Gallup: Majority of Americans back pot legalization
This is, I think, one of the more dramatic reversals of public opinion of the past 30 years.
As Gallup notes, this is the first year in which a majority of Americans polled say they support legalization of marijuana, and the clear trend line suggests that majority is likely to grow. The realities of life offer further reason to think that trend will continue. Support for legalization is lowest among those 65 and older, and highest among those ages 18-29.
Not surprisingly, Southern Republican conservatives older than 65 are least likely to support legalization. But even among that subgroup, it looks as though roughly a third or more think marijuana should be legal. That’s roughly the same level of support that existed in the nation as a whole just a decade ago.
I’m at a loss to explain that sudden shift in sentiment, because I have no idea what outside force might be driving it. It is, you might say, a homegrown movement.
– Jay Bookman
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dre
October 18th, 2011
3:21 pm
Jay, What is your view? I really really really want to agree with you on SOMETHING…could this be it? I favor legalization. My limited (and looooong ago) experience with it puts it on par with alcohol, in moderation, but with a more fun buzz. The only issue with Herman is that with new weed, I’d pay a higher tax than if it were used
Toby
October 18th, 2011
3:24 pm
Pot is a health product; it should be legal, and its consumption should be encouraged. It’s not just one of the best medicines on Earth, but it’s very healthy & massively useful for industry.
Tommy Maddox
October 18th, 2011
3:25 pm
TaxPayer – “the House has passed more than a dozen bills to protect American jobs from the threat of excessive government regulations and pave the way for the private sector to put hundreds of thousands of Americans back to work.
Senate Democrats have blocked the majority of these bills.”
Give Harry a call and voice your concerns.
moonbat betty
October 18th, 2011
3:31 pm
Gas, grass or ass.
Nobody rides for free!
FrankLeeDarling
October 18th, 2011
3:32 pm
I worry less about people driving on pot than i do people on prescription drugs
TaxPayer
October 18th, 2011
3:35 pm
The House has not even brought Obama’s jobs bill to the floor for a vote, Tommy. The house Republicans are not interested in working on anything that helps US. They talk the talk. They whine the whine. They find fault with everything Obama. Anything to divert attention from their incompetence. The Republicans fail US.
Bandit - no speed limits
October 18th, 2011
3:38 pm
“Gallup”
Yep, Americans like to go fast.
Adam
October 18th, 2011
3:39 pm
TaxPayer, Tommy: We’ll see what they do when individual components are brought up for a vote.
godless heathen
October 18th, 2011
3:39 pm
And if pot were legalized, or at least decriminalized, the Cops would have to buy or grow their own like everybody else.
Erin Smith
October 18th, 2011
3:40 pm
I think legalizaton of marijuana is inevitable, so we should start talking about the details. I am ambivalent about legalizing it, but I am not ambivalent about marketing it. Legal marijuana should not be marketed. If advertising execs can sell Miller Light, just imagine what they could do with marijuana.
getalife
October 18th, 2011
3:42 pm
“The Republicans fail US.”
The cons will reward them for failure with their votes again.
Then they whine about our economy after rewarding the gop for obstructing fixing it.
Sick.
Bosch
October 18th, 2011
3:42 pm
godless heathen,
Good one.
Mudfoot
October 18th, 2011
3:43 pm
Carlos, Kamchak was correct when he stated that marijuana does not have the effects on motor skills that alcohol does. If you smoke so much that vision is impaired your more apt to go to sleep than anything else. Also, pot smokers typically drive slower when they’re stoned as opposed to some drunk azz barreling down the highway at 90 until they hit something (or someone). The effects of pot, while substantial, are nowhere near as acute as those of alcohol or prescription pain meds. While memory is effected, it is highly unlikely that someone who smoked to excess the night before will experience total blackout with hours of one’s actions (and those actions while drunk can be… life changing) from the previous night totally lost to memory. Pot is not physically addictive, and the health concerns from using pot are extremely minimal as compared to alcohol. Driving or otherwise marijuana usage is exponentially less dangerous than alcohol usage. The only reasons alcohol remains legal while marijuana is considered a schedule 1 substance are the alcohol lobby in Washington, the large financial hit law enforcement would take upon legalization, and good-old American ignorance.
