Tony Bennett Calls For Drug Legalization in Wake of Whitney Houston’s Death
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Legendary singer Tony Bennett called for the U.S. government to legalize drugs during a tribute to Whitney Houston in the hours after her death.
“First it was Michael Jackson, then it was Amy Winehouse and now the magnificent Whitney Houston,” Bennett said. “I’d like to have every gentleman and lady in this room commit themselves to get our government to legalize drugs, so you can it from a doctor, not just some gangsters that just sell it under the table.”
Bennett’s remarks took place at what had originally been planned as an annual pre-Grammy gala hosted by music producer and Houston mentor Clive Davis.
“Let’s legalize drugs like they did in Amsterdam,” Bennett said, according to the Hollywood Reporter. “No one’s hiding or sneaking around corners to get it. They go to a doctor to get it.”
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barber2
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 3:09pmSo ridiculous. And then the doctor is going to come to your home and administer the drug he prescribed ?? The person with a drug problem will monitor and ration their use of the drugs at home ?? Sure. Let’s just get people to avoid taking drugs. All of that “preventative medicine ” that the White House is trying to sell should definitely include this topic. We are in danger of becoming the Opium Den addicts of China with this crazy idea. Just legalizing will not prevent people who have problems with addiction from becoming addicts. That is an entirely different issue.
Report Post »its_time_to_arrest_our_government
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 3:14pmokay tony are you going to be the next to od? we can only hope what a dumb a$$
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 3:15pmJust like Elvis’ doctor. That will really make it legal.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 3:16pmYeah Tony, let them eat cake….laced with whatever floats their boats at that time
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 3:22pmBennett you sack of dung, so you must have thought that it was my job to just stuff the remains of these people in their body bags (as I have had to do way too many times) while in law enforcement rather than work to keep them out of those bags. You shallow minded sack of crap!
Report Post »TheObamanation
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 3:22pmHe’d sell his own family if it would mean collecting more taxes.
Report Post »The_Jerk
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 3:26pmGive me a good argument. Why shouldn’t drugs be legal for adults? The war on drugs, which does not work, is a full employment scheme devised by governments and their enabling lawyers. It costs hundreds of billions of dollars, trillions over the years.
Report Post »You could cut ATF, FBI, local/state police departments, prison/jail administrators, courts/judges/administrators… and focus on the violent criminals in our society.
It‘s a fool’s game, producing the unintended consequences of violence and wasteful spending. You could tax the sales and collect from an underground economy that is today paying nothing, but costing billions.
There’s no return on the dollar as it stands now, and the lives lost prosecuting this thoughtless, wasteful, process are priceless.
godlovinmom
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 3:27pmLegalize it all…viva liberty…ya right….So when everyone can legally use their drugs…can we legally shoot them when they come to our homes to illegally take our stuff to feed their legal drug addiction?
Report Post »Pelling1020
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 3:31pmI think he left his butt in San Francisco, probably his faculty of reason too.
Report Post »The_Jerk
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 3:33pmGodlovinmom, one word. Alcohol.
Report Post »rt elms
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 3:35pmGODLOVINMOM – We can legally do that now where I live.
Report Post »NHwinter
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 3:43pmThat is such a sad comment by Mr. Bennett. Someone dies of maybe drugs and he wants to legalize them! Please stop giving Hollywoood and air or written time. They have all lost their souls and probably their minds.
Report Post »godlovinmom
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 3:47pmSeriously, when is the last time you’ve heard of a drunk stealing to get his alcohol…Drugs are much worse, especially hard drungs like cocaine and meth…they mess you all up and make you do things you would not normally do..I know from experience :(…alcohol is bad enough, but legalizing drugs would make our counrty a whole lot worse.
Report Post »Buster_Highman
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 3:54pmToo bad Tony didn’t kick it instead if Whitney. Moron.
Report Post »Cobra Blue
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 3:58pmI use to think with age came wisdom…Guess I was wrong.
Report Post »The_Jerk
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 4:00pmGodlovinmom, surely you are kidding. Alcoholics shop lift and steal often for their alcohol. Now, there are no gangs beheading people for alcohol… because alcohol is legal. There are no alcohol cartels… because alcohol is legal. There are no alcohol ‘Fast and Furious’ government schemes… because alcohol is legal.
Report Post »You have bought into the full employment scam of government.
Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 4:07pmNext Time i need a Pack of Smokes and am running low on cash,I will just rob a Convenience store?
Report Post »american1st
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 4:09pmHELL NO.. liberty and freedom will never work… we need to continue the prohibition model.., sure the criminals kill each other and many innocent victims, and the criminals, the police, the criminal “justice” complex all profit, and our civil liberty’s get eroded… but its all worth it if we can just keep one idiot from harming themselves, in fact we should ban junk food, alcohol and smoking and monitor the internet to prevent controversial or anti government ideas from being spread.. after all that’s what being conservative stands for… defending big governments authority over the people…
the cognitive dissidence on display by “conservatives” is truly depressing to see,.. and it makes me loose hope for the ideals of liberty …..America is gone… RIP representative republic… welcome to the progressive federal state of Amerika…
Report Post »Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 4:19pmDang American1st! Can I vote for you?
Report Post »Jimbo65
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 4:33pmTony!! What a wonderful idea. Even better if the drugs are covered under Obamacare ( along with all the health problems drugs cause, of course).
Report Post »TEXASGRANNY73
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 4:37pm@Godlovinmom No, no. We pay for it with Obamacare. It would have to be taxed if legal and walla, all the regulations. San Francisco, home of the Golden gate. And viva Mexico can sell it legally to us. Just say NO becomes Oh Doctor Govt. Yes/No. Wow–Yay! Free drugs free abortions free medicine free food–the right to pursue happiness is the government. Thank you Michelle and Barack and your stash. HA HA HA. I have gone mad Godlovinmom and am getting back in the strait jacket right now.
Report Post »godlovinmom
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 4:38pmNO I’m not kidding…alcohol is bad enough..let’s just legalize heroin, how about LSD?..cocaine?..where would it stop…you tell me?…Liberty is one thing…. do we not as a society have to have some control over drugs…you are right the war on drugs is not working..maybe stiffer penalties?…I do know one thing…ever since we legalized the killing of innocent babies…millions are killed every year…how’d that work out…let’s legalize prostitution…then your state can collect revenue off the backs of young men and women all over our great country…nice!
Report Post »Lotus503
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 4:39pmYeah…Bennett has been a dope fiend when being a dope fiend wasn’t cool.
If he likes Amsterdam so much, he should move there and leave this country to us non-druggies.
Report Post »godlovinmom
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 4:41pmGranny…I’m not sure if your with me or against me…maybe you should get back in that jacket…I’ll be joining you shortly!
Report Post »Phyliss
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 4:42pmI wonder if opium would be better than my Fentanyl patch for my back pain?
Report Post »spotcoon
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 4:44pmCome‘ e’ Italiano:
Tony è molto pazzesco.
Report Post »Ha bisogno dei medici pazzeschi della gente.
Zorro6821
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 4:54pmFor all the deep thinkers on the blaze…Ms Houston died from LEGAL DRUGS.
Report Post »momrules
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 4:58pmGODLOVINMOM……….With you all the way here. I think Texasgranny is too. Sometimes you just have to scream at the craziness of it all.
Report Post »DTOM_Jericho (Creator vindicator)
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 5:01pm@godlovinmom
Let me explain it to you like this. This is beyond the reach of the federal government and we are wasting billions upon billions of dollars in a “war” on drugs. I’m sure you do not know the origin of the eugenics movement but it was drug and alcohol abuse. That is what happens when “the church” is used to start a program and the gov gets involved. It’s called progressivism and it is unconstitutional. You would think with your name you would understand something about contracts/covenants. YOUR concept breaks the law, period. It is the beginning of socialism and history proves this. Go back to sleep, sheep and let big daddy gov take care of you. You sickening, pathetic progressive.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Report Post »colt1860
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 5:06pmLet the Church, family, friends, neighbors and communities handle our drug problems, keep the Feds out of it. They should send their resources unto our borders, not our homes.
