Science shows that drug criminalization has very little impact on cannabis use.

He isn't. He is trying to give you the freedom to make your own moral choices. Personal morality and the law are two different things. He is also trying to show how we are throwing away money, feeding a nasty underground market, and filling up prisons all because of a failed control effort.

 

Jeff, my suggestion to andy would be to perhaps add interesting info like this to a thread he already has going. That way, if someone is new to the subject, they can look further back in the thread and find out even more. Just a thought.

 

andymoon, in the past 30 days, you have started no less than SEVEN threads on the single issue of pot. I just wanted you to know this.

 

This is really key to me. It isn't necessary to post EVERYTHING on the subject. This is a forum for lots of different topics. Hitting on the key/important one's not only makes more sense in here, but it helps to keep the flow of conversation...uh...flowing.

By the way, I agree with you when it comes to mar1juana. It is moronic that it is illegal. And, I've never touched the stuff in my life.

 

I don't speak for andy...BUT...

I would imagine his response would be something like:

Yeah. Most agree. And have for a while. And what has changed? So if the status quo isn't going to change itself, and people simply agreeing that, gee, when you think about it, it really should change doesn't in fact lead to any change, is it not possible for andy to conclude that SOMETHING has to be done to stimulate change, and perhaps it's better to err on the side of too much onformation rather than not enough. If only as an iritant, might it not keep the issue more alive in people's minds, which could thereby lead to people actually taking some sort of action beyond house party chit chat.


Just a theory, though.

 

I would like to take this a step further. No matter what your political beliefs are on drugs, the fact remains, they are illegal. Any threads encouraging the use of or deminishing the law of such drugs should be immediatly locked. There are kids and adolecsents in this forum and such conversation is inappropriate.

I beilive the same already goes for file sharing in these forums. No matter how much you are against the fact that sharing files are illegal, they still are. And any posts encouraging the use of such tools to download files illegally are locked.

Lets be consistant on this one.

 

Independent thought alarm!!!



Hey all you kids out there, I encourage you to question all laws. Please come to your own conclusions.

 

andymoon has been abundantly and consistently clear that he does not encourage the use of illegal drugs, in fact to the contrary.

As far as locking any posts that advocate changing the law through (mostly ) civil discourse, do you think the founders of our country would agree with your position?

 

Its not the discussion of the legalization that I want to stop, its the responses that inevidably seem to occur in such threads encouraging and glamorizing the use of illegal drugs. I went back a couple pages and quickly pulled these up:

 

So, let me get this right ... you are incouraging kids to experiment with drugs. And you have no problem with "advertising" the glamorization of illegal substances to persons who, for the most part, arent old enough to understand the consequenes of their actions?

 

The first is sound reasoning, although i would suggest that alchohol is much worse, the latter is, I assume, somewhat tongue in cheek, and if coming from an adult, hardly an indication of the Appocalypse.

Gandhi said there is no way for a normal person to change an unjust law while obeying it.

 

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Amendment I

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; <b>or abridging the freedom of speech</b>, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

we still live in America

 

Oh no, not the played out liberal free speech card. This board is private in nature and clutchfans has complete control over its content. Which is why they are allowed to lock the threads they want, boot users they want, and register users they want.

 

I am?


I do?


You are not fooling anyone.