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- naderventura, on 03/16/2009, -8/+241dugg for freedom*)
- bluepill2, on 03/16/2009, -4/+216The "War on Drugs" is a waste of money that keeps a lot of non-violent people locked up, costing the taxpayers about 40k per year per inmate, not including police costs. On top of that, it creates business for violent traffickers and makes it so its easier for underage kids to buy drugs than to buy alcohol or tobacco. Completely bass-ackwards, socially, and economically.
If the excuse is that "drugs are illegal because they're bad for you and/or addictive" then why are tobacco and alcohol legal? Drugs should have the same status as alcohol and tobacco: legal, heavily taxed, and culturally demonized (this last one, by the way, its the parent's job). - icemanGFX, on 03/16/2009, -7/+166Freak yeah, about time someone finally stepped up from the DEA
- inactive, on 03/16/2009, -6/+130Legalize it.
Legalize prostitution.
Legalize gambling.
People have to learn how to control themselves, if not, let them suffer the consequences - but don't make them criminals. Save prison for the real criminals. - CopsSayLegalize, on 03/16/2009, -7/+75This is why cops are saying we need to legalize drugs: http://www.CopsSayLegalizeDrugs.com
- harrisbradley, on 03/16/2009, -4/+57The cigarette cartels do not support this however.
- zephc, on 03/16/2009, -3/+44Get back under your bridge, troll
- unknownpoltroon, on 03/16/2009, -1/+39Maybe, but what else is left that they're not already involved in? This would be a MAJOR hit.
- WindWalker84, on 03/16/2009, -0/+38i like making my own decisions. it kind of makes it seem like... freedom..
- indubitably, on 03/16/2009, -1/+39guns bad? you must be new here.
- kgerm, on 03/16/2009, -2/+39a "WAR" that last over 30 years, with ZERO results would not be called successful by any means!
- reyoo30309, on 03/16/2009, -2/+38Maybe you need to smoke more pot and get that stick out of your arse.
Not all diggers are against gun control.
Not all diggers are for Obama.
And you are going to have a hard time finding someone who is pro-abortion. You know why? Because people aren't pro-abortion they are pro-choice. - inactive, on 03/16/2009, -5/+40And its the ***** weed on the planet. I wouldnt toke mexican shwag unless someone had a gun to my head. Buy American! (and hydro, if you can)
- BenderFlexo, on 03/16/2009, -0/+35There are others who speak the truth
http://www.powderburns.org/
Don't forget the DEA's administrative law judges, including Francis Young who have advised the DEA to open their ***** eyes. - Sean42, on 03/16/2009, -10/+42I read Genius Bong.
Hmmmmm, I think I'll make one. - zephc, on 03/16/2009, -0/+31Cigarettes and alcohol are legal for adults, but are illegal for minors, yet minors will still get them.
Pot is illegal for adults, and illegal for minors, yet minors (and adults) can still get them.
Prohibiting pot (or anything else) does nothing to affect access, it only makes illegal things that are already done, imprisoning non-violent users, and creating an artificially expensive and profitable market for those willing to make and sell it. - WindWalker84, on 03/16/2009, -1/+32and besides, marijuana actually has a large user base and plenty of evidence against its "harmfulness"
other drugs are waaaaaay less popular and so there just wouldn't be a large enough customer base. true, the drug lords will focus on these drugs, but there just aren't a lot of people who use them (compared to marijuana)
trust me most people don't want that hard stuff; they just want to smoke a joint and relax.
and when you cut off contact with the drug dealers altogether (picking up pot from elsewhere), they won't even have anyone to try to sell the other stuff to. the only reason people are exposed to these other drugs is because they have to go somewhere illegal to find pot. and wherever there exists one illegal thing, you might find another.. - FredFredrickson, on 03/16/2009, -2/+33You can say '*****' on Digg.
- MindStalker, on 03/16/2009, -0/+29Yes and no, the same thing happened to the US mob after the end of the prohibition. The mob is still around, but nowhere near the same amount of violence.
