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- nicholai, on 10/29/2007, -23/+130The entire "war on drugs" is unconstitutional. Support Ron Paul if you value freedom and privacy.
http://libertarianempire.com/DEA.html - JandtheBoingers, on 10/25/2007, -1/+79This argument, framed against education and health care spending, along with the SAFER strategy may crack the debate open, but until marijuana is removed from Schedule I we are still screwed. Is it feasible to reschedule and change federal penalties at once? Is MPP sponsoring any bills at the federal level? Who is talking to Senator Webb about what he might support as far as changing the law to reverse our incarceration-happy Congress?
Ending cruel, expensive, racist sentencing practices and shifting the debate towards fiscal reason and harm reduction should sell pretty well, one would think. As soon as a prohibitionist broadens the question to 'legalize drugs' and 'harm the children' we have to get right back on top of the message and remind everyone that drugs are available legal or not, and many legal drugs are deadly. Children and their parents alike are getting sent to jails we can't afford, supporting dubious morality at best. Liberty! Justice! TAX REVENUE! - Phrag, on 10/24/2007, -2/+70Every American should ask themselves this: "What do you want more: your money or the knowledge that people around you aren't smoking a plant for fun (even though they probably are)?"
- sparkmonkeyz, on 10/24/2007, -3/+68marijuana > alcohol in every way. Alcohol ruined my family. Marijuana saved my life.
- bratpack8, on 10/24/2007, -2/+55While I see the support growing for medical marijuana, I'm not a big fan of that argument, because this is -- bottom line -- a property rights issue. Your most valuable property is your body, and as many folks do understand (and apparently many who do not), freedom is logically impossible without property rights. The fact that the government, who is supposed to get a set of limited rights from us, instead, is telling us we can't put something into our own bodies.
- nicholai, on 10/24/2007, -2/+42The constitution does not allow the government to ban any drugs on the federal level.
http://libertarianempire.com/Drugs.html - SeethisPass, on 10/24/2007, -2/+40Legalize.
- greenriver572, on 10/24/2007, -1/+35I would just like to be able to blunt it up at home without the fear of my house getting raided because I play the dead entirely too loud.
- vinwal, on 10/24/2007, -2/+33Hemp prohibition needs to end. Industry could produce from hemp anything that could be produced from petroleum with ALOT less environmental impact. The main reason it was vilified is because it would have cut into the mega profits of rich corporations, some being Dupont and the big oil companies.
http://www.hempmuseum.org/ROOMS/ARM%20PLASTICS.htm
http://www.alteredstatement.com/store/mainhemp.htm - NikoKun, on 10/24/2007, -1/+30I've been saying this for a long time... Problem is, our government will see the Marijuana Prohibition as a necessity, and will continue to spend money on it, even long after it's digging them into an economical hole.
I remember the Forbes article that was up a week or so back... Which shows how our government loses out on $70 Billion each year, on money wasted + money from Marijuana sales/income taxes... And our legitimate business economy loses out on around $80 Billion... All that money is gone down the *****, because of Prohibition.
Of course, then again, it's not the only thing they're screwing up on, in terms of money... =/ - inactive, on 10/24/2007, -3/+25I have taken my Congressional representatives to task for their costly and counterproductive war on a plant.
Each time Jerry Moran votes against Hinchey Rohrabacher I send a letter to the editor to tell people about the stunning waste.
We are borrowing money from unborn Americans to incarcerate nonviolent marijuana "offenders".
many cities across this country have made it a low priority because they have been taken to task about more arrests for marijuana than all violent crimes combined.
That's how the argument should be framed.
Is it worth borrowing money to put a nonviolent person in prison? - corinnad, on 10/24/2007, -1/+23As a newly-arrived Portlander, I can sort of empathize with the pro-mary-j crowd. It's practically legal here! And while I don't use it (never have, don't intend to), the fact that people get arrested for petty posession is just ridiculous. What a waste of prison space. Save it for the REAL criminals.
- mindule, on 10/24/2007, -1/+22Wow. You've totally convinced me. There's no possible way the law could be corrupt, and it's certainly OUR fault that children are starving. It could in NO way be the ridiculousness of prohibition of something that really, honestly, and truthfully, is not dangerous.
- jdh24, on 11/09/2007, -1/+21Congratulations. You've fallen for the two-party system's trap.
- NikoKun, on 10/24/2007, -3/+23Exactly.
Someone tell me where in the constitution that it gives our government the right to ban a plant? lol - DukeMojo, on 10/24/2007, -2/+21I had no desire to go to college until I started smoking marijuana. I became vastly interested on how the chemicals effected the human body and so now I'm on my way to a hopeful major in Biochemistry.
I'm not going to say Marijuana was what made me change my life goals, but it did have a sort of gateway effect. ;) - CraigJ, on 10/24/2007, -4/+21Prohibition of pot and other drugs is just stupid as long as alcohol and tobacco are legal. They should all be legal, and taxed to cover the public health costs. The problem is that most of the people that think prohibition is a good idea have no first hand experience or really, any clue about it.
