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MSNBC Host Ties Founders to Drugs: ‘Isn’t Pot The Way A Lot Of People Pursue Happiness?’

On Wednesday, MSNBC’s Contessa Brewer used her best logic to suggest that the founding fathers would approve of marijuana:

While some suggest Brewer is a liberal, it could be she’s just a libertarian.

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  • Will NV
    Posted on October 27, 2010 at 2:41pm

    These liberals whores are just helping us everytime they open their mouths, that is when they aren’t occupied with BJ Clinton.

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    • OBAMAWORSHIOER
      Posted on October 27, 2010 at 3:17pm

      The true whores are people who can fooled by so called “patriots” like people here.

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  • eteme
    Posted on October 27, 2010 at 2:33pm

    Soro’s hates america…Soros funds Pot pass….Hey lets put two and two together…Do you think it is good for America based on this assumption..

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    • OBAMAWORSHIOER
      Posted on October 27, 2010 at 3:19pm

      Yes Soros is among our biggest funders. There is nothing we are afrid of from people like you and most here at the Blaze. You’ vent and vent but never do anyting but pat each other on the back. Progressives are out making telephone calls, wlakin their precincts, etc. You stay safe here among fellow dummies.

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    • angelcat
      Posted on October 27, 2010 at 3:36pm

      obamaW, evidently you haven‘t heard about the Tea Parties and the exceptional grassroots efforts of people not bribed to do so to get out the vote of those who still love their country and don’t want it to be a morally and financially bankrupt socialist nation. No Soros, SEIU, or other organization has to threaten and bribe us to show up for rallies and work our tails off. We do it because we want what is best for this country and what will work to bring it back to the exceptional country it has always been – not a perfect country, but an exceptional one. Liberals, on the other hand, want to make it so that the U.S. becomes another Mexico where the people of the nation need to flee to another country to have any kind of a life. But of course when the U.S. is another Mexico, everyone will have to find another place to flee – except few other countries will allow the illegal immigration as we do.

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    • OBAMAWORSHIOER
      Posted on October 27, 2010 at 5:44pm

      Angel, I do you give you’ll credit and congratulations for the turnout at 8/28 rally. It really had us concerned enough to call for several rival rallies. The first was poorly planned. You made us look bad but that encouraged to cahnge our strategies.

      But that said, how much REAL political work have you done since 8/28? Have you given the maximum donation to any Tea Party candidate? Have you even given $100? How many telephoone calls have you made? Have you finished walking your precinct? This is what wins elections.

      From my viewing the Blaze and other “patrotic” blogs, very little real hard work has been done since 8/28. Yes a lot of venting and chest pounding on BLOGs. Be sssured that we have had our supporters quietly pounding the pavement and making calls. Most important, after the last FEC report in Sept, we greatly increased our donations as no one will see this until after the lections. It will be too late then.

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    • Max jones
      Posted on October 28, 2010 at 12:09am

      @OBAMAWORIOER….most of the people who want to can Obama don’t even talk to anyone like you for weeks or months at a time. The portion of the population that relies on the federal government for their livelyhood are not likely to hang out where the rest of us do….like at work or church, or even at home with family, except those that have no choice like the disabled or perhaps, young mothers taking care of kids. There’s no big mystery about the welfare class. Most are worthless to society, and are likely to remain that way untill the faucet is turned off. There are always exceptions, and exceptional people always work their way out of a problem…that is what makes them exceptional.
      The progressive/liberal policies concerning the lower class has caused more tragic consequeces for them than would have otherwise been realized. I know it is much too late to fix this screw-up, but I want you to know that the blame falls squarely on the left and the politics of conscription it has used to retain the urban voting block to the democrats. Shame on you for hurting our poorer citizens and assigning them to sub-citizen status. All the sweet talk in the world can’t cover-up your guilt.
      I can’t discern a speck of real compassion for the unfortunate in the liberal agenda, just selfish calculation and ruthless speculation. You are heading toward a showdown with reality, and The progressive lie will be exposed. Somewhere inside you, you know this, and you have probably started the rough draft of your multi-faceted list of excuses and rationalizations..good luck with that!

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  • Principlex
    Posted on October 27, 2010 at 2:32pm

    Whatever they are pursuing, it is not happiness. If you aspire to anything, there are three levels involved in achieving happiness. Some of the actions are pleasurable in themselves and because you used your mind to obtain them, they result in joy – sensation plus mind. To be happy means that you live from an integrated view of your life. You pursue values which work for your life over a lifetime. You don’t do things which may be a sensual pleasure tonight and a hangover tomorrow. Happiness results from taking actions which are part of and produce a depth for your life. There is a serene component to happiness.

