Posted on 06/23/2018 2:47:03 PM PDT by Mariner
Some day soon, even as sweet, skunky smoke drifts in from the streets outside, US Attorney General Jeff Sessions and other staunch opponents of marijuana may draw inspiration from a true believer named Morris Sheppard. After the repeal of national Prohibition in 1933 and until his death in 1941, the Texas senator embraced a yearly custom. A progressive Democrat often considered “the father of Prohibition,” Sheppard would rise on the Senate floor to rail against alcohol and call for a repeal of Repeal.
“It was a ritual,” Daniel Okrent, author of the 2010 book “Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition,” explained in an interview. “Clearly he didn’t expect anything was going to happen. It was paying homage to his cause.”
Sheppard, a proponent of bank reform and an advocate of women’s suffrage, may have been the country’s most sincere Prohibitionist, but he ended up on the losing side of history. As such, he faced a dilemma that may soon become familiar to another group of prohibitionists: marijuana opponents. When society turns away from a cause, how long should its supporters fight on? After committing themselves to a lengthy, even decades-long struggle, how can they simply let it drop?
On July 1, Massachusetts will join states such as Colorado, Washington, and California, whose voters have chosen to legalize cannabis for recreational purposes. The implementation of the law has been bumpy, not least because Sessions and the federal Justice Department still have the authority to crack down on cannabis use.
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My post said nothing about what caused those numbers. I doubt the legal status of pot has much to do with any of them. My point is that it is possible have legal pot along with low crime, safe highways and low rates of OD.
“CALIFORNIA. The place where homosexuality, child molestation and HOLLYWOOD are rampant?”
Yes, and it’s finally being exposed, in no small part thanks to Trump. I want all the child molesters in Hollywood to go to prison.
I want these child molesting Drug Warriors to go to prison as well, but it will never happen => https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3665634/posts?page=66#66
That’s several hundred underage victims of drug cops. Don’t you want them to be tried and sentenced to prison like the Hollywood molesters?
Don’t you ever wonder about rampant child molestation by Drug Warriors?
Nope. There is no such thing as a "drug warrior". It's a leftist term used to make mind altering and mind controlling drugs more acceptable to the public. The goal of the left is to denigrate all laws, to elevate all lawlessness, to destroy families and American culture. They do this by calling their enslavement method "recreational" use of drugs. Like it's no more dangerous then taking a vacation.
“There is no such thing as a “drug warrior”.”
Fine, we’ll just call them “cops”.
Do you want these child molesting cops who victimized hundreds of underage students to be prosecuted and imprisoned if found guilty?
Do you wonder how rampant this sort of behavior is by cops?
>> It just makes them feel superior to curse the pro-pot people
You know that with certainty?
As far as I’m concerned, we should vote to decriminalize all forms of narcotics including heroin, meth, opioids.
You agree, right?
Nope. Most cops are selfless good people with a tough job. Most dopers are selfish leftists with no morals or ethics. I would rather carry the water of a cop then carry the water of a leftist.
You though apparently don't have a problem taking the side of leftists.
So you’re apparently fine with the actions of the cops who molested hundreds of innocent underage victims. Sad.
As for your charge of siding with leftists, I side with President Trump. He recently announced he will support getting fedgov out of mj regulation in the states.
That will do more to loosen the floodgates for marijuana legalization than all of FR combined.
Here is President Trump throwing prohibitionists under the bus in less than 17 seconds =>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M53XLBd54Y
Now go snark on him for being a lefty.
Legalize all of them, but no money for treatment or rehabilitation.
Only federal requirement should be “can only be sold in PURE FORM”.
States shall be responsible for picking up the overdose corpses and disposing of the garbage.
“DAVE’S NOT HERE”.
Lefties and leftist water carriers like yourself ALWAYS get fooled by President Trump. What legislation has he pushed? What has he signed? What is the policy of the government. President Trump has figured out that you can fool leftist braindead idiots by SAYING things like this and not actually doing them.
Those of us that have smoked pot and quit KNOW how dangerous and destructive it is. Unfortunately those who smoke still are literally drug addled. They're not in their right mind. Those who don't smoke and defend it are simply tools of the left...either wittingly or unwittingly.
I don't bother addressing what Ken actually posted because it's actually stupid. Pulling out traffic stats from CALIFORNIA to "prove" that marijuana is safe is like pulling traffic stats from Chicago to prove that gang violence isn't hurting anything.
Quite frankly, you’re grasping at a non-existent straw. For one, fedgov under Trump has not lifted a finger to interefere in state marijuana regulation. He has said not a word about VT in 2018 or the 4 states that legalized in 2016.
President Trump has said multiple times during the campaign and as President that it should be up to the states. It is not a leftist position. It’s consistent with the Constitution. It’s PDJT’s position. It’s time to face that reality.
“Pulling out traffic stats from CALIFORNIA...”
Pulling out traffic stats, crime stats, and OD stats from CA because it is the one state that has had enough time to see objective results in those 3 key areas.
“to “prove” that marijuana is safe...”
To provide evidence that legal pot does not lead to dire results in those 3 key areas that Drug Warriors warned would happen.
I’m with President Trump on this.
Still feeling very sorry for you.
LOL!!! I never imagined Dennis Rodman would so wonderfully humiliate Odumbo on CNN’s air but as with many things, what we imagine & what comes to be are usually very different. I’ve atched that clip with Rodman 20 times & LMAO each & every time.
Did you ever imagine a day when people would be ANGRY that someone who’s suffered from severe illness has experienced symptom relief from cannabis? Think about that for a minute. People are angry others experience symptom relief from cannabis.
We live in very interesting times, don’t we? Peace :)
I’m saying the consensus was that opiods waere the solution to so many pain issues and the government promoted it to where it is now. Overprescribed and doing as much harm as good.
Now the government is involved in marijuana - I see them causing similar probes down the road.
I’m saying the consensus was that opiods waere the solution to so many pain issues and the government promoted it to where it is now. Overprescribed and doing as much harm as good.
Now the government is involved in marijuana - I see them causing similar probes down the road.
probes = problems. Need coffee
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