Posted on 02/20/2002 6:08:45 AM PST by Magician
JMO, but a big part of it was the arrival of the counterculture, when traditional values were disregarded and the "do it if it feels good" mantra took over and the "actions have consequences" value got thrown out the window.
I would also submit that Gen Xers are intellectually better equipped to deal with drug issues than are our parents.
It's still all about me, me, me, me for them.
Because like it or not they are politicians and that advocating "drug legalisation" would be political suicide.
I have no doubt if Kennedy or Kerry could promote that as a tenet they would. That still doesn't stop their cohort in Massuchusetts, Barney Frank(who is about as left as you can get), from promoting drug legalisation.
Like I said the vast majority of drug legaisers come from the left(Green Party, enviro whackos such as ELF, George Soros, the Socialist Party, etc. etc.)
Not in a leftist-dominated state like Massachusetts. There's hardly a viable Republican party in Massachusetts, nor are there any conservatives in numbers great enough to make a difference. If drug legalization was such a winning lefty cause, a leftist state senator from a tawny suburb like Weston could introduce the legislation, a lefty-dominated Mass. General Court could pass it, and a lefty-dominated Mass. Supreme Judicial court would protect it from legal challenges.
That still doesn't stop their cohort in Massuchusetts, Barney Frank(who is about as left as you can get), from promoting drug legalisation.
On his website, Frank advocates medical marijuana and sentencing reform. I couldn't find his stance on "legalization."
Like I said the vast majority of drug legaisers come from the left(Green Party, enviro whackos such as ELF, George Soros, the Socialist Party, etc. etc.)
And you won't answer the question I've asked like 3 times already:Does smoking pot turn one into a lefty, or do certain lefties smoke pot?
All Barney Frank wants is medical pot and a review of mandatrory sentencing. That's far from relegalizing. In fact, (except for Jocelyn Elders) there are no nationally-known D*m*cr*t relegalizers.
What has the ACLU done in this area?
No, it's more accurate to say that drug prohibition is a Progressive/New Deal phenomenon, and that opposition to it is mainly paleoconservative/libertarian.
IMO, this was one area where Reagan never grew beyound the New Deal.
But there is no one from the American left on this website. This is FR. Is everyone here an "exception" to you??
A CA Guy used the words "sociopath and sociopathic" so many times yesterday it caused me to step away from the debate. I think we were getting a glimpse into his own mental stability, maybe he learned the word in therapy which makes him dangerous in my book. I will not respond to him again.
My cheapo dictionary defines bigot as "one obstinately and unreasonably wedded to a particular belief or creed; dogmatist".
The key word being "unreasonably". When others present fact and logic, the WOsD crowd answers with ad hominems, distortions, outright lies and evasions. The WOsD's argument boils down to "It's bad because I say so."
He has agreed on several occasions that the Tenth Amendment should be respected and that drug policies should be decided by State governments.
He agrees that Federal involvement in the domestic WOD is unconstitutional.
Bottom line: Government for the most part represents the wishes - some stupid some not so stupid- of the people who vote for it. There is no groundswell of favorable public opinion supporting legalization. If anything, the trend semms to shifting the other way. So there!
What an ignorant rebuttal. Murder hurts someone, smoking pot does not. What don't you get here., it seems simple enough even for you.
Don't blame me, I voted for Bill and Opus (and I have the t-shirt to prove it!)
So you believe that checks and balances aren't necessary in our form of government, the first 10 Amendments were completely unnecessary, and there's no such concept as "the tyranny of the majority"?Do you believe the federal government would be justified in criminalizing tobacco smoking?
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