Rep. Nancy Mace, a first-term Republican from South Carolina, has introduced a bill to decriminalize cannabis at the federal level

[lennypartiv]

What you people are forgetting is that back in the day, the Negro jazz musicians and the migrant farm workers would get all hopped up on that stuff and go out and rape white women.

There's a reason the jails are full of black people.

 

[Harry Dresden]

There's a reason the jails are full of black people.

yea its all because of pot....

 

[Jessica-stormlover]

Since we're for small government I think this is a positive step towards that realization.

 

[Jessica-stormlover]

There's a reason the jails are full of black people.

50% of all murder in this country are committed by blacks. Blacks make up less then 13% of the country. Anyone that is outraged by the reality that a large minority of their male population is in prison, then let me ask you(Mr.clean!), "should we let them rape and kill people without punishment???". Is that something you'd(Mr.Clean) be ok with? Because to not have a large population of black people in prison that is exactly what you're saying. If someone does the crime they should pay for it.

And don't get me wrong I don't believe anyone should be serving any time for drugs and that includes blacks.

 

[lennypartiv]

It's a plant. There's no valid argument against legalization.

Unless it leads to harder drugs and a life of crime.
---Marijuana Has Proven to Be a Gateway Drug---

Marijuana Has Proven to Be a Gateway Drug - NYTimes.com

www.nytimes.com

 

[FA_Q2]

Unless it leads to harder drugs and a life of crime.
---Marijuana Has Proven to Be a Gateway Drug---

Marijuana Has Proven to Be a Gateway Drug - NYTimes.com

www.nytimes.com

Oh yay. An opinion piece so short it does not really make a real point by someone that has no idea what correlation is not causation. Do you have something actually factual?

 

[g5000]

---Marijuana Has Proven to Be a Gateway Drug---

No more than alcohol or cigarettes are gateway drugs.

 

[Mr Natural]

i bet this guy min trut believes that to this day.....

He probably watches “Reefer Madness “ as a documentary.

 

[Harry Dresden]

No more than alcohol or cigarettes are gateway drugs.

back in the 70's i knew guys who started with speed or coke and then smoked pot to "relax"....

 

[Osiris-ODS]

It's a plant. There's no valid argument against legalization.

By that metric, opium and coca should be legal.

 

[whitehall]

Most republicans probably don't agree but the GOP is a big tent. Kind of strange when democrats are pushing against big tobacco and locking up Americans for smoking a (legal) cigarette outside in public that they would legalize the manufacture and distribution of a product that is as toxic to health or perhaps worse. Are we going to experience deja-vu all over again when pot head politicians claim that smoking the noxious weed is good for you? Didn't democrats promise to legalize marijuana by now anyway?

 

[Harry Dresden]

He probably watches “Reefer Madness “ as a documentary.

i love the ones who said they smoked pot at one time for like a year, 40 years ago, and are now are pot experts...

 

[Eric Arthur Blair]

Criminal drug cartels from Mexico have operated in California, Oregon and Washington, for example and
doubtlessly elsewhere, for DECADES whether weed was legal or not.

The argument that legalizing marijuana would end the criminal cartels dealing in weed in this nation is a tiresome lie and it should be retired permanently.

 

[Osiris-ODS]

it smells better than tobacco.....

The odor is way more pungent and pervasive than tobacco. You can smell someone smoking weed from a block away, and through vents in apartment complexes. The odor of a cigar, for example, does not travel nearly as far and pervasively. You can say you like the smell of weed, that's fine, but the point is for those who don't, it's very difficult to shield one's self from it when it's being smoked in the vicinity.

 

[HappyJoy]

It's a plant. There's no valid argument against legalization.

While I think marijuana should be legal the "it's just a plant" argument is pretty weak. Many natural poisons are "just plants".

 

[Anathema]

this is like Nixon goes to China

Don’t expect her to be a second-term Republican congresswoman.

 

[Harry Dresden]

The odor is way more pungent and pervasive than tobacco. You can smell someone smoking weed from a block away, and through vents in apartment complexes. The odor of a cigar, for example, does not travel nearly as far and pervasively. You can say you like the smell of weed, that's fine, but the point is for those who don't, it's very difficult to shield one's self from it when it's being smoked in the vicinity.

you can smell tobacco to.....

 

[MinTrut]

why do you not care about the booze addicts? far more of them than there are pot addicts

^ Whataboutism.

Pot is an INCREDIBLY dangerous and addictive drug.

 

[MinTrut]

Pot isn't incredibly dangerous and never has been.

False.

The marijuana plants properties have been known to people for many thousands of years

How Long Have People Been Smoking Weed? - Leaf Nation

Scientists have confirmed that people have been consuming the cannabis plant for ages, since the time of the ancient civilizations. The marijuana plant has

leafnation.com

See above.

 

[MinTrut]

I know. It's not like you have cared about facts earlier in this thread. No one actually expects you to start now.

Pot: Incredibly dangerous and addictive.

Addicts: Don't care who gets hurt as long as they get their fix.