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To: William Terrell
"So, you're for legalization of cannabis, so long as there are regulations against driving stoned, like there are against driving drunk?"

No I'm not for legalizing cannabis, but I know that people are going to use it anyway. I can't sit around and worry about all of the fools that want to destroy themselves with drugs. Just stay out of your car. Don't make some innocent person pay for your stupid decision.

189 posted on 07/03/2002 5:01:48 AM PDT by Destructor
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To: Destructor
No I'm not for legalizing cannabis, but I know that people are going to use it anyway. I can't sit around and worry about all of the fools that want to destroy themselves with drugs. Just stay out of your car. Don't make some innocent person pay for your stupid decision.

But you said:

I don't. You can feel free to destroy yourself just don't take me, or mine with you! You stoners refuse to stay off the damned roads! You seem to think that you have a Constitutional Right to get stoned, and drive stoned. No such Right exists on both counts.

This was in response to my post to you asking, "So long as the person raises his children, works his job, takes care of his family, respects the rights of others and minds his own business, why should you care?"

Then why would you want cannabis to remain illegal? Because it causes a "psychological addiction"? Again, why do you care? There are both government funded studies and independent research that shows driving while stoned is actually safer.

What do these studies do you your objection that you just don't want people stoned to drive and threaten "you and yours"? Even if it could be shown people who drive stoned are dangerous (which it can't) how specifically is use of cannabis different from driving drunk under the law?

I think you ashamed to say that cannabis should remain illegal because using it is immoral, which is what we have left after stripping your argument down to basic essentials. You may not even know you think that, which is usual in cases where the convictions are placed in you by conditioning and programing using emotional appeals. The first indication of that is an inability to articulate just why you object.

You are caught by the fact that there are no credible research that shows pot is dangerous, at least to the point of destroying all the protections we have under the Bill of Rights to reduce it (which even that hasn't).

201 posted on 07/03/2002 6:12:51 AM PDT by William Terrell
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