Here‘s a pastor who had courage to confront the drug issue like we’re supposed to:
The Cause Within You (click on “Week 3”):
Report Post »http://newspring.cc/series/newspring-welcomes/
booger71
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 5:10pmLike prohibition, recreational drug use is a war that is impossible to win..The only winners are prison builders, lawyers and sellers pushing costs incredibly high. There are 10′s of millions of recreational drug users that use them in moderation. There will always be some people that can’t handle drugs, alcohol, eating, gambling, etc. That is the cost of freedom.
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 5:10pmWhat most people do not know is that MORE people die from prescription drugs than illegal drugs. There is no drug that does not change your body chemistry, some for good and some for bad,,,,. Some would be well served for pain control with non perscription use of morpine or cocaine. The FDA has such control that life saving drugs dont get to market for YEARS if not decades! Why do we need the FDA? Its all a part of the war on drugs command and control…
I think it should be wide open. 11% drug use will happen with or without legalization of illegal drugs now. Many people justify thier drug usage because it has a prescription attached to it…HOGWASH! . Let the users use and buy openly, no prescription no regulations. The drug usage will stay the same. Let the drug addled die off if they abuse them to thin the herd…
Many people die in the war on drugs…see Mexico. We have spent trillions of dollars trying to control them. Why? People will do what they want to do. Illegal or legal. If we catch them, we then have to house them in prison and feed thier sorry asses…Let them abuse thier drugs, lose thier jobs and die off.
Does Government control of anything ever work???
Report Post »booger71
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 5:13pmgodlovinmom
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 3:27pm
Legalize it all…viva liberty…ya right….So when everyone can legally use their drugs…can we legally shoot them when they come to our homes to illegally take our stuff to feed their legal drug addiction?
Report Post »===============================
Legal drugs would be safe and cheap if the government did not tax them to death, so no one would need to break in your house, if they could grow their own pot, or buy a bottle of Oxycontin for 2 or 3 dollars.
2theADDLED
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 5:18pmPeople abuse legal drugs now along with cleaning agents and other household products so I don’t see the point.
Report Post »American Soldier (Separated)
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 5:22pmWhat business is if of your if someone wants to be a drug addict? Feel free to ruin your life, it only makes room available for me to succeed even further.
Report Post »IronSights
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 5:22pmI’m not sure how legalizing drugs would have made Whitney any less dead. If anything, probably would have happened sooner rather than later. Maybe Tony needs to lay off of whatever he’s snorting, smoking, injecting.
The business of Illegal drugs line the pocket of criminals, the business of legal drugs would just line the pockets of the government. Not to mention the fact that Borack would just want us tax payers to subsidize it for the loads on society. Probably mandate vendor carts be present at all OWS gatherings, earnings of course taxed at 65%.
Report Post »American Soldier (Separated)
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 5:25pm@GODLOVINMOM
Yes, actually, you can shoot to kill if they break into your home to rob you. That’s exact what needs to happen. The act of using drugs should not be criminal. If you become a criminal in order to feed your drug habit, then you go to jail or take a bullet in the chest from the angry homeowner you just tried to rob. What is so wrong with this method, exactly?
There are many people addicted to alcohol. If a drunk breaks into my home to buy more liquor, I will shoot them down. What’s the difference?
Report Post »godlovinmom
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 5:30pmOkay..I will ask again…where would this legaliztion stop at…pot is a recreational drug…just like alcohol…I’m okay with that…but seriously do you not think by legalizing cocaine…heroin…meth…that this would not cause deeper problems then we have now….how about prostitution???…we’ve got enough problems in our society sexuallizing kids…lets just legalize prostitution…give our kids more carreer choices??…I guess I look at this thru a mother’s eyes…I think it would do more harm than good!
Report Post »Fried Okra
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 5:33pmUhhh Tony… Michael Jackson did have a Doctor giving him drugs. It didn’t turn out well for MJ
Report Post »WAKEUPUSA2012
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 5:47pmIm not for drug use. But the current system we have is not working. We have the biggest prison population in the world. We have a uneven amount of minorties in prison. The government along with the nig banks are the drug dealers. In two year wells fargo/wachovia made 257$ BILLION off drug money. Im not lying folks. Our government our justice dept, atf, cia all deal drugs. It has been proven time and time again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUATfLDiwVA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKDPsdGtYLM
there is much more out there
Report Post »drphil69
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 5:50pmOf course the funny thing is, MJ was being administered by a doctor! DUH! Tony killed a few too many brain cells!
Report Post »copatriots
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 5:57pmUm, I‘m late to this thread and someone probably has already mentioned this but didn’t MJ get his drugs from a doctor, not a gansta? People with an agenda really are shameless.
Report Post »colt1860
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 6:00pm@WAKEUPUSA2012 No kidding. Many banks in Mexico are in bed with the drug cartels. It’s the Prohibition era all over again, BUT ONE THOUSAND TIMES WORSE. It’s been going on for too, too long. The folks back then at least had the common sense to end something that did not work, failed, and made things worse.
Report Post »Shadowsbane
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 6:09pmAs far as the prostitution point: If you can give it away for free, why not be able to charge?
As far as drugs are concerned they can’t keep them out of prisons let alone anywhere else. The laws for drugs work just like the laws for guns. Only stop people who were not really going to be doing anything wrong anyway.
Report Post »American Soldier (Separated)
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 6:10pm@GODLOVINMOM
Legalize prostitution. Who are you or the government to tell two consenting adults they can’t have sex in exchange for money? If I have a talent or skill, who‘s the government to tell he that I can’t utilize those skills to earn myself an income? As long as those talents and skills don’t involve hurting anyone else, why not?
You cannot regulate morality. Especially if you sit there and say you believe in liberty. Liberty and freedom not only allows individuals to succeed into greatness but also allows you to fail miserably. What’s the difference between someone that wants to cap success (through taxation, regulations, redistribution of wealth, etc) in order to cap failure (welfare, war on drugs, etc) ?
Report Post »Faith1029
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 6:17pmWhat a wonderful idea. Then everyone can get high, including your kids and no one will care what is happening to this country. Such a wise man.
Report Post »pavepaws
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 6:18pmWhat does he smoke?
Report Post »pavepaws
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 6:19pmDidn’t Michael Jackson get his drugs from a doctor?
Report Post »SpeckChaser
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 6:22pmDo I understand this right? Since people will do it anyway just legalize/tax it to save tax payer money from fighting it.
I say we legalize rape, murder, robbery, and kidnapping. If you find yourself about to be a recipient of the aforementioned ex-felonies, just handle it yourself. Legalizing meth won’t result in people robbing you because it will be cheap enough for the unemployed legal drug addict to afford witout stealing from their neighbors. It’s not like meth makes you uncontrollable or illogical. You could “abuse” meth and still have your whereabouts to know that you don’t need to rob or kill someone for no reason at all.
Also, it‘s not like PCP or meth give you super strength to where if you did get confused and acidentally kicked someone’s door down one single homeowner would not have the strength to subdue and convince the recreational PCP user to leave.
Sounds logical to me!
Report Post »guns-an-bibles
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 6:23pmWhat is this guy thinkin? He’s apparently he is on something himself and he wants to make it easier to get it.
Report Post »WeDontNeedNoSteenkinBadges10
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 6:36pm“I’d like to have every gentleman and lady in this room commit themselves to get our government to legalize drugs”
LEGALIZE drugs? They’re “illegal”? I seem to have missed the little detail in the U.S. Constitution. Is THAT the function of small government for a free people … to conduct a WAR ON DRUGS? … against it’s own people?
