Posted on 03/08/2012 9:21:14 PM PST by Mariner
RICHMOND, Va. -- Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson says marijuana should be legalized and treated like alcohol because the government's war on drugs has failed.
The outspoken evangelical Christian and host of "The 700 Club" on the Virginia Beach-based Christian Broadcasting Network he founded said the war on drugs is costing taxpayers billions of dollars. He said people should not be sent to prison for marijuana possession.
The 81-year-old first became a self-proclaimed "hero of the hippie culture" in 2010 when he called for ending mandatory prison sentences for marijuana possession convictions.
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Pat is getting good at taking patently stupid positions as of late. I wonder if he has an itch for some media attention.
“Pat Robertson: GOP Base Is Becoming Too Extreme”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2797397/posts
In many ways I agree. I think libs would be dying at a faster rate. Just my guess. But the CHILRUN! That worries me. But then SWAT can take them out.
Why not? Knock yourself out, as long as you aren’t harming anyone else in the process.(driving under the influence, or in public laws should apply)
if you want to regulate it fine. Do what you want. I like the old concept of freedom myself.
I’ve been giving this issue some serious consideration and wondering what the potential consequences could be. Maybe I’m naive, but could legalizing marajuana also help reduce illegal immigration?
Much of the Northern part of Mexico is rampant with drug cartels and the violence and corruption inherently associated with such. Many illegal immigrants come to Texas to escape the violence, corruption, and decaying cities/towns of Northern Mexico. If marajuana were legal, perhaps the drug cartels would embrace free-market capitalism and the violence and corruption in Mexico would decrease. Mexicans might then be able to create a life for themselves in their own cities and towns. They might even begin to prosper in time.
(It was just a thought. Don’t freak out.)
The drug war has long been over and has turned into a war on our rights.
All of the same arguments the drug warriors use can be used for banning guns. And all of the Wild West, blood-in-the-streets scenarios won’t happen when drugs are decriminalized and legalized.
Decriminalization is an inevitability. Some 12 states, even the Statist State of Mass., have decriminalized or are moving to decriminalize possession and use of pot.
The super-majority controlled Republican House of New Hampshire just voted in favor of decriminalization of pot:
http://www.unionleader.com/article/20120308/NEWS06/120309913
10+ years of study here on Portugal’s experiment:
According to PBS a couple of years ago (Lisa Ling did a special on pot) marijuana still amounts to over 60% of Mexican Drug cartel profits. These cartels also spoil public lands, kill intruders and import illegals with guns. The money is the foundation of their organization.
Over pot. Something at least 60% of America has used at least once and something 60% of America would use again if it were legal.
Already estimates are that those in the 3 West Coast states use at 25% at least once a year.
It is very, very common. I guess that makes all these people common criminals.
Yes, and Sears also sold a personal morphine/heroin kit. There are somethings which are too dangerous for anyone to do. This is why certain drugs are only given in a hospital or first tried in a hospital like sotalol
Legalize it. I won’t use it.
You might remember the birth defects that drug caused, in England, when it was used there for morning sickness in women, years ago.
The stuff costs about $12,000.00 a month.
A Law Enforcement officer client of mine made me aware of how ridiculous this was. He had cancer.
He asked, “Can you think of anything cheaper, and safer, that might give me the munchies?”
Thalidomide is expensive because, if you drop a single pill, and a pregnant woman picks up that pill to place it on the counter, that woman's child is at HIGH risk for birth defects, just from the poison absorbed through her skin.
The suggestion is to legalize pot, not drugs. Well, unless you consider coffee and wine drugs. Or even opium.
However, whether you consider it rational for society or not, it appears inevitable. I'd like to hear all candidates position on the matter.
This jackass still alive?... smoking the weed?...
It’s legal in Switzerland. But, I guess, the Swiss are just stupid.
Never met a dope smoking dope that I would hire or associate with.
I’d say you have associated with pot smokers but you didn’t realize it.
I smoke a little pot on occasion {probably once a year} and enjoy it. But I don’t get stoned. Just a “buzz” and that’s it.
Don’t freak out, man. LOL
“The three religions of the Book, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, are not well known for having drug cultures associated with them, so it comes as something as a surprise to learn that Islam, perhaps the most puritanical of the three, has a strong undercurrent of marijuana use throughout its long history.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/ID11Ak03.html
Please see my Post 36.
It's definitely a cultural issue.
Pot has been around as an intoxicant to man for at least 5,000 years. It reaches back there with alcohol.
I may take up Pot smokin if Obama wins again.
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