I was being facetious with the billion packs thing. My point is that alcohol and cigarettes are both harmful to the individuals using them, and 2nd hand smoke is harmful to those in the vicinity of the user. I am still waiting for someone to tell me the logic behind alcohol and cigarettes being legal and providing a tax revenue source, and marijuana being illegal. It is the old pot calling the kettle black. Either make booze and cigs illegal, or make pot legal, that is all I am saying.

Where did the gubment get the power to ban marijuana? It took a constitutional amendment to ban alcohol.

No shit, it would probably still be cheaper than it is now.

bah ...... i never know when people are kidding or not.

Don't be obtuse, you were attributing at least a paraphrased quote. I cited it in my initial reply.

According to the thread title you are referencing the discussion was about people who paste articles without providing a link. I don't think that necessarily applies to sarcastic one liners.

If they are portrayed as quotations? Really?

It struck me as a sarcastic exaggeration (jail for life). I don't think we need to worry about that. :shrug:

You don't think there are people who see that and think it's at least an accurate paraphrase of something Rush has said?

"Everybody should get high. I let my kids get high" /noa949

it was a sarcastic pseudo quote ..... Lee knows it, he's just being a weenie.

so .............

Less than two weeks ago, Limbaugh weighed in on the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) announcement that there were no "sound scientific studies" supporting the medicinal use of marijuana. His diatribe was characteristically callous and harsh toward sick and dying people who use medical marijuana as Limbaugh blathered "the FDA says there's no -- zilch, zero, nada -- shred of medicinal value to the evil weed marijuana. This is going to be a setback to the long-haired, maggot-infested, dope-smoking crowd."

This distain for medical marijuana patients is not the first time Rush showed a lack of compassion to people who use drugs or suffer from addiction. Limbaugh is the man who scoffed at the idea that African Americans are disproportionately arrested on drug charges, and suggested that the solution was to arrest more white people. Interestingly enough, Mr. Limbaugh sang a different tune when he was the white person who could have easily ended up behind bars if he was not the famous radio personality that he is.

http://www.counterpunch.org/papa05022006.html


"Drug use, some might say, is destroying this country. And we have laws against selling drugs, pushing drugs, using drugs, importing drugs. ... And so if people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up," Limbaugh said on his short-lived television show on Oct. 5, 1995.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,99731,00.html

Was Rush Limbaugh high when he said, "There's nothing good about drug use…It destroys individuals… families… societies, some might say this country. And we have laws against selling drugs, pushing drugs, using drugs, importing drugs…And so if people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up."

Was Rush stoned when he sneered, "When you strip it all away, Jerry Garcia destroyed his life on drugs. And yet he's being honored, like some godlike figure. Our priorities are out of whack, folks." October 5, 1995

http://www.zmag.org/Sustainers/Conte...0/26landau.cfm

Fck the goverment, smoke all the damn weed you want.

I'm with the pro-legalize-and-tax-the-shit-out-of-it group.

If they are on Chiefsplanet getting their history lessons this country is in more trouble than I thought

I don't think we need to regulate our site to cater to people who can't detect sarcastic exaggeration.
Sure, ask for a link if you want, but to argue that this is related to the discussion of people posting entire articles without links is a stretch IMO.

Legalizing it for medical reasons kills the governments propaganda campaign.

If the pro-weed lobby would put up some ads with Jesus smoking weed then it might get legalized.