WAKE UP PEOPLE !! The “war on drugs” is just a “false flag”, an excuse, to ramp up “law enforcement” (you know, the “standing army” The Founders of America warned us about) to finally seal tyranny’s totalitarian takeover of our country.
HOW YOU ALREADY FORGOTTEN that NYC mayor Bloomberg called the NYPD “his own army”?
DO YOU EVEN KNOW that “the NYPD, as the country’s largest local police agency– sometimes called the “seventh largest army” in the world at about 35,000 uniformed officers” (from “Report: Police Want to Use These X-Ray Scanners on New York City Streets” -TheBlaze report)?
It’s past time to DISBAND these jailers of “prison America” !!
Report Post »Patrick Henry II
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 6:48pmBennette, bad argument. I believe all three died of legal drugs prescribed by Dr.’s. Duh. So this is what we can expect? If your are to argue legallizing it dude; at least use an argument that is rational.
Report Post »colt1860
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 6:51pm@SpeckChaser Those are offenses made against humanity. They don’t compare. Putting these folks doing drugs in jail for years won’t help them get a job or improve their condition. The war on drugs has failed. Look at our borders, and look at our schools. The prohibition era was stopped for a reason. The Government has stepped in because we Christians have failed to uphold God’s commands. The church has abandoned its duties. Forgiveness, love, charity, and restoration is what these folks need.
This pastor here knows the answer, he had courage to confront the drug issue like we’re supposed to:
The Cause Within You (click on “Week 3”):
http://newspring.cc/series/newspring-welcomes/
The Government has failed, the people have failed, and the church has failed.
On that point, I strongly encourage folks to watch this video too:
The Revival Hymn
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec5dJHtMTSg
american1st
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 6:59pm@SpeckChaser the harm you do to your self = your problem… crimes that hurt others = illegal…
as soon as somebody crosses over from one to the other it becomes the police, the legal systems and when necessary the citizens (self defense) problem.. there is no limitation or deterrent on drugs in this country.. anywhere, anytime, anybody can get any drug they want.. RIGHT NOW.. and they cost so much (the law of supply and demand makes it so) that crime is increased.. remember the prohibition on alcohol?? enforcement of the law under legalized drugs is no harder and than it is now… plus it is in keeping with the principals of liberty..
Report Post »What_Did_I_Miss
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 7:02pm@THE_JERK
I agree. The drug laws are like 1919 Prohibition. They do not work. They simply give rise to a black market that causes huge inflated streams of money to flow into criminal organizations. We spend massive amounts of money fighting that and we do not know where that all money goes either. Attempting to protect people from their bad choices (or the consequences) masks the dangers of bad choices. Maybe if people witness others suffering from bad choices will educate others to do better for themselves.
We should at least try it and see how it works. We certainly cannot claim to have it under control now. You cannot protect the herd by protecting the weak in the herd. A bit of Darwinian action might just be what humanity needs right now. The herd may ultimately become stronger.
Whitney Houston in spite of talent, fame, beauty and fortune chose to associate with substandard people and engage in substandard behaviors. She squandered a treasure of a life. Maybe her fame and wealth made her feel immune to this tragic end. Hopefully, her story will lead some people to re-evaluate their path in life.
Report Post »American Soldier (Separated)
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 7:03pm@SPECKCHASER
Rape: Sex against SOMEONE ELSE’S consent = Illegal
Murder: Taking away SOMEONE ELSE’S life = illegal
Robbery: Taking away SOMEONE ELSE’S property = illegal
Kidnapping: Taking away SOMEONE ELSE against their will = illegal
Smoking Weed: Someone smoking a plant into their OWN BODY = ……
Snorting Coke: Someone inhaling a substance in their OWN BODY = …….
Shooting up Heroin: Someone injecting a substance in their OWN BODY = ………
See the difference now?
As for the rest of your post, get a GUN. It’s a great EQUALIZER!
Report Post »Sirfoldallot
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 7:03pmNotice the pot heads want Ron Paul 2, WTH is wrong with ppl ? Just say No 2 drugs
Report Post »jhaydeng
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 7:39pmHe is officially nuts!
Report Post »Cheekymnky2
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 7:55pmSo Michael dies from a non-narcotic FDA approved medication administered by a personal physician who knowingly used the drug off label. Amy died from alcohol, can‘t recall if she was detoxing or just OD’d, but never the less, still a legal “drug” in Britain. Now Whitney dies from ativan, xanax and valium, all FDA approved drugs, which were prescribed to her by a physician as well.
So Tony, how is your solution going to solve the problem. Ever thought that maybe Amsterdam under reports their death from illegal drugs since everything is legal and if a MD prescribes it, the statisticians get to classify it differently.
Go get lost in San Francisco.
Report Post »FreedomPurveyor
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 7:59pmFacts we should all be able to agree on:
- Banning drugs does not actually stop people from using them
- The government spends hundreds of billions of dollars trying to enforce the ban, while hundreds of billions of dollars are lost to drug cartels and terrorists who are the sole suppliers
- The only source for a drug addict to feed his habit is someone who has a vested interest in keeping him hooked on the drug
I guarantee the last thing a drug cartel wishes for is for drugs to be legalized in America
Report Post »SpeckChaser
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 8:38pm@ COLT/AMERICAN1ST/AMERICAN SOLDIER
Y’all mistook my seriousness for sarcasm. I agree 100%. There’s no evidence that drug users get high and harm civilians. Even if there were it’d be the exception not the rule. I might disagree if other countries would have decriminalized drugs and societal decay followed, but that is not the case. Decimalization historically produces flourishing societies with no evidence suggesting societal decay or mob encroachment.
This country has an outstanding CPS system. So giving the small chance that free willed adults subjected themselves to the negatives that come with drug use, it’s not like children would be affected. Some drunks already beat their families, it be no different. In the super rare case that child abuse resulted at the hands of unemployed legal drug addicted parents, the kids could live with family member, and if no family available, there is always the outstanding CPS system or adoption. As y’all know, there are no tax payer costs in either of these highly effective and efficient systems.
No evidence shows meth or PCP users become incontrollable, illogical, or super strong while high. It’s not like one man couldn’t control an addict high on PCP. Even if that were the case, which it is not, get a .45 or 10mm with several mags to stop someone in the non-existent chance they do you harm. On second thought, one round of 9mm has proven effective on out of control PCP users so dismiss the previous sentence.
Report Post »hypnos
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 8:49pmAs if doctors don’t get sued enough. Now we are going to have feel good drug by prescription. Maybe he needs to get evaluated by a doctor. How about the core reason for abusing any substance,lack of self esteem lack of character.
Report Post »hypnos
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 8:59pmThe problem of addiction doesn’t go away with legalization of drug you just serve a different master.some drugs have a narrow window between therapeutic and toxic. Ie cocaine narrow window between high and dead. So once you open this pandora’s box good luck.
Report Post »colt1860
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 9:17pm@hypnos The problem of addiction doesn’t go away with prohibition of drugs, you just serve a different master (drug cartels). So once society had opened this pandora’s box back in the Prohibition Era, they saw the failure, corruption, and opposite effect of their intentions, and thus ended their social progressive initiative.
