Prosecutors are urged to fight against legalizing drugs like marijuana

Standard Democrat(Mississippi) | 12/29/02 | Scott Welton

[Mudboy Slim]

"Government subsidy of anything is immoral and counter-productive."

The WarOnSomeDrugs is an indirect subsidy to BigBeer and BigLiquor, who just happen to be some of the biggest supporters of the Fascists who promote the WarOnSomeDrugs. Just think about it, if you could plant a weed in yer backyard and smoke it at yer leisure, would you buy as much beer or hooch?! Follow the money to the root of these tyrannical laws.

FReegards...MUD

[headsonpikes]

"Follow the money..."

Boy, are some people cynical!!! ;^)

[Mudboy Slim]

If it ain't about the money, it's gotta be about the POWER!!

FReegards...MUD

[Mudboy Slim]

"I have faith that liberty will not only survive but triumph. ;^)"

You and me both, my Canadien FRiend...MUD

[Roscoe]

My, George Soros's blind and groping little liberdopian nanny socialist wasps are angry this morning. Whack their mud nest with the stick of truth and watch them go beserk.

As usual.

[jayef]

What's that, Kevin Curry's pap, or your sycophantic response to it?

[1FreeAmerican]

I've got a paramed friend who say's that after 15 years of working auto accidents he has never seen someone who was too stoned to drive- they are always too drunk.

[Lexington Green]

DA's are often elected.... they can be un-elected or recalled, as happened in CA when narco-nazi DA ignored the new med pot law

[biblewonk]

Every concert I go to has a ton of people, mostly kids, smoking weed. Then they drive home.

[biblewonk]

Just think about it, if you could plant a weed in yer backyard and smoke it at yer leisure, would you buy as much beer or hooch?

Hmmmm. Of all the WOD threads I've visited, this is the first time I've seen this thought. Very interesting.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Just think about it, if you could plant a weed in yer backyard and smoke it at yer leisure, would you buy as much beer or hooch?!

Beer? Probably. There's nothing like kicking back on your porch in the summertime with a few pops and listening to the Red Sox on the radio. Scotch? Vodka? Rum? I'd probably buy less, yeah, but not enough to tear the bottom out of the barrel.

[Mudboy Slim]

"...not enough to tear the bottom out of the barrel."

That's not how BigLiquor looks at it...any drop in liquor intake is a drop in their profits and to the extent de-criminalizing the whacky weed decreases that intake, they're gonna be against said legislation (or change in Executive Order).

FReegards...MUD

[Mudboy Slim]

"Of all the WOD threads I've visited, this is the first time I've seen this thought."

I tend to avoid the WOSD threads, so please feel FRee to spread the thought, my FRiend.

FReegards...MUD

[Mudboy Slim]

"As usual."

Yep...pro-WOSD folks just love to call folks names and disrupt these threads, but as soon as you shine the Light of Truth on them, they scurry away and refuse to engage US in rational debate.

Oh well, you can lead a Lib'ral to knowledge, but you can't make RATS think...MUD

[Hemingway's Ghost]

That's not how BigLiquor looks at it...any drop in liquor intake is a drop in their profits and to the extent de-criminalizing the whacky weed decreases that intake, they're gonna be against said legislation (or change in Executive Order).

That may be true, but I don't know to what effect "BigLiquor" controls the lawmaking process in this country.

[jayef]

Every bar I go to has tons of people drinking in them. I suppose some of them drive home too.

[Mudboy Slim]

"I don't know to what effect "BigLiquor" controls the lawmaking process in this country."

Money...but I'm not saying they have abso;lute control or anything like that, just that they impact the equation on the side of being pro-WOSD. Why would liquor companies--who make mind-altering substances--be pro-WOSD?! Competition...and competition, in their minds, leads to decreased profits.

Don't you believe that BigAgriculture would try to outlaw backyard gardens if they thought they could get away with it?! Same thing, IMHO...MUD

[biblewonk]

I'm sure they do, including me. My point is, don't argue pro weed from a BS statement like "weed smokers don't drive". Gimme a break. I'm not in favor of the WOD but I'm not in favor of BS either.

[TigersEye]

from Scott M. Burns, deputy director for state and local affairs for the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, urging prosecutors “to take a stand publicly and tell Americans the truth” ...

...agreed Scott County Assistant Prosecutor Paul Boyd. “It would lead to so many more people out there high operating machinery and other things.”

60 percent of teenagers in treatment have a primary marijuana diagnosis, according to Burns. “No drug matches the threat posed by marijuana.”

Marijuana, Burns writes in the letter, is not harmless but has risen as a factor in emergency room visits 176 percent since 1994, surpassing heroin.

Burns writes of the increasing potency of marijuana and its addictive properties in addition to being a “gateway drug” for many people.

“I would agree that marijuana is a gateway drug to hardcore drugs,” Boyd said. Marijuana is “the great seducer,” Boyd said, because “it breaks down a person’s defense to say ‘no’ to the harder drugs.”

So much for the truth.