Posted on 10/22/2012 9:09:50 AM PDT by Jayster
"There' a rising tide of acceptance of the fact that people are going to smoke marijuana, and it's like the prohibition against alcohol in the 1930s. There's a recognition that perhaps the laws are causing more harm than the drugs themselves," says Rick Steves, author and travel host.
Steves and others attended "The Final Days of Prohibition" conference in downtown Los Angeles in early October. The conference was put on by the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), and Reason TV was on the scene to ask about the future of marijuana laws in the U.S., particularly in the upcoming election where the states of Oregon, Washington, and Colorado all have marijuana legalization initiatives on the ballot.
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He’s an old troll that used to go by MrLeroy a long time ago. He did the same thing as now, 98% drug talk and stinks up the forum with his idiocy. He’s always been rude and using the same arguments now as then. It really brings the quality of this place down a lot.
We have a sick soul trying to bully freepers on this very thread, and that popster hasn't the intelligence to assimilate data sufficient to ask the right questions of those it posts to. Youyr comment is more cogent than anythin g the wannabe bully is addressing, and allows me to offer that the drug should not be 'illegal' now when it was legal in the past and became illegal because of 'business interests' which had nothing to do with 'health of the users'.
I'm personally in agreement usually that making things illegal merely pisses up the gene pool with folks who would self-eliminate if allowed to destroy themselves with drugs AND alcohol.
Society has yet to find any balance in the desire to protect the children damaged by parental and relative substance abuses, and the self-regulating of the gene pool. Though the democrats have tried very hard to segregate black people into welfare ghettos for the past fifty plus years, and Republicans have all but ignored the real evils of the 'opposition' party.
The poster is reinforcing the notion held by many that aggressive libertarians are just anal retentive assholes spewing their effluent to try and justify their defiance toward God. It would appear than some of them are also homo activists and ride the libertarian label to exercise their neediness in public.
Is that true in Amsterdam? Do they smoke less?
I don’t know. As far as publicly using it, most people probably smoke it for convenience and limited quantities/cheaper.
Like this guy? http://www.freerepublic.com/~monty22/: "This account has been banned or suspended."
Need another hankie?
I agree. Don't tobacco users do that now? Is there any reason to suppose smokers of legal marijuana wouldn't?
... said the guy girlishly blubbering about "bullying."
Funny how drug-war supporters look at factors created or aggravated by the war on drugs, and claim them as reasons to continue the war on drugs.
Exhibit A
And Jefferson recommended “an infusion of hemp” for headache - i.e. marijuana tea.
Would someone please point out to me where the Constitution grants the power to outlaw ANYTHING to the Congress? Prohibition required an Amendment and look how that turned out.
I really expect better from my fellow FReepers. Liberty means being left alone to do what you feel is best for you and nobody else. It’s nobody’s damn business but yours.
How did that old saying go? “Your right to swing your fist ends at the tip of my nose.” Well, it sure seems like noses have grown much, much longer over the years. Now they are poked into everybody’s personal business
No idea who that is. But what I said about you is certainly true.
No idea who that is.
ROTFLMAO!
VERY nicely put!
No, that's just Dale. Clearly, you two have never been introduced.
That one looks banned. So does this one..
http://www.freerepublic.com/~mrleroy/
I know that’s you though, and you got banned for good cause.
So...you’re not the Dale Reed that went by the name Uncle Fuzzy when he DJ’ed?
No idea who that is.
ROTFLMAO!
That one looks banned.
Monty22002, it also looks like a current FReeper we know.
got banned for good cause.
For what "good cause" was MrLeRoy banned?
Really? You ought to look up the word liberty. It definitely does not mean what you think it means. What you're describing is authoritarianism. That's not conservative by any stretch of the imagination.
In case you hadn't noticed, our governing and social organizing systems today, bear only the slightest resemblance to the tenets laid down in our Founding Documents. The Framers would be aghast at the personal liberties we've allowed to be stolen from us.
Liberty is only a "subjective concept" if you're a left liberal who's comfortable with the Doublespeak of the New World Order.
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