I understand that Portugal has decriminalized drug possession and use with good results, but that misses the whole point, which is: It is no one’s business but the individual concerned WHAT he ingests. Specifically, it is NOT YOUR BUSINESS, none of mine, and most assuredly not ANY KIND of government’s business.
RE-legalizing drug usage will produce neither hell nor utopia. It will produce a society which treats its denizens as grownup, self-responsible, FREE adults, fully capable of making our own choices as to what we do with OUR bodies. And our own MISTAKES, for which each person bears full, PERSONAL responsibility.
You and Reid, Pel-lousy, et al, have much in common, not the least of which is the delusion that Americans are your children, to be molded and controlled to suit YOUR schemes and plans for us. But that’s all it is, a delusion, the product of an arrested development on your part. You seem to be projecting... liberals can’t trust themselves with firearms; therefore NO ONE can be trusted with them but .gov agents. YOU don’t trust yourself not to get addicted, first puff, hit, pill or injection of ANY sort you might take, therefore everyone else must be the same way. Sorry, but the lives of others are not YOURS to control, no matter which side of the coin you call yourself on. If you don’t think people will do a whole LOT to gain/regain their freedom and control over their own lives, you weren’t watching when the iron curtain came down, were you?
If you’re so afraid of FREEDOM and the America the Founders gave us, leave. There are any number of still tyrannical states who’d welcome you with open arms and just the right size chains to fit you. But you do NOT get to limit the freedom of Americans just because YOU’RE afraid of it. That you want to makes you not one bit different from the worst of the Lefties.
I’m not afraid of freedome. But you seem to miss the idea that your rights end, where mine begin. According to numerous sites I’ve read tonight, there is a lot of history behind the narcotics laws and their constitutionality. In the fist link I provide it lays out a good history and states where the USSC gave constitutial authority in passing such laws.
Since the Constitution gives congress the rights to make such laws, the USSC listed where the laws fall under the constitution. Guess the USSC doesn’t see it the same way you do. Sorry, but your libertarian ideas are not sound according to the USSC and the constitution.
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/history/physician_and_feds.html
So you understand that Portugal has decrimininalized drug possession? That is a far cry from what you guys are proposing. You need to examine the effects of the numerous drugs on society when they were largly legal back in the 1700s, 1800s and early 1900s. Then get back to me on why it would not be in the best interests of society to end the avaliability of such narcotis. I know it probably gets in the way of you enjoying a good joint. Tough. We are a nation of laws, and if you don’t like the ones we have then get enough people behind you and change them. Obviously only a small minority of you do want them legalized and not enough to overturn the federal and state laws.
More links to read to show history and cases that gave the feds the authority to do this enforcment.
http://lawbrain.com/wiki/Narcotics_Acts
And I do hate using Wikipedia for such things, but their information was very well written. It even gives your side a little understanding.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_Substances_Act
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_history_of_cannabis_in_the_United_States
Maybe you libertarians should find a site that is more libertarian orented and hang out there. You’re not winning any friends here and we will refuse to surrender to your kooky ideas. This is a conservative site and not a liberal one.