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Why Legalizing Marijuana Makes Sense
Time Magazine ^ | Joe Klein

Posted on 04/03/2009 5:15:06 PM PDT by sdcraigo

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To: sdcraigo

Treat it like booze, just don’t tax me for tokers’ healthcare later!


41 posted on 04/03/2009 6:29:56 PM PDT by DTogo (Time to bring back the Sons of Liberty.)
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To: sdcraigo

They have to replace those lost tobacco revenues and the the trial lawyers will need some new green pastures to harvest.


42 posted on 04/03/2009 6:31:56 PM PDT by Natural Law
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To: Don Corleone
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.

Not only that, but I also hear that Marihuana influences Negroes to look at white people in the eye, step on white men's shadows and look at a white woman twice.

Have you heard that, too?

43 posted on 04/03/2009 6:34:32 PM PDT by Ol' Dan Tucker (While the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power.)
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To: the_Watchman

And access to marijuana is a pressing issue for some reason?
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I’d just like to see it decriminalized so that we can put millions of incarcerated people back to work, cut the police budgets and size of the police forces and put some of the Mexican smugglers out of business ... you can’t expect the NORML people to pass up an opportunity like this can you?


44 posted on 04/03/2009 6:35:33 PM PDT by Neidermeyer
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To: OpeEdMunkey

Exactly. Legalize it ALL and take the enormous profits out of the business and away from organized crime.

The weed-heads will “munchie” themselves to death and the hard-druggers will kill themselves; cheaply and efficiently.

Quit jailing them; let the fools drug themselves to death.


45 posted on 04/03/2009 6:36:07 PM PDT by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
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To: sdcraigo
Drug prohibition worked as well as alcohol prohibition did. If we are free people, let us have the freedom to put what we want into our bodies.
46 posted on 04/03/2009 6:37:07 PM PDT by FightThePower! (Fight the powers that be!)
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

Good points, and just before elections be sure and give out a lot of it free!


47 posted on 04/03/2009 6:37:34 PM PDT by Aussiebabe
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To: Eagles6
Eagles6 said: "Take the profit out of selling dope and the gangsters doing it will find another criminal enterprise like kidnapping and home invasions. "

It took a while to address all the extremely violent criminals that were educated during the prohibition of alcohol.

I don't do anything about my neighbors, some of whom I know use pot. But I would be quite willing to drop a dime on them if they were kidnappers or home invaders.

Are you in favor of criminalizing alcohol as during prohibition? Why not?

48 posted on 04/03/2009 6:38:08 PM PDT by William Tell
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To: sdcraigo

Well if Obama/Pelosi/Reid get their way then we will probably all need to smoke it just to get through the remaining term...


49 posted on 04/03/2009 6:38:55 PM PDT by surfer
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To: nickcarraway
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.

I agree. While I'm happy to allow stupid people their right to do stupid things, that assumes that they will also be free to enjoy the consequences of their stupidity. I have no wish to pay for someone else's stupidity. If you want to spend your money to fry your brains, then you should foot the bill for whatever damage you do.

50 posted on 04/03/2009 6:43:29 PM PDT by Redcloak ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: WildcatClan

This thread is now on the verge of making sense. A rational consideration of this topic may well transpire.

I think that, as always, we must look to the Constitution.

The Eighteenth Amendment was seen as necessary for prohibiting the manufacture, sale, and transportation of the chemical we call ‘alcohol.’ Yet the wild herbiferous ecosystem participant which neo-prohibitionists call ‘marijuana’ was banned only by Congress. Yet the deadly but common native crop which everyone calls ‘tobacco’ has never been banned in American history.

Maybe the Ninth Amendment applies here? Maybe some rights are retained by The People, not enumerated in the Constitution, which have nothing to do with emanations from penumbras.


51 posted on 04/03/2009 6:43:45 PM PDT by Unknowing (Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.)
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To: the_Watchman
And access to marijuana is a pressing issue for some reason?

Tax revenue.

52 posted on 04/03/2009 6:58:04 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: the_Watchman

It was a skit on the Big Bambu Album .It’s been years so I kind of forgot what went on except that it was an interveiw with Mr.Roachclip about legalizing pot and he was so stoned,he couldn’t think of what to say so he goes on like”For those of you who..uh... don’t think marijuana should be..uh,uhm,legalized,uh,uhm,uh,well..then you’re all f**ked.”Then you hear”CUT,CUT!!”in the background.


53 posted on 04/03/2009 7:21:29 PM PDT by Uncle Meat
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To: Ol' Dan Tucker

LOL!


54 posted on 04/03/2009 7:23:35 PM PDT by EEDUDE
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To: Unknowing
The Eighteenth Amendment was seen as necessary for prohibiting the manufacture, sale, and transportation of the chemical we call ‘alcohol.’

No, it wasn't. It was just seen as being less susceptible to repeal than legislation.

55 posted on 04/03/2009 7:25:04 PM PDT by Mojave (Don't blame me. I voted for McClintock.)
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To: sdcraigo

Gov cannot support religion and pot smoking is a religion to some.


56 posted on 04/03/2009 7:28:10 PM PDT by trailboss800
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To: GSWarrior; The Spirit Of Allegiance
This subject always generates a big buzz. I guess we will have to wait until the smoke has cleared.

Could you reefer me to a scholarly paper with a rolling summary that doesn't zig-zag through the facts?

57 posted on 04/03/2009 7:36:59 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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I never used to believe that marijuana was part of a socialist plot to destroy America, but I guess this proves it.


58 posted on 04/03/2009 7:44:41 PM PDT by KarinG1 (You're just jealous because the voices don't talk to you.)
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To: trailboss800

Controlling other people is a religion to some too.


59 posted on 04/03/2009 7:46:01 PM PDT by TigersEye (Cloward-Piven Strategy)
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To: surfer
Well if Obama/Pelosi/Reid get their way then we will probably all need to smoke it just to get through the remaining term...

That's the problem, surfer. This is no time for complacency. I like to get buzzed up as much as anybody else, but I worry about the ulterior motives of the socialists who want to make that easier for everybody.

60 posted on 04/03/2009 7:51:19 PM PDT by KarinG1 (You're just jealous because the voices don't talk to you.)
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