Report Post »american1st
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 9:27pm@speckchaser i am still having trouble telling the serous from the sarcastic in your reply’s. :)
no doubt the cps system is an expensive wreck..
no doubt an out of control druggie on meth or PCP is more than a handful..
but we already have those problems, ..RIGHT NOW.. cps needing to take drug users kids, and junkies causing trouble….. . the war on drugs hasn‘t ever and won’t suddenly start to solve either of them..
legalizing drugs wont make them more available ..they are already 100% available
legalizing drugs wont make those of us that don’t use, go out and start…
so either we keep doing more of the same at great expense (to our wallets and freedom)… or we let the states (the level of government that it was supposed to be handled at) experiment with alternatives and try to find a way that both works better and kills liberty less…
PS .. i prefer the 45…. proven stopping power :)
Report Post »Chuck Stein
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 9:28pm@ Godlovinmom, Momrules & Texasgranny
Report Post »I agree with you ladies. The solid libertarian agruments concerning freedom of choice do not properly meet drug abuse as drug abuse eliminates that very freedom of choice. One way to combat drug abuse is to stop SUBSIDIZING it — welfare checks should not be cut for people who test positive for illegal drugs. That won’t solve the whole problem by any means, but it would be a partial solution.
brassia
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 9:53pmI think this Genius alcoholic Tony Bennett should stick to his singing ( or pretending that he can still sing) ….Sick and tired of those slimy Hollywood bugs with the bird IQ (sorry, birds) telling us what we should and shouldn’t do! If he was able to use any thinking abilities he would realize that it is impossible to prevent anyone from taking as many pills as they deem necessary to get high as well as mix them with alcohol as they are incapable of clear thinking …apparently just as Tony Bennett….
Report Post »2theADDLED
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 9:59pmSorry but if my job or life depend on someone else I don’t want them hung over or stoned I had that situation happen to me and I paid the price for his actions.
Report Post »brassia
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 10:11pmWhen the Hollywood nitwits are going to realize we are not interested in their opinions and do not regard them as intellectuals with their single digit IQ.
Report Post »If Tony Bennett was able to think he may have questioned how drug addicts can determine how many pills prescribed, legal or illegal he/she should take or flush it down with alcohol…guess thinking is something too much to ask from that crowd….
godlovinmom
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 10:13pmChuck…you got that right…we should test for drug use with welfare recipients…we have to test to get a JOB…buts thats a whole nother agruement, isn’t it…common sense tells me we should not legalize these things…no moral code..no God intrusion on your lives…just common sense!
Report Post »colt1860
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 10:27pm@ChuckSt.. One way to stop drug abuse is to stop thinking the Government will decrease drug abuse, and start getting your churches and communities involved instead.
Report Post »hypnos
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 10:28pm@ colt making every vice legal is not the answer. Cocaine has a very narrow window between being high and behind dead. So lulling Americans into a sense of complacency with legalizing drugs doesn’t make them any less dangerous.
Report Post »booger71
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 10:33pmI say we legalize rape, murder, robbery, and kidnapping.
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Those things have been against the law for thousands of years by nearly every country that ever existed.. Freedom to self medicate, less than 100
booger71
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 10:35pmThe people with the most of the problems with it will always find a way. You have not solved anything.
Report Post »colt1860
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 11:00pm@hypnos I’m not for legalizing all drugs. ( I personally have never smoked or drank) I’m for pointing out the massive failure the federal Government has been. I see this best handled by the States, local communities, and churches. You should see the video link of the sermon I posted above. A pastor handled these drug problems more effectively than any politician ever could.
To save space, see my discussion I had with the user AxelPhantom in the following Blaze article:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/guatemala-president-to-propose-legalizing-drugs-in-central-america/
Check out my comments under the following posts:
AxelPhantom
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 12:23pm
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Therightsofbilly
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 11:49pmHey Speckchaser
+1
Report Post »Oldbutnotsenile
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 12:03amLegalizing drugs is for morons. Every user will find an ache or pain to ask for it and the next thing you know those who can legally grow enough for themselves will get greedy and give it to those who can’t get it from a doctor. It is an endless battle. Drug addicts need to want to quit and making it legal will not make them want it. It has nothing to do with the government. It’s just like over in the middle east they kill each other and nothing we do will ever change that mentality. Let the druggies kill themselves and they will sooner or later.
Report Post »scarebear83
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 12:38amFor starters the cases Mr. Bennett pointed out were basically legal in the first place. Michael Jackson was given drugs by a doctor… last I checked that’s fairly legal. Amy Winehouse? Drinking, she was over the age, perfectly legal. Whitney Houston? Still unclear at the moment. Point is the examples he gave the people were doing such under a somewhat legal way.
Godlovinmom- I’m with you. One good question that one needs to ask though is if we legalize drugs who’s gonna make the product? Meth making is highly dangerous and puts those not only making it but neighbors as well in danger of explosions, fumes, etc. Don’t forget the government will have to step in and regulate, period. They‘ll have to make sure this stuff can’t get into the hands of teens and regulate ways to SAFELY make these drugs. We as a nation will also have to deal with drug use and crimes going up as a result. This is America, I know a lot of people don‘t do things simply because they’re afraid of getting caught. Legalize it and people will do it cause they think it’s ok. I think some people who are for legalizing all drugs needs to sit down and watch Intervention on A&E or go hang out with a meth head for a day then come back and tell me they still think it’s a good idea to subject our society to these types of people. I know you can’t regulate morals but we as a society have rules and standards. Don’t like it? They can move.
Report Post »pamela kay
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 12:58amBARBER2, Amen. His statement was ridiculous. The violence and addiction she experienced had nothing to do with drugs being legal or not. It was MONEY that made her drug usage available. She had more access to it than most people do. Making it legal to buy won’t stop addicts from robbing or killing people to get money for their habit. So what next? The government supplying it to those who can’t afford it so it is free and available to everyone? I would much rather a person had to be fined or jailed for useage instead of never facing the consquences of their actions. The government has issued laws against smoking cigarettes which do not alter your thinking or actions yet people want mind altering drugs legal? How stupid is that? And yes, I know about the health risks of smoking, but at least you don’t resort to dangerous and murderous actions from smoking like you do with drug addiction. Geez, this is a no brainer.
Report Post »lisaitse
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 2:09amDear barber2 I understand your point of view and I agree that our government should not “legalize” drugs, but they should not have gotten into the drug war in the first place. We should just decriminalize drug use and regulate the sale so that it would be standardized in dose. When you ask “where does it end?” I think you are assuming that we can control other peoples behavior. I choose not to use drugs or alcohol, because I make a rational choice (and I am Christian and my body is a temple of The Holy Spirit) not to do drugs or alcohol, because I know I am weak. I also know that until an addict, to anything, realizes they have a problem and chooses to get help, then no amount of intervention makes a, truely lasting difference. Check the Serenity Prayer from the twelve step groups.
Report Post »FormerLib
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 2:32amUm….didn’t a lot of these folks die with LEGAL prescription drugs?
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 2:55amTony Bennett can start huffing and puffing all he drugs he wants. We don’t need progressives like him anymore. We never did need Tony Bennett for anything. All he was good for was promoting gambling in Vegas and looking out for his Mafia friends.
Report Post »godlovinmom
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 3:25amScarebear…exactly…common sense goes a long way…I just don‘t get these people that seem to think we’re missing some of our liberties because drugs, prostitution, porn, etc…are not legal…and I can agree with them to a certain extent…government should not run our social lives or any part of our lives…I get it…but we also have to think of the good of our country…legalizing all this stuff WOULD NOT be good for America.
Report Post »I_Hate_Libs
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 7:25amWell Tony I guess intelligence is not your thing.
Anyone But Obama 2012!
Report Post »zeekeof2
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 9:22amim a libertarian, and i agree with tony
Report Post »turkey13
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 9:42amJust as this law is being passed you need to buy stock in Casket makers, and funeral homes in D.C.-Chicago, Phillie, NYC, LA, Hollywood. Within a month we will loose half of our lawyers, rift raft in Hollywood, politicians, teachers. Why do you think they all squak when a law comes up to have drug testing where there is a union or just in the work place? My sons construction Co. has to do drug testing on all their truck drivers for workers Comp. If they joined the Tempsters they would get a waiver.
