Posted on 06/02/2005 4:40:30 AM PDT by Wolfie
Wow! I was, at first, inclined to agree with him, but now that I read your post, I see the error of my ways. I now understand, because of your in-depth analysis, that Friedman has lost his mind. After seeing your brilliant point-by-point deconstruct of the arguments presented, I must admit that all the facts in the article are simply fantasies of a deranged soul, and that the exact opposite, therefore, must be true. Thank you.
Can ya imagine the college booksstore cashier counters featuring items for sale: Pens, Pencils, Dubes. Gives new meaning to "getting in on the same page with your mentor". Instead of "Monday Nights with Timothy Leary".. we can have whole classrooms devoted to "phwamming and tripping on the road", and then those classrooms devoted to studying the effects of pot on "conversation".
"Hey! I took Professor XXX's class on Pot 1. Er, was that Part 1. No no. It was Pol-Pot. I think it was about political pot but I didn't get the part about something 'camer rushe". Maybe it's a new type of lens for cameras. Yah! That's what it was about, dude. We learned about photography. It was really cool.
I would hope that your school district uses drug testing for drivers....I still cannot believe my company does not do it yet,we got the "no guns" signs on the doors already
You consider wasting $7.7 billion not particularly important?
Could it be that altering consciousness is instinctive - not only to humans but to others of all species as well?
If so, then wouldn't outlawing 'drugs' be the equivalent of making instinctive processes illegal? Thus, does this not make the WOD as reasonable as , perhaps, the War on Sex or the War on Sleep, perhaps even the War on Breathing?
Go back to the minors with this argument, rookie.
Why do people like you automatically assume the mere legality of something would mean that people who want to use that thing would use it 24 hours a day, 7 days a week? Beer is legal for adults over the age of 21. Plenty of people love beer, and drink it. Do you then assume all people who love and drink beer do so 24 hours a day, 7 days a week?
Milton Friedman signs onto pot legalization ping.
Why do some people pretend that drug users are rational and make reasoned decisions about their lifestyle.
"The war on drugs is so silly as to be a joke of multi-billion dollar proportions."
Except that it has had such horrible effects on our society. Thousands in prison needlessly, billions spent needlessly, and increased government powers including confiscation of private property. The police state aspects of "The War on Terror" would have been much less acceptable if Americans already hadn't been conditioned to similar excesses by "The War on Drugs". Nice to have wars that never end, and aren't winnable...think of the power that hands the government.
It needs to stop.
Excuse me?
"Well, I just can't wait till the school bus driver negotiates our steep hills and curves while on pot."
So I presume he's currently smashed on the legally available whiskey?
BTW, people intoxicated on cannabis are better drivers than drunks - studies have proven it.
I think he means that you sound like Yoda.
Pass the Kutchie man!
Would you potheads just give it a rest!
We declared War on Drugs (JEC)and we lost.
We declared War on Terrorism (GWB)and we..........
Point is, every one has personal life "experiences" with various subjects. You want pot made legalized, and OldFriend was cracking a joke. Not a joke, in my book. It happened. Lost numerous highschool chums in midst-party movement, around "suicide bend". And maybe they woulda still not made the "bend" high or not. But those Thai sticks back then, were mighty powerful. But maybe it was the opium burnt on an electric range and inhaled through a rolled up newspaper. Who knows.
Nonetheless, I think Buckley and Friedman are right - it is getting near time to unleash the Cracken.
With all the documentation surrounding the "pot is harmless" movement, it's time to stop forking out massive amounts of tax dollars to stop people from "doing what they are going to do regardless".
And yes, in the past, pot was neither legal nor illegal.
Remember those old rhubarbs from various "political identity movements"? cia unleashed CRACK on the black community in order to convict only "blacks"? Legalizing pot might just put a halt to those conspiracies.
Your post is a classic Ad Hominem. I guess you can't argue with his logic, so you deflect the focus onto him.
That's too bad, because some conservatives have a decent ability to defend the War on Drugs. You, OTOH, would lose, were you to pull that one in a formal debate.
Oops; Missed pinging you to post #58.
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