To: MrLeRoy
"Imagine if one were to extend this logic to, say, freedom of the press."Just the other day, freedom to smoke pot was compared to the 2nd Amendment. In my post, I joked about why they didn't also compare it to the 1st. Well, not missing a beat, here it is!
Legalizing pot will not end the WOD. Billions will not be saved.
To: robertpaulsen
No. it will be a move towards social sanity though.
17 posted on
01/13/2003 7:50:25 AM PST by
zarf
(What is sincere music?)
To: robertpaulsen
Legalizing pot will not end the WOD.Who in this thread said it would?
Billions will not be saved.
Of course they will; marijuana is far and away the most popular of the drugs against which the multibillion dollar War On Some Drugs is waged.
20 posted on
01/13/2003 7:53:24 AM PST by
MrLeRoy
To: robertpaulsen
But it will cut out some of the harmless offenders doing time for something that is not going to hurt anyone. I am not one that thinks there shouldn't be some kind of laws regulating what you can take or smoke, but it's insane what their doing to a lot of otherwise law abiding citizens.
To: robertpaulsen
Billions will not be saved.By their own figures, in 2001, Missouri law enforcement found and destroyed over 70 million pot plants. Of that total, less than 12 thousand were described as "cultivated marijuana". That means the remaining 69.988 million were worthless feral ditchweed hemp. How much do you figure it costs to do that? That's one state. For one year.
36 posted on
01/13/2003 8:15:31 AM PST by
tacticalogic
("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
To: robertpaulsen
Legalizing pot will not end the WOD. Billions will not be saved. Most likely not. However, Billions would be made from the taxes on it.
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