Posted on 01/05/2020 9:38:58 PM PST by Perseverando
So - FReedom to protect oneself and your loved ones is akin to slavery now...say the would-be slave-owners.
How is that any different from the immigration "sanctuary cities"?
Denying that nullification is an option is a step down the road to tyranny.
Peter Galuszka has never been anything more than a democrat activist with a byline.
Au contraire. Those sanctuaries are the patriots' Underground Railroad.
People were enslaved because they were unequal, deficient, weak.
Having guns aids equality, decreases weakness. Guns are a defense against those who use the tyrannical law as a weapon be they Iranian or American
I think there is still enough old men, military trained around that would disagree with the idea of removing guns from the public. If the libs would bide their time for 30 yrs there would be enough soy boys to accept the premise of no guns.
Sorry hypocrites. When you applauded the “Sanctuary city” movement on illegal aliens, you lost all moral credibility to posture now. You don’t get to selectively pick and choose which laws you will enforce.
And our solution to illegal trafficking of alcohol was to legalize it. I think this was the right solution regarding that drug - and would be the right solution today at least as regards the #1-by-a-mile most used illegal drug: marijuana. Do you agree?
Calling whites the R word is like calling blacks the N word.
Liberals love sanctuary cities.
Marijuana for young people may affect brain development. People are voting to keep pot shops out of their community. In our community, they wanted to put a pot shop right across from the high school. Voters in our community voted against the pot shops by 7 percentage points. Some communities ban alcohol sales. In our community, alcohol is banned in certain parks.
Because legalization took a large segment of pot sales away from Mexico, growers in Mexico and Columbia turned to opium cultivation. Most of US heroin now comes from Mexico and Columbia. This makes it easier to get heroin in the country. We have a flood of heroin in our country and a huge population of homeless addicts under its grip.
My observations point to the consequences of the drugs. We need to deal with the consequences whether they are legal or not.
And our solution to illegal trafficking of alcohol was to legalize it. I think this was the right solution regarding that drug - and would be the right solution today at least as regards the #1-by-a-mile most used illegal drug: marijuana. Do you agree?
Marijuana for young people may affect brain development.
Marijuana criminalization has failed to keep that drug away from young people; they have been reporting since well before any state had legalized that they could get marijuana almost as easily as cigarettes or beer, although the latter two are much more widespread among adults. The available evidence indicates that the best way of keeping a drug away from young people is to legalize it for adults - which gives its sellers an economic incentive to confine their sales to adults, namely the risk of losing their legal adult market.
People are voting to keep pot shops out of their community. In our community, they wanted to put a pot shop right across from the high school. Voters in our community voted against the pot shops by 7 percentage points. Some communities ban alcohol sales. In our community, alcohol is banned in certain parks.
Communities should be able to make their own decisions on alcohol or marijuana, free of federal interference (for which there is no Constitutional authorization).
Because legalization took a large segment of pot sales away from Mexico, growers in Mexico and Columbia turned to opium cultivation. Most of US heroin now comes from Mexico and Columbia. This makes it easier to get heroin in the country. We have a flood of heroin in our country and a huge population of homeless addicts under its grip.
According to the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), heroin use has been flat since 2012 - before any state legalized marijuana: https://www.samhsa.gov/data/sites/default/files/cbhsq-reports/NSDUHNationalFindingsReport2018/NSDUHNationalFindingsReport2018.htm#illicit4
My observations point to the consequences of the drugs. We need to deal with the consequences whether they are legal or not.
Your first post was explicitly about illegality, as is your most recent point about marijuana legalization's alleged effect on heroin use. The consequences that we need to deal with whether they are legal or not, are by definition not arguments against legalization (not that you said they were).
I don't think it's an extension at all...it's already there.
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