I've never smoked it but it's a known fact that pot is less harmful than alcohol. Why pot should be illegal goes beyond me.
Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 4, 2015, at 6:31 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > > War on Addiction? > Pot is going to get legalized little by little and good on it, I can't see > how its any worse than alcohol. Stuff like crack and heroin I've got a > different attitude to but still we need to fight the addiction not the drug. > Kid gets picked up for a little pot, if he's black he goes to jail which > basically ruins any chance he ever had for a normal life... > -Curt > > From: Addison Thompson via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > To: mercedes@okiebenz.com > Sent: Wednesday, March 4, 2015 6:22 PM > Subject: Re: [MBZ] Mercedes Digest, Vol 112, Issue 30 > > Dan, > I totally agree that we need to try another direction than the so-called "war > on drugs." I've been saying for decades that the "war on drugs" has been lost > and has become a huge financial drain on our society. Rather than keeping on > locking people up, inducing them to commit more crimes to fund their habits, > making drug cartels rich, etc., we need to at least investigate some other > possible ways to control drug use. Just as the attempt at alcohol prohibition > didn't stop the use of alcohol but enabled the growth of organized crime > syndicates, the "war on drugs" has enabled the growth of even more powerful > drug cartels. I've never used drugs and haven't even tried a marijuana > cigarette but can see the futility of the path we've been on since LBJ. > Addison > > > On Mar 4, 2015, Dan Penoff wrote: > > From: Dan Penoff <d...@penoff.com> > Subject: Re: [MBZ] Facts > Date: March 4, 2015 2:27:37 PM PST > To: Mercedes List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > > > I'm not endorsing Bill Maher by any means, but he did say something the other > day on his show that I thought was pretty astute: > > http://www.drugpolicy.org/blog/bill-maher-calls-obama-end-drug-war-free-drug-war-prisoners > > We lock up so many people in Federal prisons with mandatory sentences for > stupid things. This has done nothing to stop the flow of drugs or for that > matter, the "drug war". It's a giant resource suck of not only taxpayer's > dollars but of human resources as well. > > Just my $0.02. > > Dan > > >> On Mar 4, 2015, at 4:11 PM, Rich Thomas via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> >> wrote: >> >> Not the guns yet, but the bullets now. The Apostate has a pen and a phone! >> >> --R >> >> >> >>> On 3/4/15 4:03 PM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes wrote: >>> Hey - you forgot our first Kenyan Muslim non-Christian President who Wants >>> to Confiscate Your Guns. You're getting soft! > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those > individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has > no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those > individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has > no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
