War on drugs hits new low

The Austin Chronicle ^ | NOVEMBER 25, 2005 | JORDAN SMITH

[William Terrell]

Have you read "The Law" by Frederic Basiat? When a government goes beyond it's purpose of securing the natural rights f the people, protecting the nation against foreign aggression and the people against acts that deprive them of life , liberty and property by others, life of the individual becomes nasty, brutish and short.

Do you know the difference between malum in se and malum prohibitum offenses?

[Appalled but Not Surprised]

If you don't smoke pot, then smoking it would make it about 100-110. If you do smoke pot, not smoking it would make it about 160.

[Appalled but Not Surprised]

Do you know the difference between malum in se and malum prohibitum offenses?>>

Quite well. A lot of people think that pot selling is a malum prohibitum. My dead friends cry from the grave that it is a malum in se.

[THEUPMAN]

It's not a crime to be stupid; it's a crime to make someone even stupider than they already are. I have high school classmates from the 70s who are still paying for getting high every day.


well that explains them ... what explains you?

[A Jovial Cad]

Caught quoting someone else without attribution, and now you simply shriek louder.

I'm embarrassed for you.

[dakine]

Your circular anecdotal argument is fun...I have no answers for your infinite wisdom towards the evils of MJ...

[Appalled but Not Surprised]

I prefer the term "jack booted thug"!

Sig heil!
>>

The first person who invokes the Nazis in an argument has just lost the argument.

[Appalled but Not Surprised]

Then submit.

[philman_36]

If marijuana works so well for pain, how come the guy needed prescriptions for oxycontin and morphine?
Read the article...pain for which he'd been prescribed morphine and Oxycontin, among other narcotic drugs, says St. Pierre.
"he'd been"...as in "he had been" as in "in the past he had been prescribed...".
Though Tuck has taken morphine as prescribed by doctors for about 16 years to help with his pain, he was given no painkiller or treatment at the jail other than ibuprofen, Hiatt said.
I would proffer that the marijuana was for low pain days and the morphine/oxycontin was for high pain days. Makes sense.

[Appalled but Not Surprised]

Okay, attribute this: "you can't handle the truth."

[hinckley buzzard]

And if its legal there's not large sums of money to be made by growing it

LOL! Tell that to commercial tobacco farmers and cigarette companies!

Grow up, boy. What ever happened to obeying the law until it's changed by your elected representatives?

[mlc9852]

And you base that on what? Your IQ pretty much remains the same throughout life. Nothing you have said makes the case for keeping marijuana illegal and people who want to smoke it do. And I believe it will continue to be further decriminalized and hopefully some day be completely legal, as it should be. It's a plant, for crying out loud! Prescription drugs are often much, much more dangerous. Where I live in the past year two young guys have died of prescription drug overdoses. Yet not one has died of an overdose of marijuana!

[pageonetoo]

134 here. I think, there I am. (Sartre)

[jrg]

and what's your stand on alcohol and tobacco?

[pageonetoo]

I think, thereFORE I am. (Sartre)

oops...

[Appalled but Not Surprised]

not one has died of an overdose of marijuana!
>>

Unless they're driving, using heavy equipment, or walking on the street and not paying attention to the light change when they try to cross--the cause of deaths of my three classmates.

[dakine]

Morning, Wheaties, Piss....

[JTN]

If you don't smoke pot, then smoking it would make it about 100-110. If you do smoke pot, not smoking it would make it about 160.

Actually there is scientific evidence that marijuana grows brain cells.

[mlc9852]

Any friends die because of alcohol which is perfectly legal? You need to do things responsibly. From people I've known, alcohol has done much more harm.

[Appalled but Not Surprised]

As for tobacco, stare decisis--it's been part of our culture for 500 years; we're stuck with it. But I don't smoke.

Alcohol? You won't buy this answer but here it is: My Lord and Savior made some for his first miracle; it can't be more evil than good.