Posted on 04/03/2009 5:15:06 PM PDT by sdcraigo
For the past several years, I've been harboring a fantasy, a last political crusade for the baby-boom generation. We, who started on the path of righteousness, marching for civil rights and against the war in Vietnam, need to find an appropriately high-minded approach to life's exit ramp...I even have a slogan for the campaign: "Tune in, turn on, drop dead." A fantasy, I suppose. But, beneath the furious roil of the economic crisis, a national conversation has quietly begun about the irrationality of our drug laws. It is going on in state legislatures, like New York's, where the draconian Rockefeller drug laws are up for review; in other states, from California to Massachusetts, various forms of marijuana decriminalization are being enacted. And it has reached the floor of Congress, where Senators Jim Webb and Arlen Specter have proposed a major prison-reform package, which would directly address drug-sentencing policy. ...The hypocrisy inherent in the American conversation about stimulants is staggering. But there are big issues here, issues of economy and simple justice, especially on the sentencing side. As Webb pointed out in a cover story in Parade magazine, the U.S. is, by far, the most "criminal" country in the world, with 5% of the world's population and 25% of its prisoners. We spend $68 billion per year on corrections, and one-third of those being corrected are serving time for nonviolent drug crimes.
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I understand many are FUMING over this proposal!
Especially if you want to double the number of cars coming at you after jumping the median,or the number of spaced out characters shooting up a mall or beating their spouses or doing all the other nutty things that those freaked out on drugs seem to do, like voting Democratic.
Good gravy. The economy is coming down around our ears. The Republic is coming down around our ears as the government is taking control of major industries. People are pouring over our borders unabated. The 2nd Amendment is about to come under a severe attack. And access to marijuana is a pressing issue for some reason?
I agree - with the following provision - we let those smokers wither in the vine, so to speak. Leave ‘em alone. No welfare. No anything. Let them suffer the fate of the typical liberal idiot......
I will agree to pay for cleanup and burial.
If it’s legalized today, that means the government will have to provide it to people who can’t afford it, plus pay for rehab any time they want it. Under the current system, the amount of money this will cost is endless.
Hey!? Is that you Cheech?!
Very lol voting democrat.
I have recently run into a few of the anti-drug liberals and was amazed they exist and still vote dem!!
I got a girlfriend thats better that this
and you don’t remember at all
as we get older and stop making sense
you won’t find her waiting long
stop making sense, stop making sense...stop making sense, making sense
I got a girlfriend that’s better than that
and nothing is better that this
( is it? )
At least they will be going 15 mph.
IOWs you approve of welfare for other people. Good to know who the stealth socialists here are.
I’m all for the legalization of marijuana.
what about second hand smoke...oh and will they put a $10 federal tax on it???
I suppose just "drop dead" isn't an option for the worst generation.
Here's a better idea. Let's legalize all drugs. Marijuana. Heroin. Meth. PCP. Put the cocaine back in Coke. And lets allow people to buy them with food stamps if need be.
This should do two things. First, any chance gun control ever had just went out the window. Buh bye. Second, after 5-10 years we will have applied plenty of badly needed recreational pharmaceutical 'chlorine' to the gene pool.
We'll spin it as re-enabling natural selection.
oh yeah let’s get this debate on while half the country is already toking because they lost their job, their home, etc...... yeah right.
oh yeah let’s get this debate on while half the country is already toking because they lost their job, their home,and the gubmint is about to engage you in class warfare/welfare etc...... yeah right.
This subject always generates a big buzz. I guess we will have to wait until the smoke has cleared.
Let the states decide, and make the federal government admit that Wickard v Filburn and the “substantial effects” doctrine is a load of crap.
The weed business is recession proof!
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