[Sparta]

An update to the disgusting piece of Fed propaganda/prosecutor job protection I posted yesterday.

[RonF]

More War on Some Non-Commercially Exploitable Drugs bull$h!t.

[Sparta]

Prosecutors urged to fight pot legalization(job protection)

[jmc813]

WOD Ping

[caisson71]

I hope the Feds make it emphatically clear that marijuana use will never be legalized in the US. I hear Canada will start legalizing mj so maybe the pot heads can move north, way north.

[Steel Wolf]

"There were something like 450,000 deaths from tobacco smoking, and there were over 100,000 deaths from alcohol drinking, and there has never been a death caused by marijuana,"

So, someone remind me, what is the objective reason why the first two are legal, and the third is not?

[jmc813]

"That [marijuana use] doesn't have a G** D***** thing to do with their purpose for being in the emergency room, but those are still listed and counted as mentions," Stroup said.

OK, here's what frustrates me to no end. I probably agree with this guy about 100%, and yet he cannot make his point without cursing. How does he possibly expect people to take him and his cause seriously while getting his point across like this. Same thing goes for some of the more "eccentric" spokespersons for the Libertarian Party.

[vin-one]

Now I see the light, the Drug Czar is right, Marijuana is bad,
It will make white women rape black Jazz muscians.
or something like that, Go WOD Go,

[galt-jw]

Smoking marijuana," Burns wrote, "leads to changes in the brain similar to those caused by the use of cocaine and heroin, and affects alertness, concentration, perception, coordination and reaction time."

It is MY LIFE, herr fuhrer, and NO ONE else's. If we are to define the life as I exist as MINE, it means there are NO CONDITIONS attatched to it. I DO NOT belong to the state, or to my fellow man. I have NO OBLIGATIONS to any one, except myself. This is the same I expect of others. I make no claim on the life of others, and I recognize NO claim to my life BY others.

do you sanctimonious statists understand?

[lodwick]

bttt

[nicollo]

I've got a solution for all parties.

States ought subject illicit drugs to retail sales taxes, while maintaining their illegality. That way purveyors can get permits and the DOJ can selectively bust them, as usual.

They might as well. The drugs won't go away, but neither will the budget deficits. Nor will the entrenched legal system that supposedly fights it. We can give I.D.'s and health benefits to runners. We'll deduct payroll taxes that if they collect they'll get busted. Everybody's happy.

Sure the income tax covers drug profits, but generally, not specifically. Since when did government not tax something just because it's illegal?