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- mikusjay, on 11/26/2007, -2/+115The war on drugs is successful in creating criminals out of ordinary citizens, a huge black market for all types of illegal drugs, organized crime, and plenty of junkies who lacked sufficient help to get them back on their feet. It's a great tax burden on every citizen and destroys plenty of families. Rehabilitation be damned..
- mattewood, on 11/26/2007, -13/+106Yeah I give Obama credit for admitting he's done drugs before.. instead of the usual political cover up shenanigans.
LoneRanger: If the 85 in your username means you were born in 1985, you are still youthful, so stop wasting away your life and go experience all life has to offer! lmfao 1985! Man I feel old, I actually remember that year clearly.
Almost all Americans have done drugs.. and the majority have even done "illegal" drugs. It's time to stop treating drug use a crime, and instead treat it as a social dysfunction. Treat drug addicts like alcoholics and not like murderers, so they can get help and continue being productive members of society, instead of animals locked up in cages. - zachshmack, on 11/26/2007, -1/+85Failure? My stocks in private prison contracting firms have gone through the roof!
- laeteralis462, on 11/26/2007, -3/+80I pray for the day when theres as much media coverage on the failure that is the "war on terror" as there is on the failure that is the "war on drugs".
NEWSFLASH: A war against anything as broad as drugs or terror DOES NOT WORK. Let me reiterate that.
A WAR
AGAINST
EMOTIONS
OR PLANTS
DOES
NOT
WORK.
The only reason why the government wages war on ridiculous, broad things such as drugs or terrorism is to use that as an excuse to wage an immoral, evil war on something else. - shabumike, on 11/26/2007, -5/+68"The number of people jailed for violent crimes has risen 300 percent, but the prison population of nonviolent drug offenders has soared 2,558 percent."-
And most of them aren't white. - acu8509, on 11/26/2007, -6/+61Are you too stupid to spell Barack? Or are you just trying to use his name in a douchebag attempt to defile his namesake. Or it could just be that you were 'that' kid in schools that taunted his moral superiority for not trying drugs, but always tried to fit in as a way to make himself feel like he was right. Either way, nobody is impressed.
- bingo000, on 11/26/2007, -12/+63Any war is a failure.
- mrjit, on 11/26/2007, -2/+43There are plenty of us "non-potheads" and "non-druggies" (non-users) that also think the War on Drugs is ridiculous. I would rather have a world full of pot smokers than alcoholics. Hell, if more people that drank could legally obtain pot, there would probably be better health, less addicts, less bar fights, less domestic abuse, and less total ***** because I'm sure plenty of the people would switch from alcohol to weed... but, that's not what out Government wants.
- madm0nk, on 11/26/2007, -0/+35These are the exact problems that were caused from alcohol prohibition, but learning from history is apparently not allowed in D.C.
- JordanTW90, on 11/26/2007, -11/+45No matter how illegal, we still love them!
- SpykerSpeed, on 11/26/2007, -2/+34Don't forget the "War on Poverty". That's a riot.
- SpykerSpeed, on 11/26/2007, -1/+33I'm a frigging teetotaler and I'm for the legalization of drugs. The war on drugs is a pathetic attempt at government intervention where it doesn't belong.
- RAEP, on 11/26/2007, -5/+36Drugs are cool, where have you been? Drugs have always been cool. Except meth, meth is uncool.
- mb3581, on 11/26/2007, -1/+30sounds like its almost as successful as the War on Terror...
- acu8509, on 11/26/2007, -1/+28I love your comment history. Making an account today and beginning every comment with a blame on something else. good show sir.
- mitgib, on 11/26/2007, -1/+27I do not drink, I do not do drugs, I fully support taking the crime out of drugs. While I'm sure it happens, cuz everything seems to on some level, when is the last time someone was mugged to get a 6-pack? Take the profit out of drugs and you'll see much less violent crime as well. Take the crime out of drugs and you'd see Americas prison population decline by huge numbers. Less prisoners = less tax dollars supporting them, less prisoners = more tax payers = less tax per person. Oh my, 75% of law enforcement would be unemployed, boo-hoo, most of those in LE need retraining anyway, on how to serve, not abuse.
Tax the drugs and distribute the drugs in the ready made alcohol taxation and distribution channels. If we took 10% of the money saved on prison reductions, savings from law enforcement, and the whole host of other things spent to support the return to slavery in America, along with the new tax revenue, and invested that into education on the use of drugs/alcohol, and treatment for those addicted that would like to end the addiction, it may take a generation, but overall I would bet we have less problem than we do today. - inactive, on 11/26/2007, -0/+25One of the reasons that drugs will never be legal is because people like to blame them for their own failures. I used to be like that, then I got my ***** together. Only difference is that I never stopped smoking pot.
- subterfuge, on 11/26/2007, -1/+24exactly! it was a successful defense of american liberties. because our rights are located in kuwait. well, the right to buy oil cheaply, anyway.
- crapmatic, on 11/26/2007, -2/+24I don't really put much faith in the policies of a government that tolerates alcohol but criminalizes something like pot. A lot of families became seriously ***** up over alcohol problems, while weed is more on the level of a cookie addiction.
And I say that as someone who enjoys a cold brew but wouldn't know where the hell to find weed. - SouthsideIrish, on 11/26/2007, -2/+23I will do it for him. Barack Obamalamadingdong
- toastgodsupreme, on 11/26/2007, -0/+21Yup. In fact, the only person that I've personally known to do drugs that was also a problem to society, was my brother. My friends, even my room mate are fine people. They don't steal, they don't kill, they all have respectable jobs and are fine people as far as I know.
