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- DiggsOnlyJew, on 10/26/2007, -31/+259Amazing, people who sit on the internet surfing the web all day seeing what other people have been surfing all day want to legalize a drug that makes sitting around and doing nothing absolutely awesome.
- scallon, on 10/22/2007, -13/+148In other news: The earth is not flat.....
- musters, on 10/23/2007, -18/+137Or Digg and Reddit users are sick and tired of government propaganda.
- kaelyiesta, on 10/23/2007, -9/+109In other news, study shows people do not like to be told how to live their own lives. Story at 11.
- wynja, on 10/19/2007, -3/+93I recently had the good fortune of meeting a police officer whom is a member of LEAP (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition: http://www.leap.cc/cms/index.php). I am truly amazed at the sincerity of the officer that I meet. I fully believe that LEAP will be instrumental in ending this absurd War on American Citizens. Show these real peace officers your support, donate to their cause, and invite them to speak at public events near you.
- sHockz, on 10/18/2007, -5/+58Who is to say physically addictive substances such as alcohol and cigarettes should be legal versus a drug that has no physical implications? Why should I have to worry about getting arrested for possessing a natural plant without rat poison injected into it? Why cant I just come home and sit down and enjoy my joint without having to be "breaking the law". Its a way to relax, and people who havent tried it and are whole heartily against smoking pot, ask yourself, do you feel the same way about alcohol and cigs? cause you definitely should, otherwise your just a hypocrite and should stfu.
i have been smoking for 12 years, i have no urge to go out and cause harm to the community in any way, and i simply just want to be able to smoke in peace without having the man breath down my neck. Is it so much to ask? What am I gonna do...get high, and relax watching tv or play some xbox to unwind from my day, get some food to quell my munchies, and passout later.
And to people who think it impairs driving - it doesnt. I drive just as well as when I am sober, if not better. I pay more attention, and I drive less aggressive.
Take it from me, there is no reason pot should be illegal. The hundreds of thousands of people who are behind bars shouldnt be there, plain and simple. - Kelgann, on 10/19/2007, -23/+73Legalize it!
(you knew it was coming) - NikoKun, on 10/23/2007, -8/+53haha awesome... full circle.
- commernie, on 10/23/2007, -11/+50I take it that you are against legalization, since the myth that only "stoners" want to legalize it is always used as an argument for prohibition. Nobody is falling for it though. Most rational people can see how absurd the prohibition is. I don't expect people like you to be rational, though.
- RyeBrye, on 10/18/2007, -4/+42[WTF is up with the brackets in the description?]
- tehpwnrate, on 10/18/2007, -7/+43Well, the difference is that child porn and murder are crimes with victims. Obviously you would get a DUI for driving high because that's a crime with a potential victim. But putting some stuff in your own body, even if it screws you up, is your free choice. Or should be.
- alilhappything, on 10/23/2007, -11/+43Change the title to "Any intelligent humanoid wants to legalize marijuana"
- Otnip, on 10/23/2007, -6/+34Look, from someone who has never smoked anything in their life, I'm fine with legalization, but please don't act like ***** with it like everyone in my damn school does. All they do is brag about it, and its funny because I tell my friends I'd do it if it was legal and they say they would stop doing it if it was.
- NikoKun, on 10/23/2007, -3/+30Only to you... and other lame prohibitionists... Let us have our rights back, and then we'll stay out of your way.
- wingo123, on 10/18/2007, -1/+26You make good points, and more power to you. But one of my pet peeves is when, in this debate, people throw out the 'I drive better' thing. Admittedly, I have been a smoker for easily as long, and would tend to AGREE with you. But you are not trying to convince me - I'm on your side. When trying to convince someone who is not a smoker that weed is harmless and that laws should change, this part of the argument sounds ridiculous to them. They can't believe that for a second, and will dismiss you as being a dumbass.
