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- normlsparky, on 05/21/2009, -6/+560I always suspected that milk was a gateway drug.
- MutualFred, on 05/21/2009, -2/+353The second you force these guys to explain themselves, they sound like idiots. More of this please.
- richIsBored, on 05/21/2009, -7/+355Damn. That guy bitch slapped him.
- angelschambers, on 05/21/2009, -3/+283So how many debates must they lose before they legalize it already? How many presidents have to admit to doing it before it's legal? That's who I want to hear. I want to hear our president tell us why it's illegal to smoke something with no side affects other than sleepy, hungry, and happy.
- LeepII, on 05/21/2009, -0/+230And hugging leads to rape, because all rapist admit to hugging. The gateway theory is for retards.
- Whatasillyhat, on 05/21/2009, -3/+206MILK RUINED MY LIFE!!
- smokin427, on 05/21/2009, -3/+176You can really see progress on marijuana law reform and this video evidences that fact perfectly. Years ago, legalization wasn't even considered by government officials. Now we have high level officials saying, "I think anybody who looks at this problem considers it, and ultimately when you look at it rejects it." Besides the fact this guy doesn't know simple English, we now see officials saying they've considered it. The next step is consideration and support from officials.
Just a side note: Use of drugs goes in waves?! What the ƒuck is this guy talking about? - xenuxenuts, on 05/21/2009, -1/+151I don't like government officials referring to college students as children.
- inactive, on 05/21/2009, -2/+139I enjoy modulating my cognitive function with tetrahydrocannabinol.
- allicat83, on 05/21/2009, -2/+112After I drank milk I totally was smoking string cheese and then I was shooting up yogurt. Now I live in a box, turning tricks on the street for some cheddar.
- jonjonblazezany, on 05/21/2009, -11/+106Pawned and owned.
- royalecraig, on 05/21/2009, -3/+94What people smoke or drink is none of the Govt's business, the only proviso should be, does what you do harm others.
So people can smoke Pot in their homes, preferably out of the way of children, so long as they do not drive, make noise to dusturb their neighbours etc.
http://www.youtube.com/user/campaignforliberty - ygeoff419, on 05/21/2009, -14/+97LOL, FBI or maybe ***** Blatant Ignorance!
- TannyT, on 05/21/2009, -14/+91To be honest, I don't think "pot is good" and I do think it's a gateway drug in America.
Now before you move your cursor to vote my comment down, it's a gateway drug because they made it a gateway drug. When you have to perform an illegal act to buy it off some street dealer, it seems a lot of a smaller step to try some of the other wares he's selling!
And while I don't think it's "good", it's just not as bad as they try to make it out to be. Like alcohol, it can be very much fun to use in moderation. And alcohol appears to be a lot more dangerous too, some people can get very aggressive while drunk, while I never heard about a fight breaking out between stoned people (only people who used pot + some other *****). Pot is more harmful than cigarettes, but not at all on average, since you don't really smoke the equivalent of a pack a day.
I'm from the Netherland and I'm really proud of our policy on weed. It gave us less drug-related crime and we even have less drug addicts than most other western countries. Also, legalizing it actually seems to make it less popular, since it doesn't have that dangerous vibe anymore. Most people I know tried it, some still smoke it occasionally, it's just not such a big thing anymore.
The only problem we have from it are the bloody drug tourists (yes I'm looking at YOU!) acting like asses. Seriously, how would you feel if I went to your town and started drunkinly harassing people on the streets going "WOOOO BEER!". Just because it's legal, doesn't mean you can publicly make an ass out of yourself. Anyways, I don't think this is really a problem with OUR drug policies, but with YOUR drug policies ;-). - mulling, on 05/21/2009, -0/+77Awesome. Steve Cohen is the best thing to come out of Tennessee since Jack Daniels.
- bunghole59, on 05/21/2009, -0/+75I have a question for this FBI representative: how much of your agency annual budget comes directly or indirectly from the war on drugs?
