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It's time to legalize pot
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| 9/5/2002
Posted on 09/06/2002 8:59:47 AM PDT by MrLeRoy
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To: Dead Corpse
Whatever meds that cat's on are much worse than the Devil's Weed.
To: Willie Green
Gee, first time I ever heard that tired cliche was from the screaming nags at NOW.
Care to make a substantive contribution, then? How does supporting a New Deal-era interpretation of the Commerce Clause further the conservative agenda?
To: Dakmar
Most people who use tobacco--caffiene and alcohol...
don't lose their thinking/reasoning...at all---or...so quickly!
Most never had any to lose to begin with(either way)!
To: f.Christian
So you strict / prohibitionist . . .
then?
To: gdani
Retail price? If legalized, people could grow their own. Why don't people grow their own tobacco?
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posted on
09/06/2002 12:32:30 PM PDT
by
cinFLA
To: f.Christian
Most people who use tobacco--caffiene and alcohol...
don't lose their thinking/reasoning...at all---or...so quickly!Provide evidence that users of illegal drugs "lose their thinking/reasoning" more often or more quickly than users of alcohol. (Hint: "evidence" does not mean people you know or stories you've heard.)
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posted on
09/06/2002 12:32:33 PM PDT
by
MrLeRoy
To: f.Christian
So no harm done, right? Is that what you are saying? Why bother to stop them, do you just like locking people up who, you claim, aren't even harming themselves?
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posted on
09/06/2002 12:33:29 PM PDT
by
Dakmar
To: f.Christian
does Jesus want all intoxicants to be illegal? Why?
To: WindMinstrel
Since He turned water into wine, He must not have though all intoxicants were evil.
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posted on
09/06/2002 12:37:47 PM PDT
by
Dakmar
To: cinFLA
Retail price? If legalized, people could grow their own.Why don't people grow their own tobacco?
I would guess any number of reasons. Tobacco is much more difficult to grow then cannabis, not everyone lives in the right climate, if you did grow tobacco you would still have a very hard time adding the nicotine, etc (if you were looking for something close to a commercial cigarette) and so on.
After all that, you would then have to decide whether it's worth it. (although I live in NYC where a pack of cigs now costs $7.00 so who knows)
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posted on
09/06/2002 12:39:26 PM PDT
by
gdani
To: f.Christian
don't lose their thinking/reasoning...at all---or...so quickly! That's funny -- coming from you of all people
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posted on
09/06/2002 12:41:15 PM PDT
by
gdani
To: f.Christian
Most people who use tobacco--caffiene and alcohol... don't lose their thinking/reasoning...at all---or...so quickly!
Sorry f.C, you cannot make this claim without backing this up. I smoked my way through undergraduate school and I'm currently in medical school. Anecdotal? Yes, but obviously my thinking skills were not affected. You can't study, go to class, or take a test stoned (some do) and make anything of yourself, but to say that recreational use ruins one's thinking is just untrue. However, even if it did, would this still be a reason to restrict the liberties of the individual to their own property - their bodies. Should we make injecting draino straight into the brain illegal? You can't think too well after that and it might kill you. What's the difference?
To: Dakmar
Christians can disagree about the morality of getting intoxicated, but let's stipulate that it is indeed sinful. I would argue that that's immaterial, though, and Jesus woulnd't push for making sin illegal. It already is illegal -- in ways much more important that mere laws.
To: MEGoody
"It's Time To Legalize Pot"
No, it's not.
ditto
To: gdani
I think the shear volume most tobacco users consume would also be a problem. I smoke about a pack a day, which would probably take up most of my back yard, if not more, for a one year supply. I would have more pot than I could smoke by just having two or three indoor plants. It's kind of like why people will grow their own tomatos, but few grow their own wheat.
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posted on
09/06/2002 12:46:06 PM PDT
by
Dakmar
To: widgysoft
"It's Time To Legalize Pot"No, it's not.
ditto
1/ditto. Ditto -1. So there.
To: f.Christian
Tobacco, alcohol, and caffine all have psychotropic side effects. Tobacco is a mood stabilizer and a stimulant. Caffine is a stimulant, and taken in large enough quantities can have some hallucinogenic properties (ask someone whose taken too much No-Doze). Alcohol, of course, is a massive depressant.
In less than an hour, alcohol can inhibit your ability to drive, lowers your cognetive skills, and can depress your entire system to a point where your heart will stop.
Marijuana is a depressant, and an appetite stimulant at the same time. It would take a truly super-human effort to OD on it. Does not need to be swallowed, and kept down, like orally administered appetite drugs. The plant itself has textile qualities that rival wood pulp, soybeans, and cotten together.
I would say that those who would worry about a speck in their neighbors eye, has some log farming of their own to do.
To: Dakmar
It's kind of like why people will grow their own tomatos, but few grow their own wheat. Well put.
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posted on
09/06/2002 12:47:58 PM PDT
by
gdani
To: Hemingway's Ghost
How does supporting a New Deal-era interpretation of the Commerce Clause further the conservative agenda? How is engaging in trivial debate of an arcane topic a productive use of my time?
Get the issue before SCOTUS and I may have more to say on the matter.
Our drug laws have been challenged tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of times in court.
I see no need to alter or change them, only a greater committment to enforcement and prosecution.
To: WindMinstrel
Christians can disagree about the morality of getting intoxicated, but let's stipulate that it is indeed sinful. I'm not trying to be a wise guy or add another issue, but how exactly does one who believes that intoxication is a sin reconcile that with Jesus turning water into wine?
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posted on
09/06/2002 12:49:42 PM PDT
by
gdani
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