I think the reason the pro-pot movement is so slow-moving is because a lot of stoners give smokers a bad name by saying ***** that makes us all look dumb. Not that you are - you sound like a reasonably intelligent person - but to a non-smoker, that part of the argument sounds retarded. They can't believe it for a second - they equate it to drunk driving, which has a HUGE social stigma. As unfortunate as it is, that's the way they will see it. I think we need to be a little more careful about how we approach the subject so that we are taken more seriously. - wendelgee2, on 10/23/2007, -4/+29I'm sure this will no longer be an issue once you are out of middle school.
- Phrag, on 10/18/2007, -1/+23Insulting a Jewish person is not anti-Semitic by default. I am fairly sure that he meant 'people like you' to indicate people who believe the lazy stoner stereotype, not Jews.
- Genshinx, on 10/18/2007, -3/+25I agree smoking marijuana, killing, and watching baby porn are all exactly the same!......
*sigh* - petewiz, on 10/23/2007, -5/+27Who is being an *****? People want it legalized because they know there is nothing wrong with smoking it. Your friends sound like real ***** and if you really want to try it, just do it already. That's like a slave who doesn't run away because it's against the law.
- NikoKun, on 10/23/2007, -2/+23Where does the constitution give the government the right, to criminalize what I put into my own body?
"The constitution never gave the federal government the power to regulate what I put into my body, therefore is it my constitutional right to make that decision." - Phrag
Where in the constitution does it give you the freedom to eat chocolate? Or to sing... or do anything for that matter... It does not have to specifically be in the constitution. The constitution protects US from the government and limits what they can do to us... It does not contain a list of the freedoms we are supposed to have... By default, we have all freedoms.
It is the freedoms and rights over our own body that we fight for. The right of personal and private choices.
The prohibition of Marijuana tells us that we do not have that choice, over our own inner-space, our personal private bodies.
How dare you say we don't have a freedom to do something with ourselves... Is this not a free country? Is the ideal of individual freedom not at the core of what this country was founded to stand for?
Not to mention this is a drug which is safer than alcohol or tobacco... and the war on marijuana... this prohibition is no better, and way more hypocritical, than the alcohol prohibition of the 1920s. And if money concerns you, it is your tax dollars the government wastes on this policy against pot... they continue to fight it, even though they can't stop it and can't even effect it hardly at all.
Over 800,000 people a year have their lives permanently marked and ruined, by the criminalization of Marijuana... You don't see this as a hypocritical injustice? Especially for something safer than alcohol? Way out of proportion if you ask me.
And that's not even going into the medical side, or the industrial hemp side, both of which are huge casualties to this drug war. -_- - NikoKun, on 10/23/2007, -1/+22Commercialization is a small price to pay, for not being treated like criminals anymore.
- NikoKun, on 10/23/2007, -2/+22How is fighting for individual rights, *****? One of the core issues here, is a civil rights/individual freedoms issue.
- thomasprebble, on 10/18/2007, -4/+23Digg and Reddit users USE Marijuana *takes another toke*
- inactive, on 10/24/2007, -2/+20If pot were legal I'd quit drinking. I started because there's never a dry spell at the liquor store.
- walkingdogs, on 10/23/2007, -3/+20Let's then ban Alcohol and Tobacco which are by far way more harmful and deadly substances and then see if you are blowing the same horn.
BTW it's surrealism on surrealisam. - Phrag, on 10/23/2007, -1/+17Yeah. I do smell that. Try showering more often.
- petewiz, on 10/18/2007, -4/+20I am strongly against any annoying person, no matter if they smoke or not. Please, try to practice some equal-opportunity hatred.
- NinjaBoy, on 10/18/2007, -3/+19Intoxication.
- Davedough, on 10/18/2007, -3/+18Wow, trade one stereotype for another. I like to think I have a generally high IQ, I hold a job that has a great deal of respect, have an active lifestyle with my wife and 2 children and like to partake in nature's finest once in a while. Not all supporters of marijuana are burned out jobless idiotic drug dealers just like not all digg users may want to legalize the plant.
- NikoKun, on 10/18/2007, -4/+19Are you seriously trying to label the efforts of a few to get their freedoms back, as propaganda? What the government is doing is wrong, and against my individual freedom, what we are doing is just trying to get that freedom back...
