Posted on 03/26/2014 9:58:12 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Some of them do seem to work very hard at not having that conversation.
LOL, OK, so as lame as it is, that is the best you can do to avoid coming out against abortion and gay marriage, and for not supporting pro-life, pro-marriage politics.
The CDC says marijuana has more carcinogens than tobacco. It also causes brain damage.
It won’t be long until the lawsuits start against the marijuana suppliers and retailers as users start turning up more frequently in auto and work accidents.
Not sure who this disembodied "they" are, I have yet to see anyone on the anti alcohol and anti tobacco bandwagon who isn't real big in the anti legal weed bandwagon, too. I know it's a wacky idea totally devoid of the required hypocrisy and desire force others to live the way you want them to live, but if you want to stop the anti alcohol and anti tobacco nazis, you may find allies in the pro legal weed crowd.
I see plenty of pot advocates on FR who are antialcohol and antitobacco.
And we sure want more people out there driving DUI.
It’s either because some are substituting pot for alcohol (and are better drivers stoned than drunk) or because pot smokers tend to do it at home, while drinkers are more likely to be at bars and restaurants.
For me, I’d prefer a few more annoying stoners and give up the police state war on drugs that infringes liberties of everyone.
Malkin is off my reading list
DWI tickets are about largely about revenue (MADD, insurance, states, services, courts)
Malkin is off my reading list
Or maybe I will just stop reading crap
Yep, my accidental omission on the lawyers, the treatment was what I meant by services...
Illegal immigrants don't make good cash cows and their arrest can open a whole can of worms (immigration status, publicly paid defenders, incarceration costs...)
When was it banned, and who lead the movement?
Prohibitionists, and their arguments, never change.
Although the temperance movement claimed Dr. Benjamin Rush (1745/46-1813) as one of its primary inspirations, he actually promoted moderation rather than prohibition. The temperance movement often had difficulty getting facts right.
Early temperance writers often insisted that because of their high blood alcohol content, "habitual drunkards" could spontaneously combust and burn to death from inside.
A temperance publication wrote of drinking parents who gave birth to small children with a "yen for alcohol so strong that the mere sight of a bottle shaped like a whiskey flask brought them whining for a nip."
One temperance "scientific authority" implied that inhaling alcohol vapors might lead to defective offspring for at least three generations.
Because the temperance movement taught that alcohol was a poison, it insisted that school books never mention the contradictory fact that alcohol was commonly prescribed by physicians for medicinal and health purposes.
Temperance Leader Lucius Manlius Sargent tried to get secondary schools, colleges and universities to eleminate all references to alcoholic beverages in ancient Greek and Latin texts.
Because the temperance movement taught that drinking alcohol was sinful, it was forced to confront the contrary fact that Jesus drank wine. Its solution was to insist that Jesus drank grape juice rather than wine.
During Prohibition, temperance activists hired a scholar to rewrite the Bible by removing all references to alcohol beverage.
The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) strongly supported Prohibition and its strict enforcement.
The Bible says to "use a little wine for thy stomach's sake" (1 Timothy 5:23). This admonition caused serioius problems for temperance writers, who argued that alcohol was a poison and that drinking it was a sin. So they insisted that the Bible was actually advising people to rub alcohol on their abdomens.
Prohibitionists often advocated strong measures against those who did not comply with Prohibition (1920-1933). One suggested that the government distribute poisoned alcohol beverages through bootleggers (sellers of illegal alcohol) and acknowledged that several hundred thousand Americans would die as a result, but thought the cost well worth the enforcement of Prohibition. Others suggested that those who drank should be:
A major prohibitionist group, the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) taught as "scientific fact" that the majority of beer drinkers die from dropsie.
The WCTU suggested that school teachers put half of a calf's brain in an empty jar into which alcohol should be poured. As the color of the brain turned from pink to gray, pupils were to be warned that a drink of alcohol would do the same to their brains. executed, as well as their progeny to the fourth generation.
The problem is that anybody can grow it in their back yards. It's a weed. So if you try taxing it beyond a nominal amount, people will just grow their own.
I’m aware of that but the tax revenuers at the ATF will come knocking...
A stoned nation is a loser nation that Putin types will take apart piece by piece. Just give them time. Same goes for the Muslims.
A wealthy stoned nation will become enslaved Elois. Just give it time. Honest legitimate medical marijuana...OK by me. But most such programs are backdoor marijuana legalization
America is becoming an unlivable cesspool. You really think this is going to help? Why put so much energy into this?
It’s a good thing FDR, that constitutional champion, ended prohibition because our country has been getting better ever since. Today, we have great orginalists like Barney Frank fighting for a better America through pot legalization. Obama, the constitutional scholar, has told the DOJ to ignore the law when it comes to pot. The dope smoking, knockout game “teens” will cease stop attacking random white people when their drugs become legal. People are returning to God’s word in droves, applying His command to use all seed bearing plants and herbs. It’s a constitutional, cultural, and religious revival.
I don’t know, but if it was before 1992, it was a better time, in a better America.
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