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Klapton Member
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Mon Nov 07, 2016 9:31 am
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WANative wrote: | You can drink alcohol and not get drunk. People smoke weed to get high.
Laws are made against drugs that only get used in order for the person to alter their state of mind.
Are you comfortable with the idea of 4 year old sally and 6 year old Timmy playing in a house where there are bags of weed on the table with their single mother sitting on the couch sparking up a fat bong hit? |
Better send a SWAT team there then.
Your caricature of recreational cannabis users is ridiculous and stupid. While there may exist someone that irresponsible, there also exists a drunk who does the same. Yet the vast majority of adults who use these substances are just that: ADULTS. They are not neglecting or endangering their children whatsoever.
To continue legal prohibition of these things is to condone VIOLENCE. Both the violence of enforcement and the violence of criminal cartels that would not exist without prohibition. This violence is FAR more dangerous to our children than someone smoking a little weed to help them fall asleep, or before they unwind watching a movie.
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joker seeker
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Mon Nov 07, 2016 9:50 am
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Yeah, what he said. I'd add that if WANative's logic were used, cigarettes and caffeinated coffee would be outlawed too (ever gone on a backpack with someone who is quitting either even after relatively light use - if not, my advice is DON'T!!!).
Back to the topic of this thread, it will be interesting to see how this influences the tactics of folks who have a big beef against the federal government. I guess the lesson is that if someone with a gun has broken into your office and taken a seat at your chair, just walk in and ask them to move so you can get your job done.
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WANative Member
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Mon Nov 07, 2016 10:04 am
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Klapton wrote: | WANative wrote: | You can drink alcohol and not get drunk. People smoke weed to get high.
Laws are made against drugs that only get used in order for the person to alter their state of mind.
Are you comfortable with the idea of 4 year old sally and 6 year old Timmy playing in a house where there are bags of weed on the table with their single mother sitting on the couch sparking up a fat bong hit? |
Better send a SWAT team there then.
Your caricature of recreational cannabis users is ridiculous and stupid. While there may exist someone that irresponsible, there also exists a drunk who does the same. Yet the vast majority of adults who use these substances are just that: ADULTS. They are not neglecting or endangering their children whatsoever.
To continue legal prohibition of these things is to condone VIOLENCE. Both the violence of enforcement and the violence of criminal cartels that would not exist without prohibition. This violence is FAR more dangerous to our children than someone smoking a little weed to help them fall asleep, or before they unwind watching a movie. |
I'm for legalization. Let dopers be dopers and make some profit in the process. No big deal.
I'm against the idea that prohibition had anything to do with racism or hippies. It's not hard to understand how parents using drugs in front of their kids might upset people and makes a good argument for prohibition.
http://www.king5.com/news/local/tacoma/spanaway-mom-injected-her-kids-with-heroin-charges-say/345960166
Quote: | TACOMA, Wash. – A Spanaway mother has been charged for injecting her children with heroin.
Child Protective Services removed three children, ages six, four, and two, from their parents Ashlee Rose Hutt, 24, and Mac McIver in November 2015. |
Just another recreational user trying to unwind after a long hard day at work right? Or the pill popper at my old job who crashed his car with his 2 kids inside.
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WANative Member
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Mon Nov 07, 2016 10:10 am
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joker wrote: | Back to the topic of this thread, it will be interesting to see how this influences the tactics of folks who have a big beef against the federal government. I guess the lesson is that if someone with a gun has broken into your office and taken a seat at your chair, just walk in and ask them to move so you can get your job done. |
Just sit on their lap and get to work!
Federal land belongs to us all. It's public.
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Randito Snarky Member
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Mon Nov 07, 2016 12:13 pm
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Ski wrote: | WAnative wrote: | Laws are made against drugs that only get used in order for the person to alter their state of mind. |
errr... you mean like alcohol, right?
Randy, weed was outlawed in the late 1930s. if you've never seen it, I'd highly recommend watching "Reefer Madness". Steve mentions one of the primary motivating factors above, which is played up in the movie, that aspect of which had a significant effect on public opinion at the time. |
The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 didn't place the same level of criminal penalties against personal weed possession as did congresses act in 1971.
Reefer Madness was a propaganda film intended to discourage weed consumption. I think it has little relation to facts.
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Klapton Member
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Mon Nov 07, 2016 12:38 pm
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The "War on Drugs" as we know it today began in 1971 with the Controlled Substances Act. The primary motivation for this came from Nixon who was mad as hell that the soldiers he sent to Vietnam were coming home stoners.
The level of funding and therefore violence increased dramatically under Reagan, and hasn't let up since.