Report Post »OHSundevil
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 9:44amYou are all a bunch of drug Nazis. Some of you won’t be happy until the local police station controls all drugs, and you have to go down and buy them from them so they can assure you are taking only what is prescribed to you. A real conservative believes in personal responsibility, not a nanny state. If people want to OD and die, I say fine let them, everyone has the right to be stupid. Some people got nothing better to do than wonder what is in people’s medicine cabinets and wonder who they are with under the sheets. Either we get our own life and live it, or let’s just put everyone in jail now for future things they might say or do to themselves. Thank you moral policeman for commenting on this story, we are so much safer now…
Report Post »Clive
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 10:55amgodlovin mom, listen to the jerk.
Report Post »1. the government has no business telling you what you can put into your body. Besides if i told you heroin was on sale at the walgreens today, would you go shoot up? of course not.
2. the ban on drugs just provides money to fund the gangs. You can either regulate it, employ people, and put money into our system, or you can put that money into the hands of murderers and rapists. You could eliminate a lot of crime, buy taking the money away from thugs. Your idea would just give them more money.
3. the war on drugs is a waste of billions of dollars annually. its also led to an overcrowded prison system (which should be filled with violent offenders, not sick drug addicts).
4. i don’t know what you are talking about, but people steal alcohol all the time. i saw a guy at albertsons arrested for stealing a 1.75ml vodka last week. Alcoholism kills tons of people, even without automobiles. its extremely deadly.
5. of course you can kill someone in your home looking to rob you for “drugs”. how would it be any different than today?
6. all this being said, tony bennett is an old ret@rd.
Clive
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 10:57amlets not forget, if the reports are true, whitney died from her prescription meds (legal) and alcohol (legal).
Report Post »RavenGlenn
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 11:23amI like the argument that people have where they say if drugs were legal that the streets would be filled with chaos!
Have none of you ever read a history book? Do you not remember prohibition? When alcohol was illegal we had brutal gang violence, mobsters running cities, etc. Organized crime ran rampant with tons of corruption flowing. Then they made alcohol legal again. What happened? Umm…pretty much nothing.
Same thing needs to happen with drugs. Give it the same sort of laws that alcohol has(i.e. must be a specific age, cannot use and drive, can not be high in public, etc). And then police it the same way you do alcohol. Now, the drugs become cheaper, safer, and the gang violence plummets because they don’t have drugs to be fighting over, nor to fund their activities.
Report Post »fangbanger
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 12:17pmyep keep the drugs illegal so the super-violent cartels can keep getting rich off of the balck market our prohibition has created. way to go you free market, small governmenters. way to continue the progressive prohibition and keeping government involved in our personal lives.
Report Post »dont stop to think that much of the problems associated with drugs is a result of them being illegal, rather than their actual usage. Sure you can find stories here and there of people letting it get the best of them, like to progressives do to make thier points, but your ignoring the vast majority that do not have those problems.
Truth_inSimpleWords
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 12:37pmPoor Tony. What is he like 95? Is he on drugs too?
Report Post »faithkills
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 12:45pmWhether you believe in drug legalization or not, if you support the war on drugs NOW, you are a progressive. There has been no Amendment passed to make drugs illegal, as would be required, as was required for alcohol. If you support this unconstitutional activity without an Amendment you ARE a progressive. You are quite willing to ignore the Constitution when you find it convenient to do so. Yes that makes you a Progressive.
As a matter of reality, the War on Drugs has failed, at least as disastrously as the War on Drugs. All we do is spend billions, destabilize governments, pay them foreign aid bribes to keep them from legalizing it themselves, and support terrorist and narcoterrorists outfits. End the war on drugs and the Taliban and Al’Qaeda and the Zetas, etc, etc, die on the vine. We’d also hamstring domestic organized crime.
faithkills
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 12:46pmShould have read “As a matter of reality, the War on Drugs has failed, at least as disastrously as the War on Poverty.”
Report Post »KOCHLEFFEL
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 1:56pmAs we say in shtetl : loz im geyn, zeyde is farmisht!
Report Post »godlovinmom
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 2:22pmI’m not sure you are making any points with me (not that you need to) with your alcohol agruement…yes alcohol kills, yes people all over America steal alcohol, yes the government should not rule our lives in any form..
Report Post »You will not convince me that by legalizing drugs, prostitution, porn etc will make our counrty better…there is no way..I just can’t see it.
Some of you say that its your own body to destory…so if you want to do drugs go ahead…kind of makes the abortion issue, which is legal, mute…not only are you harming your own body (abortions are harmful to a woman’s body and mind) you are KILLING someone else’s body…(the baby)…how that working out for you ??? Liberty is wonderful, but at what cost?
AvengerK
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 2:38pmummmm Tony…the crime element never left the drug trade in the Netherlands regardless of legalizing anything. In fact the Dutch regret legalizing drugs, it’s been a resounding failure.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 2:43pmI have a question for any armchair lawyers here….I live in California where the farcical “medical marijuana” law allows anyone to register and buy it after a “doctors” assessment. Essentially you pay the “doctor” for the permit and you can start buying your dope. Not surprisingly, there seems to be a disproportionately high percentage of young people in this state with chronic pain. Here’s my question…if marijauna smell and smoke comes into your home from adjecent homes where it’s being used…do you have a case against the smokers? Now hold on….of course if it was cigarette smoke the liberals would have the ACLU and Gloria Allred already retained..I’m talking about marijuana smoke and smells. Anyone?
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 2:46pmI‘m not sure I understand Bennett’s rationale (ok..stop laughing I’m giving Bennet the benefit of the doubt here). Is he saying…it would have been better for Houston to die in her bathtub from drugs purchased legally? Anyone? Beuller? Perhaps Tony’s wig is a little too tight?
Report Post »jonnyroyal
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 4:42pmDoes Tony actualy believe that legalizing drugs will end people from overdosing?? REALLY!! Having grown up in the “Culture of Drugs” and having watched Family and Friends die way too early from drug over doses I can say without a doubt that they still would have still died from drug over dosing. Leagal or not, when your an addict you don‘t care where the High comes from or if it’s leagal or not, you just want to get high and the more the better and sometimes more turns out to be deadly.
Report Post »godlovinmom
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 4:42pmAvenge…you are correct…do you know how many people a year sue phillip morris over cigarettes…ALOT…just think of the law suits that will occur if drugs are legal..and mentioning california and their laws regarding pot…I know for a fact that my sister has a card and her husband who doesn’t even smoke it..but with his card too, he can grow “extra” for my sister and maybe “sell” a little on the side…nothing but a scam.
Report Post »What about drug testing for a job…if its made legal, I suppose you would not have to test anymore…I don’t know about you, but I wouldn‘t want to be working along side someone who’s stoned out of their mind or who’s been on a cocaine run for a few days…scary stuff!
Teaparty-grammy
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 5:04pmActually I have been saying for years that the only way to “win” the war on drugs is stop making the illegal kind so profitable. Have we learned nothing from probhibition, which gave us a Mafia made rich by selling illegal hooch?
The beginning of wisdom where drugs are concerned is to understand some people will use them no matter what the law says. That does not mean lots of people will START using them, just because they are legal.
Report Post »If drugs were legalized, many positive benefits would happen:
1. They coudl be legally produced in safe, consistent doses in legal laboratories, not back alleys.
2. They would be dispensed by prescription
3. All the violent crime connected with illegal drugs (dealer turf wars, addicts robbing to get money to buy drugs at street prices, etc — about 75% of all violent crime — would disappear.
4. Many jobs would be created manufacturing drugs, distributing to drug stores, etc.
5. Billions that are now lost from the “legal” economy would be legalized and taxed
6. Other law enforcement would improve if all the cops weren’t busy fighting drugs
Teaparty-grammy
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 5:09pm@ godlovinmom, who Posted: “Legalize it all…viva liberty…ya right….So when everyone can legally use their drugs…can we legally shoot them when they come to our homes to illegally take our stuff to feed their legal drug addiction?”