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  • angelcat
    Posted on October 27, 2010 at 2:32pm

    It is heart-breaking to think that there are people so morally bankrupt and disconnected to other people that they need drugs to make them happy. That says so much about their selfishness and shallowness.

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  • Susan Harkins
    Posted on October 27, 2010 at 2:19pm

    And if Soros was an anti-drug supporter, this Contessa from MSNBC would be taking the opposite side of the arguement.

    Nothing to see here folks…move along… Its just (M)ister(S)oros’(NBC) spewing and belching again.

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  • Will NV
    Posted on October 27, 2010 at 2:05pm

    Our current Idiot-in-Chief used cocaine too, look how he fried his brain, needs a teleprompter to speak intelligentlly.

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    • dablooz
      Posted on October 27, 2010 at 2:13pm

      And still struggles ……

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    • Principlex
      Posted on October 27, 2010 at 2:35pm

      And cannot be consistent one day to the next. I’ve not seen this bright plus ignorant mind combo in a long time.

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  • EqualJustice
    Posted on October 27, 2010 at 2:04pm

    NOOO, Pot’s the way liberals escape REALITY! haha

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  • tipodell
    Posted on October 27, 2010 at 2:03pm

    With the freedom of speech comes the freedom to speak foolishly, devoid of purple haze.

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  • eteme
    Posted on October 27, 2010 at 2:03pm

    Happiness at the end of a bong..shhsh….isn’t that pleasure more so than happiness. I bet there are many people who are unhappy pleasure addicts…

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  • Autonomous_System
    Posted on October 27, 2010 at 1:58pm

    Our Founding Fathers grew and USED hemp!

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    • WISEPENNY
      Posted on October 27, 2010 at 8:55pm

      Abe Lincoln, for one, liked smoking the stuff. The cotton rope makers got together with congress and had them legislate against the hemp rope makers. Once hemp was illegal, the cotton rope makers enjoyed no competition, again. The only reason pot wasn’t legalized long ago is that there are too many politicians making lots of money in the black market. Same thing with cocaine, opium, and heroin. It‘s why we’re in Afghanistan. It’s to keep the Soviets out of our opium fields. Money is the root of all evil and it‘s the root of what’s wrong with America and the rest of the world, too.

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    • Max jones
      Posted on October 28, 2010 at 12:52am

      Wise penny ,….It’s always the money….and it’s always the power. The way to beat the system is to nurture individual freedom. The more regulation, the safer we feel, but it is a false sense of security.. Where authoritarian government is involved, regulation turns into fascism. The mountain man had the right idea:…get so far away from the authority that its just too expensive for them to care….then love the life you live!
      I live a free life. I don’t have a whole lot of stuff, but I have what I need to do what I do. I owe the bank for a mortgage and a car. They get paid and stay out of my hair. I owe no one else and I’m happy to say I get no assistance from any government agency. I won’t show up on any “who’s who” list, and I won’t show up on any wanted list either. I work a part time job for all it’s worth and play the blues every weekend. I stay out of reach by staying under the radar…just like the mountain man.I have more real freedom than nearly anyone I know. I am very thankful. I give all praise unto the Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ. I also support the NRA.
      I will vote for the people that can help me stay FREE…and that sure is not big government. I will do best in an environment that keeps its nose out of my business and its hand out of my pocket.
      i am blessed and hope you are, too……max

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  • Rogue
    Posted on October 27, 2010 at 1:58pm

    Lean Forward, otherwise you might spill the bong water.

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    • eteme
      Posted on October 27, 2010 at 2:16pm

      I have heard some pretty good ones using “Lean Forward..”, and I must say that one is creative Rogue..

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  • libertyordeath87
    Posted on October 27, 2010 at 1:57pm

    I wonder what she would look like swinging around a pole?

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  • OBAMAWORSHIOER
    Posted on October 27, 2010 at 1:51pm

    The true pursuit of happiness is gaining power over others and making them do your will. Our promotion of drugs is for the purpose of gaining power of them. When they get hooked, they will do ANYTHING we ask of them.

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    • dablooz
      Posted on October 27, 2010 at 1:56pm

      Maybe if you smoke a few joints and pop a couple of pills, you’ll sre-register and spell your name correctly?

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    • OBAMAWORSHIOER
      Posted on October 27, 2010 at 2:13pm

      Dab, you must be new here. As I explained before, I purposely mistyped my name so you could vent at me rather than listening to what I post. It must be nice to be manipukated into my trap you dummy.

