Thus Spake the Potheads: The main arguments used to legitimize pot are pap.

American Thinker ^ | 01/13/2013 | Selwyn Duke

[SeekAndFind]

It's starting to appear as if marijuana users have become the homosexual lobby of the chemically dependent. What do I mean? Duck Dynasty's Phil Robertson could mention one sexual behavior (adultery) as disqualifying someone from the "kingdom of God," but mentioning that "other" sexual behavior? That's a boycottin', pardner! Likewise, there's no shortage of articles about the perils of smoking tobacco -- about how it causes lung cancer, emphysema and premature aging; about how it's a dirty, nasty habit -- all without indignant smokers crawling out of the woodwork to protest, between hacking coughs, that their passion is being unfairly demonized. But dare imply that inhaling copious amounts of marijuana smoke may not be one of Dr. Oz's top ten health recommendations, and, well, the potheads cometh.

[SNIP]

While most agree that casual drinking -- one or two drinks -- is fine and may even offer health benefits, it's universally acknowledged that drunkenness is destructive, ugly and reckless. In accordance with the old PSA, "If you have to drink to be social, it's not social drinking," it's accepted that if you have to get inebriated to deal with life, you have a problem.

[SNIP]

So I'll say that if you want to have one or two small puffs of a marijuana cigarette, fine. But you've crossed the line if you get high.

Deal?

This puts the lie to the alcohol/pot comparison. There are millions of casual drinkers who may have a beer or glass of wine with dinner but have no intention of getting tipsy. Except, however, for the few who use pot for legitimate medical purposes (and I'm dubious about the necessity of this, mind you), the goal of a marijuana smoker is ever and always to get high (drunk). The intention is always to alter his mental state.

[SwankyC]

Would it really irritate you if for every one of those you post, someone posts a link of a SWAT team raid breaking into the wrong house looking for pot (or any drug for that matter), murdering someone and not finding what they’re looking for?

[Proud2BeRight]

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[nickcarraway]

So you are okay with the government taking money from me to pay for potheads pot, welfare, healthcare, culture, etc.

You are not a libertarian, you are a socialist. Don't tell me that legalization is libertarian until we have a government that won't punish nonusers for the actions of users.

Why do you think Soros is funding legalization? He said it's the backdoor gateway to total socialism.

[Valpal1]

You know what happens to poor people that can’t pay the fines? They get sent to jail. Then they lose their job and still can’t pay the fines, penalties and interest. So it’s back to jail.

Fines only work in theory. In practice, it racks up large enforcement costs for swat teams to serve arrest warrants on broke dopeheads.

We can’t afford enforcement OR the loss of civil freedoms to our overmilitarized law enforcement.

Legalization is about starving the beast.

[nickcarraway]

So we have to have one or the other? Pot users killing nonuser or destroying their property is justified to you?

[JRandomFreeper]

taking money from me to pay for potheads pot, welfare, healthcare, culture, etc.

Newsflash for you. The government already does. Because the prohibition laws don't stop people from smoking pot.

/johnny

[HiTech RedNeck]

Could God be more useful than someone to pride yourself on and damn folks you don’t like?

Consider that “pot heads” were hardly even CARED about until the Reefer Madness days. Alcohol was a recorded factor of a fair number of historical scandals. Alcohol prohibition proved a bust. This sterner ban of a historically milder item is a farce (interdiction catches maybe 10% of it).

We have a SYMPTOM here folks... not a CAUSE. Pot is, at WORST, the canary in the mine. People have quit believing that the Lord cares for humanity. And things far, far worse than pot (and many of them perfectly legal or even requisite today) are going on as a consequence.

Leave pot alone. Do NOT leave God alone!

[nickcarraway]

Because the prohibition laws don't stop people from smoking pot.

So they already can. You admit it. Without the government officially endorsing it and officially support it, and officially take my money for it. People can already do it, as long as they are not stupid. So what is the problem?

[dennisw]

To compare alcohol (our traditional intoxicant) to pot is juvenile. Marijuana has no place in European and American history...or at best very very minor. Pot smoking was as common as gay marraige.....

Yeah I know. The new generations are going to change things for the better (what a joke)

[JRandomFreeper]

The problem is that people that don't smoke dope are getting caught up in the heavy-handed enforcement crap that the government does. It's called loss of freedom.

/johnny

[dennisw]

Legalization is about starving the beast.

Nope. Its about creating more Obama voters. The more pot you smoke the more Obama/Democrats/wealth redistribution seem to make sense to you.

A stoned population is docile stupid and lemming like.

[TigersEye]

If you tax it, then you are making the U.S. government into the largest drug cartel in the world. And they will act accordingly.

That horse is already out of the barn.

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[HiTech RedNeck]

I’d like to suggest conservatives propose this to liberals:

We will stop interfering with your welfare state dreams. We will not ban pot any more. We will let doctors prescribe anything they wish, if they have proof of financial responsibility for malpractice.

But in exchange the “war on government religion” has to stop. You agree to quit protesting even if every single City Hall has a creche. If every government worker wears a visible cross (or star of David or whatever). If the state wishes everyone Merry Christmas. Every welfare check, every LINK card, has to have a cross on it, or whatever other religious symbol of the recipient’s choosing but it can not be blank!

Will they take that deal.

That might be the wisest deal that could ever be struck between conservatives and liberals. Get God exalted again, and watch all the other problems take care of themselves, as best they can on a mortal coil.

[GeronL]

“Brave New World” sounds like Utopia to libertarians

[rstrahan]

Texas has laws that allow for the issuing of tickets for possession. Instead the police arrest for possession, and then seize their cars, etc. the DA gets a conviction, the cops get money.

[nickcarraway]

That's such a straw man argument. I don't know a single person who does that. And your solution to the problem is to quadruple the size of the government and take away everyone else's rights. There is a reason Soros decided to promote legalization as a gateway to total socialism in the U.S.

By the way, do you have any evidence that the heavy-handed enforcement will end with legalization? No, you don't. Unless you are daft, you know all this money will go into increasing heavy-handed enforcement. Do you really believe that will all go away? No, they will just ratchet up the police state.

[greene66]

Indeed, my parents and both my grandparents had never even HEARD of marijuana until they were well into adulthood. It was not a part of America unless you were some itinerant Mexican on the border, or some black jazz musician in NY. And even then, the stuff they had back then was reputedly a hundred times weaker than the brain-addling crap that exists now.

[dennisw]

Liberal too. It is liberals and libertarians who promote marijuana legalization. After marijuana comes the other drugs like cocaine and heroin, LSD etc

[nickcarraway]

Lol. Why don’t they make a deal with the Easter Bunny.

[HiTech RedNeck]

The Easter Bunny did not die to offer you salvation.