Prosecutors are urged to fight against legalizing drugs like marijuana

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

[jayef]

No OWK, he's really on to us. He has spotted our secret agenda and knows that we oppose the duopoly only to set ourselves up as despots, dictators and puppet masters.

[OWK]

And we'd have gotten away with it too, if it wasn't for Kevin and Shaggy, and the rest of those meddling kids.

[jayef]

Yeah. I've seen it happen. Paranoia is a bitch.

[jayef]

;-)

[vin-one]

Not to mention the fact that friends who smoke pot are more likely to have stronger drugs that they will, in social situations, pressure people to take,

With that above statement you are disqualified from ever discussing pot as well,
your friends that smoke it are more likely to push other drugs,
Dude turn off that Refer Madness Movie it has warped your brain.

[headsonpikes]

Man! You sure are doin' some weird sh*t!

Don't never mix the red pills with the little purple ones again!

The orderly might cut back on your TV access...no more SpongeBob for you!!

We know you're ill; please get well. Sincerely.

[OWK]

I was with you, right up until the "subsidize" part.

[MileHi]

Besides being ignorant, he's a little cranky too, isn't he?

FReegards

[OWK]

Good to see you my friend.

[tacticalogic]

They just refuse to be afraid of what he's afraid of, and the only way to make himself look like less of a coward is to try and make them look like fools.

[OWK]

Government subsidy of anything is immoral and counter-productive.

[Mudboy Slim]

"It would be helpful if they included the actual numbers that make up the percentages"

That's EXACTLY why you don't see it, my FRiend...the WarOnSomeDrugs is a sham and can only be continued by resorting to lies, deceipt, and propaganda by those in Power.

The Truth would Destroy the WarOnSomeDrugs so it is eschewed by the Federal Leviathan...MUD

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Marijuana is a psychoactive drug. If it weren't, nobody would bother taking it. It is a dangerous drug that has landed people in the hospital.

Marijuana is a psychoactive drug, yes, but it's a drug that has no achievable overdose level. It is humanly impossible to smoke enough weed to OD. Unless you can provide statistics that show the number of patients who land in the hospital because of an adverse reaction to marijuana, your statement is interesting, but it's your opinion only.

And of course it is a gateway. Just think about it, even on the purely psychological level. Not to mention the fact that friends who smoke pot are more likely to have stronger drugs that they will, in social situations, pressure people to take, or even, as happened to me, put stronger drugs in a supposed reefer.

Marijuana is absolutely not a gateway drug, and this, plus the assumption that marijuana smoking makes black jazz musicians rape innocent white girls, is the most ridiculous thing ever posited by the pro-WoD side. There is nothing inherent in marijuana that makes one, after smoking marijuana, desire harder, stronger drugs. Science has debunked the gateway theory time and time again---check any WoD thread on FR for proof.

As for your marijuana-smoking friends who've "moved on" to harder drugs and your dealer pals who tried to push you on to them or sell you laced grass, I'd say it's high time you find a better class of people to hang out with. It sounds like you've surrounded yourself with some real grade-A arseholes, and that's coloring your opinion in this matter.

[OWK]

Government treatment programs are also immoral and socialistic.

[jayef]

Where does this notion that heroin and cocaine addicts, given unfettered access to their drug of choice, would abuse them to the point of death inside of a year? Does your only experience with hard drugs come from movies like
Trainspotting and Requiem for a Dream? Come on!