       
    • dablooz
      Posted on October 27, 2010 at 2:39pm

      Indeed, I’m fairly new here. I think the only one you’re fooling with your “Jedi Mind Trick” is you.

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    • Thommy
      Posted on October 27, 2010 at 3:01pm

      lol dab

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    • thepatriotdave
      Posted on October 27, 2010 at 3:14pm

      dablooz,

      I see you met our village idiot. We thought we had lost him for good, but he evidently keeps getting kicked out of Moms house, then comes here to look for attention.

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    • OBAMAWORSHIOER
      Posted on October 27, 2010 at 3:17pm

      Dab, do some reserach on misdirection techniques.

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    • dablooz
      Posted on October 27, 2010 at 3:31pm

      Thanks for te advice. To start, I cooked up misdirection in teh dixionary (thanks for at least spelling that one correctly, I never fould have wound it without hour yelp). Lo and behold!, your picture was there. Just a bit further pup the age next to miscreant.

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    • scuba13
      Posted on October 27, 2010 at 3:52pm

      cough,cough ,cough what did she say?

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    • scuba13
      Posted on October 27, 2010 at 3:55pm

      By misdirection techniques, do you mean your passing that joint the wrong way?

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    • NoName22
      Posted on October 27, 2010 at 4:04pm

      Hahahaha Scuba.

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    • OBAMAWORSHIOER
      Posted on October 27, 2010 at 5:38pm

      I tried to help you understand how you folks are being led by the nose but all I get is name calling. It’s your loss.

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  • SND97
    Posted on October 27, 2010 at 1:48pm

    Are any of you like me and really wonder what has happened?

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  • bhelmet
    Posted on October 27, 2010 at 1:47pm

    I don’t care if someone drinks, smokes, snorts, injects – whatever. Just don’t go screw up your life and expect me to pay for you. You have the right, but you ALSO have the responsibility.

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  • Alvin691
    Posted on October 27, 2010 at 1:44pm

    Personal Responsibility, self control. Seriosly, who names their kid Contessa?

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  • Waiting4George
    Posted on October 27, 2010 at 1:42pm

    Who names their kid Contessa? Is she related to Prince?

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  • Have-Gun-Will-Travel
    Posted on October 27, 2010 at 1:42pm

    Contessa Brewer is really a idiot, you wonder why no one watch MSNBC

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    • grandmaof5
      Posted on October 27, 2010 at 2:03pm

      If that is her “best” logic it is obvious she has been smokin’ dope way too long – perhaps in the womb.

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  • reconmarine
    Posted on October 27, 2010 at 1:40pm

    You think our government has become soft on defense now? Wait until they’re all stoned!

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    • eteme
      Posted on October 27, 2010 at 2:31pm

      Hey thats what the bots are for man (kidding..kind of)…

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    • thepatriotdave
      Posted on October 27, 2010 at 3:05pm

      recon,

      This is an issue that has worried me for years. I once lived just outside an Air Force base in NJ. When I was about 20 years old I was invited to a house party just off the base being thrown by some Air Force people. I didn’t know them well, but I did not care because the girl I was wanting to date was going to be there. To this day I remember one of the partiers bragging about some of the drugs he had snorted earlier in the evening and how he had to navigate a flight to Germany in less than 2 hours.

      Since then, I would pray that that one stupid kid was an exception and not the norm. Don’t get me wrong, I love our military, always have and always will, but knowing that this guy was flying a huge plane the size of a C-130 to re-supply our troops serving in Germany really scared me. To this day I question my actions of not calling the base and warning them.

      More to the subject at hand…. I have never cared what people did in their own home to theirselves or with other consenting adults. If they kept it there in private (like the gay issue) then it was their business. However, the moment they step outside into the public domain, all that not-caring is immediately forgotten and you must follow the law.

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  • Dirty Harry
    Posted on October 27, 2010 at 1:40pm

    Dingbat!

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    • Dirty Harry
      Posted on October 27, 2010 at 1:42pm

      I had to watch the video again to see if she was smiling, as though it was only a half-serious question. Nope.

      How anyone take MSNBC serious is beyond me.

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  • untameable-kate
    Posted on October 27, 2010 at 1:40pm

    They would love it if Americans were too stoned to pay attention to what is going on. I personally achieve alot of happiness in my own life without ever partaking of marajuana.

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    • angelia
      Posted on October 27, 2010 at 1:46pm

      Good for you

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    • snowleopard3200
      Posted on October 27, 2010 at 2:51pm

      Same here.

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    • thepatriotdave
      Posted on October 27, 2010 at 3:06pm

      Amen!