Actually, the addict who can obtain a safe, legal supply at a reasonable price is a LOT less likely to be “taking your stuff” than one desperate to buy them on the street and exhorbitant illegal street prices.
And if the police were not so overwhelmed trying to enforce the unenforceable drug laws, they might have more time to enforce OTHER laws, like those against theft, child molesting, murder, etc. etc.
The war on drugs has cost untold BILLIONS of dollars and God knows how many lives–and what has it accomplished? Huge, powerful drug cartels that grow fat on illegal drug profits and run entire countries? (See what is happening on our U.S. border with Mexico and the drug cartels–all that would go away if drugs were legalized, because the obscene profits those lice make would no longer be possible.)
Street drugs are impure and vary in strength–resulting in many overdose deaths which would stop with legal drugs.
Report Post »fangbanger
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 5:12pm@teaparty-grammy
those are all good points, too bad most will be lost on those that want to dictate the behavior of others. guaranteed if the subject were taxation all the people on here saying how govenrmnet should be dictating our behaviors would suddenly do an about face.
Report Post »Teaparty-grammy
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 5:15pm@ godlovinmom, who Posted: “Seriously, when is the last time you’ve heard of a drunk stealing to get his alcohol…Drugs are much worse, especially hard drungs like cocaine and meth…they mess you all up and make you do things you would not normally do..I know from experience :(…alcohol is bad enough, but legalizing drugs would make our counrty a whole lot worse.”
I believe the gentleman was referring to what happened during Prohibition, when alcohol was illegal. I don’t use drugs or drink, either one–and if drugs were legalized, I would not suddenly develop the desire to run out and start mainlining heroin, any more than I feel the desire to suck down a lot of booze just because I could. But it is not for me to tell other adults what they can or cannot do–that is “nanny state” reasoning–and if I should try to do that, it only causes a lot of death and destruction, not to mention costing BILLIONS of dollars. Don’t let your OWN feelings about drugs and booze cloud your ability to reason. The “War on Drugs” has accomplished NOTHING but to put still MORE drugs on the street because doing so is so insanely profitable — because they’re illegal.
Report Post »godlovinmom
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 5:28pmGranny…well I hope you or a loved one will never have to work beside someone who is legally drugged induced.
Report Post »Teaparty-grammy
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 5:43pm@faithkills, who Posted: “Whether you believe in drug legalization or not, if you support the war on drugs NOW, you are a progressive. . . . As a matter of reality, the War on Drugs has failed, at least as disastrously as the War on Drugs. All we do is spend billions, destabilize governments, pay them foreign aid bribes to keep them from legalizing it themselves, and support terrorist and narcoterrorists outfits. End the war on drugs and the Taliban and Al’Qaeda and the Zetas, etc, etc, die on the vine. We’d also hamstring domestic organized crime.”
You make an excellent point. The Taliban has financed its activities (including training and sheltering Al Quida operatives to kill Americans) by growing opium poppies and manufacturing heroin–a good deal of which, no doubt, ended up in the good ole U.S. of A. That is a DIRECT result of our “War on Drugs” making it a profitable way for them to finance their terrorism. How is that a good thing? If drugs were legal, they would not have been able to use them to finance terrorism, because they would not be so insanely profitable as they are now. The War on Drugs gave us murderous and violent Columbian and Mexican drug cartels–how is THAT a good thing?
The War on Drugs gave us “no-knock” laws and other violations of civil liberties–how is THAT good?
Report Post »faithkills
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 6:02pm@Teaparty-grammy: Yes, it really saddens and disappoints me how many people wear the Constitution as a shield yet are quite willing to defecate all over it when it suits them. You can‘t say the ’commerce clause‘ lets you tell people not to smoke pot and then say it doesn’t justify an individual mandate.
The liberals are just using the same logic that the ‘conservatives’ used to say ANYTHING that is interstate commerce is the jurisdiction of the Feds. Guess what?
That interpretation means EVERYTHING is the purview of the Feds. And you right wing progressives go right along when your busybody selves think it is wonderful to tax INNOCENT people and let INNOCENT people get killed in the drug war to protect GUILTY people from the consequences of their actions.
Progressives, left and right, reap the whirlwind they sow.
Every innocent child who dies in a drive by shooting, or who is left as ward of the state because their blue collar dad is put in jail for smoking pot, or who dies in a terrorist attack funded by narcodollars is the responsibility of right wing progressives who is willing to let any innocent die or impose any tax to massage their self-righteous egos over how much they want to ‘help’ (force) people ‘do the right thing’.
I suggest the answer for you guys is to do the right thing yourselves, and stop being a damned progressive. We have a Constitution for a reason. It ONLY means something when it PREVENTS the government from doing something we d
Report Post »faithkills
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 6:08pmWe have a Constitution for a reason. It ONLY means something when it PREVENTS the government from doing something we don’t have a high degree of consensus about. When the government does something we all agree about it is hardly a problem.
The framers didn’t make Amending the Constitution hard for no reason. They didn’t just say “Hmm should it be hard or easy? Flip a coin.. ok HARD it is!” They had a reason.
Sans an amendment there is no authority for the criminalizing of drugs.
Report Post »godlovinmom
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 6:15pmOkay I have a question for you people that want to legalize drugs…I’m not talking about pot..I’m talking about cocaine…I’m assuming this is one of the drugs you want legal…lets say someone was doing coke all weekend (legally) and then shows up for work on monday…do you not think this person is still high…because they are…alot different than alcohol, or pot. This crap stays in your system for days…depends how much you do…do you think that is good…and before some of you tell that this happens anyway…well lets say we have an accident at work and the employer wants to find the source of the accident…and it comes out that Joe had cocaine in his body which caused Bobby to loose his arm on the production line…since cocaine is legal…who’s at fault?
Report Post »HKS
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 6:29pmGive the old guy a break, the brain doesn’t work well at his age. He see issues through a straw which leads to this kind of a conclusion. That’s why they need help crossing the street.
Report Post »colt1860
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 6:35pm@godlovinmom Many of your concerns are based on fear, unsound reasoning, and pure assumptions, and not on history or law. Let me explain. Granted, even legalized drugs will cause harm. For example, Michael Jackson and Elvis Presley died from prescription drugs. HOWEVER, nowhere in the WHOLE ORDEAL were there any drug cartels, illegal border crossings, human trafficking, violent murders, gangs, bribes, beatings, rapes, violence or guns involved. That’s the difference. We eliminate the Al Capones, corrupt politicians and street violence by dealing with these drug problems as a social issue, best handled by churches, communities and doctors. We shouldn’t make the situation worse! With the assistance of Peace Officers and the courts (mandatory rehab) we can improve the situation without force or huge amounts of tax money. As with alcohol, of course, whenever anything is abused and used to cause harm to others, or to endanger the public peace, Law Enforcement should detain those who act violent or transgress the rights of others, and bring them to trial. There’s NO COMPARISON between abortion and drug decriminalization. Personal drug use (recreational) only affects one person. Abortion affects two human beings, being an offense against another human. It’s OUR Christian duty, as a people, to love, serve and help our neighbors, in order to improve their behavior or situation. Making pot legal won’t affect ANY jobs. You CAN’T drink or smoke on the job!
Report Post »colt1860
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 6:35pm@faithkills I agree. Right now, California IS LETTING OUT drug offenders because there is no more room for them in prison or jails. They’re letting out non-violent offenders out. They are by DEFACTO decriminalizing them ALREADY! Many federal judges have agreed to this position, for these minor non-violent drug crimes consume too much time and take up too much resources otherwise needed to deal with real federal crimes. They clog up our federal courts and slow down our judicial process.
