Re: Taxing Marijuana
Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2010 4:04 pm
vickipeachx wrote:
> you cant compare burglary to using a substence on ones self as
> burglary has a victim...........tell me then.....whos the
> victim of smoking grass?
>
The person who takes it and their families perchance.
> also if you can ''link any mind altering drug with mental
> illness'' then i imagen perscription painkillers would be right
> out:) how could the dentist get you high before pulling a tooth
> if there was a chance it would make you go crazy?
One they are strictly controlled in dosage and strength and two they are not mind-altering drugs in the same way that dope or lsd are. People who used dope themselves are always ready to bore on about how it never did them any harm, though how they're in a position to know, I've no idea.
>
> the war on drugs happens and has happend for the last 60 odd
> years
> but its more a war on people then a war on drugs:)
>
No it hasn't. If any government was serious about the menace of drugs they would treat drug users as criminals not victims. Those, like me, who advocate strict enforcement do not do so because we want to fill the jails with harmless, vegetarian students. Personally I'd favour one warning, with no criminal record, for a first offender - followed by an automatic one-year jail sentence with hard labour and a criminal record, for a second offence. We do it because we want to save thousands of gullible, weak-willed teenagers from taking this dangerous muck and wrecking their brains for life, simply because it is fashionable to do so.
The existence of strict legal penalties, strictly enforced, would give them all an argument against the pressure of their friends and classmates. It hasn't been tried. It should be. It might save someone known to you from a life on the locked ward.
> you cant compare burglary to using a substence on ones self as
> burglary has a victim...........tell me then.....whos the
> victim of smoking grass?
>
The person who takes it and their families perchance.
> also if you can ''link any mind altering drug with mental
> illness'' then i imagen perscription painkillers would be right
> out:) how could the dentist get you high before pulling a tooth
> if there was a chance it would make you go crazy?
One they are strictly controlled in dosage and strength and two they are not mind-altering drugs in the same way that dope or lsd are. People who used dope themselves are always ready to bore on about how it never did them any harm, though how they're in a position to know, I've no idea.
>
> the war on drugs happens and has happend for the last 60 odd
> years
> but its more a war on people then a war on drugs:)
>
No it hasn't. If any government was serious about the menace of drugs they would treat drug users as criminals not victims. Those, like me, who advocate strict enforcement do not do so because we want to fill the jails with harmless, vegetarian students. Personally I'd favour one warning, with no criminal record, for a first offender - followed by an automatic one-year jail sentence with hard labour and a criminal record, for a second offence. We do it because we want to save thousands of gullible, weak-willed teenagers from taking this dangerous muck and wrecking their brains for life, simply because it is fashionable to do so.
The existence of strict legal penalties, strictly enforced, would give them all an argument against the pressure of their friends and classmates. It hasn't been tried. It should be. It might save someone known to you from a life on the locked ward.