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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PROLIFE who wrote (12767)	7/23/2001 12:25:53 AM
From: CVJ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 59480

"Essentially harmless" is a whacko left phrase. I'm not in favor of the legalization at all. But listen to the left wingers. They want to start with marijuana, cocaine and heroin. Then what? Has anyone ever stopped a bureaucratic freight train once it starts rolling? Right now people in pain "need" to smoke marijuana. A hell of a lot more people want to, because it's their "right". Of course nobody mentions that a marijuana joint has something like 100 times the level of some of the bad compounds that cigarettes have that can kill you. The effective ingredient in pot can be administered for medical reasons without smoking it; inhaler, pill, patch, whatever. The argument from left is really about getting their way and "winning", not about right, wrong, helpful, dangerous. They say, "Oh but use can be regulated like alcohol and tobacco". Those regulations really work, don't they? Every year in the U.S., tens of thousands are killed by drunk drivers, possibly hundreds of thousands die of tobacco related causes. I can't wait until we get another ineffective bloated bureaucracy regulating pot, cocaine, heroin. And just imagine all the wonderful new drugs that will become available when the drug companies turn their research staffs loose. The amazing thing to me is that the hew and cry for legalization in the name of personal freedom is going to garner exactly the opposite effect. A few 1000 soldiers in a War On Drugs are nothing compared to rampaging force of 10's or 100's of thousands of regulating bureaucrats "protecting" our new found recreational drug "liberty".