[Chuckster]

The biggest threat to America is holier than thou do gooders.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Kennedys are such sleazebags.

[Diogenesis]

Should he not be going against Ambien,
which he was on during his last car accident
into a Capitol police barrier?

[Opinionated Blowhard]

He ticks through studies showing that smoked marijuana is “associated with” or “linked to” IQ loss, psychosis, and self-reported dissatisfaction with life. “It takes you to the same place as cocaine or heroin,” he often adds. “It just takes longer.”

LOL. And Patrick Kennedy is a great poster child for the proposition that prolonged marijuana use causes IQ loss and psychosis later in life.

[3Fingas]

Drugs are a scourge and our country will be adversely affected by legalizing them. I am conflicted on the issue though. My libertarian side says one thing but social conservative side says another. Things were better in the 1940’s and 50’s. I wish we could jump into a time machine and go back there.

[NVDave]

Pfah.

An Irishman campaigning against pot and dope, claiming that they’re the big danger?

Riiight.

And other than pot, coke and pills, the Irish are just as sober as judges, right?

[microgood]

But Kennedy took his last hit of anything in 2009, and he’s since honed an anti-drug message that sounds a bit like Reagan with a Boston brogue.

Nothing worse than a self righteous ex-anything.

[JoeFromSidney]

Pot is bad stuff. This is not an arguable issue. However, the problem is a moral one. Laws against morally bad behavior that harms only the person engaging in it are also bad stuff.

If we have to have laws, let's make it a crime to drive under the influence of pot, cocaine, etc. If we have to have laws, let's make being stoned an aggravating factor in crimes of violence.

However, there's no point in going after the stoner who sits in his living room toking, while harming no one but himself. I want to keep the cops out of people's living rooms, not just out of their bedrooms.

[truth_seeker]

He’s a relative newcomer, to sobriety. Now that he’s “enlightened” he would shove his enlightenment down your throat.

I have 20 years clean and sober, and could care less what substances other people use in their own lives, so long as they don’t harm me. (They are pretty much going to do it anyway.)

I would advise anybody to be very careful with ANY AND ALL addictive, mind altering substances, lest they take control over your life without your approval.

[Tallguy]

I may not have liked the Kennedy’s for their politics or their alley-cat morals, but Patrick Kennedy was a true punk. He was a disgrace as a congressman.

[TigersEye]

What will he call his campaign Pill Poppers Against Pot Heads?

[DouglasKC]

Good for him. He knows what he’s talking about.

[RaceBannon]

OUTSTANDING!!!!!

[NonValueAdded]

Wow ... Patches ... if it is heartfelt, then it is something to consider