You obviously know little about the subject, but your knees do jerk quite well!
Ron Paul is a NUT! This “law” would prove destructive to the very moral fabric of the nation and would result in the destruction of multitudes of lives and untold misery resulting in further lawlessness, wickedness and ungodliness.
Without Arab intoxicants taking us over, then how can we ever close the curtain on Western Civilization?
You obviously know little about the subject, but your knees do jerk quite well!
Not only that, there will be a massive uptick in marijuana junkies raping white women and listening to negro jazz music!
Please read the 18th amendment and then explain how Congress actually has the Constitutional authority to ban marijuana.
The same thing was said about alcohol before prohibition. I say legalize it, but it won’t happen. Too much money made in keeping things the way they are.
Translation: "If they ever legalize pot, I'm out of a job!"
“Ron Paul is a NUT! This “law” would prove destructive to the very moral fabric of the nation and would result in the destruction of multitudes of lives and untold misery resulting in further lawlessness, wickedness and ungodliness”
Civilization is under threat not from pot smoking, but from a proliferating police state.
Is Sarah Palin a ‘nut’, too?
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“If somebody’s gonna smoke a joint in their house and not do anybody any harm, then perhaps there are other things our cops should be looking at to engage in and try to clean up some of the other problems we have in society.”
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin: Smoking Pot Is No Big Deal
Sarah Palin says recreational pot smoking is “relatively speaking a minimal problem” in America.
In an otherwise uneventful appearance on the Fox Business Network with Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, Palin said that while she doesn’t believe marijuana should be legalized, the country has bigger fish to fry.
“I think we need to prioritize our law enforcement efforts,” she said. “If somebody’s gonna smoke a joint in their house and not do anybody any harm, then perhaps there are other things our cops should be looking at to engage in and try to clean up some of the other problems we have in society.”
Allen St. Pierre, the director of NORML, which supports liberalizing drug laws, said Palin’s position on pot is perfectly in line with her identity as a politician.
“If you’re a populist as she appears to be, it’s maybe not that surprising,” he told AOL News in a phone interview today.
But has the former Republican vice presidential candidate ever lit up a joint?
You betcha. In Alaska, it was legal to smoke small amounts of marijuana until four years ago, and Palin has said that she’s tried it but didn’t like it.
“I can’t claim a Bill Clinton and say that I never inhaled,” she told the Anchorage Daily News in 2006.
Oh, right, like America’s moral fabric was completely rotten in 1875 when marijuana, cocaine, every opiate technically feasible to produce in those days (including the very popular tincture of laudanum), absinthe, mescaline, as well as tobacco and alcohol were all legal to sell and possess.
The only bright line I can find between legal psychoactive substances and illegal ones is that the legal ones (tobacco, caffeine in coffee and tea, and alcohol) were popular in Europe at the time of the American Founding, while the illegal ones weren’t.
I can see some arguments for keeping refined cocaine (though not coca leaves) and some hallucinogens (ones that produce ‘flash-back’ tripes) illegal, and fairly strong arguments for keeping methamphetamine, PCP, and ecstacy illegal. Other than that, we should be treating addiction and excessive uses of psychoactive substances as a public health matter, not a criminal matter.
The erosion of civil liberties and diversion of money to ever more ruthless criminal enterprises cause by the “war on drugs” (problems that get worse the more seriously the “war” is prosecuted) more than outweigh the downside in terms of added excessive users and addicts that would would be occasioned by a legalization regime.
Then amend the Constitution to allow for a Federal prohibition of drugs.
Otherwise, all you're doing is violating the Tenth Amendment and loosing the chains on the Federal government...and mind you, a central government with unlimited power and authority will most definitely result in lives destroyed and misery unleashed on the American people.
Now I KNOW you really haven’t thought this through, have you? Because if you HAD, you’d realize that the rending of our moral fabric has been done BY THE LAW, not so much by the use of recreational substances. In doing your homework, you’d have found that, far from banning drugs because they were “harmful” to folks (the AMA was AGAINST banning drugs, INCLUDING marijuana), the government agents at the time (about 1914) started demonizing various drugs AS USED BY SELECTED ETHNIC GROUPS. First up were the Chinese and smokable opium. Not other forms of opium, just smokable, the way the Chinese liked it after a day of working their butts off. It was claimed quite openly that Chinese men would entice white women into their opium dens, get them intoxicated and have sex with them. Later, after Prohibition I was repealed, heroin and marijuana were targeted, using the same tactics. This was also done to keep the FedGoons of the time employed, the prohibition agents. Targeted were Blacks (jazz musicians who wanted sex with white women) and Mexicans (who ALSO wanted sex with white women).
It was then and yet is today all about power and control over the lives of others. That’s it and that’s all and folks like you are all too willing to trade, not just YOUR freedom, but MINE as well, to have FedGoons kick in doors they have no constitutional authority whatsoever kicking in.
No, if you are someone who believes that the Constitution is what it claims to be, the Supreme Law of the Land, then you MUST BELIEVE that the war on some drugs is both unconstitutional and unconscionable.
Furthermore, and I speak as a sinner saved by Grace, ungodliness and sin are NOT areas for government to be involved with. They are GOD’S DOMAIN and I don’t recall anywhere in the Bible that Jesus told His followers to get laws passed to outlaw sin. Can YOU point that out to me?
No, of the three people involved in this post (You, me and Dr. Paul, whom you mention), there is a “NUT,” as you say, but it’s not Dr. Paul and it’s not me. You are welcome to attempt to refute me, but you can’t do so using anything but FACTS, just as I have done in destroying your rant.
The ultimate fact is that there is more harm done to folks (and to the Constitution) by the WAR on some drugs than ever COULD be done by drug usage itself.
Thomas Jefferson and George Washington disagree, morality that is man made is not morality. reality belongs to the creator, thou shalt not smoke pot is not one of the ten commandments...