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To: sweet_diane
"How about putting the issue to American people to vote on? No not just the 450 or so professional drama queens in Washington, why not let all citizens voice they opinion on this? ...For years I have wondered what would become of just that. On a national ballot when everyone is already heading to the polls to vote....Yes or No to marijuana legalized...

This basic scenario happened in Springfield on an episode of "the Simpsons" and legalized pot was defeated. Why? The "stoners" were too high to remember to vote.


316 posted on 08/01/2002 10:30:47 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
This basic scenario happened in Springfield on an episode of "the Simpsons" and legalized pot was defeated. Why? The "stoners" were too high to remember to vote.

Are you so desperate you have to use a contrived tale written for a cartoon? This thread is packed with references to, if not actual quotes therefrom, statistics, studies, technical data and irrefutable logical inferences that hack your position something terrible. And you return with a cartoon?

330 posted on 08/01/2002 10:40:01 AM PDT by William Terrell
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