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2010-10-27 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by gorb 2010-10-27 02:52|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 I've never understood what the big deal about marijuana is - in my experience it's far less dangerous than other (legal) drugs such as alcohol, and the few I know who have problems with it have addictive personalities anyway. Its status as a 'gateway' drug seems to only be because its illegal, and would pretty much go away with legalization.

I have to admit I'm horrified to be agreeing with Soros on just about anything, but as far as I can tell legalization and taxation are the only sensible way forward (adding revenue to the government and taking it from illegal gangs) but others dont share my opinion - thoughts?

Posted by HEU 2010-10-27 10:54|| 2010-10-27 10:54|| Front Page Top

#2 I've never understood what the big deal about marijuana is

Watch the movie MARIJUANA MADNESS.....THAT WILL SHOW YOU......AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!

Posted by armyguy 2010-10-27 11:14|| 2010-10-27 11:14|| Front Page Top

#3 Had a practical application discussion about this.

Will the revenue exceed the beaurocratic expenses necessary to regulate the manufacture of a regulated substance (how many servings @tax/serving will be required to pay a yearly salary of each gov employee necessary for regulation (oversight of industry plus prosecution of moonshiners and bootleggers) and how many regulators, factor in savings in court/jail costs)?

Will CA (direct challenge to fed authority) get the same treatment as AZ (mirror of fed authority)?

How will the current distributers react to losing their bread and butter?

Posted by swksvolFF 2010-10-27 11:37|| 2010-10-27 11:37|| Front Page Top

#4 Now that ~~Saruman~~ Soros has put his stamp of approval on it, the initiative will probably fail.

Posted by Gabby 2010-10-27 11:58|| 2010-10-27 11:58|| Front Page Top

#5 When folks are stoned, they're less likely to pay attention to the 'details' (like 'Truth')

Posted by Mullah Richard 2010-10-27 13:44|| 2010-10-27 13:44|| Front Page Top

#6 Of course he does. He seeks to destroy our country and the thinks that will further his cause. Then when he gets power he'll have all the stoners shot.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2010-10-27 14:24|| 2010-10-27 14:24|| Front Page Top

#7 Soros, the shadowy puppeteer.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-10-27 18:29|| 2010-10-27 18:29|| Front Page Top

#8 When folks are stoned, they're less likely to pay attention to the 'details' (like 'Truth').

Stoners, at least the ones I've known over the years, are also an awful lot more likely to vote lefty. I've got good money I'd put behind the idea that Soros doesn't give a rat's ass about pot but that his backing of the measure is more a way to up lefty turnout.

Posted by AzCat 2010-10-27 18:40|| 2010-10-27 18:40|| Front Page Top

#9 With Proposition 19 in California they're probably gonna turn out big.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2010-10-27 19:05|| 2010-10-27 19:05|| Front Page Top

#10 Stoners will only turn out if they are not stoned at the time, they are notoriously unreliable.

I used to think there would be no harm in legalizing it until the UK decriminalized pot and ran into all sorts of problems and started backtracking. Netherlands has also started backtracking. I'm a big fan of watching real case scenarios before jumping into things and the real word attempts at legalization have not been positive.

Posted by rjschwarz 2010-10-27 19:19|| 2010-10-27 19:19|| Front Page Top

#11 Legalize it!
But it's true that so many proponents make the argument that it will provide more tax revenue. That's not a very appealing idea unless you're a socialist.
Still, government is better than drug gangs.
Do stoners vote lefty? Yes, and I leaned liberal back in the days when I used to partake. But there's no direct automatic causality. First of all, I was young and young people tend to be liberal anyway (due to lack of wisdom, group think, etc.). Secondly, if conservatives stopped trying to punish and jail stoners for their harmless vice, stoners would be more open to their ideas on individual and economic freedom and confronting the nighmare of Islamic extremism. Stoners are the natural enemies of the left with its overpowering desire for control and obedience to the dictates of PROGRESS.

Posted by DJ Curtis C 2010-10-27 19:22|| 2010-10-27 19:22|| Front Page Top

#12 Use Mexican pot!

Mexican Drug Cartels never a little detail like a dead seven year old girl get in the way of providing you with the best possible high at the best possible price!

Posted by badanov 2010-10-27 22:04|| http://www.freefirezone.org 2010-10-27 22:04|| Front Page Top

#13 Soros is a thoroughly evil man. Anything he backs I have to question.

George Soros, help make the world a better place: hurry up and DIE you amoral world-government would-be enslaver.

Posted by OldSpook 2010-10-27 22:58|| 2010-10-27 22:58|| Front Page Top

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