      PatriotShops.com

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    • *************************
      Posted on October 27, 2010 at 4:49pm

      DON’T FALL INTO THAT PROGRESSIVE TRAP.
      Government’s mandate is exclusively in the U.S. Constitution. Period. Go beyond THAT, even piecemeal, and you end up where we are now — fighting GOVERNMENT TYRANNY for our very survival!

      “Unfortunately there is one thing standing between me and that property: the rightful owners.” -Hedley Lamarr, Blazing Saddles

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  • FreedomOfSpeech
    Posted on October 27, 2010 at 1:37pm

    I think they should legalize it as long as you do it in your own home. I could care less if some idiot wants to bake himself silly. Makes it easier for all of us to move ahead. Just make sure make passing regular drug and alcohol tests a condition for receiving welfare and food stamps. If you don’t like it, don’t take government money. Want to do drugs? Get off welfare. It could work.

    Obama is now burning books like the Nazis did.

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  • chickenlittle
    Posted on October 27, 2010 at 1:36pm

    Some like to get drunk and then drive home, too… let them pursue their happiness?

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    • thepatriotdave
      Posted on October 27, 2010 at 2:48pm

      Yes, the logic is astounding isn’t it?

      Some people pursue happiness by [insert anything that makes some people happy].
      Her logic would work like this… “Some people pursue happiness by raping young kids, soooo…”
      Should we legalize it? My God this woman is STUPID!

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    • NoName22
      Posted on October 27, 2010 at 4:01pm

      Legalizing marijuana does not mean we can’t breathalyze (breathilyze???) or create some other way of testing people for driving under the influence. Are you really that naive about the issue?

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    • RantNationDotCom
      Posted on October 28, 2010 at 1:16am

      If a stoner puts weed into his or her body they are hurting no one but themselves. That’s a million miles away from some horny guy putting something of his into an unwilling girl. Work on your own logic. I guess the Lefties are correct to ban trans-fats and who knows what else, using your logic.

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  • Awakenow
    Posted on October 27, 2010 at 1:32pm

    Idiot, yes you may persue happiness as long as it does not infringe on others happiness. Go down in your basement and pickle your brain if you wish but do not come out until you are responsible for your actions.

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    • starman70
      Posted on October 27, 2010 at 2:46pm

      Her brain is already pickled!

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    • Polwatcher
      Posted on October 27, 2010 at 4:21pm

      No one has established that she HAS a brain.

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    • RantNationDotCom
      Posted on October 28, 2010 at 1:05am

      I’ll take a highway chock-full of stoned drivers over driving with the drunks at 2AM Sunday morning in any major municipality, every single time. I’m very much a conservative, but to me that means we should try to conserve the freedoms given to us by the Founding Fathers. You can’t truly believe in freedom and be for cannabis prohibition, period. The right loves to complain about the Left‘s nanny state and they’re correct to do so, but the Right has their own version of the nanny/police state too.

      It’s the one issue that makes the Right look just as hypocritical as the Left.

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  • dablooz
    Posted on October 27, 2010 at 1:32pm

    Many do use it to pusue happiness. Unfortunately for us, it’s what this administration and Congress use to pursue policy.

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    • RWWallpaper
      Posted on October 27, 2010 at 1:39pm

      lol!!!

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    • Breaker 19
      Posted on October 27, 2010 at 1:41pm

      Hey Doobie Brother

      Get a job!

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    • tobywil2
      Posted on October 27, 2010 at 1:45pm

      The real problem is the “victimless crime” laws. The 18th amendment (prohibition) did not work. The marijuana laws only insure that the distribution profits from marijuana go to organized crime. Prostitution is supposed to be the world’s oldest profession, so that law must not work either. Elimination of the “victimless crime laws” would allow the police to protect life and property and remove one of the anchors on the economy.
      http://commonsense21c.com/

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    • john seven eighteen
      Posted on October 27, 2010 at 2:01pm

      Main
      Stream
      Nutjob
      Brewer,
      Contessa

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    • flashlight
      Posted on October 27, 2010 at 2:43pm

      Many out here in the west use pot for medicinal use. Or as a substitute for alcohol to relax. It’s a lot less dangerous. Glenn seems to be all better now after a visit to California. Hmmmmm

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    • snowleopard3200
      Posted on October 27, 2010 at 2:52pm

      I have seen too many problems with the usage of pot, and honestly if people use it in the privacy of their homes fine, just leave it behind those doors and out of my space. Two good friends were lost due to a user running a red light.

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    • N37BU6
      Posted on October 27, 2010 at 3:52pm

      I’d love to see them take this stance on “right to life”.

