Posted on 01/26/2014 9:10:57 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Mr. Norris, with Washington and Colorado recently legalizing pot smoking and their football teams (Seattle Seahawks and Denver Broncos) being in the Super Bowl, some have asked whether there is going to be added marijuana use during this year’s Super Bowl. And President Barack Obama recently said that he doesn’t think marijuana is as dangerous as alcohol. What do you think, Chuck? Is it? – “Trying to Make Sense of Sensimilla” in Seattle
I understand the arguments for the legalization of marijuana: It can generate tax revenue. It can reduce illegal supply and demand. It can strip power from cartels and lessen crime across and at our borders. And it isn’t so dangerous as other illegal drugs or alcohol.
You’re right; President Obama even claimed one of those arguments when he recently told New Yorker Editor David Remnick, “As has been well-documented, I smoked pot as a kid, and I view it as a bad habit and a vice, not very different from the cigarettes that I smoked as a young person up through a big chunk of my adult life.”
Obama explained, “(Smoking marijuana is) not something I encourage, and I’ve told my daughters I think it’s a bad idea, a waste of time, not very healthy.” But then he added, “I don’t think it is more dangerous than alcohol.”
With the president entering the cannabis conversation ring, debate has intensified around the nation. But what’s the truth in the alcohol-vs.-marijuana dispute?
This past week, CNN reported on some extensive studies and evidence surrounding the topic, especially in comparing use, addiction, withdrawal and the effects on using motorized vehicles.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
When Chuck Norris looks at a bag of pot and some rolling papers, they roll themselves into perfect joints out of pure fear.
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I am hoping for secession II. There will be no war as today’s Yankees want to get rid of the pesky Red States anyway.
By your argument, weed shouldn't be legal or legal. It should be ignored. Tough to do with mind-altering substances.
I agree with that as a hypothesis. Do you know if there are any books that have been written that establish a link between the decline of civilizations and moral decadence?
Seems like the best option. With each and every new day, America itself no longer appears even ‘worth’ trying to salvage.
Yes grass hopper!
It suffices to say here that justifying the use of one drug because it’s not so dangerous as another drug is weak reasoning in any book and bad grounds for justifying usage of either of them. Maybe it’s time we fight all addictive drugs instead of making excuses for using them.
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I’m all for freedom, but when liberty turns into licentiousness, it’s time to reconsider why we’re doing what we’re doing. Just because we can doesn’t mean we should
My problem with the libertarians is they too often don't see the big picture...Freedom is useless when there no personal responsibility (aka. moral values). Don't look for government to impose responsibility or values either they are hypocrites like the rest of us. If you are going to do something that may be harmful you better be ready to accept the consequences.
On the body, smoking marijuana can increase your chances of cancer. Most joints have no filter, and there are more carcinogens than tobacco (and any unknown carcinogenic substances added by the dealer). So the chances of getting lip, mouth, throat and lung cancer are greater than cigarettes.
On the mind, marijuana is know to decrease IQ over time as well as impair good judgement.
These are from the Whitehouse website.
“Under this philosophic instructor in the ethics of vanity, they have attempted in France a regeneration of the moral constitution of man. Statesmen, like your present rulers, exist by everything which is spurious, fictitious, and false; by everything which takes the man from his house, and sets him on a stage — which makes him up an artificial creature, with painted, theatric sentiments, fit to be seen by the glare of candlelight, and formed to be contemplated at a due distance.
Your practical philosophers, systematic in everything, have wisely begun at the source. As the relation between parents and children is the first amongst the elements of vulgar, natural morality... Your masters reject the duties of his vulgar relation, as contrary to liberty; as not founded in the social compact; and not binding according to the rights of men; because the relation is not, of course, the result of free election; never so on the side of the children, not always on the part of the parents.
The next relation which they regenerate by their statues to Rousseau is that which is next in sanctity to that of a father. They differ from those old-fashioned thinkers, who considered pedagogues as sober and venerable characters, and allied to the parental...Thus they dispose of all the family relations of parents and children, husbands and wives. Through this same instructor, by whom they corrupt the morals, they corrupt the taste. Taste and elegance, though they are reckoned only among the smaller and secondary morals, yet are of no mean importance in the regulation of life. A moral taste is not of force to turn vice into virtue; but it recommends virtue with something like the blandishments of pleasure; and it infinitely abates the evils of vice.”
