Posted on 03/08/2012 8:30:25 AM PST by AnTiw1
Of the many roles Pat Robertson has assumed over his five-decade-long career as an evangelical leader - including presidential candidate and provocative voice of the right wing - his newest guise may perhaps surprise his followers the most: marijuana legalization advocate.
"I really believe we should treat marijuana the way we treat beverage alcohol," Mr. Robertson said in an interview on Wednesday. "I've never used marijuana and I don't intend to, but it's just one of those things that I think: this war on drugs just hasn't succeeded."
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Very nice retort there retread new-wad.
I never would have thought to come back with such a gay reply, but then I don’t play your way.
what can i say? i'm so profoundly masculine in everything i say and do, and you seem to be so utterly unlike me, what could i visualize but a pencil necked old man wearing a dress?
I have no idea. I saw a couple of firefighters in the office waiting to go back to do their test, so people ar getting tested randomly. But I know it does happen. Most companies I have worked at, people are drug tested after accidents.
If we legalize marijuana, isn’t that like saying that the hippies were right and we were wrong? I can’t live with that.
If they do criminal acts
That's not the question. You offer devastation of lives as a reason to BAN pot - NOT just punish criminal acts by pot users - so the question is whether you support the SAME policy of BANNING alcohol due to its devastation of lives ... or if you're a hypocrite.
I found this site that you can look at if you want to. It lists all companies that do drug screens.
http://www.testclear.com/dtcompanies/searchcompany.aspx
You can search by company name, or state, or just view the whole list if you want to.
Looks like an extensive list.
And the third one can be answered simply: They make the laws. It’s also why they and their staff are exempt from jury duty.
Ah...
So being partially illegal (age restriction) is better than totally illegal from that stand point.
Makes sense...
The hippies breathed air - so are you planning to stop? The alternative to legalization is to continue pouring billions of taxpayer dollars every year down the War On Marijuana rat-hole. I cant live with that.
You really are asking that aren’t you...
So being partially illegal (age restriction) is better than totally illegal from that stand point.
Since kids report that they can now get marijuana more easily than cigarettes or beer, it follows that the best way to restict their access to drugs is to make them legal for adults only (thus giving those who sell to adults a disincentive to sell to kids - namely, the loss of their legal adult market).
Seems pretty straight forward.
You either are for or against pot, fr or against legalization.
did I miss something?
Like for pot in a bong but not in a joint, against pot but for hemp? For pot with a twist of lime?
You really are asking that arent you...
Yup. Hard liquor is worse news than pot - start with the fact that you can fatally overdose only on the former.
You are already subsidizing drug enforcement efforts worldwide, incarceration, etc. - well, if you pay taxes. Either way, we pay.
Good point. Also, why isn't nick banging the drum for a return to Prohibition, since he and other taxpayers are on the hook for the costs, welfare, and rehab associated with the drug alcohol?
and probably the drug itself.
Nonsense - taxpayers aren't on the hook for anyone's legal alcohol or tobacco.
But then we used to worry about such thing, not glamorize it. Why it seems the support for legalization of a drug has grown chronologically with how far the left has pushed the nation.
The first thing we need to get straight is where the legitimate authority lies to decide if it will be legal or not.
THEN we can talk about whether or not it should be legal.
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