Report Post »happygranny
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 9:08pmnothing like a senile old fool. He needs to close his mouth and start thinking about what he said. What an idiot. Go to Amsterdam and see the reality of drug usage.
Report Post »scarebear83
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 11:17pmFor those wanting drugs legalized here’s some points to consider. You say you want the government out of telling people what to do right? Ok, can a 13 yr. old go and pick up a pack of smokes? a bottle of liquor? Why? The government has set an age limit. Not only that but in order to make cigarettes or make alcohol you have to go through numerous government regulations, that‘s why moonshinin’ is illegal. You want to legalize meth along with all the other drugs out there? Tell me exactly who is going to make this stuff? Are you going to allow the twacked out neighbor below you in apartment A to keep making it? I’d hope not, or else you may find yourself 6 ft under after the lab blows up. So who steps in? Government!!!! Yay! The same people you’re so desperately trying to “get out of your lives” and let drug users “do what they want” are now regulating the recreational drug market! Yay for more government!!! As far as drug cartels, do you honestly think because drugs are legalized they’re going to pack up and go home and say, “Well I guess we need to get real jobs now.” No. These are evil people and they’ll find something else to get in to, possibly child trafficking. Truth is, there’s always going to be murder and stealing etc. Do we legalize these behaviors simply because “people are going to do it no matter what?”
Report Post »ginger3350
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 9:51amI think he is a disturbed old man. Just recently on Howard Stern he was blaming the U.S. for 9/11. So he’s out there on that one too. He reminds me of the uncomfortable relative that just keeps blabbing and won’t shut up; so you make up any excuse to get away from them. I also heard an interview that said he doesn’t even have a drivers license. Are you kidding me? What a pampered old baby. Yes Tony Bennett, please bless us with more of your riveting and intelligent ideas. You couldn’t even pass a drivers test.
Report Post »DrFrost
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 10:24amTony’s heart is in the right place, he doesn’t want any more senseless deaths. I’ll give him credit for that. I am not convinced, however, that legalizing drugs would lead to that desired outcome.
Report Post »faithkills
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 12:07pm@scarebear83 First off, the Constitutional burden isn’t on us. It’s on you. If you as a right wing progressive support this you have no grounds to reject any Constitutional usurpation that the left progressives wants to impose, like the individual mandate. There is no Constitutional authority for this. That is why they had to pass an amendment to outlaw booze. And ANOTHER to undo it.
But your question re minors is silly. Should 13yo’s get cocaine? Of course not. Should they vote? Should they be able to sign binding contracts? Should they be able to enlist? Should they be able to get abortions without parental consent? These problems are already solved. You should have better objections than this to support this unconstitutional war on drugs.
The ago of minority isn’t relevant to this issue UNLESS you want the government to continue to treat you as a child for the rest of your life as it does now. There is very little you can do now without asking for PERMISSION.
For the record my drugs of choice are booze and coffee. I don’t like pot, or smoking whatsoever. I prefer not to be around it. But that is MY choice.
Report Post »jungle J
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 3:09pmtony bennet would make a great spokesman for the portable john company…what a dufess…
Report Post »kayakergirl
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 3:08pmso people without access to doctors can die this way too! easier
Report Post »oneshiner
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 3:27pmWhen I read this, I was trying to remember the last time Tony Bennett stepped into the poo. Can’t remember the incident, but remember it was about this stupid.
Report Post »JayCee
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 4:11pmSep 19, 2011
Tony Bennett on 9/11 Attacks: ‘They Flew the Plane in, But We Caused It’
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 2:47pmBennett would make it like Obama’s contraception..“free”.
Report Post »cookcountypatriot
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 3:08pmwhat an old,old,old stupid a-hole this guy is….only a creepy,disgusting progressive would call for drugs to be legal…instead of attacking the problem,progressives keep making the problem worse…typical
Report Post »colt1860
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 5:01pmI think you mean liberals. Progressives want more Government.
Report Post »LibertarianRight
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 6:29pmIt’s doublethink, Colt. Progressives are the people who disagree with “conservative” Mitt Romney – and he is a progressive too. Even said he was. Everyone’s a progressive now, aren’t you aware of that? And “conservatives” hate progressives like Obama, but will vote for “Mr. Progressive” Romney to get him out. Principles don’t matter – only party does. The Party. As in “1984”.
Orwell was wrong. A single Party won’t work. But TWO, with imagined differences between them? Clearly, that is the surest way to institute tyranny.
Report Post »fangbanger
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 1:09pmprogressive are the ones that started drug prohibition it the first place. in case you havent noticed, prohibition has just caused more problems and not reduced usage. Its the progressive way to use government to dictate behavior, way to keep it up!
Report Post »west1890
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 3:07pmCan we make Bennett the poster child for why no one should pay any attention to the words of wisdom spewed by celebrities? Seems like 99% of them are dysfunctional wackos.
Report Post »2conservative
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 3:06pmAnother Hollywood idiot….using her death to push for legal drugs….a pox upon him…just because an entertainer dies of an overdose….what about all the crack babies and meth heads that die every day? Their not ‘entertainers’ so they don’t count????
Report Post »turkey13
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 3:21pmSounds like he is asking for an outright drug war with Mexico!
Report Post »SERUM
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 3:23pmDo they think it would dignify their deaths if it was legalized?
Report Post »Teaparty-grammy
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 5:32pmThey die because drugs are illegal, impure and vary in strength from one “dose” to the next. They die because they don‘t have insurance and can’t get treatment to get off the drugs without it. I hasten to point out, a small tax on legal drugs could be used to fund rehab for those who want to get “clean” of using drugs–something they can’t really do now.
However you feel about the “morality” of drug use, it is NONE Of the government’s business to legislate private morality–and every time they try, they simply make a bigger mess than there was in the first place with the problem they were trying to “solve”.
Illegal drugs are INSANELY profitable. As long as that is true, you will have huge drug cartels and others looking to cash in on that trend. Legalizing drugs would remove the profit motive, and you would not have ten drug dealers springing up to take the place of every one arrested like you have now. Is drug use less prevalent because of the war on drugs? NO! Are there less dangerous drugs on the street because of the War on Drugs? NO! Are less addicts dying of overdoses because of the war on drugs? NO! What, then, have we accomplished with the BILLIONS of dollars we have spent on this futile “War on Drugs”? Who has benefited from it, except the growing govt. agencies who administer it, etc.? All we receive from it is further erosion of our civil liberties. I can’t even buy legal ALLERGY medicine any more, thanks to the “War on Drugs”!
Report Post »TRONINTHEMORNING
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 3:06pmTwo things Tony: 1. You, at such a ripe age; should be brighter and more educated that what your words tell the world.
2. If Sinatra were alive, he’d knock your rug off for your crazy drug rant.
I think Tony left his brain in San Francisco.
Report Post »Jenny Lind
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 4:04pmHis premise is based on a lie-Amsterdam is talking about making a huge mistake, and trying to fix it. They are loosing some of their best and brightest, the area set aside is turning into hell, and they are not happy about it. Bennet is full of it, he needs to keep up better.
Report Post »Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 4:09pmAs Sinatra crushed out his legal Camel Cigarette and Snapped back a Shot Of Legal Jack Daniels.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 9:48amHey Tony you old fool, Amy Winehouse died from booze! As far as I know booze IS legal. Your whole argument just went down the toilet like a crack pipe with the cops banging on the door.
Report Post »kayakergirl
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 3:06pmwhat an idiot, this guy needs to try some herbal meds for brainpower. Every one of those three cases involved DOCTOR prescrip, and some with alcohol. Dolt!
Report Post »booger71
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 5:23pmUp until 1914 my grandma could go down to the drug store and buy a bottle of laudanum (alcohol and opium mix) without a prescription. Were the people of her generation smarter. No there were still some addicts, but they were certainly more free
Report Post »hypnos
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 9:12pmSo kayaker girl lets give them more choices to screw their lives up. Listen to the lyrics of Lynyrd Skynyrd that smell. I don’t think it would matter if the drugs came from the cartels or DC same result.
