I don’t smoke, anything. Never have.
But I have to say, if anything this position makes her more appealing? I hope she doesn’t retract.
How can any adult today say that smoking pot is a big deal? My generation and friends smoked pot all the time. And I know for a fact that they are today your doctors, lawyers, succesful businessmen, good family people, etc.
And most of all, how the hell is it the politically “Conservative” position that the Government has any damn right to control what you do that harms NO ONE and is no one else business?
Exactly. I’ve never touched the stuff, but the WOD is an abomination, and is really a war on the constitution and limited government.
100% correct. But a pot decriminalization needs to include ALL drugs for all of the same reasons.
1.Eliminating dangerous ‘street forms’ of many as well as the black market which is responsible for all the crime, violence, and ultimately health related issues.
2.Alcohol related car accidents/deaths would decrease wildly.
3.prisons would under populate
4.mexico would have jobs
5.government makes money on taxing instead of losing Billions on policing and not taxing one of the nations largest economies.
6.cotton and lumber, two of the environmentally destructive industries get relief from a cheaper and easier to produce fiber.
7.citizens are given an opportunity to take responsibility for themselves and make their own choices.
those just a few of the benefits, we could probably end up paying cash for some of the great stuff our Government buys one day!
oh wait I forgot, we need jobs for the DEA, Coast Guard, 90% of police, and a host of other clowns getting paid so we have a way to efficiently(joke) criminalize most of our population... nevermind
I would be for the complete legalization of drugs if we:
1. Viewed all crimes in which drugs were used as “premeditated.”
2. Had a strong torture penalty, which would allow aggrieved parties the option of inflicting that torture.
3. Had no welfare or medical insurance that paid toward the care of self-inflicted drug injury (including rehab).
In other words, you commit a crime under the influence of drugs, and you have no safety net. Neither does the government or others pay for your choice to take them. Finally, for those who were physically hurt or killed by someone under the influence of drugs, that person gets tortured three times more than they inflicted on the innocent person(s), and both tortured and killed if they killed an innocent.
Amen. Reefer Madness was a cornball bit of gratuitious sensationalism.
Alcohol is legal, as it should be. There are folks who have a couple of scotch-and-sodas a few times a week to unwind, or a couple of beers a day, and may tie one on with pals every few months in a situation where they don't end up behind the wheel (sober friend/spouse driver, camping, on foot, etc). Then there are folks whose lives revolve around getting drunk and even become deranged while under the influence.
One is benign and well-adjusted. The other is a personal, moral and public problem.
Two very different things. In a lot of ways, alcohol is good for you, and look at the one (Islam!!!) society that prohibits it. No wonder Muslims are so high-strung. Alchohol has been around since the dawn of man for a reason. I don't see as how pot's all that different.
And HearMe is right. A whole lotta ordinary Baby Boomer Americans tried and survived the travails of drug addiction in their youths. It is a personal trial of temptation, part of being human, a individual's life path, an opportunity for growth as much as for destruction. Government has little or no place in it. It's between an individual, his conscience, and God.