A Letter From Mr. Burke
To A Member Of The National Assembly In Answer To Some Objections To His Book On French Affairs
1791
http://www.ourcivilisation.com/smartboard/shop/burkee/tonatass/index.htm
This is common ground for both marx and libertarians
Marx hated the nuclear family as an artificial construct of, God, patriarchy and bourgeois economics. Libertarians view the nuclear family as an artificial construct of God and in their moral relativity, discriminatory against any other definition of a family, 3 men, 1 man 10 wives, 1 man prepubescent girls, etc.
If it feels good, do it.
Thalidomide is an antineoplastic. Cancer patients take it to treat their cancer.
It is primarily used to help with nausea and to promote appetite.
YOU ARE WRONG.
Yes, it has other benefits, such as controlling anxiety, but the primary benefit is to promote appetite and reduce nausea.
The FDA banned Thalidomide for pregnant mothers, to treat morning sickness. Thank Heaven because in England Thalidomide caused a great many very tragic birth defects, and “flipper babies”.
If a pregnant woman so much as touches a pill of this toxic drug, Thalidomide, she can absorb enough of the poison to cause a birth defect to her unborn child.
Pot is much safer.
Both reject law as moral pedagogy as the Founders knew men to be inherently evil ( original sin ).
Declaration read Right to Life. Both the left and libertarians disagree as amplified in the Planned Parenthood vs. Casey case and agreed upon by both ideologies:
“At the heart of liberty is the right to define one’s own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.”
it has been my long term , direct observation , here in Hawaii , which is one of the most pot soaked places in America ; that most pot smokers , the vast majority , are inclined to be low information seeking Liberal voters . Too laid back to care if they get the facts right , trending to voting for anything that implies ‘ more fun and less authority ‘ and certainly voting for the candidates that appear ‘cool’ , and not even barely thinking about the safety of the nation or the wider world . later in life these same pot smokers tend to bog down in depression and often experience deep financial insecurity , because like the old story of the grasshopper and the ants , many of them fiddled away their best ,most potentially productive years , while the ants worked their little butts off . Another pot smoker observation I have made; here at least NONE of them serve their country in the Armed Forces , none are inclined to enlist . It’s ‘not cool’ . This of course does not apply to the many aging Vietnam War veterans that enjoy a good puff , out in their secluded homesteads . They EARNED the right to relax any damn way they want to . Talking about the younger folks who blow the boo non-stop , and then go vote for Obama ( et all)
Child abuse is a relative term. Libertarians generally agree sex with children is acceptable.
The left propose straw men arguments to further their cause. “Greedy” is the straw man. Bill Gates by creating Billions in new wealth and thousands of jobs is “greedy” by reaping the rewards of his implemented ideas aka, being rich.
Liberty to pollute? They`ve created the Big Lie that CO2, a natural substance required for life on Earth, is pollution.
What if there is a war and out soldiers are all high? What if there is a war and the enemy just tosses pot at our soldiers? they will be so addicted they will shoot their officers and sit around to smoke dope. But, there will be no more wars—we can all become mulims have four wives! And because of this women will have to Obey Men or be killed—its in the Koran isn’t it? This is a bad experiment—and it will take a full decade before we see how this works out.
I don't smoke cigarettes, marijuana or anything else. I'm not a big drinker (I like an occasional Lager with my dinner) and generally speaking, don't even like taking narcotics/painkillers often opting for non-narcotic substitutes ...
BUT.....
after over 5 years of Obama I really want something to numb me from the pain that a$$hole has inflicted on our country -- even if only for a few hours!
Name one. While I'm not a Libertarian, I know plenty of them and that statement of yours is so laden with bullshit it'd cover 40 acres of farmland.
Here`s one, how many more would you like:
Many people will object that sex with children is rights-viol- ating because individuals below the age of consent, do not know what they are doing, and therefore the compliance is not voluntary at all. I believe this argument is fallacious...
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