Greg S.
October 18th, 2011
3:45 pm
A huge number of people can’t drive now and you want to legalize weed? Are you stupid? I know you whiners will say “But you can’t smoke and drive, etc, etc”. Are you stupid? Do people drink and drive now? Hell Yes! And they kill people each and every day! Are you stupid???
getalife
October 18th, 2011
3:47 pm
Calm down greg.
Are you crazy?
Greg S.
October 18th, 2011
3:47 pm
Hey! Moonbat Betty….Keep on Truckin’
Where Does it End?
October 18th, 2011
3:49 pm
Libertarians are so clueless. They have the same answer for everything.
“Hey Bob, what do you think about child sex trafficing?”
Bob: “Oh, just legalize it and tax it. Problem solved.”
AmVet
October 18th, 2011
3:53 pm
betty, @3:31, good one.
Here’s another:
We like our pot
We like it a lot
Please don’t spray it with paraquat.
Greg, check into getting some medical marijuana.
You seem to be suffering from generalized anxiety…
Mudfoot
October 18th, 2011
3:53 pm
Greg, I quit smoking and drinking years ago. I moved to this area 1 1/2 years ago and after driving around for a week thought “these are THE worst drivers in the USA!” I’ve spent time in most states and on most highways – the way y’all sit for 5 seconds after the light changes or the car in front of you moves… the practice of driving 10 mph under the speed limit in the passing lanes… people’s penchant for texting, talking, shaving, applying makeup, reading and writing books, surfing the net, studying cuticles… anything but paying attention to the road… all leads me to believe that most around here are stoned behind the wheel already.
getalife
October 18th, 2011
3:54 pm
“Obama on Occupy Wall Street: ‘We Are on Their Side’ ” drudgey
Put that in your pipe and smoke it cons.
Joe the Plutocrat, paleo-neo-Carlinst and Hall Monitor
October 18th, 2011
3:54 pm
Where Does it End, really? are you a purveyor or consumer of “child sex traffic”? I am curious to learn how we get from a natural (god-given, for you Bible thumpers) plant, that was cultivated and consumed by our Founding Fathers; to the illicit sale and rape of minors? “clueless” doesn’t begin to describe the void between your ears.
Bandit - no speed limits
October 18th, 2011
3:57 pm
Getalife
Yep. Obama loves class warfare.
But Americans just want to work, make money, and go fast.
Tommy Maddox
October 18th, 2011
3:58 pm
“Obama on Occupy Wall Street: ‘We Are on Their Side’ ”
A gift that will keep on giving…
John K
October 18th, 2011
3:58 pm
Ah, the small government, out of personal lives crowd is most likely to say no. Shocked?
moonbat betty
October 18th, 2011
3:58 pm
I support legalization for individuals with small quantites, and that dui laws apply.
On the driving issue: Since THC stays in your system for a prolonged period, wouldn’t a regular user have a much higher percentage in their system than an occasional user…
If tested for DUI, would the regular user that smoked in the last week (and not currently under the influence) have a BAC as high if not higher than a first time user (or rare user) who just smoked?
I guess if you smoke, you can’t drive for a couple of weeks afterward.
Just curious- for all you scientist out there.
godless heathen
October 18th, 2011
3:58 pm
Greg,
I got news for you. They smoke weed and drive now. Shocking, I know.
pat
October 18th, 2011
3:58 pm
What’s taken so long?? I hope Harry Anslinger is rolling in his grave, jerk.
OldTech
October 18th, 2011
3:59 pm
I have changed my mind, and now think pot should be legal, because of the use of pot is climbing substantially and the criminals are becoming rich and vicious. Let them see how vicious someone like R J Reynolds can be, if it is made legal.
getalife
October 18th, 2011
4:00 pm
smokey,
That movie is old.
Try a new character but fast and furious is already here.