- NJMtwtd, on 05/21/2009, -1/+75Thank you, Steven Cohen, for talking some sense into that man.
- inactive, on 05/21/2009, -0/+72Especially since at the same age they're willing to put a gun in your hand and drop you off in Afghanistan.
- Apocrypha, on 05/21/2009, -2/+70Unbelievable. This a-hole actually tried to blame MJ for every other drug problem in the US by suggesting it's a 'gateway drug' to these other very harmful substances. *****! The 'gateway drug' 'theory' is total ***** and the people who keep trying to use it as an excuse either know it or are woefully and willfully ignorant of the truth. MJ is less harmful then alcohol AND cigarettes. Both legal. MJ actually has many benefits (both medicinally and environmentally) while the other 2 are mostly negative (I'd say entirely negative in the case of cigs). People like this FBI guy look like total idiots when they continue to spew their lies about MJ. Do they not know about the internet? You can't fool anyone anymore. The information is out there. MJ is good, real drugs are bad. I mean, *****, many over the counter drugs are worse than MJ as far as side affects and what they do to you.
- ViciousFishes, on 05/21/2009, -1/+66No "war" has cost America more than the "war" on drugs.
End it. - ElJif, on 05/21/2009, -0/+60Holy crap, the face on Mueller's face reveals nothing but defeat. Awesome.
- specter13, on 05/21/2009, -0/+57That man is my hero, nice how he walked him into that answer and then said his defense is meaningless, elect that man again.
- Frankyfan3, on 05/21/2009, -0/+56Marihuana: A Signal of Misunderstanding
Commissioned by President Richard M. Nixon, March, 1972
Excerpt:
On the basis of our findings, discussed in previous Chapters, we have concluded that society should seek to discourage use, while concentrating its attention on the prevention and treatment of heavy and very heavy use. The Commission feels that the criminalization of possession of marihuana for personal is socially self-defeating as a means of achieving this objective.
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We have carefully analyzed the interrelationship between marihuana the drug, marihuana use as a behavior, and marihuana as a social problem. Recognizing the extensive degree of misinformation about marihuana as a drug, we have tried to demythologize it. Viewing the use of marihuana in its wider social context, we have tried to desymbolize it.
Considering the range of social concerns in contemporary America, marihuana does not, in our considered judgment, rank very high. We would deemphasize marihuana as a problem. - Annekynn, on 05/21/2009, -1/+56Im already on the 2% stuff.
- goes211, on 05/21/2009, -1/+56If it is a gateway to other drugs it is because it is illegal. Once someone has the connections to get an illegal substance, they are more likely to use that connection to pick up other more dangerous illegal drugs. All the more reason to legalize Marijuana.
- MrVeal, on 05/21/2009, -3/+56Wow... Milk to Beer LMAO I'd put my two week notice in if I was the FBI dude.
- Tenareth, on 05/21/2009, -1/+48Dude, you need to try the hard stuff... Vitamin D - With the Red Cap.
- SystmBetatester, on 05/21/2009, -5/+51mmmmm milk-juana....
- oda1, on 05/21/2009, -1/+47You just KNOW that guy had a celebratory joint afterwards.
- inactive, on 05/21/2009, -0/+43I enjoy subverting the established power structure with my basic human rights.
- MattB123, on 05/21/2009, -3/+45Ban milk! It's a gateway liquid!
- BobbyMC, on 05/21/2009, -2/+42Today I can be proud of my state for electing this guy.
- temujin2012, on 05/21/2009, -1/+41I think you may be on to something here...If, perhaps, we were to combine these two words, we may just come up with a SUPERWORD of sorts.
It might just be crazy enough to work. - h3lx, on 05/21/2009, -0/+39I'm going to go slam my head into the wall as hard as I can and see if hurts as bad as it did last time. The fifteen other times I've done it were all painful as hell but my gov't training tells me if I keep at it, eventually I'll get the result I'm looking for.
