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You have my support any time you want it, under the following conditions:
1) Licensed Professionals are barred and subject to random drug testing. That would be doctors, lawyers, nurses, psychologists, teachers, police, etc. If they want to toke, they can surrender their license forever.
2) All civil servants are barred and subject to random drug testing
3) All welfare recipients are barred and subject to mandatory testing. I'm not going to give someone $200 of my hard-earned tax dollars for food stamps so they can buy $200 worth of dope. It is neither my function nor purpose to subsidize the life-styles of others.
4) Anyone in the transportation industry is barred and subject to mandatory testing. That would be bus, taxi, truck, plane, train and ship drivers, plus all maintenance personnel. A drunk ran the Exxon Valdez aground causing an oil spill. Don't need dope-heads running ships aground too.
5) A business has the right to declare itself a drug-free work-place and conduct testing and terminate without recourse.
6) Distributing marihuana to a minor would be a felony offense. No jail time, just total seizure of all assets, like cars, bank accounts, house, furniture etc.
7) A special license is required. All users are licensed and registered. Licenses can be revoked for failing to pay child support, student loans, the commission of any felony or misdemeanor offense, including driving under the influence of either drugs or alcohol.
That's because you don't understand the "War on Drugs." There never was a war on drugs.
Just curious waht your take on this is?
Well, of course, and also that dirty nasty "R" word: Responsibility.
Liberals never want to take responsibility for their actions. It's always someone else's fault and someone else should subsidize their life-style.
The Liberal philosophy is "if it feels good, then do it."
If it breaks up a marriage, who cares, so long as it feels good. If it hurts the children or causes them grief and suffering, who cares, so long as it feels good. If other people die, who cares, as long as it feels good.
Bunch of guys spent the week-end stoned and come Monday morning, they didn't do their maintenance checks so a helicopter crashed and killed 47 people.
The fact that 47 people died is not important, what's important is that they had a good time partying and felt good.
There are dozens of accidents/incidents where people and/or were seriously injured and those responsible were not smoking dope on the job, rather they were partying the night before or over the week-end.
You'll and your ilk will spend all of your money on dope, then clog up my courts with your bankruptcies and then demand that I give you welfare and pay for your rehab. Not gonna happen.
1-7 are brillliant. Good job! Like I said either here or in another forum, why should the rest of us pay for the down side of someone eles "habits"? All the tax $$ spent on rehabbing a drunk or dopers is nuts, when I had to jump thru hoops 3 1/2 years ago to get Medicaid after I was diagnosed with cancer is totally shameful. And NO I don't like Obamacare so don't even go there all you leftie socialists. Your messiah from Kenya is not the answer.
Generally conservatives dont seem to be in favor of legalizing marijuana. You would think wanting less government intervention and smaller government would mean legalizing it. A.
The gov should stay out of peoples business when it comes to waht they want to smoke. B. All the government agencies surrounding stopping the marijuana industry cost a fortune and dont really accomplish anything.
Just curious waht your take on this is?
I have two ideas, A. Concservatives tend to be more of a family of values, family. The other thing is the prison industry is a huge industry, we have more people in prison than any other country and private prisons make a fortune off locking up non violent marijauna offenders. Not saying Republicans are in business's pocket because dems are as bad if not worse but its a big money maker locking up people for a plant.
Because.....conservatives tend to be independent minded...unlike group think liberals....therefore you find them on both sides of the issue.
You would think wanting less government intervention and smaller government would mean legalizing it.
Conservatives want less government intervention OF BUSSSINESS.
When Republicans candidates talk of "smaller government," they are talking about social programs and laws that regulate business. They are not talking about police, surveillance or laws that regulate individuals.
Conservatives LIKE cops and they LIKE laws that tell us what we can and cannot do in our own home.
Personally, I think the people of California are smarter than that. I think they could have come up with a solution for their financial woes other than legalizing a drug. Now they're into the processes of how to regulate it, etc., etc. It will be a cash cow for California, but I think California chose to take the path of least resistance. I guess Mexico is right when it comes to California. They do send their drugs over our border because of California's high demand for it.
1-7 are brillliant. Good job! Like I said either here or in another forum, why should the rest of us pay for the down side of someone eles "habits"? All the tax $$ spent on rehabbing a drunk or dopers is nuts, when I had to jump thru hoops 3 1/2 years ago to get Medicaid after I was diagnosed with cancer is totally shameful. And NO I don't like Obamacare so don't even go there all you leftie socialists. Your messiah from Kenya is not the answer.
Why would you need medicaid for cancer? I know of and knew of plenty of people who have/had cancer and none of them rec'd medicaid.
Generally conservatives dont seem to be in favor of legalizing marijuana. You would think wanting less government intervention and smaller government would mean legalizing it. A.
The gov should stay out of peoples business when it comes to waht they want to smoke. B. All the government agencies surrounding stopping the marijuana industry cost a fortune and dont really accomplish anything.
Just curious waht your take on this is?
I have two ideas, A. Concservatives tend to be more of a family of values, family. The other thing is the prison industry is a huge industry, we have more people in prison than any other country and private prisons make a fortune off locking up non violent marijauna offenders. Not saying Republicans are in business's pocket because dems are as bad if not worse but its a big money maker locking up people for a plant.
I am a conservative. Smoke as much weed as you want and have all the abortions you want.
Legalizing the drug country wide will get us out of debt real fast. Why NOT make alcohol illegal? It's worse than marijuana 100 fold!!!! You kill youself over alcohol abuse and others as well because people continue to drink and drive - yeah, that's real safe!!!
Because I dont want someone legally working or driving smoking weed. I dont think its safe to have someone working in say a machine shop and then going on break smoking a joint
Generally conservatives dont seem to be in favor of legalizing marijuana. You would think wanting less government intervention and smaller government would mean legalizing it.
Legalizing anything means more government, not less. Legalization means enacting new laws, more government bureaucracy, and less liberty. Marijuana should be decriminalized, not legalized.
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