Jim
October 18th, 2011
4:02 pm
If they have a test to determine the current intoxication level then I am all for it.
seabeau
October 18th, 2011
4:04 pm
That’s all we need in society, more befuddled people!!
AmVet
October 18th, 2011
4:05 pm
Class warfare.
The new moral equivalence.
Or is it compassionate conservatism?
Maybe Mission Accomplished?
Perhaps strong defense?
Or socialized medicine?
How about evil?
Junk science?
Just another made-up, nonsensical buzz word/phrase that is part of the new Republispeak lexicon.
Humorous, but meaningless…
josef
October 18th, 2011
4:08 pm
A nice squiggly graph and a witty close…hmmmm!
But as to the topic…it’s about time. And nothing like a new source of taxes to get the ball to rolling. I’m fer it…
MrLiberty
October 18th, 2011
4:08 pm
And a majority of people want the wars ended, the Fed audited, opposed the TARP bailout, both stimulus packages. Lots of good that will do. Pretty sad when you can’t count on your government to protect your freedom – especially from them. The war on drugs is an abject failure. Everything should be legalized, not just cannabis.
Bandit - no speed limits
October 18th, 2011
4:11 pm
Getalife
Where’s smokey? Other than the pot fields. Probably right, gotta go then! Smokeys are dumb.
MrLiberty
October 18th, 2011
4:11 pm
As for DUI, maybe this will force the issue back to a sense of normality. Instead of arbitrary roadblocks, illegal detentions, etc. combined with blood tests, etc. cops will finally actually have to pull someone over for driving poorly, and that will be the charge. THC stays in your body long after you are sober so a blood test will be worthless. We would all be better off if cops actually had to prove their case rather than just being able to throw out a net and grab people with lab tests.
godless heathen
October 18th, 2011
4:12 pm
If you have to drive in Atlanta, smoking a number should be a requirement.
Slow down and chill out.
Jm
October 18th, 2011
4:12 pm
Pot will not be legalized
Employers hate the idea
Where Does it End?
October 18th, 2011
4:13 pm
I wasn’t necessarily comparing legalizing pot to decriminalizing things that are malum in se, I was just pointing out that Libertarians (and Ron Paul supporters) are generally clueless. They are mostly useless. They add nothing to the conversation and they waste their vote.
But, for fun, let’s say we decriminalize marijuana. We give licenses to growers and distributers and retailers. Heck, we even allow certain cities to re-zone areas for pot bars. We tax it at 32% retail and we spend half the revenue on regulating the industry.
We then lose an amount equal to what we net gain in taxation in losses from a decline in alcohol sales.
And then what happens in a free market. The price of marijuana falls through the floor. It becomes unprofitable for smugglers and dealers, so they go back to doing less profitable and more dangerous things to make ends meet – like selling cocaine and heroine, and for example, child sex trafficing.
Problem solved, right guys.
Archie Bunker
October 18th, 2011
4:13 pm
This country is going strait to hell! I might as well load my shotgun and hide my son and wife if they ever decide to legalize this devil’s vile weed. Everyone will become a lunatic monster and try to take what is mine just like they did when rock and roll was played on the radio. Well I’ll be damned if you decide to step foot on my property you damn dirty hippies!
Sux Limbow
October 18th, 2011
4:14 pm
Republican tea-tard bible thumpers want to continue the “war on drugs” just as much as they love jihad on Iraq/Afghanistan.
Edith
October 18th, 2011
4:16 pm
As long as they stay out of Archie’s chair… you know how he gets when some meathead sits in it.
too little time
October 18th, 2011
4:16 pm
JB said “I’m at a loss to explain that sudden shift in sentiment, because I have no idea what outside force might be driving it. It is, you might say, a homegrown movement.”
It’s the economy, stupid. At a time when we are flat broke:
* we are paying to prosecute and incarcerate people for marijuana
* we are making it more difficult for people to get jobs by handing them a criminal record
* we are undercutting the Mexican government by funding drug cartels (see “Prohibition”)
* we are encouraging our enemies (Iran) to use said cartels to create an international incident
* we are degrading freedom/privacy of U.S. citizens through the war on drugs.
