I just read this story on KJCT8.com about a group that wants support from mothers for the legalization of marijuana. This to me is insanity. The story states that using marijuana is safer than using alcohol, prescription drugs, and other substances. To me, there is one word retort for that argument ...baloney.
Do I think that alcohol, prescription drugs and other substances (I'm assuming they are referring to the illegal ones) are more dangerous than the legal ones? Maybe. Does that mean I should make marijuana illegal? No, as my grandparents used to say "Two wrongs don't make a right." Very true in this case. Just because something is safer does not mean is should be legal.
A comment in the story was "It is absolutely time to stop destroying families. To Stop putting people in federal penitentiaries. It is time to heal families, not destroy families," says Attorney Jessica Corry. Evidently it is better to destroy families by having a stoned family member slip behind the wheel of 4,000 pounds of steel and drive around amongst other families. Or how about the families that are destroyed by the drug cartels in Mexico and Arizona? I bet they would like to see a little justice.
If we used the logic that our prisons are full because of the all the marijuana crimes, so to relieve the prison population we should make it leagal. It would also relieve the prison population to release all the rapists, murderers and child molesters, I wouldn't advocate that proposal. Where does it stop?
This is kin to those parents you hear about that say; "it is OK for kids to drink with their friends as long as they do it home with me." It is not right in that case and it isn't right in this case. Would you go to the gun store buy a revolver, load it, then place it in a kids toy box? Total insanity. Why would any parent want to support a group that would have you believe that the legalization of marijuana, for their children, is a safe alternative. The safe alternative is keeping marijuana illegal and the users safely behind bars.
"MARIJUANA it's a special kind of stupid!": How apropos! I've been around those who indulge in this mind numbing practice. From what I've observed, continued use causes: lethargy, confused thinking, loss of initiative , feelings of social dependence (think liberalism) and if mixed with alcohol a very real danger to the user and anyone unlucky enough to be around the user. Safer? Well maybe if you consider someone "toking" up in his/her room and staring at the wall paper for hours, as opposed to a bar fight, there may be a point somewhere. At a time when society is cracking down on tobacco and alcohol why promote this? I submit that wide spread use of this substance would result in mass dysfunction never before imagined and a disproportionate burden will be placed on the non-users who try to keep production going forward. I can't wait to hear from the pot heads who are so burned out that they think of themselves as intellectual superior and they are OUT THERE!
ReplyDeleteWell, no response from the Pot-Heads. I guess that you should be proud that these jerks don't show up on an itelligent blog such as yours!
ReplyDeleteI even posted it in the afternoon to give them time to wake up. Thanks T²
ReplyDeleteYes I say bring probation back with alcohol as well, it worked so well last time!! here we go saying what we think everyone should do instead of minding our own business when it comes to the choice to drink or not to drink or smoke or not to smoke... your commit on pot is kind of a liberal view wanting to control the public... and comparing a rapist to a pot smoker???? So tobacco kills more people than any drug.. lets outlaw that as well.. saturated fat is bad to!! lets out law that!! obesity is one of the highest heath crisis we face!! I choose not to drink nor do I smoke pot...I do not have the right to choose for you.. Nor do I think my government should choose for me. This is a personal and family discussion...
ReplyDeleteI understand and embrace the need and want of liberty. My point is you have to stop somewhere. Using you analogy of booze is legal then pot should be doesn't hold water. What is next? Meth, coke, or heroin? Is legalizing marijuana in the best interest of country, of society as a whole? Making more bad stuff legal is not the answer. I don't think we want a country that is based on anarchy. Do you think that if marijuana was legal that there would be no regulations regarding it's use? There would be more regulations more government more loss of liberty. Laws are designed to protect people from other people not protect them from themselves. The use of marijuana affects more than just the user. It affects everybody.
ReplyDeletePlease read Anonymous, above. I rest my case.
ReplyDeleteJonberg, you rest your case meaning what? I said I do not smoke the stuff? what exactly was your case?
ReplyDeleteT2 you did not respond to your analogy of comparing a rapist to a pot head? I think a talk with a rape victim might change your mind..
You say laws are to protect people from people. So a law that says you cannot smoke pot protects you from the pot head?? or is it a law that protects people from themselves? I do not think the idea of legalizing pot is to give the go ahead on smoking and driving "DUI" that should be illegal as with alcohol.
I do agree that if were legal there would be a ton of regulations and laws. I do not understand when you say that regulations and laws on governing legalized pot takes away my liberty, thus keeping it illegal enhances my liberty? So do you guys agree that prohibition did not work? I also think calling everyone who partakes in smoking pot as a "pot head" is the same as calling everyone who drinks an alcoholic. Good subject matter to discus!!
prohibition makes it profitable. take the motive of profit out of the equation, and these crooks will have find some other wickedness to profit from.
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ReplyDelete"I said I do not smoke the stuff?" Are you asking yourself a question? It sounds rather telling to me.
i say screw the government. they have ABSOLUTELY no business at all telling any citizen what to do, as long as they are harming no other human being, or their property. do you know how much money the corrupt banking system launders FROM these illegal drugs? about $375,000,000,000.00. yet they get fined a measly 100 million dollars, and nobody goes to jail. wake up and figure out who owns you and your government!
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