Yes, it's front page news in the culture wars.
Why not heroin,pcp,rat poison?
If a drug is likely to lead someone to harming others, that is a justification for banning it.
It seems like marijuana and painkillers don’t fit into that category.
You think he is voting for Ron Paul?
Never met a dope smoking dope that I would hire or associate with.
Mellowing out in his later years?
It makes more sense to a theologically minded person than one who is anchored solely in realpolitik. The bible warns against the usage of medicinal herbs for the purpose of communing with magical spirits, but there seems to be very little or none of this going on with marijuana. (Something like iboga would be another story.) That leaves it as basically another intoxicant, like wine, with the same issues that go with any intoxicant. Driving stoned should be no more tolerated than driving drunk, although we have no widespread measure of how stoned stoned is.
This modern drug prohibition has FAILED.(as the alcohol prohibition did)
What we are doing in an attempt to mitigate drug use, and the criminal enterprise that has grown around it is far worse than drug use itself. LEARN from history. We’re dammed fools for allowing this to continue.
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
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.)
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.
It’s legal in Switzerland. But, I guess, the Swiss are just stupid.
“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
I may take up Pot smokin if Obama wins again.
Pat lost it a long time ago.....
Dude, marihuana, coca, are Almighty God’s creations while alcohol, Internet, and Las Vegas aren’t!
One of the few things I’d agree with Pat over...well said.
Have I crossed to another dimension and Pat Robertson said that pot should be legalized?