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.
Its "impossible" not to use illegal drugs? Golly gee whiz, I better turn myself into the police now, I guess. Apparently I've just been fooling everyone by not using them for the last 43 years of my life. Maybe I'll start smoking weed at the old folks home.
People cannot be expected to act with personal responsibility if the decisions applying to that responsibility are taken away from them.
So people MUST murder, rape, and rob solely because those activities are against the law? Must be some goooooood stuff you've got there.
What does the question have to do with Adolf Hitler using drugs?
None, so far, but the Nevada intiative to legalize pot according to recent polls is about even, way down from the 60% the medical marijuana intitiative got during the Clinton years(there's that pesky notion that a President can influence culture again).
USA Today(real conservative bedrock there huh) did a recent piece on it trying to play it up.
With Libertarian and Hillary friends like USA Today who needs enemies.
A whole lot less than medicinal pot, that's for sure. In fact, these referenda usually get over 65%, much better than any recent presidential candidate.
A vote for the LP is not only a vote for re-legalization, it's a vote for open borders, selling NASA, etc etc
The only two re-legalizers I know of in elective office (Gov. Johnson and Rep. Paul) don't hide their position on this issue.
That pretty much covers every reason why sensible folk don't vote for Libertarians.
Huh let's look at the facts of the mention of Edison, it basically stated that Edison, at one point of his life that cocaine was miraculous,
Other famous people that promoted the “miraculous” effects of cocaine elixirs were Thomas Edison and actress Sarah Bernhart
I do not see any attribution Edison saying as his dying words, cocaine is miraculous.
Anyway it exposes the lies of you calling Edison a coke fiend. Oh that's right nothing matters when there is an agenda to fulfill.
Huh another similarity that you have with Hillary, IMO.
Newt Gingrich? Clarence Thomas?
This coming from someone who was arguing the other day about how legalization advocates shouldn't have free speech rights.
I believe the below italicized passage is what your above italicized passage is talking about.
Currently, according to the ONDCP, 34% of all Americans have used marijuana in their lifetimes. That's quite a few people. A minority, but a significant minority. I'll bet there's even a few in that 34% who aren't "60s hippies". Your point was what
Another Hillary tactic I see, quickly use "names" and run away.
They may have tried pot, but they didn't embrace the hippie counterculture as it seems like the Libertarians who frequent FR did, IMO.
Uh, exactly my point.
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