had 2 relatives to die from alcoholism. Smart doing drugs or alcohol, NOT!


225 posted on 06/23/2011 5:24:08 AM PDT by Buddygirl
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To: Raider Sam

Selfishness is bad when all you care about is yourself. You set the example for others who are watching you. It is all about YOU, YOU, YOU when it comes to pot. YOU broke the law to get pot, YOU seek pleasure in smoking pot.

You are just as bad as Obama.


226 posted on 06/23/2011 5:34:05 AM PDT by Buddygirl (,)
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To: TigersEye

I would say the sme thing.In the state I live in one would have to be busted with over 3# before there is any jail time.As the other poster it is a $100 fine and is treated like a parking ticket except no points on your license f you fail to pay.


227 posted on 06/23/2011 9:14:16 AM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: Buddygirl

I think it is selfish of you to decide what others can do in their own home.As expelkained earleir most of us live in states where possession is considered to be equilivent to a parking ticket so if you have ever had one of those you are as guity of breaking the law as we are! What exactly is the problem with people enjoying their lives? Or does that bother you or something because of your lacking one?I can see why there is no husband or boyfirend....


228 posted on 06/23/2011 9:21:56 AM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: chris_bdba

explained....terrible typists.


229 posted on 06/23/2011 9:24:30 AM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: Buddygirl
Smart doing drugs or alcohol, NOT

Agreed! :)

230 posted on 06/23/2011 9:59:56 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: tacticalogic
He wasn't taxed, he was fined for growing more than his quota, as set by the federal government.

OK, that's right. And the commerce clause was invoked even though he hadn't sold or traded his grain to anyone on the basis that the grain affected commerce because he would have had to buy it if he hadn't grown it.

231 posted on 06/23/2011 12:18:45 PM PDT by TigersEye (Who crashed the markets on 9/15/08 and why?)
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To: Buddygirl

Should drinking alcohol be illegal?


232 posted on 06/23/2011 12:26:07 PM PDT by GunRunner (10 Years of FReeping...)
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To: TigersEye
OK, that's right. And the commerce clause was invoked even though he hadn't sold or traded his grain to anyone on the basis that the grain affected commerce because he would have had to buy it if he hadn't grown it.

That's pretty much it. Basically, he was fined for the offense of attempting to be self-sufficient, and thereby not engaging in interstate commerce.

233 posted on 06/23/2011 2:13:07 PM PDT by tacticalogic
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To: chris_bdba

Simply YOU broke the law to get it! YOU put a foreign substance in your body! It is all about YOU, what gives YOU pleasure!
I have done very well without alcohol or marijuana... No worry of getting caught or if it has been laced with strange substance that could cause death or damage to my body.
If it happens that YOU should get sick, then we taxpayer have to take care of YOU because YOU were too dumb to say no in the first place.


234 posted on 06/23/2011 3:02:32 PM PDT by Buddygirl
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To: GunRunner

Can you hold your likker? If not, then it should be illegal for YOU! If you can, then drink!

I can’t hold my likker because of 2 relatives could not hold theirs. I prefer not to drink but stay sober.


235 posted on 06/23/2011 3:17:11 PM PDT by Buddygirl
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To: Buddygirl

NO I take care of myself nothing to do with taxpayers at all in this house or the other two that I own. I did not break the law to do anything can you not read? In this state posession is decrimialized that MEANS NO CRIME DUH so stop shouting YOUR lies. And no there is nothing that can be laced on weed that can cause death but don’t let YOUR imagaination stop YOU from speading lies. Why are YOU so worried about my pleasure is it because you have none? I’ll have you know my IQ is over 140 so there is nothing dumb about me except for your insistance on this silly converstaion I’m having with an obivious busy body who has so much time she can worry about everyone else’s life....Sounds like you may have too much time on your hands or something? Has it not occured to you that expecting everyone to live up to what you approve of just might be selfish on YOUR part?


236 posted on 06/23/2011 3:55:45 PM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: GunRunner

She seems to think any pleasure should be outlawed judging by her posting history.Nanny stater to the max!*eyeroll*


237 posted on 06/23/2011 4:11:25 PM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: Buddygirl

Actually, at all the parties I went to that pot was used, people passed it around. So really, they werent all that selfish.

As for the hyperbole, that was weak. Couldnt you have at least compared me to Hitler or maybe Vlad the Impaler?


238 posted on 06/23/2011 4:43:55 PM PDT by Raider Sam (They're on our left, right, front, and back. They aint gettin away this time!)
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To: Raider Sam

Is it my imagination or are people getting downright nutty around here?


239 posted on 06/23/2011 4:48:25 PM PDT by GourmetDan (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.)
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To: Buddygirl; GunRunner; chris_bdba

Yes, lets let the government decide who is suitable for which activity. Cant see any type of problem with that. Just because you make yourself unable to participate in freedoms doesnt mean other people should be able to.

Should the government be able to shut down websites based on whether people act responsibly on them? Who defines responsible?

And how does whether or not your relatives can hold their liquor affect your ability to hold it?


240 posted on 06/23/2011 4:52:59 PM PDT by Raider Sam (They're on our left, right, front, and back. They aint gettin away this time!)
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