Report Post »loveliberty83
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 3:06pmlike one said you can die from legal drugs it just is too many people are so dumb they think how to take & not take does not affecr them they are invincible
Report Post »TheObamanation
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 3:04pmLMAO !!!!! Ha ha ha ha ha … That’s what he got out of the death of Whitney Houston ? … OMG … This guy is a moron … what’s next ? … tear down all the prisons and there will be no more criminals ?
Report Post »Teaparty-grammy
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 6:05pmI really don’t see how people can profess to be “conservative” and “anti-big-government”, and yet embrace this big-government NIGHTMARE of the War on Drugs. A few highlights: “No-knock” laws where police can kick in your door and invade your home WITH NO WARRANT. There have been more than a few cases of “mistaken identity” where they kicked in the wrong door and KILLED PEOPLE before discovering their “mistake”.
Aniother highlight: restrictions on the sale of PERFECTLY LEGAL allergy medications, because “somebody might use them as ingredients while making meth.” First we had to show ID to buy them. But that wasn’t good enough, so NOW you can’t buy them without a prescription. In the meantime, the “real” meth makers are shipping the ingredients in by the truckload by Mexico, so all they have succeeded in doing is terrorizing and inconveniencing a lot of allergy-sufferers for NOTHING.
As for the things the War on Drugs was SUPPOSED to accomplish–there are more drugs on the street than ever–not less. There are more users, not less. There are more drug-related deaths–not less. And there are thousands of people clogging the prison system who should not be there, because their only “crime” was using drugs. Murders, rapists and child molesters are turned loose every day due to “prison overcrowding”–another benefit of the “War on Drugs”.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 3:03pmI do not care what IDIOTS do… as long as they stay away from me & mine!
Report Post »moonbat666
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 12:42amThat is the entire point. Stay away from me and mine and do what ever the hell you want. This is what small government should mean.
Report Post »SERUM
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 3:03pmHe should’ve walked on stage with a blunt, would’ve made a bigger impact!
Report Post »SERUM
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 3:10pm(sarcasm)
Report Post »Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 4:13pmMaybe appeared with Sniff Doggy Doo and Willie Nelson! AHHAA
Report Post »ShyLow
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 3:03pmI thought a bottle of legalized drugs was found with her
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 3:13pmGee dummy, just what is legal about illegally using such drugs? What kind of sierra hotel india tango have you been smoking?
Report Post »ShyLow
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 3:36pmIf only she had been locked away,unable to make her own choices,she could still be alive
Report Post »Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 4:23pmGlad Rush Limbaugh was caught with his legal prescription drugs.Bet it saved his life!
Report Post »Manchurian.Candidate
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 4:34pmSHYLOW,
Report Post »Exactly what planet are you from?
ShyLow
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 5:26pm@man That is for me to know and you to find out…maybe you should cage me up and do experiments on me…find a cure for my way of thinking…Nothing I haven’t expereinced already…I found-out years ago that freedom of speech and religion do not apply to all
Report Post »Scare_Libs
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 3:02pmMakes total sense. He’s heavily invested in coffins.
Report Post »Lee_in_PA
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 3:02pmTony. take off the rug, your brain is getting too hot.
Report Post »dynaflow
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 3:00pmHe should save some money and buy a brain!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »LLATPOH
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 2:59pmHey, sounds like an awesome idea. Let’s take a substance like crack and legalize it so that everybody can have their heart explode!
Brilliant.
How bout this, Bennett… How about making Houston an example of how NOT to be? Show kids that when you get hooked on crack, meth, etc., that SHE is the end result.
But that’d probably make way too much sense.
Report Post »selfreliant
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 2:59pmWhat?????–I am pretty sure that the drugs involved in most of these deaths were LEGAL drugs prescibed by Doctors with a combination of alcohol, whihc is also legal–so I am not too sure what legalizing heroine or marijuana would have done to prevent these deaths.
Report Post »Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 4:30pmYour Chances of Dying from cancer or being shot by a cop is greater with marijuana than with prescription drugs.Your chance of dying by an Overdose is greater with prescription drugs than Cancer and Shooting both.I Will just stick with Pall Malls and Booze.Both Legal and one causes cancer and I would vomit before overdosing on the other.I Have a weak stomach.
Report Post »I.Gaspar
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 2:58pmMan, I think Tony left his brain in San Francisco.
Report Post »He’s gone senile, but was he also an addict?
lodgerat
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 3:09pmBennett has been a pothead for 50 years. I heard him talk about it on a NYC radio show not long ago
Report Post »ShyLow
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 3:25pmPot sure is dangerous if he has been doing it for 50 years…God made the pot plant…It’s the legallized highly lucrative man-made stuff that seems to be the most dangerous…Have you ever listened to the side-effect warnings of an Abilify commercial…and DRs prescribe that stuff…I personally have had a Hyldol seizure…and that’s after being tackled and forced to take it by injection
Report Post »Manchurian.Candidate
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 4:40pmSHYLOW,
Report Post »Do you mean Haldol? As in Haloperidol?
You were actually tackled and injected with Hadol?
ShyLow
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 5:17pm@man Whatever the “medicine”is called that will make you chew your own tongue…I’ve been forced to take them all…Serequell is the only one I can half-way deal with…and yes I take it daily along with Klonipin…You should try Haldol and get back to me on it
Report Post »Manchurian.Candidate
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 6:01pmWell,….. if that’s true,…….then I take back everything I’ve said so far and I humbly apologize.
Report Post »ShyLow
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 6:59pmI forgive you…The worst part is that once I had the seizure and was given the IV of Benadryl,I was not able to see the Dr. immediately,so the next day I was given the same choice,take it by mouth voluntarily,or be wrestled to the ground and injected with it…and once it is in the needle,the taking it by mouth is no longer an option…This was in Nov.of 1999…I was also shot-up with it or something similar in Dec.2005…You haven’t lived till your body starts making movents that you are not controlling,then a nurse yells for you to stop,and when say you can’t,the nurse says it’s all in your head…the same nurse you depend on to give accurate info to the Dr. that makes the prescription
Report Post »TPartyXpress
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 2:57pmA terminal whacko.
Report Post »alwayshappy
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 2:56pmTony, shame on you for even suggesting this! How many lives have been lost as the result of drug use?
Report Post »loveliberty83
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 3:02pmeven people die from legal ones our stupid fda okays then finds out they can kill
Report Post »Tri-ox
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 2:56pmHilarious!
Report Post »shackero
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 2:56pmWhat a turd!!!!
Report Post »Whitney died from Legal (prescription) drugs!!!!
RJJinGadsden
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 3:07pmIllegal use of prescription drugs.
Report Post »Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 4:17pmAnd Thank Goodness Legal Prescription drugs did not kill Rush Limbaugh !
Report Post »Chet Hempstead
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 4:34pmI’m all for drug legalization because I like taking drugs, but even I have to admit this doesn’t make any sense. Doctors are never going to prescribe drugs that are purely for recreational use and have no medical value, and there are already enough corrupt doctors who will overprescribe legal but controlled drugs to provide an alternative to the black market.
Report Post »Lonescrapper
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 6:43amThank goodness a doctor didn’t prescribe Michael Jackson a fatal dose of legal drugs.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 2:55pmShall we go ahead and legalize the self inflicted poison that likely killed her. We can have televised celebrity funerals at least twice weekly and God only knows how many average victims daily, Go for it Bennett, the new Grim Reaper.
Report Post »Agnes
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 7:06pmI think he is suffering, perhaps, from dimentia and too much booze!
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 2:55pmBrilliant!
Report Post »crackerone
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 3:21pmF ing brilliant!
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