Way to have the pulse of the electorate.
(Bloomberg Politics) “If you’re getting high in Colorado today, enjoy it,” Christie, a Republican campaigning for the 2016 presidential nomination, said Tuesday during a town-hall meeting at the Salt Hill Pub in Newport, New Hampshire. “As of January 2017, I will enforce the federal laws.”
The nation has moved on. The war on drugs is a war on American Citizens. How, exactly, does he plan on winning an election by declaring he would resume the war on the vary voters he hopes will vote for him?
I know I may seem overly pedantic on this — and people who’ve seen me elsewhere are hardly surprised at my fussiness — but can we please keep ‘legalizing marijuana’ and ‘ending the war on drugs’ as separate topics. As someone who has been smoking for nearly fifty years, I favor the first, but the catchphrase of the second bothers me. I don’t know if I WANT meth, or worse, rufies — or however the date-rape drug is spelled, I’m more used to hearing it than reading it — readily available. I don’t know if I want quacks to use ‘ending the war on drugs’ as a means of getting their dangerous frauds into the market unchecked.
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I want, if you talk about ‘ending the war on drugs’ to know just what you mean, and if you’ve ever considered the ‘unintended consequences’ that could arise. On the other hand, if you stop the over-generalization and accept that the ‘one size fits all’ solution you propose is as absurd and ineffective as the one the drug warriors put out, I’m marching behind or next to you. Let’s get the totally non-toxic, non-dangerous, medically and otherwise beneficial substance legalized, and then discuss which of the options fits which other currently illegal substances. *Dropping the word ‘drug’ might also be a useful suggestion*