- sparkmonkeyz, on 10/24/2007, -2/+18Who's packing the next bowl; that's what.
- Smight, on 10/24/2007, -0/+16That's kind of the point. You aren't free without the freedom to make bad choices. And the government ban on lead based paint didn't stop the Chinese toys, it was recalls from the toy manufacturers for fear of being sued, not fear of a small government fine.
- MadScientist420, on 10/24/2007, -2/+17Hey...go ***** yourself. It's not just about weed. It's about our ***** liberty to do the hell whatever we want in our own home to our own body. Go ***** yourself.
- hydrodev, on 10/24/2007, -2/+16marijuana Prohibition just like the alcohol prohibition only puts money into the hands of criminals and ganstas. If there were no laws against possession or growing your own stash, there would be no point in illegal dealers and no money to fund them.
AND yes the govt can tax it if they want. Just like cigarettes, most people are too lazy and impatient to grow their own. Why would they if they could just buy a pack of joints from 7-11?
Its time for this all to end, and its going to take more than just digging articles and voting to get it fixed. People need to band together and make it known that the PEOPLE have the power in this country. We all just nee to get off our asses and make it known. This rule applies to more than just stupid pot laws.
Im sure that one or a hundred of you will tell me that i wouldn't do anything that jeopardizes my credit any more than the rest of you. TRY ME! - hydrodev, on 10/24/2007, -5/+19You sir are an idiot, way to miss the point, *****!
- whateverHeSaid, on 10/24/2007, -0/+14"Also, do you know why pot is illegal? Because it makes you high!"
Let's assume for the moment that this was a serious comment (God I hope not). Tell me why me getting high in the privacy of my own home is a crime. Who are the victims of this alleged crime? And finally, how is my getting high any worse than you getting drunk? - JandtheBoingers, on 10/24/2007, -1/+14Yes, I'm quite familiar with the medical angle, Hinchey/Rohrabacher and the controversy with approving research. That was not what I mentioned. The studies exist that show cannabis HAS medical uses, and ameliorates all sorts of things which should remove it by definition from Schedule I. That also doesn't speak to federal penalties, and the massive human and fiscal costs of prison for zero results.
- JoeVet, on 10/25/2007, -0/+13And here comes the righteous brigade who want to control what the rest of the world does in the privacy of their homes. Pass a law to ban a harmless substance because your too afraid to investigate it yourself and too stupid to listen to the legions of other who do. whee woo whee woo (?).
- dartmanx, on 10/24/2007, -5/+17Ron Paul.
- ripzone, on 10/24/2007, -4/+16Just legalize it.
- Kenzan, on 10/24/2007, -3/+15Here's the deal:
Why is it not legal yet?
Because every time this stuff comes to a vote on the state ballot it never passes. Why? because enough people just cannot be bothered to get out of the house and ***** vote for it. End of story. - nicholai, on 10/24/2007, -7/+18His loyalty to upholding and defending the constitution makes him "unelectable"? Oh the irony...
http://libertarianempire.com/Paul.html - gwhardyiv, on 10/24/2007, -4/+15Think of all the hungry children we'll have to deal with if we legalize. Gives me the munchies just thinking about it.
- hydrodev, on 10/24/2007, -5/+15LEGALIZE
- InsaneMachine, on 11/13/2007, -4/+14People, get through your heads. It doesn't matter what party they affiliate with, both are evil. Go for the one(candidate) that is less evil.
- fixedcoma, on 11/09/2007, -0/+10I wonder how many jobs are lost and mortgages are not paid due to someone sitting in jail for carrying marijuana? If you are going to bring the cards to the table, then lets look at the other figures! Then also the person can't make their car payments or credit card payments cause they are sitting in jail over petty marijuana! I mean if you don't want it then don't advertise it in movies cause i don't want to be tempted, don't put it in tv shows, get rid of everything from the market that glamourizes marijuana! Even though alcohol is by far worse and has ruined millions of lives and same with your ***** cancer causing cigarettes! But oh god if someone should smoke marijuana that god put on this planet for mankind that sow s seeds which is in the ***** bible, which honestly i just denounced cause mother ***** decide to go to war in the name of god and kill innocent lives and destroy nations all in the name of god which is ***** an oxy-moron, god would never want anyone to kill in his name ! But oh no if i should happen to hate cigarettes and can't stand ***** alcohol, and sorry that marijuana actually makes me laugh about how pathetic things really are here! So really i have no way to calm my mother ***** nerves and i'll be damned if i'm taking any ***** prescription pills which is just going to pollute the water system and make fish become hermaphrodites or asexual along with other animals that drink the ***** water compared to a natural ***** drug that has been here for ***** milleniums! So get rid of all the ***** movies and advertising and alcohol and cigarettes and i'll decide to not smoke marijuana that makes me enjoy life and laugh and keeps me from wanting to smash some rude bragging rich ***** head clean the ***** open, cause they are a braggy arrogant piece of *****! Can you do that for me or can i smoke a ***** joint when i get home from work pricks?!!!
