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Let's Not Kid Ourselves About Marijuana
Wall Street Journal ^ | January 15. 2014 | MITCHELL S. ROSENTHAL

Posted on 01/15/2014 9:15:01 PM PST by MeshugeMikey

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To: dsc

That is why pot users should be free to smoke pot but prohibited from driving a car or operating heavy equipment.


201 posted on 01/18/2014 6:07:41 AM PST by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds)
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To: cherry

One of the guys behind the pot legalization movement does admit that pot is just the camels nose under the tent. They plan to also make heroin and cocaine legal.


202 posted on 01/18/2014 6:10:55 AM PST by dforest
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To: P-Marlowe

“That is why pot users should be free to smoke pot but prohibited from driving a car or operating heavy equipment.”

Do you mean prohibited at all times, whether intoxicated or not?


203 posted on 01/18/2014 10:55:52 AM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: dsc

Yes. If they test positive then they are under the influence.


204 posted on 01/18/2014 12:22:10 PM PST by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds)
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To: MeshugeMikey

So to protect the churlins, we’re going to help the Mexican drug cartels maintain their illegal and violent monopolies. I guess one has to smoke a ton of weed before this makes sense, because I’m just not getting it. Maybe one of our local Drug Warriors would like to fire up the ol’ thinkin’ bong and explain it for us.


205 posted on 01/18/2014 12:28:00 PM PST by Redcloak (Winter is coming.)
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To: Redcloak
thats what passes for logic in....


206 posted on 01/18/2014 12:37:24 PM PST by MeshugeMikey (This Message NOT Approved By The N.S.A.)
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To: Cementjungle
... pilot who smokes pot after his dinner to relax isn't any more likely to smoke pot before flying than have a martini before flying.

But who is going to be high? The guy who drank a martini after dinner or the guy who smoked pot? And which is going to stay in the pilots system the longest. You can drink a glass of wine and not get buzzed. Can't do that with pot.

207 posted on 01/18/2014 12:56:21 PM PST by weston (As far as I'm concerned, it's Christ or nothing!)
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To: weston
But who is going to be high? The guy who drank a martini after dinner or the guy who smoked pot? And which is going to stay in the pilots system the longest. You can drink a glass of wine and not get buzzed. Can't do that with pot.

You can smoke some pot and be fine again in a few hours... same with a martini. If you have 5 martinis... then it's different... same thing if you spend all evening smoking joint after joint.

208 posted on 01/18/2014 1:39:58 PM PST by Cementjungle
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To: F15Eagle
It's not even pot. Their argument applies to all drugs, all sex, all perversions and ALL AGES.

Basically their argument boils down to something like this: "no where in the Constitution does it say you can not (fill in the blank) keep children in the basement for sex, therefore there should be no federal law against it.

This is the argument they use for everything.

210 posted on 01/18/2014 2:07:34 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: dforest

You are correct, no where in the Constitution does it say you can not keep children in the basement for sex, therefore there should be no federal law against it.


211 posted on 01/18/2014 2:08:36 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: P-Marlowe

“Yes. If they test positive then they are under the influence.”

That is just factually incorrect. It is detectable at levels that could not conceivably have the slightest effect.


213 posted on 01/19/2014 11:30:15 AM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: cherry
>"where are all these people going to get the money for that?."

What with the outrageous price of sunshine, dirt, and water, it's only a matter of time till everyone's been murdered for mulch!

http://biblehub.com/genesis/1-29.htm

Whom do you trust? Phillip Morris? Eli Lilly? or The Creator?

Cannabis doesn't make anyone a criminal!

The Law does!

214 posted on 01/19/2014 7:16:09 PM PST by rawcatslyentist (Jeremiah 50:32 "The arrogant one will stumble and fall ; / ?)
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To: F15Eagle
>"No doubt the Choomer-in-Chief is on board with this exercise."

No doubt he ISN'T! The Feds have been stormtrooping dispensaries at twice the rate as under W.

Freedom isn't in his vocabulary.

Yours either apparently.

215 posted on 01/19/2014 7:22:05 PM PST by rawcatslyentist (Jeremiah 50:32 "The arrogant one will stumble and fall ; / ?)
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To: F15Eagle
>"Well, I guess you missed the duplicate threads today."

Yep, I missed em! Like I miss hearing about the antichrist 24/7. /s

Like I said, "Who ya gonna trust?"

Johnson and Johnson? or what God himself provides?

What business is it of the nanny state what any one grows in their garden? NONE! What makes you think you are right to beat, rob, murder, and enslave your brother over a flower? Because man said so?

Yehushua did say we'd be persecuted. Praise Him!

For God so loved the world that he GAVE His only begotten Son. We are barely free to accept this most precious gift.

I don't condemn you for not "Beholding" What G_d has told you to Behold, must you condemn me, when I do?

217 posted on 01/19/2014 10:05:41 PM PST by rawcatslyentist (Jeremiah 50:32 "The arrogant one will stumble and fall ; / ?)
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