Posted on 08/28/2014 11:26:39 AM PDT by ConservingFreedom
Yes they have, and thanks for noticing. Normally drug addiction expands according to a logistical growth pattern, meaning it gets exponentially worse year after year until it reaches a plateau where the losses are equal to the new additions.
Thankfully our War on Drugs has kept the normal and natural growth of drug addiction from increasing. It has been held down to two percent of the population for nearly a hundred years.
No matter how you slice it, that has been an incredible success.
Now there are some incredibly ignorant and stupid people who think that because there is a small amount of ongoing drug usage occurring in our country, that this means the entire effort is a complete failure. These people are simple minded and foolish and should not be listened to.
They have just never had the necessary education or thinking ability to grasp what would happen if we hadn't had a drug war. Like a cow, they are of the simple minded "The Grass is always greener on the other side of the fence" mindset. They want legalized drugs because they have no grasp of what the society would be like if they got what they wanted.
Drug use as well as marriage, the gay thing, and a million other issues are STATES issues, not federal government issues.
Defending the nation from deadly chemical attack is definitely within the rightful mandate of the federal government. Likewise defending it against biological attack.
Drug use and drug laws are up to the people of each state to decide what they in their locality want to do. That is what we (used) to call federalism - decentralized government as defined by the 9th and 10th Amendments - our blessed and free Constitutional Republic that we are letting Satan and his minions snatch away from us.
Nonsense. The Federal government is necessary to deal with foreign threats. You may not be aware of this, but much of the drug traffic comes from FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
How is a state going to deal with Columbia or Afghanistan?
You are the same person with the same tag line. It would be easy to find because it is a response that you made to me a few days ago. You are not a conservative person to push drugs on our society. Where does the legalization stop at? ( must be quite confusing to live in a setting to where your goal is to legalize marijuana as the fabric of the country that holds us all together is being pulled apart)
No it isn't. It is just Libertarian propaganda to say so. Drugs are an existential threat. We know this because we saw drugs destroy China.
Preventing the Destruction of the population is one of the FOREMOST purposes of government. What other reason do they have for existing?
I know more than one conservative who’s smoked pot recreationally for years. They pay their taxes and support themselves.
Two percent may simply be modern America's plateau (carrying capacity).
Or more likely, some drug addled Libertarians will just make up bullshit of which to accuse conservatives, so that they can pursue their childish and hedonistic lifestyle without worry.
The tokers just don't think their ideas will cause massive social harm, and even if it does, they just want to be allowed to puff their weed. (or shoot up their dope.)
And much does not; that part is none of the feds' business.
I have read that he has been funding a bunch of these propaganda spreading Libertarian groups to push for drug legalization. I can just see how a pharmaceutical company could make billions by manufacturing instant drug slave narcotics.
I have lately come to suspect that this deceptively named "Conserving Freedom" is part of this George Soros funded campaign. He keeps showing up here at Free Republic and posting "LEGALIZE WEED" articles.
If he comments on any other topic, I haven't noticed it.
Everything that's taxed is not really legal? How much does that leave?
Go for it.
You are not a conservative person to push drugs on our society. Where does the legalization stop at?
Wherever we're left with a War on Drugs we can win - which is manifestly not the case now.
I was already in la-la land from reading another thread on polygamy......this article took me right from la-la land into surroundings reminiscent of the famous surreal insane asylum in "Bedlam" with Boris Karloff.
We're going faster into hell-in-a-handbasket than we can keep up with.....with madmen everywhere laughing at us all the way.
I fervently hope the hedonistic, satanic, irresponsible editors of the above Oregon bird cage liner are among the first of the corrupters to be in highway head-ons with addled pot heads slamming into their little wind-up Nissans.
Leni
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That's a lot like leaving child molesters alone. No, I don't think we will do that. You people spread a disease that kills people, and you need to be thrown in jail.
Too late. Most of the pot heads I know are already on Welfare.
8/28/2014, 10:59:05 AM - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3198030/posts?page=7#7 ... to cite just one.
"WAAAAAAAAAH!!!! They get Alcohol! I want my WEEEEEEEEEEDDDDDD!!!!!"
Summed you up pretty good, didn't it?
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