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Pat Robertson... marijuana?
Ha!
But I fully agree with him . I've been saying for years that it's a total waste of resources to prosecute this particular "controlled substance".
It could be socially regulated like alcohol. you can't come back from lunch at work reeking of booze-you can't stroll through the streets/parks with open containers-you can't operate machinery while under the influence. Marijuana could fall under these same rules.
As far as sales...a since able limit could be set to differentiate between person and commercial use. How many users would choose to grow their own? Not many I'm sure, so there would be a large tax base to tap into.
And no I don't see this as a "slippery slope" issue. No more than alcohol.
I don't know what this "marijuana" is, but it sounds immoral.
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Sorry..also it seems there's an update on what his statement actually meant.
Pat Robertson: ‘Criminalizing Marijuana’ Is ‘Ruining Young People’ (Update: Maybe Not?)
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by Frances Martel | 8:29 pm, December 22nd, 2010
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Pat Robertson more commonly garners media attention for blaming various things he doesn’t like on things that have little or nothing to do with them (e.g. the Haitian earthquake on the nation’s supposed pact with Satan, or the September 11th attacks on the ACLU and “the gays”). Yet this week he’s making headlines for comments that sound a lot less Pat Robertson and a lot more Cheech and Chong. Apparently, Pat Robertson supports decriminalizing marijuana.
Opening a segment on faith-based prison rehabilitation on his show The 700 Club this week, Robertson noted that many conservatives look at drug addicts and “think ‘lock ‘em up, throw away the key,’ after which he played a segment highlighting how religious influence could help rehabilitate criminals that regularly end up behind bars. “We’re probably spending more on prisons than on education,” the segment notes, and argues that, given the “50% failure rate” of the prison system (a statistic based on one claiming that 50% of all prisoners end up committing a second crime), it’s time for a change in the way prisoners are handled, this time with less “secular” appeal and with more of a biblical approach.
At the end of the segment, Robertson rails against conservative politicians who he says run on a “tough on crime” philosophy that wins votes but is ultimately “not the answer.” Beyond putting criminals behind bars, he argues, “we’ve got to take a look at what we’re considering crimes”:
“I’m not exactly for the use of drugs, don’t get me wrong, but I just believe that criminalizing marijuana, criminalizing the possession of a few ounces of pot, that kinda thing it’s just, it’s costing us a fortune and it’s ruining young people. Young people go into prisons, they go in as youths and come out as hardened criminals. That’s not a good thing.”
So Pat Robertson is not about to blast some Bob Marley and pass a joint around the 700 Club set anytime soon, but for such a hardened conservative to contemplate the idea that it is the prison system creating criminals over these minor crimes– rather than the criminals, as he argues conservatives sometimes think, being born that way– is perhaps the most shocking (or at least unexpected) comment Pat Robertson could make.
I think this explains why Pat Robertson is so calm when he's spewing hate.
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We just studied MJ in depth in one of my classes. The hallucination effects from smoking powerful stuff sounds awesome...if you get my point...wink wink...
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