Posted on 01/21/2014 4:29:12 AM PST by Kaslin
All the reasons in the world to KEEP Maryjane illegal are
trumped by reality.
Making it illegal in no way diminishes it’s availability or it’s use but that illegality DOES give the assclowns in office and their pet badgemonkeys carte blanche to assault, abuse, destroy and imprison countless otherwise honest, normal and productive citizens.
The PC method of getting high would be to eat it, not to smoke it, as to not pollute the environment.
“Making it illegal in no way diminishes it’s availability or it’s use”
You had to turn your brain off to come up with that statement.
So lets legalize all drugs. Then the “badgeMonkeys” as you are so fond of saying will have their cash stream cut off until they start catching and impose large fines on drug users when the drive or act like assclowns in public.
This isn’t all about cash. This is about the moral decay that comes with drug use. Sure, we can make money off it like a bunch of vultures, but all that cash wont do squat when the population is gorked on weed and we produce a generation of pot addled dimwits.
Telling us what we already know. Anyone who has been exposed to stoners know they are a waste case.
And the idea that stoners are mellow, passive people have a hard time explaining the gang-bangers’ obsession with smoking dope. Not to mention athletes.
Forget Colorado and Washington. I think California and New York should legalize it so we can get a real taste of what would happen.
From your linked article...
“After several decades of the tolerance policy, Dutch marijuana usage rates are in the middle of international norms, higher than those in neighboring Germany, but lower than those in France, Britain or the United States.”
Hardly the disaster you paint.
Eating it carries a lot of issues. Brownies are popular method among the local HS kids and there are issues with “overdosing” because it is a delayed high.
I have been to the big city, saw the elephant and to misquote (by intent not the actual words) of pedophile Alan Ginsburg:
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness
there is way too much known about psychosis that was caused by various hallucinogens including good pot.
this is a known factor, and I hate the thought of the country's children destroying their lives with it.
that being said, the (small L) libertarian in me says go ahead, you have been warned....
there is not much difference between this phenomenon and a healthy dose of LSD.
otherwise honest, normal and productive citizens.
Hmmm, never thought of the Bloods and the Crips that way....
Good point,
however overdosing on pot is probably not nearly as dangerous as overdosing on alcohol from a purely biological standpoint, not that it wouldn't case problems..
Those five arguments are also ‘valid’ reasons to make/keep alcohol illegal.
However, in a free society, the fact that some people will abuse a particular freedom/right is not a valid reason for restricting that freedom/right.
In a free society, the fact that a particular individual activity can be dangerous to the individual is not a valid reason for outlawing that activity.
Don't ask me. Ask the people who made pariahs out of tobacco users.
I seriously doubt there are that many people that AREN’T smoking it now because it’s illegal. On the other hand, those that ARE smoking it already couldn’t care less.
There’s no reason for keeping it(and some other drugs) illegal except for some people liking to use the police/legislative powers of the government to FORCE their will upon others....AND those who benefit from the ‘police industrial complex’ that seems to have grown around drug prohibition.
Are you saying EVERYONE who uses marijuana is a Blood or a Crip?
If not, then perhaps the hyperbole should be ratcheted down a notch or two.
Keeping it illegal gives parents some modicum of authority when trying to keep kids off drugs. Making legal just undermines parents even more.
In twenty years urban areas in Colorado and Washington will be stoner wastelands with lethargic dopers lying about in the streets like the zombies in “I Am Legend”.
Cars with stoners at the wheel will sit immobile at stop signs while the drivers wait for the signs to turn green.
Schoolkids will be frisked for weapons, Bibles, & fudge brownies.
;^)
I agree
MJs illegal nature is allowing cops to ruin young kids’ lives
I think Libertarians can create a society where it is impossible to raise a child to become a decent productive citizen.
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