Drugs are great.

I love drugs.

(05-01-2018 05:49 PM)maximus Wrote:  

(05-01-2018 03:37 PM)CUSA_NEWS Wrote:  

(05-01-2018 03:07 PM)salukiblue Wrote:  

(05-01-2018 02:25 PM)Tigers2B1 Wrote:  Maybe we should just decriminalize drugs. Clearly this "war on drugs" isn't working. The secondary crimes needed to subsidize habits would probably drop and so would overdoses.

Or, if folks just didn't break the laws on the books...

Ca-raaazy ideas.

If they passed a law saying it was illegal to wear green shirts--no matter how dumb and unfair that sounded--I wouldn't wear a green shirt.

People make this stuff too complicated.

What's your take on the opioid epidemic? Seems they changed to rule book when the users changed. Aren't opioid users breaking the laws that are on the books?

Why then are those users not being held accountable to the full extent of the law?

My old physician when I was in my 20s was the nicest doc in the world.... serving like 50 years for what your talking about

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Alcohol causes more deaths, destroys more families and impairs your judgement far more than opioids. But it’s not the media craze that opioids are so the huge cost to society has been pushed to the back burner by the media. Only 10% of opiod overdose deaths reported by the media are actually from legal RXs and most are from heroin overdoses. Didn’t we throw billions of dollars at stopping heroin coming into our country a couple of decades ago? Yet, prescription drugs are the most regulated or rather over regulated drug/alcohol access there is. In fact, many Veterans who have lost limbs in Iraq, terminal cancer patients have reported have problems getting adequate pain meds due to these new laws. Pharmacists can actually override a Doctors prescription and not fill it. Plenty of info out there is you want to take time and read what’s going on.

Yet, not only is alcohol not regulated, it is promoted to the tune of billions of dollars a year that could be spent on battling alcoholism. This is a crazy world we live in.

I'm in favor of legalizing it all...just don't make me have to pay for any taxpayer-funded rehab stints for the knuckleheaded addicts.

(05-01-2018 04:23 PM)macgar32 Wrote:  

(05-01-2018 04:22 PM)Latilleon Wrote:  

(05-01-2018 03:07 PM)salukiblue Wrote:  

(05-01-2018 02:25 PM)Tigers2B1 Wrote:  Maybe we should just decriminalize drugs. Clearly this "war on drugs" isn't working. The secondary crimes needed to subsidize habits would probably drop and so would overdoses.

Or, if folks just didn't break the laws on the books...

Ca-raaazy ideas.

If they passed a law saying it was illegal to wear green shirts--no matter how dumb and unfair that sounded--I wouldn't wear a green shirt.

People make this stuff too complicated.

And that’s why I couldn’t sit next to you on a bus not too long ago.

And he would have shut up and been cool with it according to his statements.

The who am I to challenge what the "smart people" making the laws say is what leads to many bad laws staying on the books.

Nope Mac. You just keep swinging and missing trying to "get" me.

There's no constitutional right to wear a green shirt.

The St Germaine religion, headquartered here, wears purple because they believe purple resonates with the violet flame--- I forget what the violet flame is/does, but it's a big deal. Many wear it from head to toe...and everyday.

So...If someone started a religion ---called it Kermitinites--- green being the mandatory vibrational color, I'm thinking one could argue religious freedom to wear green or any color.

lol...

(05-01-2018 07:51 PM)Shooters Wrote:  

(05-01-2018 03:07 PM)salukiblue Wrote:  

(05-01-2018 02:25 PM)Tigers2B1 Wrote:  Maybe we should just decriminalize drugs. Clearly this "war on drugs" isn't working. The secondary crimes needed to subsidize habits would probably drop and so would overdoses.

Or, if folks just didn't break the laws on the books...

Ca-raaazy ideas.

If they passed a law saying it was illegal to wear green shirts--no matter how dumb and unfair that sounded--I wouldn't wear a green shirt.

People make this stuff too complicated.

You would do real well in a Nazi regime. Never question anything from authorities.

Hey bro, we have this "thing" called a Constitution...and despite what stuff you might read from the Blaze or Infowars it's a pretty solid document.

Again, wearing a green shirt (obvious to most folks) is hyperbole but also an example of something that is not a protected class.

Here...if this makes you feel better--

It's is per se a violation to drive with a BAC of .08% or higher. One doesn't actually have to be "drunk" or impaired to be in violation.

