Prosecutors are urged to fight against legalizing drugs like marijuana

Standard Democrat(Mississippi) | 12/29/02 | Scott Welton

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Hmmm . . . that sounds really tempting. Let me fire up this bone whilst I whip out my wallet . . .

[Blood of Tyrants]

Kevin, socialism and trying to control people goes together like screws and nuts. You claim that money is the reason you oppose the legalization of drugs. What if a law were passed that prevented public money from being used to treat dopers? Would you support it then?

[Blood of Tyrants]

And all the pro-dope ersatz conservatives posting here will cheer the dawning of a new age of nanny state socialism.

What is wrong with allowing individual states decide how they will treat the recreation use of drugs?

[Hemingway's Ghost]

What if a law were passed that prevented public money from being used to treat dopers? Would you support it then?

If he won't, I will. Nothing pisses me off more than someone stealing my money to pay the freight for people who can't handle themselves.

[Kevin Curry]

My, George Soros's blind and groping little liberdopian nanny socialist wasps are angry this morning. Whack their mud nest with the stick of truth and watch them go beserk.

[af_vet_rr]

On the one hand I don't care for drugs and their "legalization" but on the other I don't care for the federal government meddling in what should be a state/local issue. I never really did much research since it didn't concern me, but I was always under the impression that drugs weren't explicitly mentioned in the Constitution, therefore they should be decided at the state level.

[tacticalogic]

No, our duly elected representatives (Such as Patty Murray) are too busy praising OBL.

Well, that's a relief. For a moment there, I was beginning to think we couldn't trust them.

[HELLRAISER II]

While i'm for legalization of Pot I would still agree with this statement, one reason is that Pot is not Physically addictive and I don't condone nor support legalization of Narcotics which are the people that end needing this help.

[firebrand]

Marijuana is a psychoactive drug. If it weren't, nobody would bother taking it. It is a dangerous drug that has landed people in the hospital.

And of course it is a gateway. Just think about it, even on the purely psychological level. Not to mention the fact that friends who smoke pot are more likely to have stronger drugs that they will, in social situations, pressure people to take, or even, as happened to me, put stronger drugs in a supposed reefer.

Buffyt, the fact that you wrote "Pot is pot" disqualifies you from participation in any future discussion of the subject. The greenest novice knows that there are widely varying strengths, and the reasons why.

The Internet will tell you anything you have itching ears to know, by the way. As conservatives, we should all know that.

[Mudboy Slim]

"...all the pro-dope ersatz conservatives posting here will cheer the dawning of a new age of nanny state socialism."

How so, my pro-WOSD FRiend? Anybody who wants pot now can get it whenever they want it...do you really believe the nonsense that marijuana usage will go up dramatically when marijuana is legalized?! And even if it does--which I don't believe, BTW--do you really believe the nonsense that potheads will all become wards of the State?!

Seriously, dude, yer arguments ring shallow to anyone who ain't drinking the BigGuv'mentKoolAid...MUD

[TLBSHOW]

Congressman Dan Burton Slams Drug War, Hints at Legalization of Street Drugs

[ActionNewsBill]

And all the pro-dope ersatz conservatives posting here will cheer the dawning of a new age of nanny state socialism.

As opposed to those who cheer the current age of nanny-state socialism?

Kevin, you and your buddies are the socialists here. Too bad you can't just admit it.

I'd have a smidgen of respect for you if you at least admitted your control-freak tendencies, instead of posing as a conservative.

BTW, Happy New Year.

[OWK]

Dopers and socialism go together like screws and nuts.

When did you start smoking dope?

[Mudboy Slim]

"George Soros's blind and groping little liberdopian nanny socialist wasps"

Don't take you Lib'ral BigGuv'ment types long to go straight to the name-calling, does it, my FRiend?! Then again, like all Lib'rals, I can see that you don't want a civil consversation on this issue to proceed 'cuz it will expose the ridiculousness of this abysmal failure we've dubbed the WarOnSomeDrugs.

Or are you willing to debate this issue using the facts and logic?!

MUD

[jayef]

That's not the real problem with this statistic. Incidents reported as being related to marijuana have absolutely nothing to do with marijuana use. People are routinely asked in emergency rooms if they use marijuana. The government has taken an interest in forcing health care workers to ask these stupid questions. Note that no attempt is ever made to determine if the patient is currently under the influence of the drug. Any health care worker will tell you this, and in fact, several who post here already have . . . repeatedly . . . to no avail.

[rastus macgill]

What stronger drugs were in your "reefer" ESTROGEN?

[jayef]

You flatter yourself. The truth is one weapon that you do not posess in your arsenal.

[firebrand]

That doesn't really merit an answer, does it? But no, it was angel dust, for the record.

[ActionNewsBill]

Not to mention the fact that friends who smoke pot are more likely to have stronger drugs that they will, in social situations, pressure people to take, or even, as happened to me, put stronger drugs in a supposed reefer.

Looks like a good argument for growing your own

[jayef]

Again, correlation NOT causation. I have asked this question over and over. Someone please tell me the exact substance/agent/chemical in marijuana that induces craving for other "harder" drugs!