Legalizing cannabis: High time for a sober discussion about marijuana - It is rare we publish an editorial on a hot topic and receive near universal praise. But that is what happened last week when we came out in support of Washington state legalizing cannabis.

galt1776 · 1 year

Originally you claimed that marijuana users "don't need to smoke pot" and that they aren't victims because all they had to do was follow the law.

arealreactionary retorted:

What about men who have violated sodomy laws? I guess you don't view the men punished for the crime of having sex as victims because having gay sex isn't necessary.

If you think they are victims, then you do "buy the argument".

You responded:

Sexuality is always beyond one's control. The decision to (edit: start to) use drugs, however, is not.

Sodomy and the consumption of illegal drugs are both entirely voluntary acts.

Then:

Drug users are not a protected class under American law. Homosexuals are.

Totally irrelevant. We're not talking about protected classes. We're talking about personal choices here.

tl;dr we're right and you're wrong

curious67 · 1 year

No, I mean I don't open the door for the police at all. I'll speak through the door; if they want a face to face they can kick down my door.

meggibritster · 1 year

Why are you raging at me?

hakuna_matata77 · 1 year

Because health care is a huge part of our economy and it's not feasible to have the government just nationalize it.

stumo · 1 year

Should we have equal support for longboards? What about rollerskates? Jetpacks?

why_try · 1 year

I tend to think that close-minded fools are worse.

curious67 · 1 year

That's why I don't open the door for the police.

curious67 · 1 year

because of their gender

wavevector · 1 year

No form of speech should be illegal.

hakuna_matata77 · 1 year

Our system isn't designed that way and it's not really feasible to change it in such a fundamental way.

ponz · 1 year

TIL WSJ is a right-wing rag.

stumo · 1 year

Truth of the matter is it's the city planners faults and both forms of transportation should be supported equally

I disagree. The majority of the population uses cars; the majority of the population does not use bicycles.

stumo · 1 year

NO U

meggibritster · 1 year

I don't think it's wrong to bring children to a rally/walk/whatever. I think it's wrong to make them the medium for your message (such as getting them to hold signs and chant when they don't even understand what is happening fully).

sqlinjector · 1 year

That bitch from the cisco commercials?

hakuna_matata77 · 1 year

Positive rights v negative rights.

You're welcome. Do some research.

hakuna_matata77 · 1 year

Uhuh. Fraud. Healthcare, I'd argue is one of the least fraud driven parts of healthcare, simply because there's very little you can get from it in that way. Either you are ill and you recieve treatment, or you don't. Doctors are there to decide if you are ill, and generally they are pretty good at this job. There is a great deal of waste in the NHS, but I don't believe much of this is due to fraud at all. Tiny amounts I'd reckon.

There is about $60 billion in medicare fraud every year.

hyperbad · 1 year

Lots:

Human rights are not innate. They are created and they can be destroyed if no one defends them.
Taxation is theft. Even if the money is spent in a utilitarian fashion, that would just make the government Robin Hood. Currently the government is more like the mafia than Robin Hood though.
Religious views deserve no automatic respect.

galt1776 · 1 year

Which has nothing to do with what I said.

galt1776 · 1 year

Right. The decision to commit sodomy is entirely in one's control.

You_know_THAT_guy · 1 year

You're right; I didn't consider ignosticism.

Let me try again:

either you believe in some sort of personal god or you don't. The former qualify as theists; the latter can be deists, pantheists, atheists, w/e. If you don't believe in any god, you are an atheist.

spambypsychoass · 1 year

Google Video and Youtube are entirely different services.

nudiraf · 1 year

I never said all of his lines were nonsense. I said that he babbles a lot. Which is totally true. Anyone who consumes the amount and variety of drugs that he does while producing that amount of music will almost certainly produce lots of nonsense.

stonerpet · 1 year

So would it be possible to trade in a lot of $100 fake bills at a casino for chips and then trade them back for real bills?

Yes, this is a common way to launder money.

Or do the bills go to the higher quality machines soon enough that this couldn't happen?

Depends on how large the casino is, how many fakes you try to push, what time it is, etc. Smart people launder a couple thousand dollars at a time. Retards launder tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars at a time. Retards get caught regularly; smart people don't.

spyson · 1 year

Are you dumb enough to think that weed makes people violent?

You_know_THAT_guy

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