So that's the rule.

Which, should mean it isn't impermissible to drive with a .03%. However, one can't drive with an open beer, even if that person is at 0.0%.

That's idiotic.

If I want to drive from my friends house 5 miles away and pop a cold one along the way (and am at 0.0%) then why should that be illegal? I'm not anywhere close to 0.8% nor will I be after about the four pulls I'll take in the 10 minute drive.

BUT it is illegal--so you know what? I don't do it. And I won't do it unless the law changes.

(05-01-2018 09:54 PM)salukiblue Wrote:  

(05-01-2018 04:23 PM)macgar32 Wrote:  

(05-01-2018 04:22 PM)Latilleon Wrote:  

(05-01-2018 03:07 PM)salukiblue Wrote:  

(05-01-2018 02:25 PM)Tigers2B1 Wrote:  Maybe we should just decriminalize drugs. Clearly this "war on drugs" isn't working. The secondary crimes needed to subsidize habits would probably drop and so would overdoses.

Or, if folks just didn't break the laws on the books...

Ca-raaazy ideas.

If they passed a law saying it was illegal to wear green shirts--no matter how dumb and unfair that sounded--I wouldn't wear a green shirt.

People make this stuff too complicated.

And that’s why I couldn’t sit next to you on a bus not too long ago.

And he would have shut up and been cool with it according to his statements.

The who am I to challenge what the "smart people" making the laws say is what leads to many bad laws staying on the books.

Nope Mac. You just keep swinging and missing trying to "get" me.

There's no constitutional right to wear a green shirt.

What constitutional rights were there for blacks during slavery? Wasn't the constitution amended to fix this because people challenged the constitution?

Prior to some Supreme Court rulings there were no violations of constitutional rights for segregation...Again you would have happily sat in the front of the bus because 'dems the rules and the 'smart people' say it is ok.

Sometimes laws need to be challenged or stupid laws remain on the books.

You just argue to argue sometimes even when you know you are wrong.

And no one is out to 'get you', you just say stupid stuff sometimes.

(05-02-2018 08:54 AM)macgar32 Wrote:  

(05-01-2018 09:54 PM)salukiblue Wrote:  

(05-01-2018 04:23 PM)macgar32 Wrote:  

(05-01-2018 04:22 PM)Latilleon Wrote:  

(05-01-2018 03:07 PM)salukiblue Wrote:  Or, if folks just didn't break the laws on the books...

Ca-raaazy ideas.

If they passed a law saying it was illegal to wear green shirts--no matter how dumb and unfair that sounded--I wouldn't wear a green shirt.

People make this stuff too complicated.

And that’s why I couldn’t sit next to you on a bus not too long ago.

And he would have shut up and been cool with it according to his statements.

The who am I to challenge what the "smart people" making the laws say is what leads to many bad laws staying on the books.

Nope Mac. You just keep swinging and missing trying to "get" me.

There's no constitutional right to wear a green shirt.

What constitutional rights were there for blacks during slavery? Wasn't the constitution amended to fix this because people challenged the constitution?

Prior to some Supreme Court rulings there were no violations of constitutional rights for segregation...Again you would have happily sat in the front of the bus because 'dems the rules and the 'smart people' say it is ok.

Sometimes laws need to be challenged or stupid laws remain on the books.

You just argue to argue sometimes even when you know you are wrong.

And no one is out to 'get you', you just say stupid stuff sometimes.

Again, if you're too thick (or just want to argue to argue) to get it, the "green shirt" was hyperbole and has no ties to being a protected class.

This thread was in light of Scooter's drug arrest and how some bemoan the "war on drugs" when it seems painfully obvious the best way to avoid being popped for possession of illegal substances is not to possess them.

Same for green shirts or open containers.

(05-01-2018 08:41 PM)GermantownTiger Wrote:  I'm in favor of legalizing it all...just don't make me have to pay for any taxpayer-funded rehab stints for the knuckleheaded addicts.

You're already doing that.

My taxes pay for federally and county funded religious indoctrination rehab, and there is no alternative for those of a different religious persuasion. A 20year old atheist feller challenged the constitutionality of Christian bible study rehab and and lost in court.

It doesn’t much work either. One UPS driver (alcohol) I know is on his third go-round of ‘accepting Jesus Christ as his Saviour’ rehab. lol