You’re a riot!
If we don’t have legal dope we’ll lose our freedoms and personal property....HAHAHAHHAHAH!
All of that is coming, but it certainly has NOTHING to do with whether dope is legalized.
As predicted, you don’t care about the facts about marijuana at all.
It wouldn’t matter whether Cheech and Chong did the study or the ACDC.
and in the mean time, you don’t care whether the culture goes up in smoke.
Do you care about the facts of Liberty at all?
If we don’t have legal dope we’ll lose our freedoms and personal property....HAHAHAHHAHAH!
It has already happened to a large degree. And you want to laugh it off. The Drug War has been a huge factor in the destruction of freedoms and personal property, and one must be willfully blind to overlook that fact.
Those who embrace imprisoning their fellow citizen for merely possessing the wrong plant, medicine, or liquid spirits, can hardly be called conservative.
Why? Because they support the same arbitrary notions of law and control which the most rabid authoritarian Marxists do. The same arguments are used regarding gun violence, smoking, and many other characteristics which exist in a free society.
It's as if the authoritarian Left and the authoritarian Right would have the rest of us choose between whose version of Tyranny should prevail.
"What about the children?" and "We must save the People from themselves!" and all such garbage are ever the refuge of the narrow-minded and despotic. The hysterical imposition of such oppressive nanny-state law can only logically lead (and, indeed, has led) to the obliteration of the Fourth Amendment, enrichment of organized crime organizations, and other such abominations.
Deride "potheads" and their "enablers" all you want, but the totalitarian impulses of the Prohibitionist mind, and its unbelievably shallow and naive awareness of true Liberty, are truly a marvel to behold.
I, for one, would rather tolerate the admittedly challenging consequences of decriminalization, than to continue traveling the autocratic road down which Prohibitionists have been leading the nation for the last century or more.
But the American People are up to such a challenge, because the alternative is a prison nation populated by inmates who have committed no crime other than the phony one of possessing this or that tool or substance in violation of the edicts of a Tyrannical government.
True freedom (not some pale imitation of it) carries with it many challenges for civil society to address.
But taking draconian shortcuts will never be the answer.
I’ll expect next to be called everything but the Son of God. C’est la vie.
Maybe you haven’t noticed, but your War on Drugs is as much a failure as the War on Poverty or Prohibition. There is nothing ‘coming’ in what I posted...those are ALREADY HERE. And, they are a DIRECT result of those same ILLEGAL Laws. So, Joe Biden Jr., I don’t take trampling the 4th, 5th, 9th and 10th such a laughing matter.
I don’t care about facts? The ‘fact’ you stated have nothing to do with the debate. If you were so worried about ‘harm’, you’d be just as fanatical about booze, cigs and a plethora of other substances. If ‘harm’ is your yard-stick, we should outlaw personal cars, ‘extreme’ sports, snack foods, TVs, computers, etc.....
Culture won’t matter much under the iron fist you support. Thanks, but no thanks.
To paraphrase a quote: The dictator may at times sleep, but those, thinking they do so for the good of others....