tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post5885270006898921726..comments2024-03-28T23:33:45.139-04:00Comments on Just An Earth-Bound Misfit, I : Legalize PotComrade Misfithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15404477636451308763noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post-49299047317249053112010-10-19T08:36:38.410-04:002010-10-19T08:36:38.410-04:00Comrade Misfit, I was unclear. I approve of your ...Comrade Misfit, I was unclear. I approve of your post 100%.Nangleatorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01908938252272172718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post-29589031070359793482010-10-19T06:41:45.450-04:002010-10-19T06:41:45.450-04:00Have you good folks ever heard or a weed fueled ri...Have you good folks ever heard or a weed fueled riot after a sporting event? I thought not. Those riots are fueled by beer and misplaced team pride. Throw some joints at a rampaging mob and in 30 minutes it will disperse because they all got the munchies.<br /><br />Also, in my humble opinion, any athlete who tests positive for the stuff should be congratulated for being able to perform, not punished. I'm sure most of us know the weed is NOT a performance enhancing drug in any way, stretch or form...lolAllan Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09757239604220478557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post-53911720161232485922010-10-19T01:49:35.484-04:002010-10-19T01:49:35.484-04:00BadTux
Of course you know that it is actually wors...BadTux<br />Of course you know that it is actually worse than paying taxes for bullshit that serves no useful purpose. As you have pointed out on your own blog and others have on blogs such as this the greatest cost is the destruction of our values. Not the bullshit ones like "being free of the scourge of drugs", but the real freedom from repression that we are losing bit by big bit everyday.Ruckushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18059765383428059804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post-30163102014773100152010-10-19T00:03:41.725-04:002010-10-19T00:03:41.725-04:00Besides, marijuana prohibition is no longer a tool...Besides, marijuana prohibition is no longer a tool to keep minorities down, because the majority of marijuana users today are white middle class people. Minorities use crack, heroin, meth, whatever, but not marijuana, at least, not in any disproportionate amount. This ain't 1938 and the beaner menace don't play no more. <br /><br />Frankly, from everything I've seen and heard, marijuana is less harmful than alcohol. You can die from drinking alcohol, and hundreds of young people do die from alcohol overdose every year when they drink too much at parties. You can't die from smoking marijuana -- to get enough THC in you to OD, you'd have to smoke several times your body weight in MJ during the course of a day. There simply is no medical reason to keep the stuff illegal, only bullshit reasons. And this penguin has little truck for bullshit. Make it legal, treat it like alcohol (complete with sobriety tests for drivers and carding of kids who try to buy it), and be done with this crock of bull.<br /><br />- Badtux the Non-Tokin' Penguin<br />(Note: I don't smoke, drink, or use any drug other than an OTC allergy medicine. I just am tired of paying taxes for bullshit that serves no useful purpose).BadTuxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01345749557330760251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post-77128972774469164492010-10-18T22:07:26.209-04:002010-10-18T22:07:26.209-04:00Nangleator, the government doesn't sell alcoho...Nangleator, the government doesn't sell alcohol. Or tobacco. But it regulates and taxes both.<br /><br />Do you disagree with the premise that the War on Drugs has, to date, been a failure?<br /><br />If you accept the premise, then is it not also true that it is insane to keep following the same failed policy?<br /><br />Legalization is not a panacea, true. But I cannot see how legalizing pot (and yes, eventually all other drugs) will be any worse. Drug dealers, right now, fight over turn and sales with weapons. Liquor stores do not.Comrade Misfithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15404477636451308763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post-77313296498238875892010-10-18T21:50:08.832-04:002010-10-18T21:50:08.832-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.norbithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18438346214658650403noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post-5453969650503693842010-10-18T14:06:57.095-04:002010-10-18T14:06:57.095-04:00I posted along these lines in Badtux's blog la...I posted along these lines in Badtux's blog last week, in relation to his post on California's Proposition 19, but the dialogue (or rather, competing monologues) is going on everywhere - especially up in my province in Canada, where the putative value of the crop is measured in the billions and we have a considerable amount of gang violence and murder associated with the drug trade (okay, "considerable" for Canada equals "Tuesday" in many parts of the USA, but it still upsets us).<br /><br />I don't believe the hype about how legalizing marijuana will magically make all the violence and mayhem associated with its illegality go away overnight. Repealing Prohibition didn't make the Mob go away. Since last year Mexico has decriminalized the possession of small amounts of drugs for personal use (marijuana, cocaine, heroin, ecstasy, etc.), putting the legal stamp on what has for some time been a civic fait accompli. Yet the violence within Mexico itself, far from all of it tied up with supplying the USA with drugs, gets worse every week.<br /><br />What would legalization change? Well, your revenue streams for sure, and we'll probably have a few more slow, hungry and stupid stoner people around. (Yeah, sure, you can point out all kinds of people who have smoked or do smoke and continue to function and prosper, but so what - I can produce an even longer list of great drunken writers, politicians, musicians and scientists, but that doesn't establish alcohol's bona fides in and of itself. And for every Willie Nelson you trot out, there's a hundred 30something losers still toking up in their room above the garage.) Dope will still be a product in demand, and people (currently, people involved in organized crime) will compete to supply that demand, and be aggressive in, well, let's call it "securing market share". <br /><br />I suppose if you're comfortable with the idea of your government selling you more harmful and addictive substances than this, and most people are, why not go all the way. To make this work, government would have to step in to be the biggest and baddest dealer on the block. <br /><br />When you think about it, pot is actually a fabulous method of social control for government to get into. Yes, pot smokers don't make a fraction of the trouble drinkers do, but most of them don't get up to much of anything but shambling around looking for snacks and more pot. Ideal if you want your population to be quiescent, socially and politically disengaged, law-abiding zombies.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post-38622799421852956672010-10-18T13:54:53.767-04:002010-10-18T13:54:53.767-04:00A tool to keep minorities down will never be willi...A tool to keep minorities down will never be willingly given up.<br /><br />Just like prostitution. It can be abolished tomorrow. Don't even have to add any new laws; just remove one. Make prostitution legal... for the prostitutes. Keep it illegal for johns and pimps. And perhaps add some reward money for anyone who wishes to drop a dime on a pimp or john. Anyone who had direct knowledge of the crime, yet wasn't capable of incriminating themselves, because what *they* did wasn't illegal. The crime would disappear like a popped soap bubble.<br /><br />But, no. Prostitution is here to stay, too.Nangleatorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01908938252272172718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post-3139113584026184622010-10-18T13:32:41.105-04:002010-10-18T13:32:41.105-04:00Two points against legalization.
1. The WOD has g...Two points against legalization.<br /><br />1. The WOD has gotten the populace used to the idea of a war without end, amen.<br /><br />2. Too many people have too much invested in the war to give it up.montaghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15333471337818106739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post-60622777296264866852010-10-18T13:26:52.460-04:002010-10-18T13:26:52.460-04:00Alles in ordnung.
Everything is exactly as desire...Alles in ordnung.<br /><br />Everything is exactly as desired by those in office/power.<br /><br />daveXR650L_Davehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17285771913490257391noreply@blogger.com