[Tublecane]

Vices are not crimes.

[massmike]

read later

[KosmicKitty]

And legalizing marijuana will remove the freedom employers now have to test for the judgment-impairing drug.

Can employers also test for alcohol impairment?? Alcohol is legal, yet you can't fly a plane right after having a martini.

[cripplecreek]

I don’t have major issues with legalization but I do have issues with selling out to the likes of Soros and the lying that surrounds the issue. With Soros its not a rights issue, its like all things with him, a control and influence issue.

Claiming that its a medicine, then running college courses on how to grow and grade it only makes them look like liars. Here in Michigan its a pretty standard ballot issue that has lost every time till this last election, then suddenly there was a wide swing in every single county that was questionable at best. (BTW I voted for legalization)

[Phantom Lord]

If my engaging in an activity does not deprive another of their life, liberty, or property through fraud or force, it should be legal.

[grumpygresh]

You know how the Dims have smokes for votes? Well we could counter with doobies for drones. Give your urban Dim drone a doobie on election day and just tell them that the polling place is over at the local McDonald’s

[camp_steveo]

Why, because someone choked on a plastic bag?

How about this.

If pot were legal, the guy would still be alive, and in jail for whatever it was he did to get arrested in the first place.

[Larry Lucido]

Grannies are getting arrested for innocently buying 3 boxes of antihistamines in Indiana within a week. F the “war on drugs,” free granny.

[Dead Corpse]

It’ll turn you into a bat and make you have sex with jazz musicians. Just ask Henry Anslinger...

[wolfcreek]

“And legalizing marijuana will remove the freedom employers now have to test for the judgment-impairing drug.”

Pure unadulterated BS.

And the pot didn’t kill him the bag/violence did.

[SaxxonWoods]

Legalize it, tax it and control it just like it’s much more dangerous counterparts, alcohol and tobacco. The amount of police time freed up will be used to catch criminal pushers causing much more danger to society and killing young people (There are no elderly users of Crystal Meth, Angel Dust and PCP). Legalize heroin too, and let people get on a program leading to methadone and release from the deadly scourge of heroin.

Libertarians believe it best to criminalize only those causing a real danger to others.

..or not buying health insurance!

/s

[Theophilus]

And legalizing marijuana will remove the freedom employers now have to test for the judgment-impairing drug.

This argument is utterly vacuous. "Employment at will" gives employers the freedom to test/fire for anything except for prohibited discrimination. And even those prohibitions should be ruled unconstitutional

[kAcknor]

This should be a fun thread. All the Anti-Nanny State conservatives will rise to tell us how the State should be the Nanny in the case of drugs.

[kAcknor]

This should be a fun thread. All the Anti-Nanny State conservatives will rise to tell us how the State should be the Nanny in the case of drugs.

[Mariner]

"Marijuana killed Andrew Grande, not only in the literal sense, but in the sense that it abetted his descent into a very sad, counter-cultural lifestyle. Its legalization is supported by the same forces that promote Kevin Jennings, one-world government, Gaia worship, and legalized prostitution. All these elements work against the traditional libertarian values of initiative, freedom, and honor. Libertarians need to rethink their position on drug legalization."

I'm CERTAIN that's the silliest argument I've ever read from a so-called smart and educated person.

There are millions of conservatives that smoke pot and they all just got smeared by an idiot.

[ravingnutter]

One idiot chokes to death because he eats a baggie of weed and we should rethink our whole drug legalization stance because of it? The only thing sad here is the logic in that article.

[SouthTexas]

Think everyone is missing the point:

Darwin Award Winner!

[Species8472]

Viagra is a recreational drug too........

[truthguy]

The author(s) probably think we made a mistake with the 21 Amendment that repealed Prohibition?

This is the same principle.

[Tolsti2]

This has been one of my biggest problems with libertarians and is why I’m a solid Republican. Also the foreign policy insanity.