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Hi RoadClosed,
I'm sure you've heard of the pot debate and de-criminalization in Canada...to run your own pot house you'll need a licence...like any business licence. ;)
Eg :D
OH...and I agree, pot smokers eating a twinkie should not say hi to bubba...in fact, as I've said before, prison should be ' restricted ' only for violent crimes.
And legalizing drugs through prescription would effectively solve the problem of users going to jail for smokin' at home at their leisure.
I've been around drugs and I was raised.... A sheep thinking they were bad. I looked up things on my own. And I have in fact been around people who drugs took over them. So I don't have that biased. Drugs are only destructive because they are hard to get pure, and.... You know what the biggest problem with addiction is? Running out. That's it. other than that addiction teaches you to be a good person.Quote:
Originally posted here by RoadClosed
Whos on my Home Grown bandwagon? Gore, most people who are extremely biased against drug use have seen it's destructive properties first hand. Nothing wrong with that and existing law enforcement people are doing what they are paid to do. Uphold the law, so we change it. Legalize drug use for adults, close the Mexican border, solve Iraq, Invest in alternative engergy, exlplore space. Thats my ideal presidente... oh and reform Social Secuity. Why are dems so against reforming a dying program BTW?
//EDIT when I say legalize drugs I am refering to homegrown drugs in the home. If you can't grow it, go to someone who can. People growing pot in a closet should not be going to jail, this is an issue out of control. The hardened criminals can still be put behind bars when they commit violent crimes, but the dude eating a twinkie watching scooby doo with a couple of counts of possession will go to the same jail.
You learn how it feels to REALLY want something and get it. I don't steal from stores, I don't need things I can't afford so much, I have what I really want. And drug addicts wouldn't steal if they were legal, wouldn't need to, because you wouldn't get fired for doing it.
And of course, you could afford it.
I don't think weed or Opium need scripts though, put them in bars or something. In other countries they have this, you go there relax with friends and smoke.
As for legalizing Cocain.... Go ahead, hell it was legal and used in many man surgerys. That's what it was made for.
Go get Scarface, the 1931 edition. Watch how prhibition ruined, ended and stopped many lives. Then look me in the eyes and tell me it's wrong to legalize. All those people could be alive today if it hadn't been for a moronic idea such as prohibition, it should be against the contitution, which is written on hemp.
For the SxE drug haters:
**** off and watch Cheech and Chong you uptight bastards.
"Legalize drug use for adults, close the Mexican border, solve Iraq, Invest in alternative engergy, exlplore space. Thats my ideal presidente... oh and reform Social Secuity.
Agreed for the first one, **** the border, **** Iraq, not sure about that alternative one, and there is more known about the moon than Earth so just explore the water.
The issue goes way beyond drugs. It's about politics, the definition
of the terms "liberal" and "conservative", and the meaning of the
US constitution.
http://washingtontimes.com/commentar...2051-4116r.htmQuote:
The chief author of our Constitution, James Madison, had little patience for those who accused him and his allies of trying to create a large, intrusive federal government.
In 1788, he noted pointedly the "powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined ." Those of the states, by contrast, "are numerous and indefinite." Last week, addressing the same question, the Supreme Court said, "James who?"
I was struck by the fact that some people are so irrationally and emotionally anti-dope
that they will set aside their usual legal philosophy to come up with a twisted decision
like this one.
Where's Owsley when you really need him?
:cool:
how would the prescription sale of marijuana differ from the persvription sale of any other drug. some people sell the drugs they've obtained legally. some just give them away to friends and family that need them.
marijuana is not addictive, most people polled have said it should be de-criminalized and at least five states have made marijuna for medical use legal.
the decisions of these states have been overridden by the supreme court. the will of the people is not even considered. in my opinion the real question is do the courts have too much power?
we spend far too much money stopping (and punnishing) people from doing something they want to do.
The will of the people? Damn you're idealistic.
This is nothing new. I mean... that right there is the issue that started the civil war, once the civil war was lost, so was any hope of true state based government. We're all just federal puppets now.Quote:
the decisions of these states have been overridden by the supreme court. the will of the people is not even considered. in my opinion the real question is do the courts have too much power?
rc, the issue does go beyond drugs. It's both a social and political problem. That's why I support limited release on controls AT A STATE'S discression. And employers who still wish to impose controls on their workers are free to do so. Schools and colleges who wish to impose controls are also free to do so and the legal age will be the right of suffrage, what ever that is in each state. If you don't like it move or get another job. Just like alcohol and other controlled substances.
The court decision is based on existing laws at a federal level. Change in those laws will take time and only through direct communication to congress and guess what, we need the Christians on board to enact any real change.
Hey folks, this is a bit of a weird one for me?...............We (The British) are looking at cannabis as a pharmacalogical substance..............sure we will need to identify the active ingredients, and make some little white pills, but let's start the research?
Back before WWI you could go into a pharmacist and buy cannabis.............you could also buy a pint of laudanum to wash it down with (that's tincture of opium :cool: )
I am pretty sure there is good stuff here............shall we just find out what and isolate it? that might just improve a few people's quality of life?
:)
No no, it's Opium and wine, ;) It's funny, back in the day before 1906 you could walk around smoking Opium, there was damn near NO crime rate, no gangs, no people being shot down in the street, then boom drug laws everywhere and gangs ruling the country with guns.
Anyone from the DEA reading this? You realise your job is to make life hell for people?
Hah, are you trying to say that almost all violence stems from laws banning drugs?
ALL DRUG RELATED violence is in fact from them being banned. How many time has someone robbed someone for money to buy a drug that's dirt cheap to make? How many times have gangs murdered people for territory? How many people "Promote terrorism" by buying drugs?
Legalize them, tax them, problem solved.