I could see how Conservatives standing up for individual liberty instead of the Nanny State could be confusing.
How about crack and meth? Why stop with weed?
Good. We supposedly support people making choices.
Anyone favoring drug prohibition should be intellectually honest and tell everyone how they also support alcohol prohibition. One only needs to look back about a hundred years to see what kind of colossal mistake that was. The drug prohibition has been even worse!
Hardly surprises me. FoxNews always seems in bed with the homo agenda. Figures they’d be into dope as well. I rarely even watch the damned network anymore. Not much different than the degenerates at CNN and MSNBC.
But, indeed, that seems to be all that America stands for nowadays... dope, homosex, and deviancy. What a hell of putrid sewer of a country this has become.
legalizing weed is a big mistake . Penalties should not be draconian because it is not that serious of an issue , but it is a social detriment . The biggest problem is that it tends to turn people into Liberal voting progressive airheads .
These same so called ‘libertarian Hipsters’ who rattle on about individual liberty as a rally cry for legalization of marijuana are awfully quiet about individual ECONOMIC freedom—removal of income taxes, abolishing Social Security etc.
These hipsters are social issue libertarians only.
The entire legalization of marijuana issue is all Bread And Circuses for the ‘mob’.
We as a country seem to have an unbelievable tendency to keep doing what ever fails us. If something isn’t working, it’s because we just aren’t doing enough of it! If education fails, spend more. Social Security is failing, keep at it! Drug prohibition isn’t working? Obviously we need to double down!
If you have a social problem and want to see a failure, just have the federal government declare a “War” against it....
Prohibition was a disaster, the “War on Drugs” is an failure as would be an prohibition of tobacco, which many would love to eliminate as well.
They use it to kick open doors, bank accounts, run cars off the road, shoot people in their beds, confiscate property without due process.
It's totalitarian.
A Firing Line Debate “Resolved: That Drugs Should Be Legalized”
Starring: William F Buckley, Newt Gingrich, Charles Rangel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luqF6q-ycVA
libertards
That great conservative Bob Beckel is probably in favor of no-knock warrants for confiscating guns too.
I for one want all the wonderful benefits the War on (some) Drugs has brought us to continue.
/sarc
Other part of drug debate...
Buckley questioning Charles Rangel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_-dtU_esJ8
Y’know, I’ve never smoked pot, never even seen it, but I don’t quite get why people are so upset with this...isn’t it basically just like beer and whiskey?
Although, the prospect of your local Walmart selling marijuana cigarettes does seem bizarre!
Ed
Pols are caught in a quandry:
Keep it illegal and still get their under-the-table shares they can deposit in their off-shore bank accounts,
or
Make it legal so they can tax it.
I despise the phoneys on The 5...so glib, so with it, so condescending.
I watch Fat Ed. He’s a stinking liberal but at least he believes what he says.
Just as I’d never vote for any candidate even slightly wobbly on homo-marriage, I’d never vote for any candidate supporting legalization of dope.
Let personal choice, responsibility and the consequences that come with smoking/eating play out with Darwin's theory.