You're quite lucky in the USA you know. For all the problems you face in these difficult times, you do actually have a written legal document outlining what "We, the people" will let the government do in your name. Would that we were so lucky in the UK - they call us a "constitutional Monarchy" but there's no constitution! How bizarre, that nobody ever mentions that... however...
Long ago I saw a poster on the back of a bus that said "Drugs Destroy Communities". It made me think, and what I came up with after viewing that statement rationally and dispassionately, was that it's not the drugs that destroy the communities; it's the fact the drugs are illegal that destroys the community.
I believe you have drink driving laws in the USA? Just have the same laws for your drugs. There's that problem solved, along with a little warning; "Do not attempt to drive or operate machinery after taking this product"... don't they write that on cough syrup? I don't see any government trying to make cough syrup (or booze for that matter) illegal... except for the Islamists who apparently deliberately misinterpret the Qu'ran (undoubtedly to give themselves more power over their - normally - uneducated flock); the most relevant passage reads "Excess alcohol is to be avoided, as excess alcohol removes man's reason, and reason is the only thing that seperates man from animals". I've read 2 different translations and been told that's what it says by 4 different Muslim friends over the years. Nothing about it actually being against the will of Allah. Nothing about "you shouldn't drink at all" for that matter...
Aeveret; I do appreciate you being the only negative poster with stones enough to put a name down. Well done - nice to see anyone with the courage of their convictions. However the last thing the military wants right now are people with mindsets that ask questions to join their ranks! Same with the draft - Generals want people in their armies that want to be there.
Interesting also, that Police, Internal Security and military personnel are drug tested (because they're in Security), athletes are tested (because they're role models for the young) but nobody has ever said "Let's drug test our Members of Parliament and judiciary"... I guess for you guys that would be your Senators, Representatives and Court officials? I think that's probably another thing they'd regard as infringing their liberties and exhibiting a lack of trust in them. Ok to do it to Security people though, of course...
Although I'm not entirely sure your argument for the bottom dropping out of the market is entirely accurate; if I were a farmer in Afghanistan or Lebanon or Colombia, I'd know there's always a market for the foreign and exotic in any rich nation... and I'd be looking to get a premium price on my weed (or coca) because of it. Probably set up a co-op... which could well be one of the many reasons the vested interests worldwide have in keeping just the Hemp illegal; that it does happen to turn the mind towards cooperation rather than confrontation...
Just a wee thought or 2 there Zak. Good article, but unfortunately not saying much that a non-reactionary hasn't heard before...
Submitted by Steve (not verified) on September 24, 2009 - 8:03am.
Interesting...
You're quite lucky in the USA you know. For all the problems you face in these difficult times, you do actually have a written legal document outlining what "We, the people" will let the government do in your name. Would that we were so lucky in the UK - they call us a "constitutional Monarchy" but there's no constitution! How bizarre, that nobody ever mentions that... however...
Long ago I saw a poster on the back of a bus that said "Drugs Destroy Communities". It made me think, and what I came up with after viewing that statement rationally and dispassionately, was that it's not the drugs that destroy the communities; it's the fact the drugs are illegal that destroys the community.
I believe you have drink driving laws in the USA? Just have the same laws for your drugs. There's that problem solved, along with a little warning; "Do not attempt to drive or operate machinery after taking this product"... don't they write that on cough syrup? I don't see any government trying to make cough syrup (or booze for that matter) illegal... except for the Islamists who apparently deliberately misinterpret the Qu'ran (undoubtedly to give themselves more power over their - normally - uneducated flock); the most relevant passage reads "Excess alcohol is to be avoided, as excess alcohol removes man's reason, and reason is the only thing that seperates man from animals". I've read 2 different translations and been told that's what it says by 4 different Muslim friends over the years. Nothing about it actually being against the will of Allah. Nothing about "you shouldn't drink at all" for that matter...
Aeveret; I do appreciate you being the only negative poster with stones enough to put a name down. Well done - nice to see anyone with the courage of their convictions. However the last thing the military wants right now are people with mindsets that ask questions to join their ranks! Same with the draft - Generals want people in their armies that want to be there.
Interesting also, that Police, Internal Security and military personnel are drug tested (because they're in Security), athletes are tested (because they're role models for the young) but nobody has ever said "Let's drug test our Members of Parliament and judiciary"... I guess for you guys that would be your Senators, Representatives and Court officials? I think that's probably another thing they'd regard as infringing their liberties and exhibiting a lack of trust in them. Ok to do it to Security people though, of course...
Although I'm not entirely sure your argument for the bottom dropping out of the market is entirely accurate; if I were a farmer in Afghanistan or Lebanon or Colombia, I'd know there's always a market for the foreign and exotic in any rich nation... and I'd be looking to get a premium price on my weed (or coca) because of it. Probably set up a co-op... which could well be one of the many reasons the vested interests worldwide have in keeping just the Hemp illegal; that it does happen to turn the mind towards cooperation rather than confrontation...
Just a wee thought or 2 there Zak. Good article, but unfortunately not saying much that a non-reactionary hasn't heard before...