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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPatrick Kennedy: Biggest threat to mental health is marijuana. fuck off, patty.
He's such an unmitigated asshole. This little fuckwad cruised through years in the House fucked up on everything he could lay his hands on, but now he's been saved.
Treatment or Jail: Patrick Kennedy Wages Fierce Anti-Pot
As a hard-partying teenager, Patrick Kennedy met President Reagan at a fundraiser for the JFK Library, a meeting captured in a photograph that the former Rhode Island congressman now hangs in his home office. He used to think of it as a funny episode, a collision of Camelots cocaine kid and Americas foremost opponent of illegal drug use. But Kennedy took his last hit of anything in 2009, and hes since honed an anti-drug message that sounds a bit like Reagan with a Boston brogue.
Kennedy believes there is "an epidemic in this country of epic dimensions when it comes to alcohol and drugs. He'd like to treat it all, but hes convinced that the single biggest threat to Americas mental health is free-market marijuana. So even as Democrats favor the legalization of potby a 34-point margin, according to the latest WSJ/NBC News pollthe scion of Americas most famous Democratic family has broken ranks, criticized the White House, and aligned with the likes of Newt Gingrich to warn voters against trying to tax and regulate todays psychoactive chlorophyll.
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The science tells the story, he says, breaking into an attack on the idea that marijuana is safer than alcohol. He ticks through studies showing that smoked marijuana is associated with or linked to IQ loss, psychosis, and self-reported dissatisfaction with life. It takes you to the same place as cocaine or heroin, he often adds. It just takes longer.
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But instead of handcuffs, Kennedy and Sabet propose a mandatory screening for marijuana addiction, according to the Legal Reform section of their website. That could lead to marijuana education, and ultimately a year in a probation program to prevent further drug use. And if the pot smoker still insists on getting high? Its handcuffs time.
Incarceration is a powerful motivator, says Kennedy, who after a prescription drug-related car crash in 2006 spent a year urinating in front of a probation officer three times a week. He faced a jail term if he relapsed. That does it for a lot of people, he added. Thats the turning point: hearing that judge say treatment or jail.
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http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/legal-pot/treatment-or-jail-patrick-kennedy-wages-fierce-anti-pot-crusade-n22256
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)And the usual litany of misquoted or downright lies regarding "scientific studies".
1000words
(7,051 posts)and a lifestyle to uphold.
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)1000words
(7,051 posts)Maybe he can team up with Dubya and make it a 1% family dynasty super-crusade.
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)...and their enablers.
That's not the Kennedy that helps people with heating oil, is it?
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)HappyMe
(20,277 posts)I have an apartment that includes heat, so I know nothing about this program. On the face of it, it sounds good.
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)HappyMe
(20,277 posts)I just couldn't think of his name.
TBF
(31,999 posts)he's wrong on this issue.
He is wrong about this. I'm just glad it wasn't the guy helping people with heating oil for the winter.
Thanks for the info.
RainDog
(28,784 posts)with this bullshit propaganda.
gollygee
(22,336 posts)Even if he thinks marijuana is a threat, and even if he thinks it's a threat to mental health, there's no way he can really expect us to believe that he thinks it's the BIGGEST THREAT to mental health there is.
B2G
(9,766 posts)Idiot.
TheKentuckian
(25,012 posts)joeybee12
(56,177 posts)about many things.
solarhydrocan
(551 posts)http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/05/us-usa-kennedy-marijuana-idUSBRE9040AF20130105
Convienently, the Feds own a cannabis patent.
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)Somehow ambian addiction is to be blamed on marijuana? Is he demanding that ambian be made illegal? Is he just a fucking tool?
BanzaiBonnie
(3,621 posts)Mr. Kennedy is wrong.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)That Patrick Kennedy? The car crashing, office abusing, coke snorting liar Pat Kennedy?
cali
(114,904 posts)and so much more unsavory stuff, but heck, he's redeemed and he's going to bless us with his insights by trying to shove them down our throats.
fuck him.
Spirochete
(5,264 posts)and we're down to just this fuckstick? All is lost...