- m3arvk, on 05/21/2009, -1/+39I liked the gateway theory counterpoint he made. Consider if marijuana never existed. Would people not use hard drugs because the "gateway" didn't exist? No, those so inclined would continue on those paths. So it's actually a logical fallacy isn't it? The reason is that although people who use harder drugs may have used marijuana along their path to harder drugs the vast majority of them probably did _not_ use harder drugs _because_ of marijuana.
Nevermind that people addicted to harder drugs don't really care at all about their illegality or that the money spent on incarceration, deterring related criminality and the DEA itself could be used for treatment and/or studies of treatment methodologies. - inactive, on 05/21/2009, -3/+40YouTube version without the forced commercial.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUGShXvLnwg - bpierce86, on 05/21/2009, -0/+36The only merit the gateway theory has is that you are forced to go to a drug dealer and be exposed to the underground criminal market in order to buy marijuana. It teaches you how to find illegal substances. If marijuana were legal and regulated there would be far less hard drug use, and less crime as a whole.
- wesleyzero, on 05/21/2009, -2/+38If we legalize marijuana, we'll still have illegal drug trafficking of pot the same way we have tobacco trafficking even though cigarettes are....oh, wait.
- WraTH017, on 05/21/2009, -1/+37Years ago, during the Carter administration, it was being seriously considered. And then came Reagan and ***** it up for everybody. So whatever little steps we move forward this time around, they may just be undone by the next administration.
But yes, for years since Reagan, we'd been ***** repeatedly by the "moral majority" on this issue, and pretty much any other. - saerak, on 05/21/2009, -1/+36Upvoted for cleverly using the latin 'f' to prove your point.
- SpruceCaboose, on 05/21/2009, -1/+35Dugg to counter your trollish bury. Your move.
- TheObviousChild, on 05/22/2009, -0/+33Everyone now knows that smoking weed can lead you down the slippery slope to presidency.
- papastout, on 05/21/2009, -0/+30HOLY *****! He mentioned Harry Anslinger, the historical figure whao came to light because of Jack Herer's 'The Emperor Wears No Clothes'
BONUS POINTS! - diggitydoc, on 05/21/2009, -1/+31man, i was born on the nipple, and i still LOVE me some nipple!
- zyko, on 05/21/2009, -1/+31Doesn't the FBI profit from the drug trade? This has nothing to do with protecting people from drugs, but keeping control of a profitable market.
- charlie6969, on 05/21/2009, -0/+28"I dont know why you're been dugg down but back when I started smoking (age 16) I was prone to the odd moodswing when I didnt have any. What you say is truth."
Take the pot out of the equation and what do you have?
When I was 16, I was prone to the odd moodswing when I didn't have any.
Really? Unheard of for teenagers to have mood swings anyway, right?
I am not trying to get on you hard, but ignorance makes me mad.
Check out this link, please.
http://www.disabled-world.com/medical/pharmaceutic ... - LeanMeat, on 05/21/2009, -1/+29I recently failed a drug test for a job. And this pisses me off beyond belief. Apparently the test results don't say what drug is in my body but rather tells my employers that I'm just positive. That means they could think I have done cocaine, meth, steroids, etc. It doesn't even matter! Why is marijuana comparable with these other drugs? I have never had an issue with marijuana affecting my work BECAUSE I ONLY SMOKE IT WHEN IM WITH MY FRIENDS (of course I'd understand it being an issue if I were applying for say a UPS driver or medical worker). But this is outrageous and needs to stop now. Legalize it!
- Maddoktor2, on 05/21/2009, -1/+29Got Pot?
- charlie6969, on 05/21/2009, -2/+28Oh, you mean after the effects wear off you are back to the same bad mood you had before smoking it?
No kidding. The effects don't last forever. - SpeedSteamBoat, on 05/22/2009, -1/+27Nixon: "What the ***** is this *****!? I paid them to find reasons to support the drug war, not to conduct objective scientific studies! Bury this ***** somewhere. I've got a Drug War to kick off!"
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