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lame54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 02:29 PM
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Poll question: Marijuana Vs Republicans
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Kitty Herder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 02:30 PM
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1. You're asking me to choose between the two? Easiest poll ever!
Edited on Mon Feb-23-09 02:30 PM by Kitty Herder
Required like a half a millisecond of thought.
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panader0 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 02:31 PM
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2. Those repub numbers are much too high.
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ZombieHorde Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 02:39 PM
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3. You can meet the person of your dreams and grow old with them, or you can get set on fire. nt
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Captain Hilts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 02:39 PM
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4. Many Republicans support legalization and many Dems oppose it.
It's not a clear-cut partisan issue.
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Traveling_Home Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 02:42 PM
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5. Holder, Emanuel - so sad nt
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Captain Hilts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 02:43 PM
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6. It's actually politically more difficult for Dems to support. It's really up to Rs to do so...
Milton Friedman, William F. Buckley, etc. were strong supporters of legalization.

Take the profit out of trafficking and you take the purpose of the crime out.

Selling to kids would still be illegal.

Driving under the influence would still be illegal.
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Uncle Joe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 03:42 PM
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12. By all measure of logic and common sense, it should be a Democratic issue, if not a bi-partisan one.
Edited on Mon Feb-23-09 03:43 PM by Uncle Joe
Democrats are supposed to be the Party of the people, not the corporation, whether that corporation be Big Pharma, for profit prisons or an intrusive police state profiting from insane polices aimed at the people. If the Republicans use that B.S. canard about Democrats being "soft on crime" Democrats should counter with "they're being strong and smart on the American People's freedom." Democrats should be strong on education and medical reform, I believe these are the keys to managing the issue of drug use/abuse in a sane manner, along with giving relief to people suffering from ongoing pain or chronic illness. The Democratic Party should be strong on green technology and the environment and yet hemp; something George Washington grew, has been demonized as a potential source of fuel, while mountains are literally destroyed to reach the climate destabilizing, dead fuel of coal.

The Republicans are supposed to be against "big government" which is another B.S. canard as this Orwellian Big Brother sellout to corporations profiting from imprisoning the American People, should be anathema to that ludicrous claim. The Republicans are supposed to be for "freedom" in general, of course this is another B.S. canard only invoked when sending our men and women off to die in some foreign land while we imprison more people; 2.3 million; a huge percentage being non-violent offenders, here in the "land of the free and home of the brave" than any other nation on the planet. The Republicans are supposed to be strong against crime and yet this insane policy of waging war against the American Peoples' freedom and privacy has done more to empower and enrich organized crime than anything except outright legalizing organized crime.

Both parties should be strong on national security and yet the War Against Inanimate Objects has only served to destabilize fragile democracies south of our border. Both parties should be strong on fiscal discipline and yet they cut their noses off to spite their faces regarding potential revenue from taxes, not to mention the devastating cost to society from disintegrating families having lost bread winners to prison, drug overdose or addiction in large part because of this dysfunctional, heavy handed, national policy of criminalizing the American People for the vice of seeking artificial, emotional relief from the stress and strain of everyday life.
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Captain Hilts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 03:50 PM
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13. Stop being logical!!!
YES, the Dems should be addressing the affects of the war on drugs on our rights and the swelling prison population.
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Fovea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 02:47 PM
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7. Death... Or Cake?
Cake Please.
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Occam Bandage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 02:49 PM
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8. Hm. Difficult choice.
See, I'd like to pick marijuana, but if it's legal, that'll mean that a lot of marijuana gets ground up and then set on fire. And see, I'd much rather that happen to Republicans than to a poor, innocent little plant...
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BlueJazz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 02:50 PM
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9. I'm gonna' quit taking these polls if you insist on asking Trick Questions...
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flakey_foont Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 02:57 PM
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10. MJ vs Repubs?
let's see one is a noxious weed that clouds your ability to think clearly,, while the other is a plant
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DCKit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 03:14 PM
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11. Mandatory Marijuana for All Republicans. n/t
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Oak2004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 07:03 PM
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15. You don't really want to quadruple their membership, do you?
Quadrupling the membership of the GOP would make me really paranoid.
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lame54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 06:42 PM
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lame54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 10:33 AM
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lame54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 02:47 PM
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