* 40 years after “The War on Drugs”, we are no closer to eliminating this substance than we were 40 years ago. I don’t know how much was spent, but it has to be a MASSIVE amount by now… enough to shore up Social Security for a very long time. You have to choose your priorities.
Look, I could go on and on. “Reefer madness” is a proven farce. When a substance causes more problems through it’s illegal status than it is causing if it were legal, it is time to rethink the situation.
The question of MJ as medicinal will rage on. There are proven benefits of alcohol, coffee, etc. The only reason that these were found was because they are legal. Anyway, I am sure all these points have been made. I just needed to add one more voice to the choir of sanity.
Matti's Encouragement
October 18th, 2011
4:18 pm
Where Does it End,
GOSH! You’re right! All sorts of scary things will happen! Tell you what, why don’t you go hide under your bed. We’ll give you a holler when it’s okay to come out again. Good luck!
rightwingextreme
October 18th, 2011
4:19 pm
disregard this poll as it was conducted over a weekend….stoned out folks at home answering the phone
josef
October 18th, 2011
4:20 pm
Got a right wing radical survivalist buddy who has his stash in his bunker. Prepared for all eventualities, he is!
joe
October 18th, 2011
4:23 pm
Cain is for legalization by the way…he sees how much pizza and burger king he can sell to all the stoners…Vote for Cain!!
pogo
October 18th, 2011
4:24 pm
Same old “connage” here. Sad adults with nothing to do but hate.
josef
October 18th, 2011
4:26 pm
Where Does it End?
Dec. 21, 2012?
Steve - USA
October 18th, 2011
4:28 pm
getalife@3:54
To bad the OWS crowd considers the Democrats and Obama as part of the problem.
Adam
October 18th, 2011
4:30 pm
Anyone else notice the “class warfare” phrase is dying the fastest of deaths among conservatives? Even THEY know the public never bought that line.
And with that, I’m out. See you all later.
Steve - USA
October 18th, 2011
4:30 pm
I haven’t smoked pot in years but these pain killers for my wrist are the best high I have had in a long time. Thank you big Pharma!
josef
October 18th, 2011
4:32 pm
Kinda funny how many of us “haven’t smoked it in years!” Short term memory loss is one of the side effects, ya know…
godless heathen
October 18th, 2011
4:34 pm
Where does it end?
I think this Friday is the revised End of the World Date.
Joe Mama
October 18th, 2011
4:35 pm
I have no intention of partaking (I don’t care for the ganj and there are medical reasons why it would probably be unwise of me to smoke it), but I wouldn’t have a problem with decriminalization or outright legalization.
Where Does It End sounds like he’d have been right at home with the temperance movements in the US early in the last century. And we all know how giving in to that bunch of clowns turned out.
My wife and I do have a family friend who would probably be overjoyed if dope were legalized, though. She’s got a chronic, painful and debilitating disease and she self-medicates with the herb in order to dull the pain and improve her appetite. She feels that she’s gotten good results on both scores.
godless heathen
October 18th, 2011
4:35 pm
I haven’t smoked in years either, but I ever retire, it’s the first thing I’m going to do.
Aquagirl
October 18th, 2011
4:36 pm
Short term memory loss is one of the side effects, ya know…
Uh, what is the topic again?
josef
October 18th, 2011
4:36 pm
Hey, Bruin…
Have we got a theme for FNM?
Edith
October 18th, 2011
4:36 pm
Where Does it End?
Dec. 21, 2012?
I see someone here is already into the good stuff.
Edith
October 18th, 2011
4:37 pm
Where does it end?
Here.
Bosch
October 18th, 2011
4:38 pm
Aquagirl,
josef
October 18th, 2011
4:39 pm
When Mama was dying (cancer) one of my druggie nephews kept her supplied. She left a bequest in her will specifically for him and his buds to throw a party in her memory…they did!
Yep, when I retire and enter my second childhood, me, too!
josef
October 18th, 2011
4:41 pm
Edith
October 18th, 2011
4:37 pm
“Where does it end?
