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To: Michael Barnes
I am for legalization of marijuana but from a stand point of personal liberty.

In theory, you are right; the problem is that in practice our personal liberty will be infringed by more of our money being taken to support the stoners when they become unemployable. It will be declared a disease, as they have done with alcoholism, and they'll get to mooch off of us for life!

Personal liberty must be accompanied by personal responsibility.

34 posted on 05/31/2012 7:23:14 AM PDT by JimRed (Excising a cancer before it kills us waters the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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To: JimRed

[ I am for legalization of marijuana but from a stand point of personal liberty.
In theory, you are right; the problem is that in practice our personal liberty will be infringed by more of our money being taken to support the stoners when they become unemployable. It will be declared a disease, as they have done with alcoholism, and they’ll get to mooch off of us for life!

Personal liberty must be accompanied by personal responsibility. ]

I am for legalization of (some) drugs if it occurs along side the criminalization of state welfare programs.


38 posted on 05/31/2012 7:59:57 AM PDT by GraceG
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To: JimRed
In theory, you are right; the problem is that in practice our personal liberty will be infringed by more of our money being taken to support the stoners when they become unemployable. It will be declared a disease, as they have done with alcoholism, and they'll get to mooch off of us for life!

Nanny staters just love reading comments like that. So you want to ban alcohol? If not, why not? It costs 'society' more than pot. What about fatty foods and large slurpees?

Here's an idea. Why not honor the Tenth Amendment and get the feds out of intrastate pot regulation and let the states decide?

49 posted on 05/31/2012 11:42:02 AM PDT by Ken H (Austerity is the irresistible force. Entitlements are the immovable object.)
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