Posted on 02/05/2013 7:59:15 AM PST by Cheerio
Reps. Earl Blumenauer and Jared Polis to introduce bill Tuesday to end prohibition
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Hey at least the guy had some shame, even though he’s a scumbag for still doing it.
This video will be an eye opener for many here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdOKUb0jQko
The guy in the video was a gung ho cop with a K9 that was expert in busting people for pot posession. No offense, but your attitude reminds me of his in his “youthful exuberence” days. He’s matured.
People are more complicated than many think.
It is a recreational drug that also does seem to provide medicinal benefits to many. It can be additive, just as as additive as alcohol and so many other substances both legal and not.
The primary concern I see is that because it is criminalized, criminals derive the most benefit from the situation.
Society suffers the most all the while because money that that would benefit the economy is being channeled away from them.
Some of that money would go to retail and much of that money is presently being taken away from the mouths of children by parents who are sorrowfully enamored by it’s recreational charisma.
There is also the aspect of the time, energy and again, money that is unnecessarily being channeled and wasted going into police and courts as well as incarceration for offenders.
And what really makes the situation an abysmal, hypocritical farce, is the great number of governmental employees, as well as members of the judiciary and as well as some individuals on the police force that partake.
What a fantastic way to control a willing population, willing to live in a haze
under the control of a Government they hated for controlling them.
Legalizing pot will bring no freedom. Only sadness and poverty, and more Us -vs- Them.
Downey Jr. has done the best drugs.Once an addict, always an addict.He has gotten older and weighed the odds of being a loser against being rich and learned to maintain.There is no doubt in my mind that he is still doing drugs.
“Pot is the perfect way to control the masses. An entire population living in a haze...”
Money quote! Meanwhile,
“What’s the difference between a drunk driver and a stoned driver?
“A drunk driver will blow right past a stop sign.
“A stoned driver will sit there and wait for it to turn green.”
My dealer is gonna be pissed.
Touche’ to your post#49 - apparently monty2020 and pfflier don’t know much about US history - thinks it’s the primary reason the country has gone to pot - worthy of a reposting...
“The whole system, the whole culture, the whole population is different than it was in 1900 when the stuff was unregulated. Its simplistic and shortsighted to think that merely legalizing weed will make a positive impact or be a good thing.
Much deeper thing need to change before I could sanction legalization of marijauna. When my 2nd amendment rights are no longer being infringed, when my 1st amendment rights are no longer being trampled, when queers are no longer pushing their crap on tiny children in schools, when 1/2 of the federal budget is no longer spent on welfare, when the single payer communist healthcare system is revoked, when our military is no longer a social experimentation playground for the libs, when my taxe are not sucking up 1/3+ of every buck I make, when borders are closed and the illegals sent back to where they came from, when Judeo-Christian values are not trampled and spat upon in the public square, THEN I’ll care legalizing weed. Not before.”
We tried to ban alcohol and it failed...
Pot has been around for thousands of years, it did not start in the ‘60s.
pot is not addictive
pot does not bring poverty
pot does not cause sadness
Pothead Polis is also an open homosexual who happens to sit on the Air Force Academy’s board of visitors. You can see his biography here:
http://www.usafa.af.mil/information/biographies/bio.asp?id=14277
It says “Congressman Polis inquires into the morale, discipline, curriculum, instruction, physical equipment, fiscal affairs, academic methods and other matters relating to the Academy that the Board decides to consider.”
This guy is pushing for more legal pot use. Anyone find this disturbing?
Please expand on that.
Yes, it does cause poverty, the same as Alcohol or any drug.
Sadness and despair. It certainly does.
So you apparently hate the expansive Wickard Commerce Clause, except when used to keep pot illegal.
Why do you pee on the Tenth Amendment?
You’re not talking to people of principle, Ken, you’re talking to Big Government zealots who want to control other peoples’ behavior.
Robert Downey Jr (no relation) is the actor always in trouble for drugs.
Let the people decide (not the government).
Pot does not cause any poverty anymore than alcohol does.
You might say abuse might bring poverty.
Pot does not cause sadness, abuse of any substance might but in a of itself it does not.
Thousands of people drink and or use pot who are successful happy people.
The guy in the gutter is not the norm.
You need to talk to a drunk's wife and family before you make such a sweeping statement.
Nine years sober,
GtG
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