Posted on 05/19/2002 8:13:50 PM PDT by hellonewman
I guess you believe that America will not survive then. Because whatever happens, drug use will continue, as it has in the past, it will in the future.
The WOD failed. It cannot succeed. Take it or leave it.
Only in what passes for your mind. Other choices exist even if you can't conceive of them.
He is an authoritarian, he won't do that.
"Society" doesn't go after drug abusers now. It is government interests that do.
Oh, btw, the was no War on (some) Drugs before 1970.
What you fail to realize is that Liberty is a zero-sum game.
Only big government socialists. The credible people who oppose the insane WOD never, never advocate government involvement at all much less in bailing out people who have not taken responsibility for their own actions.
Excuse me but that is just sophistry of the first order.
Well put....
Please explain this cryptic comment.
Getting closer every day. Several states have legalized pot under certain circumstances and yet the federal government has persisted in prosecuting it's own unconstitutional laws in those states. The jig is up and many people, apparently you are one of them, can't see the shift in opinion. It's over. In ten years you will wonder what ever led you to ask that question.
Care to post credible figures on drug usage in the Netherlands which shows that registered voters use drugs in numbers greater than in the past and that they are the majority?
Your theory is Swiss cheese.
Their Western European culture is obviously amenable to that sort of thing. Ours doesn't seem to be.
I attribute it to several things, one of them being that the population is too busy using drugs to be bothered about what is happening in the government. They are desensitized.
You honestly believe a bunch of evil zealots slipped this sort of legislation by a population because they were too stoned to realize what they were doing? I've been to Amsterdam twice now, and honestly---the only people that seem to frequent the coffeeshops in large numbers are the tourists from places where weed isn't legal. The Dutch are out holding jobs and making money like everyone else all around the world.I cannot say this strongly enough: AMSTERDAM IS NOT A CITY OF STONED ZOMBIES.
Your theory is 200% whacked. It reeks of your own personal agenda and has no basis at all in reality.
For a comedy routine.
There is a class of people who refrain from certain things only because those things are illegal and carry stiff penalties.
For example, I do not cheat on my federal income taxes.
Drugs are no different. Legalization or decriminalization will increase the number of users. At least at first. Then I would expect a fine example of natural selection to take place.
The problem with the Netherlands is not its drug policy but its welfare state policy.
Drugged-out zombies had a distinct survival disadvantage in the pre-welfare-state America.
LOFL!!!
The rats get about half the popular votes in this country, mostly from the parasites. They do this by confiscating from society's producers and giving out "free stuff" to the parasites in order to buy their votes. You don't think the Democrats would just LOVE to include heroin in the "free stuff" they use to buy votes? What planet you been on?
The stuff stinks. You youngsters have no class.
Oh, I wish!!! Hollllywooood! Wow!!!
That's where all the beautiful people live.
The miserable, vain, dead-like-everybody-else-sooner-or-later, beautiful people. Wow.
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