bluejacket

yes the collateral effects of the prohibition of drugs is more dangerous than the use of the drugs themselves , prohibition is a lesson that seems to be relearned time after time , the intent of prohibition is laudatory but the implementation is despicable

Tasine Loc: Southwest US

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Well, rumitoid, hell froze over - and here I am, agreeing with you. I totally agree with your comment re this issue. It just makes sense. It's logical. As I said, I've never been a user and never will be. I once thought that the criminalization of mj was the correct thing to do - but that's before we really knew much about it. I've changed a lot of my thinking over the years.

Tasine Loc: Southwest US

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I hadn't realized it is mixed with other things. Did you say that is something that was begun AFTER people started using it, or has it always been the case?

MarvinSussman

I would bet that there are more Puritans running after sinners among conservatives than among liberals. We liberals have fought conservatives over alcohol, birth control, a******n rights, homosexual rights, v****g rights, legalization of pornography, etc. etc.

Nobody forces a Puritan to drink whiskey or do anything else.

Conservatives! Please! Live and let live.

Tasine Loc: Southwest US

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With all due respect, Mr. Sussman, I think you truly believe that a******n rights, homosexual rights, v****g rights are IN FACT "rights". They are not. Rights are bestowed on every human at birth by his maker: right to life, right to speak, right to worship as the person pleases, right to his sovereign self.

Those things you have listed are man made, and man "approved" - and they are accurately "privileges" provided by government, and what is provided by government can readily be taken away by government.........legally. Government can also take away true rights by fining or imprisoning people, but they cannot do it Constitutionally as the Constitution is written.

MarvinSussman

You proved my point. A woman's body according to you is not her own to do with as she pleases. If conservatives have their way, Big Gummint (fat, bald politicians) will tell her what her "privileges" are.

Women, get a gun! Learn how to shoot! And stand your ground when the fat, bald politicians come after you!

hoonie61

IF A INDIVIDUAL FEELS THE NEED TO GET HIGH ON GRASS, KNOWING HE IS DOING SOMETHING HARMFUL TO HIS BODY,[ALCOHOL INCLUDED] AS FAR AS I AM CONCERNED, YOU ARE NO GOOD TO SOCIETY ANYHOW, JUST A BURDEN ON US TAXPAYERS. SO, IN BRIEF, IF YOU FEEL THE NEED TO GET HIGH, JUMP OFF A BRIDGE AND TRY AND FLY. GOOD LUCK ON THAT ENDEAVOR. AS FOR ME, I'LL HAVE ANOTHER GLASS OF ICED TEA WITH NO SUGAR. MAY GOD GRANT YA SERENITY MY FRIEND! GO IN PEACE AND SERVE THE LORD. RESPECTFULLY, AND THANK YOU FOR THE TIME.

Tasine Loc: Southwest US

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Absolutely WRONG. A woman should have no right that all Americans do not have, and THAT would rule out A******N FOR CONVENIENCE'S SAKE. If I decide I'd rather not talk with you, I can stay home, I can tell you to get lost, I can boycot everything you stand for - BUT I CANNOT K**L YOU WITHOUT STANDING TRIAL FOR MURDER.. Is that a true statement, a true question?
If a woman doesn't want the pregnancy, she had the option of having or denying sex. That's how we handled it in my day. She chose to have sex. It was her body, and she did what she chose to do with it. It was my body and I did what I wanted with it, but then, I was taught that we are responsible for our own actions. The baby is not the "mother's" body - it is the baby's body.

You people on the left go through so many contortions to try to convince people that your lies and aberrations are good - and we aren't buying that snake oil.

jasfourth401

I agree. It should be legalized, for the reasons you state above, but also as a way to starve the drug lords of cash. Anytime we can make their life miserable is a good day for all of us.

MarvinSussman

We disagree and nothing can be done about it except that women have to learn how to shoot.

Tasine Loc: Southwest US

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Seems to me that men don't want equal rights with women. If she can k**l legally, why can't you?

emarine

I am all for it Chief :thumbup: :thumbup: Just as long as the stoners remember to drive in the right lane and don't consume all the Oreo cookies and milk

jasfourth401

Additives come in two forms. One is the use of banned pesticides to increase yields and is the most dangerous. The other is an outgrowth of the "designer drug" craze among kids. All these awful chemical concoctions (meth, ecstasy, mdma and lord knows what else) are used to coat the pot and increase potency. The most horrifying example was down in Miami where a homeless man high on this junk gnawed off the face of another man.

These two reasons also bolster the case for legalization to keep these toxic add-ons out of this stuff.

stan3186

I believe all drugs should be legalized and controlled where they are not laden with other chemicals that could be harmful like many of the street drugs are today.

However, this will never happen. The reason has nothing to do with morality or wh**ever, it is simply money and large investments by some very rich people and the Federal and State governments.

It has been theorized in some studies that 80% of all crimes are in some manner related to drugs or getting money to buy drugs. Makes perfect sense to decriminalize drugs and take the profit out of selling and save on the cost of prosecution and the jailing of these people right? Of course, unless you are a company that is being paid huge dollars as a privately owned prison. Unless you are a city that is arming police and hiring officers to enforce the laws. Think how many billions if not trillions of dollars are spent on "the war on drugs" and how many influential people (politicians, police unions, lawyers, judges) would be affected if the government were to actually do the right thing and legalize most if not all drugs and just go for treatment rather than punishment of the offenders.

No; taking the crime out of drugs and the street profit out of drugs makes perfect sense to the average person, but the average person is not profiting legally by all the supporting industries of the "war on drugs".

Hungry Freaks