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I find pot and alcohol to be very similar with both it's use and the damage it does to the body. Both make people just as stupid. It also damages the body just like tobacco. The only reason alcohol is favored over pot is because alcohol is the traditional drug of a majority European descent populace. I also think the politicians of the time saw pot as a communist plot to subvert the American culture, so they made it illegal.

j/c

You guys need to give up the drug angle as motive because we're told there's no such thing as a violent drug offender...

who ever said that? that's what they teach you in cop school? crazy.

We need to give up the drug angle because the thought of this being about a nuclear bomb is still a lot more exciting

You need to do some more research, pot is pretty much safe and does nothing to your body.

The main reason why pot is illegal is because of big pharmaceuticals companies lobbies against it. Big drug pharmaceuticals companies can't have people growing their own pain reliever to cure their common or chronic pain, they need people to buy their product. Making pot legal is bad for business.

Remember to always follow the money.

Just a FYI I don't smoke.

Maybe you need to do more research. Are you trying to say that sucking smoke of any kind into your lungs is not bad for you? Are you trying to say the chemicals that get sprayed on pot are not bad for you?

Now, I figure you'll tell me that pot is illegal because the drug companies didn't want to compete with the small farmer. I call BS on that. If drug companies found it profitable, they'd have the best crops and refinement processes that public could never achieve. You do know that aspirin comes from white willow bark, right? They don't use the bark because they are able to synthesize the same chemical. Drug companies have been able to synthesize THC for years. I can also tell you from personal experience that it didn't help with my pain after a serious back injury. I still think it works best as an anti-nausea medication for chemo patients.

Swish will probably tell me it was outlawed because it was 'black man's weed'. That probably had something to do with it too. I think you will actually find it was made illegal for what I said earlier. It was an unknown 'dangerous' drug that was being used to subvert the American populace in a communist plot. Add in that the tobacco and alcohol companies didn't like the competition.

he's talking about this:

claims were made about marijuana’s ability to cause men of color to become violent and solicit sex from white women.

Reaching for ancient history when we are talking about current events is hardly relevant.

It's not ancient history. It is living proof of what happens when our government bans and makes substances illegal. Death is a bi product of forcing things on the black market.

Surely you comprehend how the manufacturing and distribution of alcohol made that process deadly when it was illegal by inviting the criminal element into the process.

Now comes the choice. Do you blame the people consuming the weed or the government keeping it illegal. That's really the only viable discussion point here.

I wonder if 40 would call me a criminal to my face.

Yet people talk about how feeding the poor is a waste of tax payer dollars yet seem to think spending billions to keep marijuana illegal makes perfect sense. Somehow that line of thinking seems very warped to me.

So you have decided that legalizing Marijuana equates to feeding the poor? Yes, I agree, seems warped to me as well.

I'm in the act of doing something illegal.

While I don't think much of stoners, as a Libertarian I feel the government should not be telling us what we can and can't do with our bodies. If people want to ruin their life by being a drug addict, that's their choice.

J/C
Maybe this thread can get back to what the initial discussion was before it became a pissing contest.

Most victims shot multiple times, some bruised
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Seven of eight relatives who were killed in their southern Ohio homes had been shot multiple times, including one who was shot nine times, according to autopsy results released Tuesday. Some also had bruising, which matched a report from a 911 caller who said two appeared to have been beaten up.

The Hamilton County coroner said the victims — three women, four men and a 16-year-old boy — had wounds to their heads, torso and other parts of the body. Dr. Lakshmi Sammarco's report said one victim had a single wound, one had two wounds, and the rest had three or more. The report didn't specify which victim had which number of wounds.

Ohio's attorney general has called the deaths carefully planned slayings carried out at four locations in Piketon, a rural Appalachian Mountain region community. Mike DeWine has also said there were marijuana growing operations at three of the locations where bodies were found.

DeWine said Tuesday that investigators have received more than 300 tips and are continuing to serve search warrants in an effort to identify the killer or killers. He said 79 pieces of evidence have been sent to a state crime lab for testing and analysis.

Authorities have said members of the Rhoden family were targeted in the slayings.

A woman who called 911 Friday morning to report finding two of the bodies said that she saw "blood all over the house" and that the two looked like they had been badly beaten.

The victims are 40-year-old Christopher Rhoden Sr.; his ex-wife, Dana Rhoden; their three children, 16-year-old Christopher Rhoden Jr., 19-year-old Hanna Rhoden and 20-year-old Clarence "Frankie" Rhoden; Christopher Rhoden Sr.'s brother, 44-year-old Kenneth Rhoden; their cousin, 38-year-old Gary Rhoden; and 20-year-old Hannah Gilley, whose 6-month old son with Frankie was unharmed. Two other children, a 6-month-old and a 3-year-old, were also unharmed.
FILE - In this Friday, April 22, 2016 file photo, authorities set up road blocks at the intersection of Union Hill Road and Route 32 at the perimeter of a crime scene, in Pike County, Ohio. As the investigation into the killings of eight family members in rural Ohio enters its fifth day, more details are being released. Pike County Prosecutor Rob Junk told The Columbus Dispatch Monday, April 25, 2016, that the marijuana operations discovered at three of the four crime scenes included a grow-house sheltering hundreds of plants.

There is more to the article at the link.

Now they’re saying it was a Mexican drug cartel. That’s eerily like the movie No Country For Old Men.

Hey IRE, maybe you don’t watch enough movies. (they’re edumacational)