Posted on 06/01/2012 12:00:10 PM PDT by Ken H
A solid majority of voters nationwide favor legalizing and regulating marijuana similar to the way alcohol and tobacco cigarettes are currently regulated. Most also don’t believe it should be a crime for people to smoke marijuana in the privacy of their own homes.
A new national telephone survey of Likely Voters shows that 56% favor legalizing and regulating marijuana in a similar manner to the way alcohol and tobacco cigarettes are regulated. Thirty-six percent (36%) are opposed to such a legalizing and regulating pot. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
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How ‘bout drug testing to vote?
Conservatives would stay in power forever.
There seems to be a slow evolution of national mood in this libertarian direction.
I could see worse resolutions to this issue than putting marijuana and derivatives back into the US Pharmacopoeia, and leave it to duly licensed physicians to prescribe it for whatever reasons they see fit, with the caveat of being responsible for careless prescribing (where the marijuana was reasonably expected to do more harm than good in the case, and yet it was prescribed anyhow). It would not be a perfect system, there would be people sharing it whether or not they were supposed to and others getting it by malingering, but it would still kick most of the stuffing out of the black market.
“There seems to be a slow evolution of national mood in this libertarian direction\>
Naw, I think that the 50% on Gooberment Bennies see a tax windfall where as they can stay stoned and keep getting the Bennies.
If pot taxes were to bring in enough dough to feed all the food stamp people... what to do? what to do?
Tasty!
Oh great, more government and more government regulation. Hip, hip, hooray!!!! Just decriminalize weed and leave it at that. We need more government like we need more jihadists.
I think you mean Republicans. Conservatives still understand basic individual liberty.
By the ATF? We have a serious failure to grasp the concept of a republic in this country. I suspect public education is largely responsible, and that it's absolutely intentional.
Prohibition is a regulatory scheme, too. I would argue it increases the size and power of government more than the regulation of legal alcohol, for example. I can't remember any SWAT raids and dog shootings involving the regulation of alcohol.
Hip, hip, hooray!!!! Just decriminalize weed and leave it at that. We need more government like we need more jihadists.
Get the feds out of intrastate marijuana regulation and let the states do it, as mandated by the Tenth Amendment.
Prohibition is a regulatory scheme, too. I would argue it increases the size and power of government more than the regulation of legal alcohol, for example. I can't remember any SWAT raids and dog shootings involving the regulation of alcohol.
Hip, hip, hooray!!!! Just decriminalize weed and leave it at that. We need more government like we need more jihadists.
Get the feds out of intrastate marijuana regulation and let the states do it, as mandated by the Tenth Amendment.
This poll does a lot to explain how piggies like Barry and the RATS get elected and are allowed to destroy what was once the greatest country on the planet.
(slaps forehead) Of course! I had forgotten how rotten this country was until federal drug prohibitionists came to save us!
The liberty to use illegal drugs?
Or the liberty to vote regardless of competence?
The founders had both competence and responsibility requirements to vote. It is no encroachment of liberty to say that criminals, the mentally incompetent, wards of the state, etc. lack the wherewithal to choose the nation’s leadership. An habitual drug user doesn’t need to be involved in the voting process. This ‘egalitie’ notion belongs to a different revolution.
:) (Tweak!) Gotcha!
Would you pee in a cup prior to casting your vote?
I did it to get a job.
The founders had both competence and responsibility requirements to vote. It is no encroachment of liberty to say that criminals, the mentally incompetent, wards of the state, etc. lack the wherewithal to choose the nation’s leadership. An habitual drug user doesn’t need to be involved in the voting process.
So would you pee in a cup prior to casting your vote... YES or NO?
Absolutely!
Uncle Bob just disowned you.
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