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marmar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-23-09 07:58 AM Original message |
Jim Hightower: Marijuana Is Basically Harmless -- The Monumentally Stupid Drug War Is Not |
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ixion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-23-09 08:05 AM Response to Original message |
1. This is the Real Truth |
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dotymed (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-23-09 08:32 AM Response to Reply #1 |
5. If pot were legal, as it should be, |
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slay (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-24-09 12:53 AM Response to Reply #1 |
26. Jim Hightower cuts right to the truth on a regular basis - just like this time |
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tabasco (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-23-09 08:07 AM Response to Original message |
2. More than 100.000 Americans become felons each year |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-23-09 08:08 AM Response to Original message |
3. Hightower is basically correct |
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imdjh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-23-09 08:13 AM Response to Reply #3 |
4. I think there is some disagreement on the "worst side" of pot. |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-23-09 08:39 AM Response to Reply #4 |
6. Mexico is a colonial oligarchy |
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imdjh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-23-09 08:43 AM Response to Reply #6 |
7. Yeah, but it's more than that. Pot really isn't harmless and my age group is finding that out. |
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bob4460 (173 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-23-09 08:50 AM Response to Reply #7 |
8. B.S. It is called old age!! |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-23-09 08:58 AM Response to Reply #7 |
9. I've seen too many high functioning researchers who were daily smokers |
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ixion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-23-09 09:00 AM Response to Reply #7 |
10. you shouldn't blame a drug for your apathy |
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eShirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-23-09 09:24 AM Response to Reply #7 |
12. "It's been cooler than usual this week. WHAT global warming??" |
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Webster Green (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-23-09 09:57 AM Response to Reply #7 |
13. Links? |
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imdjh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-23-09 02:06 PM Response to Reply #13 |
21. 3.8 in what major? |
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winyanstaz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-23-09 02:34 PM Response to Reply #7 |
24. Don't blame that on pot you silly :) |
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change_notfinetuning (750 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-23-09 02:59 PM Response to Reply #7 |
25. As a retired air traffic controller, who smoked pot daily (never high at work) |
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eShirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-23-09 09:18 AM Response to Reply #4 |
11. In the same way there is "some disagreement" on global warming. |
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imdjh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-23-09 02:12 PM Response to Reply #11 |
22. There actually is when you don't spend your life in an echo chamber. |
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reggie the dog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-23-09 10:49 AM Response to Reply #4 |
15. I can get you drugs easy in the USA. |
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montanto (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-23-09 12:38 PM Response to Reply #4 |
19. Yeah, pot caused that. Yep. |
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imdjh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-23-09 02:14 PM Response to Reply #19 |
23. No, culture caused that. |
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L. Coyote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-24-09 12:14 PM Response to Reply #4 |
29. I think there is some disagreement on the "worst side" of The War on Mexico |
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JonQ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-23-09 10:32 AM Response to Original message |
14. Even if it weren't |
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L. Coyote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-23-09 11:27 AM Response to Original message |
16. Criminalizing pot is a massive industry targeting Nixon political enemies. |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-23-09 12:15 PM Response to Reply #16 |
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FlyByNight (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-23-09 01:35 PM Response to Original message |
20. There's a huge prison-industrial complex to maintain |
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TexasObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-24-09 03:00 AM Response to Original message |
27. Recommend |
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midnight (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-24-09 06:56 AM Response to Original message |
28. War is profitable, and money trumps peace..... Time to end this-Now. |
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