Posted on 08/27/2008 2:26:50 PM PDT by april15Bendovr
Soros behind Mass. effort to decriminalize pot By STEVE LeBLANC 1 hour ago
BOSTON (AP) A measure that would decriminalize minor marijuana-possession cases is on the ballot in Massachusetts largely because of one man: billionaire financier and liberal activist George Soros.
Of the $429,000 collected last year by the group advancing the measure, $400,000 came from Soros, who has championed similar efforts in several states and spent $24 million to fight President Bush's 2004 re-election bid. The Committee for Sensible Marijuana Policy needed about $315,000 of that just to collect the more than 100,000 signatures that secured a spot on the ballot, according to campaign finance reports reviewed by The Associated Press.
"All of us owe George Soros a great deal of gratitude," said Keith Stroup, founder of NORML, the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws.
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I had a roommate who was divorced from his wife and received a limited visitation due to his life being dysfunctional as the result of his marijuana use.
He had his child every other weekend and the bastard had to get stoned before he picked his daughter up for the weekend.
That’s not good.
We didn't make that much money back then at our workplace and sadly they couldn't exist without their daily high.
One of my Roommates was a Democrat and the other a Republican. I came home from work one day and as I walked passed one of their bedrooms I witnessed the dresser pulled out from the wall and the two of them crawling on the floor in a bipartisan effort trying to find just enough buds in the carpet for their bong pipe to get them their next high.
Who could find witnesses of other daily pot smokers that don't exhibit similar types of degrading addictive behavior?
I'm sure George Soros would love to see everyone in a bipartisan effort down on their hands and knees.
You guys use the arguments that alcohol is legal and is bad and therefor we should make another drug, pot, that you admit is bad but not as bad, available to the public.
You give examples of the evils of alcohol and that somehow makes pot better.
Yup, that makes a lot of sense.
Actually, you have convinced me — make pot illegal. Maybe something a lot stronger is better. A permanent high would be perfect. The more people like you who are out of mainstream society, the better. We could ship you all to a farm. A happy druggie is a passive druggie.
What a shame. Because there are probably some really brilliant people who will never make great discoveries because they can't find their way out of their parent's basement.
Actually, that is what Soros is hoping for.
A Jerry Springer society means the need for more government intervention. He is a demagogue with an international case of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy
I’ve seen my share of lives destroyed by drug abuse, but if I go back an look at the primary cause of damage, I can attribute more of it to alcohol and prescription drug abuse than marijuana. Hard cases make bad law. Sarah Brady thinks her personal experience makes her better qualified than most of us to decide what reasnoable gun regulation is. I think the truth is quite the opposite.
As for the rest of your post, I couldn't really put my response into words. If I had to just use two the second word would be “you” and the first word would rhyme with “truck.”
Could your arguments theoretically be a bigger pile of suck than they already are?
And you, posting on a Saturday afternoon during Labor Day Weekend, must be some kind of winner yourself.
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