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Ski ><((((°>
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Mon Nov 07, 2016 12:39 pm
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WAnative wrote: | I'm against the idea that prohibition had anything to do with racism or hippies. |
Originally (in the late 1930s), the federal mandates enacted on pot had everything to do with racism. (see HERE )
As for the "hippies" part: Richard M. Nixon ran on a platform of "Law and Order" in the 1968 Presidential election. The 1971 laws had everything to do with "hippies" (and those who questioned government authority and the Vietnam War.)
RandyHiker wrote: | The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 didn't place the same level of criminal penalties against personal weed possession as did congresses act in 1971. |
Nobody said it did.
RandyHiker wrote: | Reefer Madness was a propaganda film intended to discourage weed consumption. I think it has little relation to facts. |
Nobody said it had any relation to facts. It did, however, sway public opinion at the time of its release.
"I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each."
"I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each."
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WANative Member
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Mon Nov 07, 2016 3:15 pm
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Finicum (the guy being shot and killed in the video I linked) started and ran a foster home for children on his ranch. The government paid the foster home 115k a year.
They pulled funding for the foster home as an act of revenge once they found out he was involved in the Bunker hill standoff.
He took over the refuge with others as an act of protest in regards to the abuse of the ranchers and the pulling of the funding for the foster home.
Then they shot and killed him.
Does this make you happy? That is the "right wing terrorists" you want the government to come down on with full force.
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trestle Member
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Mon Nov 07, 2016 3:31 pm
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Here's a pretty good reply:
Quote: | But it seems at least ironic and perhaps more than ironic that this paragon of getting the government off our backs and radical, near-absolute individualism supports himself and his wife off state subsidies. |
Based on his ranch barely breaking even, the foster home was his primary source of income. So what? What's wrong with hypocrisy? Isn't that his right? Sure. But don't expect a pat on the back, which is what he was metaphorically seeking. The funding was pulled and the children removed after he was arraigned on felony charges related to the Nevada standoff.
It should be clear by now, to every citizen of this country, whether right or wrong, DO NOT THREATEN LAW ENFORCEMENT OR FEDERAL OFFICERS. Frankly, you shouldn't go around threatening anyone but if you must, I'd certainly recommend you avoid threatening law enforcement or federal officers.
Jail or dead, it's kind of like "fat and stupid".*
* No offense to fat people, it's a reference to a line in a movie.
"Life favors the prepared." - Edna Mode
"Life favors the prepared." - Edna Mode
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Randito Snarky Member
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Mon Nov 07, 2016 3:37 pm
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WANative wrote: | Finicum (the guy being shot and killed in the video I linked) started and ran a foster home for children on his ranch. The government paid the foster home 115k a year.
They pulled funding for the foster home as an act of revenge once they found out he was involved in the Bunker hill standoff.
He took over the refuge with others as an act of protest in regards to the abuse of the ranchers and the pulling of the funding for the foster home.
Then they shot and killed him.
Does this make you happy? That is the "right wing terrorists" you want the government to come down on with full force. |
Yeah and the fact that Finicum basically abandoned those foster kids to join the occupy effort had nothing to do with it.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/get-the-government-s-hands-off-my-foster-kid-subsidies
Quote: | Two points got my attention about this story.
First, having one parent away from the home for a significant period of time committing a number of high profile federal crimes would seem like at least a plausible reason to remove the children. This doesn't seem to occur to Finicum.
The second point comes further down in the article. From a mix of tabulations by Oregon Public Broadcasting and Finicum's own account, Finicum and his wife apparently get almost all or all of their income from being foster parents. His ranch in Chino Valley, Arizona is break even at best and appears to generate no income. |
Quote: | Regardless, Finicum's claim that this is another example of the government persecution of him - removing foster children, who come with state subsidies which are his only source of income, because he has abandoned them to go commit crimes against the federal government in another state - just illustrates painfully and comically what a nonsense bubble these jokers live in. |
WANative wrote: | Then they shot and killed him. |
I've watched the video of his attempted arrest and shooting -- taken in context of the his statements in the days leading up to that event -- I classify the event as "suicide by cop" -- Tragic, sad and regrettable certainly -- but hardly a case of police brutality.
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Randito Snarky Member
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Mon Jan 08, 2018 2:25 pm
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It's good that any case with prosecutorial misconduct gets tossed out. Sad that the prosecutor in this case didn't do a proper job and have justice served.
I hope that whatever chapter comes next in this sad little drama doesn't result in further violence.
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trestle Member
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Mon Jan 08, 2018 3:24 pm
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As a taxpayer, it would be nice to get some clarification (without the glare and fanfare of the msm) on their grazing rights and what they're actually paying us for the right to graze their cattle on public land.
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