Minor rant.

[scottobear]

No one ever says, "I want to be a junky when I grow up." And no one ever says, "I want to be a communistic politician when I grow up and make laws regulating people's lifestyles." And if you don't think we have those, ask one of your gay friends if he's married. You do know we as the people paid someone to make sure that couldn't happen, right? I think it's money well spent. Just think of all the gay marriage related deaths that have been prevented by those laws. Hell, it was getting as bad as all those marijuana related homicides. I guess I wasn't around during prohibition, but I thought the lesson we learned from that sitcom of a decade was, "Don't make laws nobody wants to follow and you can't enforce anyway." I'm not even really into drugs, but if I ever had the urge to go lick a toad to see colors, that shouldn't really bug anyone. But I think I'm different from the lawmakers in this country. I have thumbs.




In an unrelated story, this baby can dig holes at an incredible rate and is destined to lead us to an underground utopia and a new age of enlightenment. Perhaps that's why he is known to the children as Ultrababy X.

Comments

Drugs

[seamusd.livejournal.com]

In the legalization debate, I always ask the closed-minded, "If drugs were legalized tomorrow, would you run out and score some heroin? No? Neither would I. So what's the peoblem?" I've smoked pot for almost 25 years, and I only broke the law because society says I did. No one ever got hurt but me, and it was a personal choice. The folly is slowly becoming exposed. We waste billions of dollars fighting a lifestyle choice. That money could be better used paying teachers, improving our schools, making better people who would be less likely to experiment and maybe become addicted to drugs. Cigarettes are legal, but their use has been declining for years because they are just bad for you. I guess I'm preaching to the choir, though. I need coffee!

Money and Drugs

[kokopelli.livejournal.com]

Drugs are illegal for the same reason that Al Capone was a success. Money. Importing the drugs makes people money. Selling the drugs makes people money. Arresting the people who buy the drugs makes people money. Convicting them in our courts makes people money. Building new jails for them to be incarcerated in makes people money and provides jobs.

The situation will never change in this country. We have 2 million people in jail in this country, most of them for non-violent drug offences with mandated sentences. The politicians won't even talk about the subject. Goodness, we have a man with an IQ of 95 running for president who is proud of how many people he has executed and imprisoned!

This doesn't happen elsewhere in the world with viable democracies. We already do live in a police state, and it is us middle class white people who are the one's being protected, so don't complain, just vote to change the situation if you still have anything left but cynicism.

Send the child in the right underground direction, because it is starting to smell really bad above ground.