I guess he wants people who are suffering, to keep on suffering, what a shame... http://youtube.com/watch?v=JzkREVOVYsw
He is a dangerous lunatic and and insane loose canon! Can the majority of Americans really be that naive and trust this guy?
I just wish he wouldn't contradict his own statements. Is he forgetting his own stance? Or does he not actually have one?...
Thats what happens when those stances are not coming from deep personal convictions, but from scripts. He is a dishonest lunatic.
Thankyou for the link, yet another reason I do not think I can support him. The guy I originally 'even on here' supported when the anti RP repubs said he was a horrible choice. --- To be fair though, even though I do not agree with him, at least he did not run from the question and did at least appear to be open to look at facts/stats.
He's concerned about it because it's a "gateway drug". These people are dieing! Who cares what they take??!! Moron!
This is a very frustrating issue, because anyone who does their homework can clearly see which side is right. It's not a gateway drug, it is helpful in relieving severe pain, it can be taken in a way that is safe, it does have health benefits besides stress and pain relief, it is very costly to keep the current criminalization system in place, it does divert crime-fighting resources away from real crime-fighting, etc etc etc. These politicians pander to people who they know don't know a thing about marijuana and just think "it's destroying our children."
Are there not other drugs which can also relieve pain? Legalizing this drug is only going to increase its abuse. I'm not sure about the gateway position as I've never smoked marijuana, however, I think it wouldn't be all that surprising to find that those who are addicted to stronger and more controlling drugs smoked marijuana beforehand.
A stronger drug that many Americans are addicted to is nicotine. (Marijuana is not addictive) How about alcohol? (Alcohol causes thousands of deaths and injuries every year) Both of these drugs cause LARGE amounts of DEATHS every year. Yet they are not illegal. Please explain to me the logic. Please & thank you.
The other drugs are more harmful. Even regular aspirin use is more harmful to the body than marijuana. The more powerful prescription pain relievers destroy the liver and are highly addictive (just ask Rush Limbaugh). Marijuana is also used as an appetite enhancer for those suffering from wasting diseases like AIDS or people who have undergone chemotherapy. While there is a chance of abuse with any drug, illegal or not, the side effects of marijuana abuse are far less severe than those of just about any drug you can find. As far as the gateway claim, there might be a correlation between "hard drug" users and marijuana use, but that does not imply causation. People who are likely to be hanging around drug dealers who sell marijuana are more likely to be hanging around drug dealers who sell cocaine. Would this same correlation exist if marijuana could be bought at CVS or Walgreens? By the way, I do not use marijuana, I just don't think it should be criminalized.
And why do so many people think that it's the government's right to tell people what they should or should not put in their own bodies to "protect them." It's just so crazy that people think that's ok. It literally is CRAZY. Are we not supposed to be in a free society? If it's ok for the government to decide that marijuana is too dangerous for people to take (for what reasons again?) why couldn't they also decide that alcohol is too dangerous (they did once - prohibition - look how that worked out) why couldn't they also decide that fatty foods are too dangerous? (fatty foods undoubtedly cause far more medical problems than marijuana ever could) and so on and so forth. For what reason is marijuana singled out? It's ridiculous. There's absolutely no logic involved in the anti-marijuana policies or positions of people. People that hold these positions are incredibly ignorant on the subject. It sickens me. Innocent people are being put in jail and losing their FREEDOM in this supposedly free country just because they like to get high in a different way than you do (alcohol... whatever) That's not right. It just isn't.
Marijuana causes severe mental problems over a period of time and since most "stoners" dont smoke it in its pure form (they mix it with tobacco) they develop nicotine addictions.
This may be the case but neither one is good for you. Agreed, you're preaching to the chior here. The thing is though that we already know through the prohibition days that making alcohol illegal simply doesn't work. The reason pretty much boils down to that there are so many people addicted to it, and as a general rule of thumb the vast majority of americans believe it is okay in moderation. The similarities is that both have immediate physical side-effects. Slowing response times, causing poorer vision... we know that alcohol causes many deaths because of these same side effects. We don't need another substance increasing the casualties due to narcotics. Prohibition, read about it. We can't make alcohol illegal. However, if you agree that it causes deaths, then why should we legalize a drug that would only increase that number?
Cause government hates competition so the will ilegalize anything that they can't control, like drugs, prostitution, hemp and so on.
I think I read that on a bumper sticker somewhere. I think his (McCain's) response was just more bad following of his usual poorly thought out script.
1. What "severe mental problems" are you referring to? I would ask you to cite some scientific studies that back up this claim but I know there are none. I would make the claim that alcoholism is has been shown to be related to far more mental and emotional problems than marijuana has been yet it is legal. 2. Where did you get the idea that most "stoners" mix marijuana with tobacco? I have been around marijuana being smoked countless times and can only remember a very few occassions where someone did that (mixed it with tobacco.) I have not experienced that as the norm at all. 3. That you give that it may be mixed with the perfectly substance tobacco one of your reasons for why marijuana should be illegal is just absolutely astonishingly lacking in logic. Seriously think about that. Furthermore even if it were commonly mixed with an illegal substance (think cocaine) how would that be cause to make it illegal? That would be like making Doritos illegal because people like to eat them when they get high. --- This level of argument is exactly what I see from people who say marijuana should remain illegal. Completely baseless in logic and in facts.
1. Alcohol is a much more debilitating drug than marijuana when it comes to these effects. If there were more people smoking pot and less people drinking then it is likely there would be FEWER car accidents not to mention far fewer physical assaults. Have you ever read about a guy getting high and beating his wife? Have you ever heard of a guy getting stoned at a concert and starting a fight? No. By and large when people cause car accidents & start physical fights due to the influence of a substance, that substance is alcohol. Comparing the debilitating effects of alcohol to marijuana would only be something someone would do if they were not familiar with what marijuana actually does to someone. 2. I'm quite familiar with prohibition, thank you. In fact I think it's one of the best arguments for the legalization of marijuana which is why I like to bring it up so often. A. I do not believe that marijuana would increase deaths. Marijuana has never been shown to be directly responsible for a death. Ever. In thousands of years of it's use. EVER. Again, let me repeat that for you. EVER. How many deaths does nicotine cause every year? HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS. Yet is is completely legal. So please, do not ever try to make as an argument for why marijuana should be illegal that it "may cause deaths." This is an argument lacking in all logic and in all facts. It is baseless. B. Prohibition was not only wrong in that it was the government trying to control people's private lives (which it was.) It was also wrong because it actually increased crime. This is a very important aspect of prohibition which is so often overlooked. That same increase in crime is occurring today with marijuana laws. If marijuana was legalized crime would drop by a large amount. Why? Because there's a lot of crime associated with selling marijuana precisely because of it's illegality. Same as how the mob was involved with selling alcohol in the 1920s. When you have unreasonable laws prohibiting things that many people enjoy, you will always have a criminal element arising to take advantage of this business opportunity. Think about the huge amounts of money wasted on the "War on Drugs" every year. If that money was instead spent on education, fighting real crime, or perhaps a tax cut we would all be much better off. Our country has more people in jail than any other. Are we really the land of the free?