Posted on 08/24/2002 1:02:56 AM PDT by JediGirl
Cite the Constitutional text that gives the federal government the authority to regulate the intrastate making, transporting, selling, buying, or using of drugs.
you: What a %&#)(%!)*#%)*!#%^ing "gentleman" you are.
I can't help it if truth offends you. It would be a blessing to have less dopes around and their offspring indulging in the same garbage.
me:At the moment you come across like a toddler having a tantrum when they can't have their way and refuse to accept reality. The reality is that marijuanna is a mind altering drug that needs to remain illegal and society needs to be protected from those who use this ridiculous drug.
you: Funny, I feel the same about booze. Why don't we just reinstate Prohibition while we're at it?
Sure you do ... the problem with you is you don't think but only FEEL. Be a dope. advertize how stupid you've become. Let your own words indict you as they are doing. As for Prohibition, you ought to read up on why that happened and when reinstated what the result was. Again you advertize your ignorance. What a dope!
Yeah right. If you felt so strongly against drinking it's doubtful that you'd use the stupid alias of "hemmingway's Ghost. He was a drunken leftist. As to his demise, I'll let you read up on that. He was a waste of human being.
BTW, it's only the simple minded that like to compare apples to oranges, albeit marijuanna to alcohol. Not only are you simple minded but a hypocrite.
I know why it was repealed: because it was imprisoning productive citizens, causing deaths due to impurities, enriching organized crime, and allowing the corruption of the justice system by enriched criminals---all the same effects that the War On Some Drugs is having today.
I have to disagree; sadly, pro-WODers don't come much better than nmh.
Agreed, but come on: we must give Roscoe his props. He's done a yeoman's job of arguing the pro-socialist, pro-big government, pro-nanny state side of the W.o.D. issue, hasn't he?
Ah, be like Hemmingway. Be a leftist drunk.
You: I know why it was repealed: because it was imprisoning productive citizens, causing deaths due to impurities, enriching organized crime, and allowing the corruption of the justice system by enriched criminals---all the same effects that the War On Some Drugs is having today.
No there are major differences between mind altering drugs and alcohol. The two are not equal. Again, "imprisioning productive people. enriching organized crime, causing death ..." what an insane comparison! You get the award for being "out there!"
Way back when bootlegging liquor certainly enriched people such as the Kennedys. Productive people aren't alcoholics and are no more "imprisioned" that any other vice that is engaged in by choice. It's very unusual for alcohol alone to cause a death unless mixed with other drugs or ingested to an extreme.
I'm not an alcohol by any means but seeing nonsensical comparisons like this do raise my ire and question the motive of the person asserting them. You really need to read up on Prohibition and see WHO initiated it and the result of it. You'll be surprised that the goal set out was accomplished even though it was legalized again.
Happy reading - that is if you seek knowledge.
Learn to spell.
Alcohol IS a mind altering drug.
"imprisioning productive people. enriching organized crime, causing death ..." what an insane comparison!
Each took place during the War On Alcohol and is taking place during the War On Some Drugs.
Productive people aren't alcoholics and are no more "imprisioned" that any other vice that is engaged in by choice.
I din't mean imprisonment as a metaphor but as a statement of plain fact; during both Wars On Disapproved Substances, productive citizens were imprisoned---placed in cells---for the "crime" of engaging in frowned-upon entertainments.
It's very unusual for alcohol alone to cause a death unless mixed with other drugs or ingested to an extreme.
That's equally true of illegal drugs---if not contaminated with fatal impurities or ingested to an extreme, they don't kill.
You really need to read up on Prohibition and see WHO initiated it and the result of it. You'll be surprised that the goal set out was accomplished even though it was legalized again.
I have read about Prohibition; my sources agree with Prof. K. Austin Kerr of the Ohio State University Department of History: "Prohibition in the United States was a measure designed to reduce drinking by eliminating the businesses that manufactured, distributed, and sold alcoholic beverages."
What secret knowledge do you claim?
That's equally true of illegal drugs---if not contaminated with fatal impurities or ingested to an extreme, they don't kill.
And don't forget that there is not a single documented case of marijuana alone causing a death.
Me:It's very unusual for alcohol alone to cause a death unless mixed with other drugs or ingested to an extreme."
You: That's equally true of illegal drugs---if not contaminated with fatal impurities or ingested to an extreme, they don't kill. "I know skip over the differences of marijuanna and alcohol. I suppose all those companies out there that refuse to hire dopes have it all wrong. Never mind that marijuanna is a mind latering drug. Never mind that quite a few little kids and adults have been killed when the operator of the train or bus were "high" on marijuanna. One thing is clear, you will never get a decent good paying job because smart employers screen you out through urine and hair tests. They want no part of the mind alterating deterioration that happens ALL the time with marijuanna users. As mentioned before, one small blessing is that marijuanna users are more oftne than not infertile. I suppose it's God's way of stopping proliferation of more dumbed down and learning disabled people when it is self imposed through illegal drug use.
You:"And don't forget that there is not a single documented case of marijuana alone causing a death."
Sadly the user may or may not be killed but unfortunately they kill other innocent people when high. Next time a dope, marijuanna user makes the headlines either killing himself/herself and others, don't make yourself scarce on FR. Expplain you way out of that too. The ugly truth is that marijuanna offers NO benefits to any user.
LeRoy, be a dope if you have to but do it on your own time away from people so that you can't harm or kill them.
I already mentioned one difference: alcohol, unlike marijuana, can kill you in a single evening. Here's another: alcohol is more addictive by every measure.
I suppose all those companies out there that refuse to hire dopes have it all wrong.
I suppose all those companies out there that don't test for drugs have it all wrong.
Never mind that marijuanna is a mind latering drug.
So is alcohol.
Never mind that quite a few little kids and adults have been killed when the operator of the train or bus were "high" on marijuanna.
Many have been killed by drunks.
One thing is clear, you will never get a decent good paying job
Wrong; I have one now.
the mind alterating deterioration that happens ALL the time with marijuanna users.
Provide evidence for your claim.
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