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Ron Paul, Barney Frank team up to legalize marijuana

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Yes libertarians your hero Ron Paul isnt nuts...<smirk> Bipartisanship at its best right lol

Here's one of the strangest pairings of late in Congress: Reps. Ron Paul and Barney Frank are teaming up today on legislation to legalize marijuana.


The legislation by Paul, a libertarian-thinking Texas Republican running for president, and Frank, a liberal Massachusetts Democrat, is being touted by the advocacy group Marijuana Policy Project (MPP).


Ron Paul, Barney Frank team up to legalize marijuana - On Politics: Covering the US Congress, Governors, and the 2010 Election - USATODAY.com
 
It'd certainly be a new form of tax revenue, and might cut the risks involved with spice and incense. Over the last three years Texas has significantly loosened its marijuana laws and I am not aware of any negative consequence to those moves.
 
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Ron Paul is the man. Not a fan of Frank, but I recall his boyfriend getting caught growing marijuana awhile back so this isn't shocking. Sadly, I don't expect it to pass.
 
During the first debate, the one where romney didnt show up...Ron Paul was asked if he would be ok with legalizing Heroin he said sure why not...hes nuts
 
lpast said:
During the first debate, the one where romney didnt show up...Ron Paul was asked if he would be ok with legalizing Heroin he said sure why not...hes nuts
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This is the explanation:

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This is long overdue. Making Marijuana illegal was based on lies and racism going back to the era of William Randolph Hearst who went to war against Hemp because he owned paper mills and timber. He also claimed that Mexicans went on a killing spree while high on pot. It never happened but the facts didn't count.

In 1937 we got the BS for all this time and the wacko movie Reefer Madeness which I was shown in High School in the 60s and thought it was a comedy and didn't know anything about Pot at the time.

I have since learned the facts, and it is why I think that lying about Pot has brought a lot of young people into addictions with really dangerous drugs because people think, they lied about Pot did they lie about Cocaine, and other drugs too.

We have lied about sex too, and I think kids find out about the lies and all hell breaks loose,
 
Also, in reference to drug legalization:
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lpast said:
Ok and I still submit hes nuts...he would be more dangerous as president than anyone else..
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I think that's a bit of an extreme statement. I don't see his attitudes as president leading to America's destruction, though if you could provide some examples....
 
lpast said:
Ok and I still submit hes nuts...he would be more dangerous as president than anyone else..
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Well now, there is the well known Global Warming ongoing and caused by a parasitic infestation of the 3rd planet from the sun. War and death brought to the world at large by a virulent Military offense/defense industry. Nuclear contamination now and into the forseeable future brought to you by the world's greatest engineers (by their own estimation). Economic near catastrophy brought to you by the World's greatest economists. And you think Ron Paul is nuts. Ear bobbin' time in the lpast household.
 
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They dont have to make it legal...they can and should decriminalize it and allow the states to choose whether or not they legalize its use, posession laws, sales, etc.
 
I think Paul is nuts about heroin, but I agree with legalizing pot. Like repealing prohibition, the violence associated with the illegal transport and sale of it would be greatly reduced. Also, like Tessa said, it would be taxed:
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It'd certainly be a new form of tax revenue,
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And we could stop spending money on law enforcement dedicated to policing it.


It's time to undo a law based on one dead robber barron's desire to protect his own interests. It's a shame so many have suffered from it.
 
lpast said:
Ok and I still submit hes nuts...he would be more dangerous as president than anyone else..
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Drugs should not be made illegal by the federal government. States have the right to ban Heroin, but not the federal government. And Paul made a good point: people act like if drugs were legalized tomorrow, everyone would go out and start snorting cocaine. This simply isn't true. Most people don't do drugs because they understand how dangerous drugs are. And how exactly has the War on Drugs helped? It is still unbelievably easy to get drugs, thousands of people still ruin themselves, but instead of it being regulated and tracked, gangsters get rich and buy guns and ammunition to control lower class neighborhoods.
 
America is a free country. So we are told. Banning alcohol, marijuana or stupidity won't make life better.
 
Smoke 'em if ya got 'em boys and girls:smoking:
 
Politics makes strange bedfellows...... Wait! Ron Paul isn't gay. LOL.
 
Marijuana is one of the least harmful recreational drugs in existence. It makes no sense for it to be illegal.
 
I'm liking this, but I doubt it will pass. I think first we should go for a rescheduling of marijuana to schedule 2 or 3. It's just not going to become fully legal and unscheduled overnight.
 
Demon of Light said:
Marijuana is one of the least harmful recreational drugs in existence. It makes no sense for it to be illegal.
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Well, it's screwing up my son's life. So I'm not so sure.
 
American said:
Well, it's screwing up my son's life. So I'm not so sure.
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Is that his fault or the drug's fault? Probably the former. When you abuse marijuana, as in make it a daily habit, it'll affect your life negatively, just like alcohol, however the latter is going to screw it up a lot more.
 

No thanks, but it does show you that working with the "Republocrats" might be a good thing. *cough cough* *wink wink* nudge nudge* *kick shin*
 

I'm all about legalizing 'because I want to get high because I can' pot use, but by default I'm going to oppose whatever action is being taken here due to the people involved; their motives can not be trusted.
 
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