Here.”
Don’t bogart that joint, my friend…
Where Does it End?
October 18th, 2011
4:41 pm
Dude, you’re missing the point. I love weed. I smoke an ounce of the killer about every three months.
My point is that the Libertarian de-regulation guys are fruitcakes.
I’m not anti-weed. I just happen to think that legalizing it is a dumb idea.
It is easy enough to get as is, and only really careless, stupid people (Libertarians) actually have to worry about law enforcement issues.
Geez, lighten up. Smoke a bowl or something.
Joe Mama
October 18th, 2011
4:42 pm
josef — “When Mama was dying (cancer) one of my druggie nephews kept her supplied. She left a bequest in her will specifically for him and his buds to throw a party in her memory…they did!”
Good for your mom and for your cousin.
BTW, when you say “buds,” you mean “friends,” right? Just checking.
moonbat betty
October 18th, 2011
4:42 pm
Ya’ll are are MAD!
Pure Madness I tell you!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6MGVpl5ux8
a typical weekend night at the moobat’s
josef
October 18th, 2011
4:43 pm
heathen
“I think this Friday is the revised End of the World Date”
Weather permitting.
Up in smoke...that's where all my money goes...
October 18th, 2011
4:44 pm
I think the shift in sentiment is because more people are starting to realize that marijuana isn’t really a gateway drug the way alcohol and nicotine are. If you ask adults what’s the first “drug” they tried of any kind, MOST will say alcohol or cigarettes. Not marijuana. Most people I know that sell it aren’t horrible criminals out to turn everyone into addicts. They are hardworking (and yes, taxpaying) Americans with families and even regular jobs in some cases. Same thing for most smokers I know. They aren’t strung out on the street corner preying on hardworking Americans. They are hardworking Americans. They have spouses, children, jobs, homes, go to school and are our neighbors. Its time lawmakers stop with the “Giggle, giggle. No!” attitude about this (non) issue and start passing laws to legalize or decriminalize it. Last time I checked, since California passed decriminalization laws, they’re citizens were (for the most part) fine and no worse off than they were before the laws passed. If people could legally grow it in their homes (herb garden anyone?) or legally purchase it for personal use (Hello?! Small business owners!!), it would create revenue from taxes. Plus it would help stop the killings and turf wars going on in these border towns in Mexico, Texas and other southwestern states because it wouldn’t need to be smuggled in. I bet if they asked conservatives and the Over 65 Club if they favored just to decriminalize it, I bet more would be okay with that. Anywho, that’s my $.02.
josef
October 18th, 2011
4:45 pm
JOE M
But, of course!
Edith
October 18th, 2011
4:46 pm
My point is that the Libertarian de-regulation guys are fruitcakes.
There’s no need to state the obvious. Just one look at Ron Paul’s sagging eyebrow will tell you that. Someone send the cheapskate a tube of superglue.
Kamchak
October 18th, 2011
4:46 pm
Where Does it End?
Dec. 21, 2012?
Nope, Friday October 21, 2011.
(Disclaimer: Harold Camping has been wrong before.)
Joe Mama
October 18th, 2011
4:46 pm
Oh, boy. Let’s tweak Where Does It End’s post!
Dude, you’re missing the point. I love illegosos. I employ a bunch of them and I hire a new one about every three months.
My point is that the people pushing amnesty are fruitcakes.
I’m not anti-immigrant. I just happen to think that amnesty is a dumb idea.
Fake documents are easy enough to get as is, and only really careless, stupid employers actually have to worry about law enforcement issues.
Geez, lighten up. Go hire a Honduran landscaping crew or something.
Discussion?
Mack
October 18th, 2011
4:47 pm
This is kind of a stupid story. The majority of us want lower taxes, Congressmen who look out for the people instead of special interest, etc. etc, we can want for a lot of things but the politicians screw the majority over everyday.
Bosch
October 18th, 2011
4:47 pm
josef,
Awesome story — I’ve known a couple of folks who’ve done that.
