De-fang marijuana

Arizona Star ^ | 31 July 02 | Rich Lowry

[nycbiggie1]

here-here...I watched Stossel's program this week and agree that the "war" has been proven ineffective. I've never heard of someone committing a crime to get a dime bag.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Our law enforcement folk have bigger fish to fry. Sometimes I wonder if they go for the low hanging fruit because its easier than going after real crooks.

[bat-boy]

Bingo!

[EaglesUpForever]

Making a plant "illegal" is diametrically opposed to the spirit of the Founding Fathers.

[A CA Guy]

ANOTHER drug thread by you. I see a pattern!

[A CA Guy]

Yes the Spirit of the Founding Fathers wasn't to be good citizens that would be church goers, but rather those who have the right to do all the drugs they choose!

I don't buy that idea or any that involves legalizing any more vices in the name of some tilted perception of freedom.

[newcats]

ANOTHER drug thread by you. I see a pattern!

Yep, he keeps forgetting that he was posting on another. :)

[EaglesUpForever]

Where in the Constitution is there anything remotely resembling the control of such "drugs"? I assume you're all for prohibition of alcohol, too...

[LowOiL]

* Rich Lowry is editor of the National Review

Another pattern...

[per loin]

Keeping drugs illegal keeps the graft flowing.

[Joe Bonforte]

I assume you're all for prohibition of alcohol, too...

Simulated generic drug warrior response:

Well, alcohol is different, see? It's been accepted a long time, and, and, and I use it, and, and, yeah I know it kills a lot of people and pot doesn't, but maybe pot really does even though the studies don't show it, and pot smokers move on to worse drugs, again even though the studies don't show it, they really do go on to smoke crack and stuff just like my brother-in-law, they really, really do, and we CAN'T LET THEM GET AWAY WITH IT, POT IS EVIL AND ALL POT SMOKERS SHOULD BE SHOT FOR CORRUPTING CHILDREN!

[FryingPan101]

The weed is no longer a problem. The nation's supply burned in the Oregon forest fires.

[A CA Guy]

I don't think specifically drugs, rape, euthinasia, concrete and many other things were directly mentioned.

Therefore all structures with concrete must be taken down since they must be against the Constitution by your way of thinking.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

I've never heard of someone committing a crime to get a dime bag.

Aparently you dont live in cincinnati! Ive seen people get knocked over the head for a joint!

[SteamshipTime]

When this country was founded, there were no laws prohibiting morphine, opium, tobacco or whiskey. Beer was the beverage of choice for lunch and even breakfast. Nitrous oxide was inhaled at parties, which was where Georgia's Crawford Long got the idea for aenesthesia. Yet, as you point out, most people were godly and community-minded.

Laws breed lawlessness. Without "vice" laws and their social apparatus, people live or die based on their capacity for self-governance. Thus, people with integrity survive, prosper, and form communities of like-minded individuals according to the level of indulgences which they will tolerate.

Vice laws stunt our cultural evolution and actually reward the behavior they seek to ban by making the rewards for purveying vice even higher.

[SunStar]

Making a plant "illegal" is diametrically opposed to the spirit of the Founding Fathers.

Absolutely. Which is why breaking this particular law is not immoral.