Conservative Case for Drug Legalization: mar1juana

To t_j,

I note that your sig now includes another barb that I can only assume is pointed at me. I guess since you can't back anything with facts, evidence, or data, your sig will just continue to contain nothing but unsubstantiated garbage.

I suppose that if you don't have the capacity to win a debate by debating, you have to make yourself feel better by poking at me in any way you can. Will you ever choose to be anything other than the sad joke you have shown yourself to be on this board?

 

Thankfully, I don't feel the need to stoop to the level that t_j regularly does. Besides, I don't believe that conservatism destroys lives, it has just been co-opted by people who are using the guise of conservatism to meet their decidedly non-conservative goals.

 

What you seem to be failing to grasp is that most people don't believe that drug crimes, particularly when talking about mar1juana, should be crimes in the first place. We are talking about a substance that over half of us born since 1956 or so have used at one point in our lives. Every single scientific study that has posed the question of the best way to deal with mar1juana since the 1800s has said that we should not make it illegal, but have espoused decriminalization, regulation, or legalization.

I suppose you will support Sensenbrenner's proposed bill that would make it a crime punishable by two years in jail for failing to report a neighbor or friend who uses drugs. If that is the kind of America you want to live in then I truly feel sorry for you because you obviously have no idea what our forefathers fought and died for. Freedom is supposed to mean something, but the War on Drugs just keeps taking those freedoms away.

The really sad part about attitudes like yours is that you don't see that we could get drugs out of the hands of our children altogether with a system of strong regulation where prohibition has done the exact opposite and provided our young people easy access to the most dangerous chemicals we know of.

 

Are you truly trying to draw a comparison between mar1juana use and slavery?

On this particular topic, I am pretty darned learned. I have read the results of every single study I have ever heard of that dealt with the issue of mar1juana use and most of them that have been concerned with the use of other drugs as well. I felt that it was only right for me to be as educated as possible in order to more effectively counsel young people regarding the dangers of drug use. I was a drug abuse counselor specializing in adolescents, you see, so you are welcome to attempt to demean my studies by comparing me to 70's cult icons, but you will be as accurate in that portrayal as t_j is with everything he says on this board, which is to say not at all.

You are welcome to look it up. HR 1528. Educate yourself.

I would argue that asset forfeiture laws that place the burden of proof on the accused to prove that their property was not used in a drug crime flies squarely in the face of the amendment that guarantees that we will not be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.

Our forefathers (George Washington for one) grew hemp, which is now illegal, the drafts of the Declaration of Independance were written on hemp paper, and in fact it is rumored that the American Flag that Betsy Ross so famously sewed was made of hemp.

Our forefathers fought and died so that we would be free from tyranny and opression. Personally, I see the Drug War as tyranny and opression of more people than existed in America at the time.

If you cannot see the freedoms that have been lost in the past thirty three years over the War on Drugs, then I am truly sorry for you. Again, I would encourage you to educate yourself on the subject.

In Holland, they have half the rate of teen drug use that we see in this country. That number includes mar1juana, which is tolerated there. I would regulate drugs more stringently than they do in Holland and as such, I guarantee that under a system of regulation that I would create, we would see massive, sudden drops in rates of use by teens virtually overnight.

There are lots of crimes and destroyed lives as a result of alcohol, which only lends more credence to my point. mar1juana is, by anyone's measure, a less destructive drug than alcohol is. You can die just from drinking too much alcohol where nobody has ever been documented to have died from mar1juana in the history of the world.

Educate yourself, please.

 

Are you implying that you have copyrighted or trademarked that particular phrase? If I asked the professors where I work to explain plagiarism to me, do you think that they would include the phrase "What you seem to be failing to grasp" in the definition? If you can show me where that phrase is the particular intellectual property of any entity, I will bow to your greatness. Until then, I bask in your moronic stupidity. Thanks in advance.