Bosch
October 18th, 2011
4:48 pm
“Just one look at Ron Paul’s sagging eyebrow will tell you that.”
What is this all about? I fear I just don’t want to know and should not ask.
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
October 18th, 2011
4:49 pm
Well, if they made it legal at least those night helicoper flights across the trailer park and other places would stop. And GA Power would make a fortune off of selling power to all the indoor growers. And who knows, maybe the cops could focus on the real criminals instead of dragging some pothead out and putting him in a squad car.
josef
October 18th, 2011
4:49 pm
MOObat
Ya’ll are are MAD!
“…a typical weekend night at the moobat’s…”
Are are mad? Moobat?
Sure it’s not a typical Tuesday t’yer place?
Bosch
October 18th, 2011
4:50 pm
Yeah, my google in fact, was NOT broke, and I looked it up…
Oh damn, now I think I’ve busted something from laughing.
Aquagirl
October 18th, 2011
4:51 pm
it is easy enough to get as is, and only really careless, stupid people (Libertarians) actually have to worry about law enforcement issues.
I worry about the law enforcement issue. I don’t like paying the prison tab for dumb libertarians. I also don’t like the destabilization of Mexico, gangs, pot plantations in national parks, fostering disrespect for the law, racist enforcement, etc.
If you think there’s no problem because YOU aren’t in jail, you’re kidding yourself.
Kamchak
October 18th, 2011
4:51 pm
If you ask adults what’s the first “drug” they tried of any kind, MOST will say alcohol or cigarettes.
Actually it’s neither.
Caffeine is the first drug people take.
I remember my first Coca-cola. Got it as a present for sitting still while getting a haircut. It came out of one of those old time turntable coolers. So cold it made my eyes water.
Chester Cheetah
October 18th, 2011
4:52 pm
I personally back LEGAL pot, because that is the kind that doesn’t get you arrested.
Edith
October 18th, 2011
4:52 pm
I just don’t think that’s gonna happen, moonbat.
josef
October 18th, 2011
4:54 pm
BOSCH
One of my straight-laced siblings wanted to know why Mama would leave “that B..” (the nephew) money to party with his good for nothing friends…those of us in the know just laughed…another sibling said, “…you wouldn’t understand…” and another chimed in with “…and that’s too bad. You’d be a lot happier if you did…”
moonbat betty
October 18th, 2011
4:54 pm
josef,
I’m not mad, but it is at the moobat’s
and sometimes on Tuesdays!
Joe Mama
October 18th, 2011
4:54 pm
C. Cheetah — “I personally back LEGAL pot, because that is the kind that doesn’t get you arrested.”
I’m not at all surprised that an anthropomorphic predatory feline pitchman for SNACK FOOD is supportive of legalizing mary jo wanna.
Bosch
October 18th, 2011
4:55 pm
josef,
“You’d be a lot happier if you did…”
Most people would be, for real!!
Strawman
October 18th, 2011
4:55 pm
“I’m at a loss to explain that sudden shift in sentiment, because I have no idea what outside force might be driving it. It is, you might say, a homegrown movement.
Very punny. I would guess it has to do with at least a couple of things.
One would be the general erosion of moral standards over the past several decades. I believe there was a fundamental sea change in perspective that occurred during the sixties. Free speech had been “redefined” by the “august” members of the Supreme Court, the Civil Rights movement and Act redefined individual rights, the anti-war movement and counter culture revolution rapidly and greatly stretched the boundaries of acceptable behavior, and the news media took a radical turn from being guardian of the status quo to the private eye of America at large. Just consider how JFK would fare in today’s environment: he would be compelled to resign his presidency at some point, I should think. His compulsive extramarital affairs (every three days) make Bill Clinton’s dalliances seem almost innocuous. And consider the content of current television shows to those of the 60s. And the list goes on and on. There are either moral absolutes or there are not. If not, then really anything could be acceptable at some point (just look top other cultures to see this: NAMBLA as an advocacy group would no reason to exist in ancient Greece; cannibalism has been practiced by a number of cultures). I smoked pot in my youth and now think it’s not beneficial because it is a) harmful to one’s body – the lungs if nothing else b) an impediment to emotional and mental maturation and c) something that can cause one to become excessively uninhibited.