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    • untameable-kate
      Posted on October 27, 2010 at 3:55pm

      Flashlight do you really think pot will be less dangerous than alcohol once the feft gets it legalized? The only reason there aren’t more cases of people beong hurt by marajuana impaired people is that it is illegal. Drunk drivers who get busted might be high too but they don’t the police check for that. Do you want you or your kids (if you have any) on the road with someone who is smoking a big fat doobie? If I am around a person who is drinking I am not forced to drink his drink, but if someone is smoking marajuana you have to leave if you don’t want to get a contact high. What about kids at bus stops or wherever inhaling the smoke of someone standing next to them?

      Untameable-kate  
    • NoName22
      Posted on October 27, 2010 at 3:59pm

      @Snowleopard

      I’ve read lots of your posts…..Let me ask you this. Is marijuana itself bad? Or is it the people who subject themselves to using it, and what they do while stoned bad?

      Do guns kill people? Or do people kill each other using guns? Do knives kill people? Or people using knives kill each other? Do drugs like heroin, morphine, alcohol, this new 4 loko drink, kill people? Or is it the users of these that are irresponsible and kill themselves?

      The founding fathers also believed in this country that you had a right to put anything you wished into your body. If you wanna damn yourself with synthetic, unhealthy substances, you have the freedom to do it. If you wish to put only good things into your body, you have the freedom to do it. If you wanna do a little bad and mostly good, you have the freedom to do it.

      Under Mr. Hussein Obama’s regime, this sounds borderline naive. Then again, the 13 colonies had just fought off one of the mightiest empires in the world at the time. I’d feel pretty good about freedom as well.

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    • Mizurax
      Posted on October 27, 2010 at 6:23pm

      There is so much misinformation about weed, I swear. Legalize it!

      Equating “Driving while stoned” to “Drunk driving” is ridiculous. The two things aren’t even close to comparable.

      I’m a conservative. I agree with just about everything on the Right. Except this. This, the Right has dead wrong. LEGALIZE IT!

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    • proudnot2bliberal
      Posted on October 27, 2010 at 7:37pm

      yes people do use it to pursue happiness and may use it in thier homes BUT when they become dependant upon the drug & cant work, or have medical problems from doing drugs & I have to support thier druggie butts now it infringes on MY RIGHTS!

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    • freedomfighter87
      Posted on October 27, 2010 at 8:07pm

      The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule. –Samuel Adams
      Individual liberty and freedom was the most important aspect of our nation. Our founding fathers knew this. The war on drugs is a war on our freedom of choice. The government should never be able to infringe on that freedom. If you don‘t want to use pot then don’t use it, but to call users criminal or stupid for that is not your place. Do we not own our own bodies anymore are we not free to chose how we want to live our lives. The drug war is a failed socialistic idea, which basically proposes that we are all to stupid to manage our own lives so the government must control us so we don’t ruin our lives. If you still believe pot should be illegal then you must not support freedom

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    • Anarcho Capitalist
      Posted on October 27, 2010 at 8:36pm

      Just when i start liking some of the people on this site the judeo control freak starts showing in them.

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    • ishka4me
      Posted on October 27, 2010 at 10:43pm

      yes, i believe using marijuana is freedom. i do not smoke marijuana, i do not use drugs. i do know the two most dangerous substances are easily obtained, tobacco and alcohol. marijuana is far less dangerous then these two vices. remember the pick my pocket or break my arm thing.

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    • Max jones
      Posted on October 27, 2010 at 11:28pm

      The prohibition of marijuana has totally failed, unless the goal is to incarcerate a ton of non-violents, and funnel billions of dollars to violent criminals. It is stupid, and counter-productive. Cultivation for personel use should be legal. This would free up assets to interdict more hard dope like heroin and cocaine.

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    • Paradigmm
      Posted on October 28, 2010 at 11:57am

      Untamable-Kate, your ignorance on the subject is staggering. Aside from having numerous medicinal properties (which the drug companies don’t want you to know) the hemp plant also has a wide range of utilitarian uses, is highly renewable and cost effective. Then consider that not one person has ever died from an overdose of the drug; you can’t say that about alcohol, tobacco or prescription drug. Then consider that for the most part “pot smokers” are not dangerous. They don’t get high and beat their wives and kids (like alcoholics), they don’t get high and go out and try to rob stores and people (like prescription drugs users have been known to do). I would suggest you do some research of your own before you believe what some corporate/pharmaceutical lackey who has a financial interest in keeping it illegal.
      As for “the contact high”…. please. You cannot, will not, ever get high by sitting next to someone who is smoking it! To believe so, well is just ……….

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