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Fix The Stupid

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30. Yes! Yes! Yes!

Reply to flamingdem (Reply #12)

Mon Feb 13, 2012, 02:42 PM

Feb 2012

Nail meet head.

Perfectly worded...

"legalize it and it loses the cool".

Exactly...

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Singer Tony Bennett calls for legalizing drugs [View all] kpete Feb 2012 OP

Uh.... Michael Jackson was "getting to a doctor". femmocrat Feb 2012 #1

Forget it, he's rolling. eShirl Feb 2012 #4

Yer' harshing my buzz femmocrat cbrer Feb 2012 #11

legalize them. spanone Feb 2012 #38

Cool, Tony! So you want us to be able to be prescribed crack and heroin by our doctors? (eyeroll) richmwill Feb 2012 #2

Harm Reduction is smart compared to the destructive consequences of prohibition. eShirl Feb 2012 #3

It takes 6 hours to get booked for crack....it's takes six months to get into rehab...maybe... Lochloosa Feb 2012 #5

Actually it is a very smart move. MadHound Feb 2012 #6

Thank you..I did not have the patience Lochloosa Feb 2012 #7

great post, thank you nt steve2470 Feb 2012 #8

Thanks, you nailed it. <3 Spock_is_Skeptical Feb 2012 #10

+1 legalize it flamingdem Feb 2012 #12

yep. Little Star Feb 2012 #29

Yes! Yes! Yes! Fix The Stupid Feb 2012 #30

++ Good post cbrer Feb 2012 #13

If only it were that easy FrodosPet Feb 2012 #16

I am basing my observations in reality, MadHound Feb 2012 #25

So WHAT do we legalize? FrodosPet Feb 2012 #31

We legalize everything, for reasons that I named above MadHound Feb 2012 #35

No one illegally sells legal products? FrodosPet Feb 2012 #39

What is the proportion of illegal booze sold compared to legal booze? MadHound Feb 2012 #44

After 35 years of using marijuana, roody Feb 2012 #46

Holy crap, you and me agree on something! TheWraith Feb 2012 #19

Well it does happen once in a blue moon. MadHound Feb 2012 #26

+1 Little Star Feb 2012 #28

Yeah, just like our doctors prescribe alcohol. (eyeroll) cbrer Feb 2012 #15

I would very much like for doctors to be able to prescribe heroin Fozzledick Feb 2012 #17

Actually, they do prescribe heroin, kind of. TheWraith Feb 2012 #20

I think "quotation" marks should be more "tightly" regulated Warren DeMontague Feb 2012 #21

I do! It's called "harm reduction" Taverner Feb 2012 #33

the drugs came from a doctor riverwalker Feb 2012 #9

But his heart is in the right place. nt DCKit Feb 2012 #14

So fucking what? Taverner Feb 2012 #34

Legalizing drugs would have kept Amy Winehouse alive? Ter Feb 2012 #18

The only thing that could have kept Amy Winehouse alive was Amy Winehouse. Warren DeMontague Feb 2012 #23

If the ONLY choices are full legalization and what we've got now, I'll go with full legalization. Warren DeMontague Feb 2012 #22

I was thinking that if drugs were legal people.. Little Star Feb 2012 #27

I think the best advertisement against meth is meth users themselves. But when anti-drug programs Warren DeMontague Feb 2012 #32

good topic jessicasiny Feb 2012 #24

What we should be doing is calling for stricter regulations on Big Pharma. Initech Feb 2012 #36

Is the pattern that legal products are still abused? FrodosPet Feb 2012 #40

No - I'm saying the stuff Big Pharma produces is just as dangerous. Initech Feb 2012 #42

Perhaps nationalize the pharmaceutical industry? FrodosPet Feb 2012 #43

I like Tony's singing Proud Liberal Dem Feb 2012 #37

So basically, the government can get rich from drug users instead of 'gangsters.' Dreamer Tatum Feb 2012 #41

Would a representative government be more accountable to the people than the gangsters? Uncle Joe Feb 2012 #45