Another contributing factor in this change, I should think, is the depressed economy. People who might otherwise oppose the legalization of pot could now be reconsidering if they believe it would be a great source of tax revenue.
Joe Mama
October 18th, 2011
4:56 pm
Strawman — tl; dr.
Obama is over
October 18th, 2011
4:56 pm
Guess I will go down to the basement, burn one, and listen to a little My Morning Jacket. And then think about how open minded and well read USinUk is.
Bosch
October 18th, 2011
4:57 pm
Strawman,
Smoking pot is not immoral, it’s a freaking plant for God’s sake — you of all people, being a straw and all, should understand!
McCain for Resident
October 18th, 2011
4:57 pm
Pot is the one thing we could really afford to pay American farmers $50/hour to harvest.
josef
October 18th, 2011
4:58 pm
K’CHAK
One of my earliest childhood memories is sitting at Granddaddy’s knee at the Old Men’s Pool Hall sipping that 6 oz Co-Cola and listening to their tales…(my home town had two pool halls, one for males over 12 and the other for the old men and you didn’t go there unless invited…had my first cigarette at the over 12 one when my brother sneaked me in…)
getalife
October 18th, 2011
4:59 pm
The gateway drug is legal and you can but it at convenience stores.
Drugs are a choice.
Freedom.
Joe Mama
October 18th, 2011
4:59 pm
McCain — “Pot is the one thing we could really afford to pay American farmers $50/hour to harvest.”
DINGDINGDINGDINGDINGDING!!!!
We have a WINNAH!
Boris Badnoff
October 18th, 2011
4:59 pm
As a libertarian, I fully endorsed the legalization of all victimless crimes from pot puffing to dwarf tossing. How do you think Bookman writes his blog? Drinking carrot juice? But I would like the right to ask a surgeon before he operates on me if he or she is high on something. Or low on something. There are certain professions where an individual should be required to stay stone cold sober. Here’s a question for another blog: if prostitutes, drug salesmen, etc., are required to pay taxes how much will they be required to raise their price? And will they be required to give senior citizen discounts?
pogo
October 18th, 2011
5:00 pm
And, “free the weed!” I grew a “stalk or two” myself many years ago. Still haven’t forgotten how though. Weed out the males early and apply lots of phosphate. And that “indica” seed stock doesn’t hurt either.
Come November of 2012, getalife is going to witness the “wrath of con”. His boy Obama looks like a phony @$$ fool running frantically around in that damned Canadian bus trying to sell the same old
Shite that all of us know has failed. Obama has become a tragic figure of the Jimmy Carter ilk.
getalife
October 18th, 2011
5:00 pm
but is buy.
I just burned one from all this peer pressure on this blog.
josef
October 18th, 2011
5:01 pm
Now y’all leave Strawman alone…he’s evolving, too…he’s quit dragging his knuckles and has started making fire in the cave (Sorry, Brad Paisley, couldn’t resist!)
Mitzymy
October 18th, 2011
5:01 pm
I used to work in a factory and all day people were smoking pot. The company found out about it, and banned it from the workplace. After that, production hit the floor, so they had to allow it again. It appears that the men and women who were smoking it, did a better job., got along better, and didn’t take their mistakes too seriously. Production went up and every body was happy again.
AmVet - Read my lips. No new Reefer Madness.
October 18th, 2011
5:02 pm
Libertarians are generally just slightly less hung up Republicans.
Sadly there are the mental midgets and rabid nutjobs like Boortz who give it a horrific reputation.
Pot will never be legalized as long as BIG Pharma owns politicians.
Why use a weed that grows pretty much anywhere, and that is free for the picking or growing?
And one that is VERY effective in controlling pain, when you can pay a corrupt organization zillions of dollars for quasi-poisons that don’t work nearly as well.
Save those for the Bible thumpers and other puritans and let the rest of us be smart about it…