I signed up just to make a point to respond to your absurd comment

 "So lets see, making drugs illegal has not done anything to stop the drug problem so the obvious solution is to legalize it and make it readily available to who ever wants it? Hmmm, by this mode of reasoning we should legalize child pornography and rape as well."

 

And you claim Cenk is the absurd one.  To use your words, its sad i have to even prove it further.  But unlike you I will address what you seem to not or possibly not be capable of understanding, drugs hurt YOU, rape and child porn hurt OTHERS.  Drugs do not harm other people unless you count the crime associated in distributing and violence over territory to sell, both of which would be removed by legalization.   Drugs do not harm those around you unlike guns which kill innocent people around you, drugs do not.  http://www.gun-control-netw ork.org/International.gif

 

http://www.cbsnews.com/stor ies/2008/07/01/health/webmd /main4222322.shtml

"Marijuana use was more widely reported worldwide, and the U.S. also had the highest rate of use at 42.4%"

"For example, Americans were four times more likely to report using cocaine in their lifetime than the next closest country, New Zealand (16% vs. 4%)"

"In contrast, in the Netherlands, which has more liberal drug policies than the U.S., only 1.9% of people reported cocaine use and 19.8% reported marijuana use."

 

These are current numbers from a non-biased research group unlike the Neocon study from 1991 which isn't true in the first place.  Finally you claimed (the vice) of drugs have a negative effect on the individual who partakes in them (which is somewhat true, however not so with pot at all) and their victims.... who are there victims this is just a generallized statement and NOT TRUE.  The only victims of drugs are the 2 million people in prison for drug use or sale and the murdered civilians who've died because gangs try to control streets to sell drugs, which they only have a market for because its one we have failed to provide.  Once again to paraphrase your words.

I'm sad to say in this particular argument Cenk bigdaddylone is sounding like an uninformed, uneducated, ignorant airhead. Yes, its true...he sounds like a REPUBLICAN on crack!

by Suiseiseki on 04/02/2009 01:29:11 AM EST