Decriminalize *all * drugs now

[Happy Fun Ball]

Tell ya what...if you want drugs legalized so bad...work on your congres critters and your senator...get them to draft a Constitutional Amendment.  If 2/3rds of the states ratify said amendment...you'll never hear another word from me on this subject again.

Except maybe the inevitable "I told you so".

[Karin]

I never participate in these debates, let me tell you why.  I can see crystal clearly both sides of the fence, and I think they're both right. 

(I despise pot, though, and cannot see its appeal.  Something tall & cold is more for me).

 

[AllosaursRus]

Drop your jaw if you will, but I agree.  I think Marijuana should be a legal controlled substances strictly for home use after 9:00 PM.  Any other use should be a felony, Class 1 Felony if sold/given to or possessed by a minor.  It should be sold only at storefronts set up at the local police station.  Pot found away from its tax stamped container should be confiscated and the penalty should be a mandatory one year and one day in prison.     

I have an 18 year old nephew who thinks Pot ought to be legal. He lays around the house, stays out all night, looks for work only when threatened to be kicked out, and even when I hire him here at the ranch, he's useless! Yeah we need to legalize the ****in' shit! The moron got fired from Burger King for cripes sake!

What a great ****in' idea! Unfortunately, that's what Mary Jane does to ya. It makes ya lazy as hell and unwilling to get off your ass and provide for yourself. His Mom is the preachers daughter and believes sooner or later he'll get a clue. He's been this way since his sophomore year in highschrool! Was suspended several times for ditchin' schrool, stole her car a few times, then started screamin' abuse when his Dad wanted to beat the livin' shit outa him!

Yep, let's legalize Pot!

Pretty hard to get away with drinkin' alcohol during class. Pot, not so much, especially when they're taught by the likes of the teachers we have met at the DUmp! Let's all get on this BandWagon!

[Lord Undies]

I have an 18 year old nephew who thinks Pot ought to be legal. He lays around the house, stays out all night, looks for work only when threatened to be kicked out, and even when I hire him here at the ranch, he's useless! Yeah we need to legalize the ****in' shit! The moron got fired from Burger King for cripes sake!

What a great ****in' idea! Unfortunately, that's what Mary Jane does to ya. It makes ya lazy as hell and unwilling to get off your ass and provide for yourself. His Mom is the preachers daughter and believes sooner or later he'll get a clue. He's been this way since his sophomore year in highschrool! Was suspended several times for ditchin' schrool, stole her car a few times, then started screamin' abuse when his Dad wanted to beat the livin' shit outa him!

Yep, let's legalize Pot!

Pretty hard to get away with drinkin' alcohol during class. Pot, not so much, especially when they're taught by the likes of the teachers we have met at the DUmp! Let's all get on this BandWagon!

I think you missed the spirit of my post, but it is pretty vague.

Marijuana stops emotional growth at whatever age you happen to be when you become a serious user.  It robs the pothead of most personal growth.  Your nephew is a good example.  His brain is probably that of a lazy 14-year-old. 

[BlueStateSaint]

I think you missed the spirit of my post, but it is pretty vague.

Marijuana stops emotional growth at whatever age you happen to be when you become a serious user.  It robs the pothead of most personal growth.  Your nephew is a good example.  His brain is probably that of a lazy 14-year-old.  

My best friend from high school has smoked a lot of pot since we graduated a looong time ago.  He's had some emotional growth, but not too much.  What really pissed me off one day, many years ago, was that he actually took a doobie into the woods deer hunting.  I was maybe 150 yards away.  He lit the doobie up, and a little 3-pointer walked up on him.  He said later that he was kinda pissed that he had to put the doob out to shoot the buck.  Shot three times; hit once, but it was a double-lung shot.  Buck went down near me and died before I could get a shot off, or even see the deer.  The kicker was that he vomited as soon as he tried to gut the deer.  I still had visions of medical school then, so I got right to it.  But it really pissed me off that here I was, trying to deer hunt seriously, and he has a doobie, lights the thing up, and a buck walks up on him . . . He hasn't shot a deer since.  I've got seven.

[The Village Idiot]

I think you missed the spirit of my post, but it is pretty vague.

I know some 40 year old "stoners" who like to ride bikes at the skate park and play XBox Live a lot. They still act and talk like juveniles. SO I definitely agree with you.

[Alpha Mare]

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration's new drug czar says he wants to banish the idea that the U.S. is fighting "a war on drugs," a move that would underscore a shift favoring treatment over incarceration in trying to reduce illicit drug use.

The Obama administration is likely to deal with drugs as a matter of public health rather than criminal justice alone, with treatment's role growing relative to incarceration, Mr. Kerlikowske said.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124225891527617397.html

The chart shows no significant increase in drug use, but a major increase in treatment admissions for pot/meth. What it doesn't show is that how many of those were court-ordered.
No one seeks treatment for smoking pot voluntarily.

[Boudicca]

I never participate in these debates, let me tell you why.  I can see crystal clearly both sides of the fence, and I think they're both right. 

(I despise pot, though, and cannot see its appeal.  Something tall & cold is more for me).

 

Yep, same here.  I can see both sides, and there are compelling arguments either way.
Nevertheless, I did give my kids a directive when they were old enough to drink-get drunk, not high, because one's legal and one isn't.  And, NEVER drive intoxicated.

DD will turn 25 this Sunday.  She's pulling an all nighter with some friends at their house.  I expect she'll get home sometime before work on Monday.

My kids told me one time I'd taken all the fun out of drinking and smoking since when they were teenagers I told them they could do both, in my house only.  They took me up on it once or twice and quit.  Nowadays neither one smokes and they only drink on special and rare occasions.

My parents did the same for me and I turned out okay.  Heh, IMHO of course.

[Lord Undies]

Most of us here can see both sides of every argument crystal clear.  That's why we are conservatives.  The world REALLY REALY is black and white.  There really is a right and there really is a wrong.  Blindfolds and gray areas are for liberals and losers and Little Goons at DU.

We conservatives know, deep in our hearts (brains), exactly what is right - even if we don't always express it as our opinion.  

[The Village Idiot]

My kids told me one time I'd taken all the fun out of drinking and smoking since when they were teenagers I told them they could do both, in my house only.

and orgies, don't forget the orgies with strangers.

//sarcasm

[thundley4]

You should see some of the venom directed towards Lord Zero.


Obama Administration ‘Firmly Opposes’ Marijuana Legalization — Here’s Why
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8319567

[Boudicca]

and orgies, don't forget the orgies with strangers.

//sarcasm

 :thatsright:DOH!  I KNEW I forgot something.