- MiDri, on 03/16/2009, -0/+28Wooooohhhh there champ, we don't like freedom round these parts -- government needs to tell us what to do, otherwise how would we know if it was safe?
- samard2002, on 03/16/2009, -0/+26There's lots of stuff to smoke legally now. I don't want my kids to smoke that stuff and they don't. Why would this be different?
- reyoo30309, on 03/16/2009, -2/+27liberal, conservative... its all bull *****.
It's like eating something that is frozen vs. eating something that is on fire.
I am moderate and I never side with any party 100% of time, why you ask?
Because I think for myself. - drmangrum, on 03/16/2009, -0/+25Who cares how addictive they are?
Nobody is saying to stop drug education or to encourage drug use. In the end, if a person has it in their minds to do a drug, they'll do the drug. All you can do is tell them risks, the effects, and hope they make the right decision.
Take the power away from the government and give it to society. Many employers still do drug testing before they take on a new hire. Sure, you can do drugs, that doesn't mean you're guaranteed a job. Nor does it mean an employer will keep you if you're caught in a random drug screening.
Prohibition has ALWAYS increased demand. The absolute worst way to get people to not do something is to tell them they can't do it.
It's cheaper to help those that are addicted to get clean than it is finance the "War on Drugs." - zephc, on 03/16/2009, -6/+31Legalizing drugs would have the government admit they were wrong, and if history has taught us anything, it is that if there is anything a government WON'T do, it is to admit they were wrong about something. But now that we have a new admin, willing to part with the last admin's policies, we may have some glimmer of hope that they will end this drug war insanity.
- BoneStamp, on 03/16/2009, -5/+29For those who are against using pot, I can understand your position. I once believed the same thing, "marijuana is a drug and therefore it is bad." That's what the TV says and the laws are there to back it up, so it's a very powerful message. I think most pot smokers were once against smoking pot, until they actually tried it. The feeling of smoking pot is opposite to finding out you were lied to about Santa. You can think better, you're more creative, you feel good and you don't wake up with a hangover like alcohol.
The "stoners" you see in movies are grossly exaggerating the affects; you and all my friends from Harvard don't look anything like that when they smoke pot. Anyway, that's why people are so passionate about it... it's better than alcohol in almost every way and you don't have to wear a tie dye shirt to enjoy its benefits. - chr00t, on 03/16/2009, -2/+26What airline are you flying that still allows you to smoke anything????
- ngmcs8203, on 03/16/2009, -0/+24I'd rather them get stoned than get addicted to cigarettes or alcohol.
- johnny2k, on 03/16/2009, -2/+26Hey, djdwreck, I can't even believe that you wrote that! That is the whole point! Without the U.S. drug users, there wouldn't be a cartel, and they wouldn't be so rich!
But, please, tell me why you don't agree with that statement: "U.S. drug users enrich the cartels" - PoleCatz, on 03/16/2009, -5/+28Of course this stuff is obvious to everyone, but you have to understand why this won't be done: the United States needs the prison labor generated by incarcerating petty drug offenders.
"At least 37 states have legalized the contracting of prison labor by private corporations that mount their operations inside state prisons. The list of such companies contains the cream of U.S. corporate society: IBM, Boeing, Motorola, Microsoft, AT&T, Wireless, Texas Instrument, Dell, Compaq, Honeywell, Hewlett-Packard, Nortel, Lucent Technologies, 3Com, Intel, Northern Telecom, TWA, Nordstrom's, Revlon, Macy's, Pierre Cardin, Target Stores, and many more. All of these businesses are excited about the economic boom generation by prison labor. Just between 1980 and 1994, profits went up from $392 million to $1.31 billion."
http://counterpunch.org/floyd03122009.html
Before marijuana can be legalized some new petty "crime" will need to have draconian mandatory minimums attached to it to make up the US prison labor shortfall. - itsbob, on 03/16/2009, -1/+24Have your last cup of coffee and cigarette and wait for the flash you ignorant *****
- tgjerusalem, on 03/16/2009, -0/+22If marijuana is legalized, any loopholes in public smoking laws will be very quickly closed.
