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lpwhitlow 9 months ago
No Josh.

It would not be over for this issue. And here's why.

Josh if you really think you or this government should have the right to tell me what I can and can not do in my own house you are wrong. If I want to sit at my house and shoot up Drano that is none of your business. As long as I don't get in my car and drive around or endanger you or anyone else in any way. If I do that's when I should go to jail. It's called freedom Josh. America use to know what that was. We never had drug laws in this country until 1937. Before that your could order marijuana, cocaine, and a plethora of opiates from Sears & Roebucks. It's just wrong. Here's a quote from someone who agrees.

"Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded."

Abraham Lincoln.

I'm not saying that drugs are a good thing. It's been said before "drugs are bad the drug war is worse". Is smoking marijuana bad for you? Maybe, so are Big-Macs and Whoppers heart disease is the leading cause of death in America. Hey, lets lockup Ronald McDonald... No that would be dumb lets just go with the twenty million Americans we've already locked up for using a substance "pot" that has never been known to kill anyone.(1)

Josh do you have kids? Do you want them to smoke pot? If you answered yes. Then I understand why you support the unregulated sale of marijuana. When I was twelve half the kids in my school smoked pot. They rolled it in Cinnaburst gum wrappers. Why? Because they didn't know anyone old enough to buy them rolling papers and, that was the closest thing they could buy. My point is, had the sale of marijuana been regulated like alcohol is. I don't think there would have been hundreds of kids in my school smoking it in the gym, behind the gym, under the bleachers, etc. etc. etc.

America's War on Drugs has done nothing to stem the use of drugs. It has only given the control of a multi billion dollar industry to the worse people imaginable. The Mexican drug cartels killed 6,300 people last year.(2) That's more than all the U.S. casualty's in Iraq. The War on Drugs has been an utter failure and a dark chapter in Americas history. Prohibition didn't work before it doesn't work now.

Believe me Josh this is not the end of this issue.



(1)National Academy Press, 1999) US Department of Justice, Drug Enforcement Administration, "In the Matter of Marijuana Rescheduling Petition" (Docket #86-22), September 6, 1988, p. 57.

(2)"Mexican drug cartels are loading up on bullets in the U.S." By Todd Bensman - Special to GlobalPost
Published: March 4, 2009.