Posted on 09/06/2002 8:59:47 AM PDT by MrLeRoy
It's enough for a big thumbs up ... or a big light up, if you prefer.
Canada should legalize marijuana use by adults, a Senate committee recommended Wednesday. The report comes on the heels of a two-year study of public policy relating to pot.
The present system of prohibition on marijuana just doesn't work, the committee found. Obviously, the committee learned something from early 20th-century history, when alcohol was prohibited in the United States. Then, prohibition simply gave gangsters a product to move and people to shoot.
Instead of the current system that penalizes people for having small quantities of pot on them, there should instead be a regulated system for marijuana, perhaps like our current system for alcohol, the committee determined.
"Scientific evidence overwhelmingly indicates that cannabis is substantially less harmful than alcohol and should be treated not as a criminal issue but as a social and health issue," said Senator Pierre Claude Nolin, the committee chair.
It's true that taking pot still involves the harmful intake of smoke, which the committee recognized. But, as the committee pointed out, it's more of a health issue than anything else.
In addition, making pot legal would clear the way for our police to tackle other, more harmful crimes relating to the public good. Really, would you rather see a pot smoker or a child molester behind bars?
Whether the federal government will ever adopt the Senate recommendations is up in the air. Hopefully the feds won't throw up a smokescreen on this to cloud the issue, and goes ahead with legalization.
Uh, if it's not a productive use of your time you could always simply stop posting to this thread.
That's a lot of wasted type to say "I can't."
"If a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man."
The subterfuge by which the feds have unconstitutionally grabbed near-limitless power over us is "an arcane topic"?!
Our drug laws have been challenged tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of times in court.
Cite a single court ruling that states that federal drug laws are consistent with the Ninth and Tenth Amendments. Then explain why we should give that any weight, considering that upholding the Ninth and Tenth Amendments would collapse the welfare state that the liberal-dominated judiciary loves so much.
The correct interpretation is that "I won't" waste my time on such diversions.
It's much more productive simply stating my opinion as to how enforcement should be intensified.
13] For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
[14] For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
[15] But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.
[16] This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
[17] For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
[18] But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
[19] Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
[20] Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
[21] Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
[22] But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
[23] Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
[24] And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
[25] If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
[26] Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
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Gal.6
[1] Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.
[2] Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.
Cite where SCOTUS has ruled all our drug laws are unconstitutional on these grounds.
That's great. So you won't mind when I brand you a New Dealer, right?
Where did you learn to debate? The Clinton School of Public Speaking?
If we don't get Saddam, and soon, then all other debates are meaningless. America may no longer be here.
How is that "productive" when you can't even make a case that the laws should exist?
Staying within your theology though, God created us and gave us free will. Hypocrits like you would remove that gift from God by making all of those moral choices for us. Be they right or wrong, they are still our choices to make. the consequences of such actions are also ours alone to bear.
In the real world, "the Devil made me do it" is not a valid defense.
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