Meghan McCain Says Yes to Legalizing Marijuana

The Daily Beast ^ | Jun 11, 2012

[JustSayNoToNannies]

I’d rather it was illegal than let the state governments become 50 new drug cartels.

Reasonable regulation doesn't make a state a "cartel" - unless you think all 50 states are currently "alcohol cartels."

If they take the money completely out of it and grow it like a vegetable in the garden. I can live and let live.

Why can't you live and let live if somebody sells their vegetables? Why is that any of your business.

I want less government

Banning substances, or their sale, creates plenty of government.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Why can't you live and let live if somebody sells their vegetables?

Food is non-taxable you dope.

[JustSayNoToNannies]

If they take the money completely out of it and grow it like a vegetable in the garden. I can live and let live.

Why can't you live and let live if somebody sells their vegetables?

Food is non-taxable

Why can't you live and let live if somebody sells that which they grow like a vegetable in the garden (but which is taxable)?

[Hemingway's Ghost]

I'll bite: What have we been doing wrong these last 41 years in the war on cancer, and how would you win it?

Really?

The "war" on pot (and other illegal drugs) is a law enforcement exercise aimed to shut down a market in goods that some people want and some people are willing to risk a good deal to provide at considerable profit.

The "war" on cancer (or any other awful disease) is a scientific race to develop the technology - medical or otherwise - to eliminate or reduce the affects of a terrible physical disease.

The only similarity between the two is this: government has applied the dopey "war" metaphor to both of them, meant to imply a seriousness and immediacy in the undertaking, but nothing much other than that.

To try to draw anything logical from comparing the two is, well, silly.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Food is non-taxable...

You are a nanny state fascist.

[JustSayNoToNannies]

Food is non-taxable

Why can't you live and let live if somebody sells that which they grow like a vegetable in the garden (but which is taxable)?

Food is non-taxable...

You're caught in a loop. If you're not a bot, try to break out of it and answer the question.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Food is non-taxable.

[POWERSBOOTHEFAN]

Bath salts aren’t Epsom salts in this case;it’s a synthetic drug that makes people do crazy s***.

I’ll get back to you on it.

[POWERSBOOTHEFAN]

According to Drugs.com, “bath salts” are a designer drug that act as a central nervous system stimulant.They inhibit the norepinephrine-dopamine reuptake system and are made up of various substances.

They’re called “legal cocaine”.

[Lx]

From WebMD:

What do you experience when you take bath salts?

"Agitation, paranoia, hallucinations, chest pain, suicidality. It’s a very scary stimulant that is out there. We get high blood pressure and increased pulse, but there’s something more, something different that’s causing these other extreme effects. But right now, there’s no test to pick up this drug. The only way we know if someone has taken them is if they tell you they have.

Sounds like fun, chest pains, suicidal ideation and paranoia, where do I sign up? I'm tired of huffing paint...

Man, who would use such a thing? I tried looking up LSD, Meth and PCP just at WebMD since that's where I got that bolded paragraph above to see how they compare but they don't list them.

Using Google, I looked up other drugs to see what their side effects were but there were too many responses and I wanted a concise paragraph like WebMD produced. The only one like it was for pot but it wasn't really anything too bad, at least comparing to this bath salt nastiness.

It also appears to be legal at the moment. As soon as they ban it, they'll just move along to another analog.

I do not want to end up like this guy; in fact, I don't want anyone to end up like this guy. I wonder if he got help or whether it was too late since huffing paint kills brain cells of which we have a finite number and I've already killed enough off with alcohol.

[POWERSBOOTHEFAN]

It’s scary stuff. So is that synthesized marijuana.