We're not trying to force our choice on anyone else... -_- like the drug war does... - commernie, on 10/23/2007, -2/+17You'd be surprised how many people don't understand this simple concept.
- gropo, on 10/18/2007, -1/+15"I drive just as well as when I am sober, if not better. I pay more attention, and I drive less aggressive."
Agree. Navigation goes to hell in my case though. Not everyone has their full faculties when high (spacing traffic signals, etc). And not everyone is a menace after 4 or 5 beers. I still think there needs to be a full ban on driving under the influence in both cases as it's impossible to determine capabilities as an outsider. - mykool, on 10/18/2007, -2/+16I have the personal freedom to walk out side, cut some leafs off my fig tree, dry them, roll em and smoke em up. I also have the freedom to grow said tree. Why then do I not have the same freedom to do so with marijuana? Provide me a reason other than its illegal. Alcohol is a recreational drug. Alcohol overdose (a.k.a posining) is responsible for more deaths every day than marijuana has had since the dawn of time.
- djphatjive, on 10/18/2007, -3/+16Make it legal in homes only. Transport and in homes only. Because I freaking hate the smell of it and I hate smoke. Other than that let people smoke it at there house. But thats it.
- krnldmp, on 10/18/2007, -1/+14Wrong. Marijuana helps smart people deal with people like you.
- Genshinx, on 10/18/2007, -3/+169/11
- Phrag, on 10/18/2007, -2/+15In the Tenth Amendment. "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved for the States respectively, or to the people." The constitution never gave the federal government the power to regulate what I put into my body, therefore is it my constitutional right to make that decision.
- petewiz, on 10/18/2007, -3/+15You fail.
- tech42er, on 10/23/2007, -0/+12Oh yeah? You're just a lazy stoner. You don't get rights, because you want to do a Bad Thing®.
/sarcasm
//I hate prohibitionists who think that, because they dislike what you do, they should be able to stop you from doing it. - leo78, on 10/19/2007, -1/+13Comparing marijuana use to murder and pedophilia just shows how ignorant you actually are. You state that it is illegal for a reason, but do you even know the reasons why it is illegal?
- Marc39, on 10/18/2007, -3/+15"it's really not that important"
If you call wasting billions of dollars each year not important. - cissystrut, on 10/18/2007, -2/+13Why do you feel that the government should hold that kind of power? No one is asking you to smoke anything. There are so many people that smoke pot and lead productive live. It can be a beautiful thing to some people. All the stigma that is attached to the "stoner" makes me pretty sick, and the sad thing is is that all arguments agains it's legalization come from those same blanket assumptions. Stop telling people how to live. I find it disrespectful.
- MattB123, on 10/18/2007, -1/+12Fair enough. Let's treat tobacco the same way too.
- moskaudancer, on 10/23/2007, -2/+139th Amendment, too:
"The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."
I believe the proper word in this context would be "owned". - petewiz, on 10/23/2007, -2/+13Surreal Sam, am I going to have to choke a bitch? It's not your right to tell someone what they can and can't do to their own body. Now ***** OFF!
- MWeather, on 10/23/2007, -2/+1314th amendment. Right to privacy. See Roe v Wade.
- capiCrimm, on 10/18/2007, -2/+12He has lost the personal freedom to consume any drug or object he so chooses. Where in the constitution is the right for you to breath? A more proper question is: where in the constitution is the right for the government to ban drugs.
Hint: you have to turn it upside down, read it through a mirror, and look at bizarre judicial precedents and political games. - inactive, on 10/18/2007, -1/+11The vast difference between the concentration of stoners on the internet and in real life suggests that people who aren't stoners don't know how to use the internet.
- LuaPron, on 10/18/2007, -0/+10The constitution is mostly a prohibition on various forms of government power, it was never intended to restrict personal habits.
Then again, the constitution doesn't matter anymore. The government has more guns, they set the rules. - actorboy, on 10/18/2007, -5/+15Don't tell me what to do!
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