- generalhooha, on 11/26/2007, -1/+21So... Bush too?
- MortalCoiled, on 11/26/2007, -5/+23It seems that the Bush administration just can't win ANY wars, even against itself.
- sb66, on 11/26/2007, -1/+19yes what nerve to actually disobey the government regarding their own bodies! they must hate freedom....oh wait..
- Zenas, on 11/26/2007, -0/+18The so-called war on drugs hasn't been a failure, in fact, it's been a huge success. Like all other so-called wars, like the War on Poverty, this war on drugs as accomplished exactly what the Authorities wanted - more money for law enforcement, more customers for the lucrative prison system, more confiscated goods more intrusion into our lives, more reliance upon for government for a problem they created in the first place. The so-called war on terrorism is the war of all wars - no real enemy, scares the useful idiots ***** and creates the Police State of all Police States.
- nicholai, on 11/26/2007, -2/+20Do you even know what a liberal is? Did you know that libertarians also oppose the "war on drugs"? I am sick of retards like you, assuming that only "liberals" would want to end the "war on drugs".
- chaosium, on 11/26/2007, -0/+18Go to the slums and see how many people are drunk or have drinking problems.
- madm0nk, on 11/26/2007, -0/+17"... drugs infest our schools"
Is there no such thing as PARENTING anymore? - bosoxrock, on 11/26/2007, -1/+18If you want to end the war on drugs, then speak with your vote.
Ron Paul 2008 - whymanwhy, on 11/26/2007, -6/+23Ok, I admit it...
- MarkOfTheDead, on 11/26/2007, -1/+18Isn't it ironic that the country that's trying so hard to be so drug free also has the pharmaceutical industry's penis as deep as it can go into it's own ass? coincidence? I think not.
- madm0nk, on 11/26/2007, -2/+19Of course! That's it, you have figured it out. Just do what you are told and shut-up. Personal freedom is for suckers!
- subterfuge, on 11/26/2007, -1/+17alcohol? no, sir, not for ultraright. all he drinks is good, healthy propaganda!
- chaosium, on 11/26/2007, -2/+18They've been winning their war on the poor, i suppose.
- jayfarer, on 11/26/2007, -1/+16A failure?! Look how good it's been for the prison industry! All that money to build new prisons!
Oh, you meant a failure for the people. - Zenas, on 11/26/2007, -3/+18The war on drugs was not ommenced to fight drugs in our nation. It was started as an excuse to take more of our freedoms away in the guise of fighting drugs and protect the real drug kings. The Government knew the drug war wouldn't succeed from the Prohibition Act of the 1920s which was repealed. Get a clue.
- Barnolde, on 11/26/2007, -2/+17The government would never admit their own mistakes, that'd be a mistake. The government also doesn't care about its citizens and the criminals that its created, that's an even bigger mistake.
- PistolSO, on 11/26/2007, -1/+16Have you watching too much Reefer Madness? Pot is neither deadly(no one EVER ODed on it) nor a narcotic(it doesn't affect dopamine). Glad you're in the program for help with that LEGAL, neurotoxic, violence-causing drug known as alcohol.
- Barbosa, on 11/26/2007, -1/+16did you go to the "slums" and ask a random sample of the populace to complete a survey or are you just guessing/stereotyping? I live in the burbs and everyone i know gets ***** up here too...
- nicholai, on 11/26/2007, -1/+15How can we tell if he is being sarcastic or not when neocons really are that retarded?
- Schneckehaus, on 11/26/2007, -1/+15are you... being sarcastic?
Because umm... most college kids try drugs a few times, most of them lead healthy successful lives.
I don't understand your point. - Schneckehaus, on 11/26/2007, -2/+16The drugs aren't the problem, your parents are the problem.
1. morality > law
2. pain killers are drugs
3. meat has mind altering chemicals in it (tryptamines)
4. alcoholism is more common than any other addiction, and it is legal.
5. tobacco kills more than any other drug, also legal.
6. there has never been a death attributed to marijuana in history - taxali, on 11/26/2007, -1/+15What a great YouTube questions for the Republicans, no?
"Can all of you, as congressman and senators, admit that the war on drugs has failed." - inactive, on 11/26/2007, -0/+13so you steer away from caffeine and alcohol etc as well I hope. If so good on you, at the very least your not a hypocrite. Now if you can avoid stuffing your own opinions down every1s throat who does not agree with your sentiments - kudos.
- subterfuge, on 11/26/2007, -1/+14no, i have to wonder why so many people are in prison for doing something to themselves and nobody else.
- Lynxplus, on 11/26/2007, -1/+13..and a waste of money, time, and lives.
- jbennett1128, on 11/26/2007, -0/+12Now if only Obama would be honest and tell kids that using drugs doesn't make you a bad person, doesn't make you a criminal, and marijuana isn't as dangerous as they've been told...and promise to end the drug war.
Until he does... Ron Paul Revolution - ChaosMotor, on 11/26/2007, -2/+14-Jesus Christ- used cannabis as one of the ingredients of the oils used to anoint Judaic kings. Learn something about "your" religion you ignorant ass.
"Take thou also unto thee the chief spices, of flowing myrrh five hundred shekels, and of sweet cinnamon half so much, even two hundred and fifty, and of sweet kaneh bosem two hundred and fifty, and of cassia five hundred, after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of olive oil a hin. And thou shalt make it a holy anointing oil, a perfume compounded after the art of the perfumer; it shall be a holy anointing oil."
of sweet kaneh bosem two hundred and fifty
of sweet kaneh bosem two hundred and fifty
of sweet kaneh bosem two hundred and fifty
of sweet kaneh bosem two hundred and fifty -
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