Comments on: Activist to Possess Marijuana in Public!

By: Curt Springer

Curt Springer — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:29:42 +0000

Herblore,
I’m just curious, where are you from?

By: Herblore

Herblore — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:58:28 +0000

A courageous young-man! With so many laws and so many ways to prosecute, I wouldn’t have the courage to criticize any level of your government. With the highest number of its citizens in jails, it seems to me, while you folks were guarding the front-door against communism, the fascists entered through the back. So someone should teach this young-man how to bend over and take his government sanctioned medicine! Why? Because the government knows best!

By: Ian

Ian — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 20:29:30 +0000

I guess this is what happens when someone releases a press release over a month in advance – people get confused as to the date.

This doesn’t happen until 1/10/09.

By: razer

razer — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 20:18:25 +0000

Ok. So what happened already?

By: Zeus

Zeus — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 22:35:19 +0000

Also, Zeus– I still don’t like you, but you’re earning a little niche in my heart.

And I’m still ambivalent about you, Jesse. I may differ with you on the reasoning and effectiveness of your tactics but I think your heart is in the right place.

By: AnarchoJesse

AnarchoJesse — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 22:05:26 +0000

Andrew just spent a few nights crashing on my couch, so he knows how I feel about all of this.

Also, Zeus– I still don’t like you, but you’re earning a little niche in my heart.

By: Patriot Henry

Patriot Henry — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:26:22 +0000

“No, it is not. I’m not going to say that about marijuana, but addictive drugs do indeed have victims.”

No, they do not. Drugs have never robbed, killed, or hurt any person by virtue of their own action. Drugs don’t rob people – people do.

By: elkheart

elkheart — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 05:24:50 +0000

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By: Zeus

Zeus — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:03:43 +0000

I, for one, have been robbed of several thousands of dollars in goods by someone looking to feed a habit he couldn’t pay for.

I hadn’t realized how new to all of this you must be. Allow me to enlighten you as to what most of us have already realized:

Ever seen anybody steal or kill over a bottle of Aspirin? No? That’s because it’s dirt cheap, legal and available in convenience shops every other block.

The reason people steal and kill for illegal drugs is BECAUSE they are illegal. The risk of being incarcerated, maimed or killed by the cops and other competitors is what drives the price up and creates the violence and theft.

End the War on Drugs (which has only made things worse by increasing the violence, fostering police corruption and increased in cost both financially and in lives year after year) and not only will the violence and theft decrease significantly but the products will be of better quality.

As it stands, you never know what something has been cut with, what toxic chemicals may be in it but, because of the War on Drugs, it’s not like you can ask your pharmacist to give you the all-natural joint vs the one cut with Dioxin or a carefully measured, pharmicist-approved pill of cocaine vs the street gram cut with crushed glass that makes your brain hemorrhage.

The violence and theft you see in the War on Drugs is the same thing that happened with alcohol prohibition. It will always happen when you try to prohibit what people do with their own bodies. Risk leads to profit. Demand leads to black markets.

By: Oliver

Oliver — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:13:45 +0000

Just a comment on an earlier post saying that drug possession is a victimless crime.

No, it is not. I’m not going to say that about marijuana, but addictive drugs do indeed have victims.

I, for one, have been robbed of several thousands of dollars in goods by someone looking to feed a habit he couldn’t pay for.

In addition, there are families of the dead in Mexico and Columbia who will tell you that there is a hell of a price to pay for drug traffic.

Is the “War on drugs” responsible for those deaths? Only partly.