- Zap2, on 10/24/2007, -1/+10There isn't even a reason to want to afford it.....if people want to use it, let them!
Will of the people!
- Risiko, on 10/25/2007, -0/+9There's a difference between drinking and driving and personal marijuana consumption. Drinking and driving puts others at grave risk. Smoking marijuana puts no one at grave risk. That is the essential difference. Please attempt to recognize this difference so you can move past your ignorance.
- Phrag, on 10/24/2007, -1/+10I don't think that people should look at marijuana law reform as a this or that kind of argument. What I mean is that people can argue for the rights to medical use of marijuana and for the property right to own marijuana regardless of the reason. Both those arguments are valid. They are also separate issues and, while the change in one would most likely affect the other, we do not need to choose an argument at the cost of excluding other, equally valid arguments.
- JandtheBoingers, on 10/24/2007, -3/+11I like Mr. Dodd's stance on upholding the Constitution as well. All of the dems have said they will end the medical marijuana raids.
- LuaPron, on 10/24/2007, -1/+9Way to pass the blame there. I think people like you are to blame, for blowing the money on worthless ***** instead of using it to care for the children you seem to care so damn much for.
- eastwood24, on 10/24/2007, -2/+10You good sir are a menace to society. A menace I tells ya
- Qeveren, on 10/24/2007, -0/+8And a lot of that money gets shovelled into the nice American privatized prison industry.
- mrlinux, on 10/24/2007, -2/+10Illegal immigration and money wasted on the never-ending "war on terrorism".
- Godlike, on 10/24/2007, -0/+8There is a huge difference between realistic regulation and moral prohibition.
- CraigJ, on 10/24/2007, -3/+10No, I don't use drugs at all, nor do I drink, or smoke. Frankly, my position is, do with your body what you want. However, I do not want to have to foot the bill, by way of taxes, if you OD or get AIDs or something. As far as I'm concerned, if you do something stupid (drink too much, shoot up too much, etc.) and you die of get sick,fine, that is your right, but it is also YOUR problem.
- ChuckieBallz, on 10/29/2007, -2/+9You'd think High Times would realize their audience isn't known for their long attention span.
- LuaPron, on 10/24/2007, -1/+8An act of murder or rape causes harm to other people. Taking some drug that happens to be illegal does not.
No, the massive budget is not for people breaking the drug laws. The drug laws are only a pretext for a direct assault on liberty. They don't give a damn about what the people who got caught are doing. he people who get caught are just another part of the prison-industrial complex now. They want to go after the people like you. They want to search you. They want to search you whenever they want. They want to look for whatever they feel like finding. And when they find it, they'll put you away. When that happens, you become their slave.
Ever hear of federal prison industries? Thats the new business model. Not hundreds, not thousands, but millions of people totally subjugated, slaving away working for nothing. Thats your future if people like you allow the politicians to keep the drug war up.
They have these laws because they want to put dumbasses like you away and they don't care what the excuse will be when they do it. - moman, on 10/24/2007, -0/+7I've smoked almost every single day since I was 16. In high school I was a grade A student, during my undergrad I had a 3.7 GPA and now I'm in grad school pushing a 3.8 (I goto one of the top tier private univsities in the country). I'm also working full time for a VERY well known and very respectible software development company (I don't want to name which one for fear of my job (how messed up is that)) and have been told that I am always exceeding expectations. How is that for your "typical stoner"?
Also while I've done other drugs, I don't consider marijuana a gateway drug just like I don't consider the first drug I tried, eg. alcohol, a gateway drug. Just because I've tried several, it was because I was genuenly curious and not because marijuana "compelled" me to do them. I no longer do any drug other than pot (not even alcohol, my private way of saying ***** You to the big alcohol corporations who are lobbying against pot). The gateway theory is ***** and is propogated by the same people who believe videogames make people violent. - AZooYorkMystery, on 10/24/2007, -2/+9The fact that we pour billions into stopping a drug that is harmless shows so much about the states... God forbid we actually HELP PEOPLE with the money... Oh, wait, we can't, it's all getting spent in Iraq.
- Smight, on 10/24/2007, -0/+7Wow, what a hypocrite.
"We should ban any drug I don't use... and give me free healthcare for the effects of my drug" - HomerPimpson4, on 10/24/2007, -1/+7Swing and a miss.
- Risiko, on 10/24/2007, -0/+6You are revealing your ignorance, my friend. Marijuana is NOT addictive. Moreover, even if one had a psychological addiction to marijuana, one would not forego food for one's family for marijuana. If someone would actually do such a thing, they've got unimaginably serious, major, and hardcore prior mental problems.
Marijuana might make some people temporarily lazy, but you don't understand the nature of marijuana if you think children are starving because of its use. Will you ban television sets because some parents MIGHT use their money to buy a TV rather than feed their kids? It is the SAME argument. -
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