Posted on 08/01/2002 5:16:08 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
Edited on 05/07/2004 8:00:51 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
As we endeavor toward a more lucid and informed discussion of substance abuse, let's deconstruct the mystique of marijuana and recognize it for the dangerous drug that it is.
Marijuana is a substance that's worthy of our concern. It is the most prevalent of all illicit drugs used in the country. The 2000 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse reported that 34 percent of Americans have used marijuana in their lifetime and 5 percent are current users.
(Excerpt) Read more at theithacajournal.com ...
Oh, that's so 1993.
If by "research" you mean getting stoned to the point that you are worthless to your family, friends, and employers, then I'm not interested.
And your "research" is documented where?
Well, hell - that would have saved me some time. If the IJ is agin it, I'm fer it ;)
Its not af act, its pure myth:
Using a plant that grows wild all over the Earth, and placed here by God for the use of mankind, to destroy freedoms previously protected by the Constitution, spread corruption in the form of booty among the law enforcement offices and terrorize and suborn innocent and productive Americans.
Every point in the article you posted is either a blatant or contrived lie. If the effect of the plant's use are so obvious and well documented, why lie? What are the anti-cannabis people afraid of?
It's amazing how those who claim that libertarians represent more than anti-drug law idiots can't see that their own integrity goes up in smoke when their golden calf of marijuana is ridiculed.
I can respect your argument.
The thing I find disturbing is that so few of the pro pot people posting here can concede that you can make it legal but make the dangers of the substance clear (ie, make it not so cool).
Its almost as if they not only want it legalized but they don't want it criticized.
To be blunt (no pun intended), some of their behavior IS starting to look like the behavior of addicts: "There's no problem...it isn't addictive...I use all the time with no problem..." etc., all with an incredible indignation and anger at anyone who even SUGGESTS its a problem.
does that mean they'll be coming for my chocolate soon?!?! I tend to spend too much time on FR and it's not too good on my eyes... . OH MY!
Please don't implicate God in your crimes.
Using your logic, which apparently has been affected by the "plant," then God is guilty of being an accomplice in every rape that happens for placing sex on earth "for the use of mankind."
And your evidence to the contrary is...
C'mon, Squeezy . . . I've been holding the bong out in your direction for about an hour now . . . My arm's gettin' kinda tired !!! ;-))
To the pro-potties, "DENIAL" is just a river in Egypt.
Alluding to your #36, judging by the caliber of your sentence construction, it's obvious you've been soaking in gin for the last 12 hours.
Well, for one thing, it policy of the courts for use the prison/treatment option when one is found in possession of as small a quanty as 3 grams, and suprise!, the great majority of people opt for "treatment". This is a matter of public record. How is it you don't know; don't you ever venture out to actually do research on your position in an issue?
That's sort of my point. Conservatives or libertarians don't try to argue, for example, that "the statisics showing that people who eat too much choclate get fat and have zits are LIES LIES." They argue that, despite certain conceded potentially unhealthy aspects of chocolate that it shouldn't be banned because people have the FREEDOM to use it.
When its marijuana, however, they don't allow themselves to make the concession. They cling stubbornly to the concept that marijuana is the greatest thing on god's green leafy earth.
Once the "freedom" theory is abandoned for pot in favor of the "aint bad for ya" theory it opens to the door to the logical and rhetorical position that we should abandon the "freedom" theory in other areas and look solely at whether or not its bad for you.
And that opens the door to the exact place the socialists, liberal, etc., want us to go.
In other words I think we may have found FR's own "useful idiots." ;-)
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