WHY LEGALIZE MARIJUANA?

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[Protagoras]

Still waiting for your answer. Cat got your tongue?

[citizenK]

It's not the fact that you are a former drug user that makes you a hypocrit. You are a hypocrit because you have used drugs and now you want to punish people for the things you have done yourself, but for which you were never punished. By your own admission you stopped using drugs before they became a serious problem for you. Would your life be better today if, in your daliance with drugs in the past, you were arrested and prosecuted for your crimes? Did you depend on loans to get through school? You seem to have figured out what was good for your life on your own - why do you advocate the use of force through government to get people to comply to your standard of life, when you were allowed to make that decision of your own free will?

Do you believe in free will? Or do you just think you are smarter than everyone else, and that no else in society can figure out for themselves how they wish to conduct their lives? Your brand of self-righteousness is corrosive to the principles of living in a free society. Why don't you just mind your own damned business?

[Dane]

Sure it does, and you are a liar for calling others drug users when you know nothing about them. And now you are claiming that past drug use is OK, but not present drug use. That present drug users should go to prison while you not only stay free but go around calling them names. You are worse than a hypocrite, you are an evil person. A liar and a coward.

Oh really? I am evil for stating that drugs are bad. That drug use does not get anybody far.

Wow! You are the evil one IMHO, since you think my speaking out against drugs is more evil than the drug pushers and those who say that drug use is benign, as this article states.

You are the scary person, IMHO.

[gdani]

...astrologically impaired Nancy Reagan

Ahem - ol' Nancy was impaired by more than astrology. Perhaps she's willing to do some time?

[Uncle Sham]

"You see all these pro-pot messages on FR, but like it or not marijuana is a major component of the drug culture. To not accept that fact is putting your head in the sand."

I've never used drugs or smoked marijuana, yet MY money has been stolen from ME through taxes and many of MY rights have been diminished in the name of keeping others from doing so. I'm for the legalization of drugs not because I'm "pro-drugs" or because I advocate their use, but rather for the simple reason that I'm ANTI-big government. Government has a legitimate role to play in protecting me from others. It has no business protecting me from myself.

Legalization of drugs would reduce the PROBLEM of drug use to what it really is. Drug use. Right now, the primary problems of drug use itself are clouded within the overall problems created by drugs being illegal. Lets focus our attention to treating the "drug use" portion of the problem and we would all be better off.

To not accept that fact is putting your head in the sand.

[coolworx]

BTW folks it's not by accident that the pestilence of crack cocaine coincided exactly with Ronnie's first volley in the WOD.

Prohibition exacerbates anything problem it tries to solve.

[gdani]

That drug use does not get anybody far...

Newt Gingrich, Dan Quayle, Clarence Thomas...

[marsis]

Wow, a revelation. I know many people who have used pot daily for years, they are good family people, coach their and other kids on sports, own their own business' and homes. But Dane is beginning to change my mind. Just look at what a few tokes did to his brain, of course that is presuming that he had one once. Oh the HORROR!

[Michael_Michaelangelo]

Do you believe in free will? Or do you just think you are smarter than everyone else, and that no else in society can figure out for themselves how they wish to conduct their lives? Your brand of self-righteousness is corrosive to the principles of living in a free society. Why don't you just mind your own damned business?

Great quote! -MM

[Dane]

It's not the fact that you are a former drug user that makes you a hypocrit. You are a hypocrit because you have used drugs and now you want to punish people for the things you have done yourself, but for which you were never punished

I haven't been punished? I grew up in a culture where drug use was considered benign. I had Cheech and Chong pushed on me. I grew up in the late 70's when the drug culture was reaching it's "high" point. I grew up in a society where stories of the drug use of Studio 54 and rock stars were considered cool.

LOL! I guess I am the evil one who knows the damage about the drug culture.

Get a clue.

[Destructor]

"1. Legalize marijuana and control it like alchohol. It is less harmful."

That argument is bogus. Marijuana use inevitably leads to harder drugs. Besides, that argument is no longer true. It might have been true 20 years ago, but now pot is much stronger. It is grown to produce new generations of plants with a higher THC content. Pot is now psychologically addictive, whereas it wasn't 20 years ago.

[Dane]

Legalization of drugs would reduce the PROBLEM of drug use to what it really is. Drug use.

Really saying to people that you can out and buy heroin at your local CVS will reduce the problem huh?

This thread shows the difference between Libertarians and Conservatives. Libertarians do not believe there is a culture that influences life.

[coolworx]

"I haven't been punished? I grew up in a culture where drug use was considered benign. I had Cheech and Chong pushed on me. I grew up in the late 70's when the drug culture was reaching it's "high" point. I grew up in a society where stories of the drug use of Studio 54 and rock stars were considered cool. "

Your Honor, I know the statute says that I need to serve 1 to 3 for simple posession but... but... but... my munchies have caused me to gain 20lbs, my G/F left me 'cus of THC-induced Erectile Difficulty, and I can't seem to scrub off the resin on my sticky fingertips - I've SUFFERED ENOUGH!

Sorry son - Go Directly to jail and don't collect $200

[Don Myers]

Tom, what was the question again?

[southern rock]

I haven't been punished? I grew up in a culture where drug use was considered benign. I had Cheech and Chong pushed on me. I grew up in the late 70's when the drug culture was reaching it's "high" point. I grew up in a society where stories of the drug use of Studio 54 and rock stars were considered cool.

Dane equates being "forced" to watch Cheech and Chong movies and "hearing" about Studio 54, with long prison stints.

[Dane]

Your Honor, I know the statute says that I need to serve 1 to 3 for simple posession but... but... but... my munchies have caused me to gain 20lbs, my G/F left me 'cus of THC-induced Erectile Difficulty, and I can't seem to scrub off the resin on my sticky fingertips - I've SUFFERED ENOUGH!

Sorry son - Go Directly to jail and don't collect $200

Huh? Please lay off the bong before posting please.

[gdani]

That argument is bogus. Marijuana use inevitably leads to harder drugs. Besides, that argument is no longer true. It might have been true 20 years ago, but now pot is much stronger. It is grown to produce new generations of plants with a higher THC content. Pot is now psychologically addictive, whereas it wasn't 20 years ago

Without debating your above assertions, can't all of these same points apply to alcohol and cigarettes? Do you want to make them illegal too?

[Protagoras]

Oh really? I am evil for stating that drugs are bad. That drug use does not get anybody far.

That is not what you are doing, you are advocating prison time for drug users which is the current policy which you support. Are you now changing your entire position? Are you ready to say that drug use is bad but the WOD is bad too? Are you ready to stop villifing those who oppose the drug policy of the country and stop lying about them?

Wow! You are the evil one IMHO, since you think my speaking out against drugs is more evil than the drug pushers and those who say that drug use is benign, as this article states.

You aren't speaking out against drug use, you never have made that distinction, you support the immoral WOD. People like me who have never used drugs and do real work to help prevent kids from making the mistakes you made are villified and lied about by you because we oppose the loss of our rights and meddling in our lives by people with guns.

You are the scary person, IMHO.

I would be scared too if I had been exposed as a hypocrite and a liar.

[Dane]

Dane equates being "forced" to watch Cheech and Chong movies and "hearing" about Studio 54, with long prison stints.

Take a look at reply #132.

[Don Myers]

"How do you know it works Donnie boy? You ever use an illeagal drug in your life? C'mon tell the truth for a change."

Sorry, Tom, just missed this one. I went back and found it. No, I have never used an illegal drug. I was simply assuming something. But if it doesn't work, why are you people so adament about legalizing your habit? I know, Tom. I should know better than to try using commonsense with deadheads.