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02-19-2007, 11:27 AM
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If a person is going to use, they are going to use, whether it's legal or illegal. Now, if they were legal, the danger would go way down, you would have less drug-related crimes, less likelihood of overdose, and the drugs wouldn't be cut with nasty stuff. And the money that is being spent by the failed 'war on drugs' could be spent in better areas, like education, health care, rehabilitation. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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02-19-2007, 11:36 AM
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02-19-2007, 12:53 PM
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One old man mows down and kills 11 people, does that mean we make it illegal for all old people to drive? Do some people who are high hurt people? Yes. But there are schizophrenics that hurt people, too. Do we put them all away? | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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02-19-2007, 04:27 PM
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02-19-2007, 08:16 PM
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if we legalize pot, other drugs won't necessarily follow suit. certain municipalities have legalized marijuana, and as far as i can tell, no one is lobbying to legalize crack there. they legalized it for the most part for medicinal purposes, and it is heavily regulated. and you realize marijuana and methamphetamine, cocaine, etc. are nothing alike, right? any marijuana laws in this country would tightly regulate its use and sale, like alcohol and tobacco. i don't see what the problem is here. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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02-20-2007, 12:40 AM
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Like if we legalize marijuana they won't use that as grounds to legalize other drugs. Please. They're already using the legality of alcohol and tobacco to push for this, it's common sense that it's leading to a downward slope. "An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows no doubt, about a perfect aesthetic that has no room for doubt." ~ Antonio Tabucchi | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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02-20-2007, 02:56 AM
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I don't think that is a downward slope. In fact I think it would greatly improve the quality of society. A former police chief agrees. "Combined with treatment, education and other public-health programs for drug abusers, regulated legalization would make your city or town an infinitely healthier place to live and raise a family." read more The Seattle Times: Opinion: Legalize drugs — all of them --- help me Instant Runoff Voting, you're my only hope --- There is little doubt that the world in general is more liberal than it was 50 years ago and beyond. Conservatives are simply roadblocks on the path to an ever more progressive and liberal world. What a sad existence. Last edited by hevusa; 02-20-2007 at 03:14 AM. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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02-20-2007, 06:03 AM
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02-20-2007, 06:15 AM
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02-20-2007, 07:12 AM
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Drinking a quart of vodka can kill you(not to mention the deaths due to DWI). Smoking high quality pot 24 hours straight won't kill you. There has never been a drug overdose from smoking weed, yet it's illegal? In addition, The crimes committed on the streets of this country have little to do with Schizophrenics. The ones that do commit crimes(even petty ones) get locked up in a Hospital indefinitely(until they are deemed safe to release, which could be years), which can be a worse experience than jail. Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. ~Richard Armour There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle. ~Alexis de Tocqueville | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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