*sigh*
Ok, fine. I'll regurgitate your post point for point if that will make you happy.
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Yet no matter how much prodding I give he has yet to offer any facts about why I am apparently ignorant on the subject.
And what facts would you like? The fact that the in the US budget (state and federal) the war on drugs costs the US tax payer 40 billion dollars a year? Source: Office of National Drug Control Policy
Or the fact that there are about 700,000 arrests a year alone for cannabis? 650,000 of those are for simple possession.
Source: Uniform Crime Reports, Federal Bureau of Investigation
Or the fact that the US (with less then 5% of the worlds population) has over 1/4 of the worlds prisoners? Source: Editorial, San Jose Mercury News
What source would be relevant for you? I have over 100 on hand.
Speaking of which, where are your sources?
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All he can imply is that because I don’t agree with him so I must be wrong, visa vie if I disagree with him I’m an idiot, but he offers no reason supporting this claim, just the hope that by throwing out a bunch of tripe insults I will become bored with his incoherent ramblings and choose to go attack something with an intelligence greater then your average piece of fruit
No, I got tired of your personal attacks on this guy for doing something that harms no one. And I told you already, I find that you’re a wasted mind, so I didn't take the time to bother posting a lengthy fact forum for you. Do a little research, you can find these facts everywhere on the internet. All I wanted you to do was shut up until you had taken the time to go out and actually LOOK for the facts, instead of posting your blatant banter against someone for enjoying an herb that god placed on this planet.
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Please, I beg you, offer some support as to your claims of why I’m apparently so very uneducated on the subject greater then “Because you have an opinion different then mine NOW SHUT UP!” I will be much amused by your response.
As I stated earlier, ask and you shall receive. What exactly do you want to know about the unjust treatment of those who partake of a simple herb?
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But you are correct on one point though, I do not ‘care about the people involved in it in any shape or form’ because I simply have 0 respect for addicts who can’t control their own damn habit despite it being against the law.
The how can you comment on something you obviously don't care about, and for that matter have any insight into, and know nothing save your own personal feelings? Since when did that become "Fact?"
Addicts, now there is one I love to debate on. Please prove that they are addicts. Please give me a non-government sponsored study from a credited source with another supporting source. I'll give you my two.
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The DEA's Administrative Law Judge, Francis Young concluded: "In strict medical terms marijuana is far safer than many foods we commonly consume. For example, eating 10 raw potatoes can result in a toxic response. By comparison, it is physically impossible to eat enough marijuana to induce death. Marijuana in its natural form is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man. By any measure of rational analysis marijuana can be safely used within the supervised routine of medical care.:
Source: US Department of Justice, Drug Enforcement Agency, "In the Matter of Marijuana Rescheduling Petition," [Docket #86-22], (September 6, 1988), p. 57.
And maybe if the quote itself is difficult to understand, a nice chart showing the addictive properties of marijuana relevant to other substance will help.
http://www.drugwarfacts.org/addictiv.htm
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If you want to change a few laws to get marijuana legalized by all means, go ahead, I will even support you. But don’t sit around on your *** doing nothing then the second you actually get busted for it have the gal to start ******** about ‘How you were wronged because pot should be legal’ if idiots like you would treat your cause as nothing more then a convenient excuse for why you couldn’t keep your bong hole shut, pot would probably be legal by now.
I have actively been supporting the efforts since I learned of the injustices suffered in this "war on drugs"
So why don't you live up to your end of the bargain
http://www.drugsense.org/html/modules.php?name=Oldsite&page=active
And it will never be legal until we get people to stop using federal funds to raid completely legal compassion clubs in California (1), or to illegally use federal funds to lobby against state initiatives (2).
(1) http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v03/n1324/a01.html?99616
(2) http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n677/a09.html?99617
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http://www.sptimes.com/2003/06/01/Columns/Drug_war_invades_stat.shtml
There are my facts. Sadly, half of them are from government sources, the very people who are against a simple plant.
Is this enough for you? Or are you so blind that you want me to post nothing but links for 15 pages of 50 posts a piece? (And yes, I have that much information)
What would it take to open your mind to the fact that this war is nothing more then a waste of your money?
The fact that you have been spoon feed bullsh*t since day one by our government?
I will be the first to admit, exestacy, crack, heroin, and "Hard" drugs should be gone after in this mannerism, and I support your ideals on that side of the argument. But pot is a harmless substance, yet you fight so adamantly against such a harmless substance when someone is raped every two minuets in this country? Source: http://www.iejs.com/Law/Criminal_Law/Rape.htm
That could be your wife/girlfriend. And yet we waste this much manpower, police time and energy, tax payers money, and court system time on pot.
There are so many other things that our police should be doing right now, yet why is pot so adamantly sought after?
I am sorry I came across so damn stupid before. I fight these types of arguments every day, and it becomes so monotonous to see the same mindless, personal attacks on people.
I ask for your forgiveness, because I did come across as an asshat in my first and second posts. But please, open your mind to other ideas then your own. Take into account other peoples suffering instead of only what you believe to be right.
That is almost how this war started to begin with.
Edited: cuz the last damn quote thing isn't working 2nd Edit: just to say, is this a gbaji worthy post length or what? Edited, Mon Jul 5 19:26:03 2004 by Molish