- iamghost, on 03/16/2009, -21/+43The cartels might get angry and kill people but I have a feeling they will just move on to more profitable illegals.
- KimmyGibbler, on 03/16/2009, -2/+24nope
- awtripp, on 03/16/2009, -0/+22Because clearly there couldn't be a difference with something that kills you versus something that doesn't.
Not that I support the ban on guns, because it will just increase the proliferation of illegal arms -- just like the war on drugs is doing with drugs.
The ONLY people that are against the legalization of "drugs" (read: marijuana) are the ignorant brainwashed citizens and the drug lords. - headgames, on 03/16/2009, -1/+23I didn't know people still smoked cigs on airplanes
- alittleroy101, on 03/16/2009, -0/+21Are you equating gun violence with sex?
- aFoxy21, on 03/16/2009, -0/+20Wasn't this issue just on the cover of Time magazine? I think Americans are finally coming around to the fact that the drug war, like the "just say no" campaign, is a bunch of *****. And in an economy like this one, any financial solution - especially a no-brainer like this - is on the table.
- MacEnvy, on 03/16/2009, -3/+23Your mistake is in conflating "liberal" with "authoritarian", as well as thinking that fiscal liberalism is somehow related to social liberalism. Semantic failure.
- WindWalker84, on 03/16/2009, -3/+21Oh, AladinSane, your argument is very well founded, full of facts and reason. </S>
open your eyes and quit being ignorant. you don't understand it, so you attack it. a typical response; it means you are scared. you are the problem that stands in our way that we are trying to solve. - jasonstock, on 03/16/2009, -0/+18Not nearly as addictive as cigarettes?
- AmazingSteve, on 03/16/2009, -2/+20Kiss your kids goodbye then.
- keyforce, on 03/16/2009, -4/+21"American drug users help sharpen the knives that cartel henchmen use to behead their enemies and terrorize Mexican border towns."
Not sensationalist in the least. - Javy42, on 03/16/2009, -1/+18right... by taking away half their income they won't feel it at all... what exactly are they going to sustain themselves on? hard drugs? which demand for has been shown to be reduce where marijuana is decrim or legal
- Valujet, on 03/16/2009, -0/+17Some points.
1. Tabacco was never illegal.
2. You aren't looking to destroy the producers of the drug, you are looking to destroy the illegal activity. The main problem with the cartels isn't that they're selling drugs, it is that they're waging war on the Mexican government.
3. Legalizing pot would create competition, which would lower prices which would cut into their profits which would hurt their ability to pay their own private army. - Eqxy, on 03/16/2009, -0/+17thank god... it's always refreshing to see pot heads that respect what they're putting in their bodies. It makes me so mad to see people smoke ***** weed... it's like watching someone eat rotten food.
- MediaCrisis, on 03/16/2009, -1/+17If we blew up every drug user, there wouldn't be anyone left.
- ggfobster, on 03/16/2009, -0/+16If your kids want to smoke pot, they'll smoke pot illegally or legally.
Might as well legalize it and keep the money in OUR coffers, instead of cartels. - PoleCatz, on 03/16/2009, -1/+17The problem is that while it is easy to obtain and (kinda sorta) harmless, the drug laws pertaining to possession and cultivation are draconian and sweep hundreds of thousands of casual users into the prison system. This is not an accident.
But then I guess you'll "grow up" when you're doing 5 to 10 mandatory. - MattB123, on 03/16/2009, -0/+16Now they run a trash collection cartel.
- Metavised, on 03/16/2009, -1/+16They don't do those already?
Look, legalization will not be the wonder weapon against gangs. It won't destroy them in a day and bring a flaming sword down upon them. However, what it does do is drastically diminish funds on which they operate at this current deadly scale. Much of their funding comes from drugs and a prohibited market just makes it more profitable. -
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