SIN, Jesse. Please, GIVE us some new ideas that will work. Have any? Or do you just prefer to point fingers and call names. If you claim to be progressive, it has to mean something indicating you are attempting to build rather than just tear down.
P.S. Cap fits fine. I prefer to wear it with the bill forward to protect my eyes from the sun, rather than backward to keep the rain from running down the back of my neck when I am too bewildered to come in out of the rain.

UH....now I get it SIN. How could I have been so stupid.
You mean:

God is Love

Love is Blind

Ray Charles is Blind

Ray Charles is God

Got that thinking now. Back to the cave.

Geez! Seeya...
I'm gonna have a more intellegent conversation with my dog.

And, if you "fine-tune" your dose, he'll probably talk back!

New idea? Legalize drugs and drop the taboo. Tax it, generate revenue, set guidlines as with tobacco and alcohol. It's a real no brainer. The war on drugs has been long lost (unless you are an ostrich, thanks SJ). Why did they repeal prohibition.

Families instill values in their children to stay away from harmful drugs. NOT THE STATE. Blame families for neglecting their children not a law that prohibits smoking weed. Weed, coke, speed, xanax (just to begin with) is available in every school across the nation, more so when Nancy started her glorious war on drugs, when I was in school. If you can't teach your children, nephews and grand children not to take harmful drugs, do you think teachers and politicians can?

My parents taught me to stay away from grease laiden fast food. It is bad for you, but legal. I choose to eat wholesome food and avoid being a fat ass because of my values and love for my health and life. If someone chooses to fill himself with shit, guess what, is is the "land of the free". I choose not to smoke cigarettes. They stink, turn your fingers yellow, makes your environment stink, they are expensive and will shorten my life. I do not need the state to protect me, I do have a brain (my parents smoked). I choose to drink alcohol on a weekly basis and get drunk at times. I know it is not good for my liver and costs a bit down here in Belize. My choice (my parents didn't drink much). I've experimented with drugs and enjoy the relaxing feeling offered by marijuana, as an adult I make this choice although illegal in my own home. I choose not to drive or work while under the influence of THC. I avoid other drugs that some may partake of. I would say alcohol was the greatest so called "gateway" drug since I usually drink in bars where others smoke, eat greasy bar food, smoke weed and use other drugs. But I am an adult with a brain and can choose what I can handle.

Addictions are many, singling out which substances should be legal based on business profits is wrong in a democracy, for the people. Restricting people's freedoms will only cause the underworld to make huge profits, make the drugs more desired and cause needless deaths on both sides of the battle.

"Legalize it and I'll advertise it" - Peter Tosh

SIN

Well, they'll stone ya when you're trying to be so good,
They'll stone ya just a-like they said they would.
They'll stone ya when you're tryin' to go home.
Then they'll stone ya when you're there all alone.
But I would not feel so all alone,
Everybody must get stoned.

Love that Bob!

"New idea? Legalize drugs and drop the taboo". OK then define where the "line is drawn".

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"Children don't do as you say, they do as you do" - Rykat

SIN, therein lies the problem. You consider yourself to be quite intelligent, in control of your life, and for the most part above the riff raff of humanity. You may very well be all that. How about the lesser beings that do not have the intelligence and control, not to mention a trust fund, to handle it gracefully. Do you want to give them a loaded gun? Or do we need two sets of laws, one for you and one for them? Who decides who is the "them"?

Hasn't the topic of marijuana been discussed ad nauseum on this board? If one chooses to smoke, so be it. Doesn't make that person bad, a pot head, a loser, a doper. There are far worse problems in society as a whole, than pot smoking - #1 is alcoholism, followed by prescription drugs and meth. These drugs destroy and/or end far more lives than pot could ever touch.

Well, in Cuba there is no drug abuse (along with freedom). I think we agree on that. Extreme example I realize. But you can see the point.

I like the loaded gun thing. What kind of society will allow the purchase of a automatic pistol, to almost anyone, with the sole manufacturing purpose of taking another's life (killing) and then not allow you to smoke a naturaly grown, organic plant that provides relief to the sick and a mild tranquilizing effect on others?

Either ban everything that can harm human life or realize that you can not forcefully protect us from ourselves. Marijuana and cocaine have been illegal for years and the abuse rate continues to grow. The definition of insanity is to continue doing the same thing and expecting a different result (Albert Eistein).

Amsterdam and Copenhagen should be full on dead beat drug addicts with a fetish for prostitutes according to your line of reason.

Is is better to die from a fried liver or cough to death on lung cancer or get shot from a drunk with a gun. How many are killed on our nation's highways from drunk drivers? Why is it legal to drink and not smoke weed. What if we drink marijuana tea? Or eat mushrooms? Being a responsible citizen in knowing your limits and not jeapordizing your's and other's safety when enjoying your vice of choice (alcohol, thc, tobbacco, gambling, sex).

More to come.

SIN