Posted on 11/23/2018 8:58:41 AM PST by Red6
The debate over marijuana legalization is just one of the many ways the political landscape is changing as the US comes to terms with drug and criminal justice policies that many experts and Americans consider to have failed at a great cost to the nation’s liberty and finances.
The war on marijuana in particular has cost the US billions of dollars over decades, led to a black market for pot that criminal organizations use to fund violent operations, and contributed to the explosive growth of America’s incarcerated population, which is now the largest in the world. And despite those costs, millions of people still use marijuana — a drug that most Americans view as relatively safe.
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When I read the marijuana threads, I always see the argument that only brain dead liberals use it. I’m pretty sure that there are a good number of Constitutional conservatives who use it as well. If so, wonder if Constitutional conservatives who get high are brain dead as well?
Ending the federal prohibition against cannabis would be a wise choice regardless of what party gets the credit for making it happen. Let the states decide.
frankly, the whole notion is offensive.
and while you obviously cannot identify hyperbole when you see it, and I am willing to modify my original statement in hopes that you may find it more fitting: "I wish they would round up all the libertarians, and put them in camps on election day. more better?
you never answered the question. but you clearly don’t understand the history of the 18th amendment, nor the real reason it was repealed.
both are actually quite fascinating. I encourage you to study up a bit.
ya think?
oops. I may have implied the existence of God in a thread full of libertarians. heh. that's always good for a few laughs.
Mmmm, nope, you’re a control freak, buddy.
Regular tyrant.
Luckily for the rest of humanity, you’re no one.
as I am currently celebrating the repeal of the 18th amendment (a celebration I observe every Friday night at about this time) with a few crown royals on the rocks, I shall forbear from further discussion tonight; you deserve all my brain cells.
here is to hoping they are all still alive in the morning. cheers!
So, re-education camps? I’m guessing that attendance will be mandatory.
No problem - it's God Who gave us the reason and free will that libertarians champion (even if they don't all know that).
Libertine! ;-D
That may well have motivated the New Dealers; it assuredly was not the motivation of most of the supermajority that passed the repeal.
and yes, the states where weed has been voted in by the sheeple are encouraging it...
every street corner blasting the benefits of weed....radio, newspapers, magazines, billboards....
it is what it
very soon, big weed will take over and it'll all be more corporate profits for the elites....
Americans are a stupid lot.
And yet the Pubs gained 2 seats.
Here is what I tell Millenials and anyone who says that it is my business what I put unto my body.
“You are absolutely right. You should have the right to put whatever you like in your body. But with rights come responsibilities, if we legalize pot or any other drug, you no longer get free or subsized health care. With your rights come responsibilities, you cannot have it both ways.”
Most of the time they look at me, eyes glazed over. I can’t tell if they are confused or smoked too much weed.
understood.
Your question makes no sense and is built on a hypocritical prohibitionist moral idiocy that in effect says alcohol is ok, pot isn’t. Having been sober for 28 years, trust me when I tell you not everyone who drinks becomes and alcoholic and not everyone who smokes pot develops an obsession with it and sorry to inform but I do know what the intent of The Volstead Act was. Further more I don’t believe the government has any business being involved in anything to do with marijuana cultivation of distribution.
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