Comments on: Jail Dopers For Criminal Acts–Not Drug Use https://boiseguardian.com/2009/02/21/jail-dopers-for-criminal-acts-not-drug-use/ A different slant on the news. Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:21:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Gordon https://boiseguardian.com/2009/02/21/jail-dopers-for-criminal-acts-not-drug-use/#comment-11818 Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:21:05 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=2066#comment-11818 Dog says: “George Bush used cocaine …”

Dog, if that’s true, it would be a good argument for really cracking down on cocaine users. Jeez — look what it did to him! Or maybe he would have been that way even if he had never used any drugs or alcohol, who knows?

]]> By: slim jim https://boiseguardian.com/2009/02/21/jail-dopers-for-criminal-acts-not-drug-use/#comment-11812 Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:04:31 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=2066#comment-11812 need tourists? decriminalize pot. it’s that simple.
Think of the increase in food consumption… both purchased from eateries and stores.
happy tourists, happy economy, happy residents. less people in jail, less silly use of the courts and the cops.

]]> By: Gordon https://boiseguardian.com/2009/02/21/jail-dopers-for-criminal-acts-not-drug-use/#comment-11811 Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:25:13 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=2066#comment-11811 “I don’t have all the answers. Just the best ones.”

Razz: I *love* that line! (I hope you don’t mind if I “borrow” it sometime and use it on some other subject.)

]]> By: Cyclops https://boiseguardian.com/2009/02/21/jail-dopers-for-criminal-acts-not-drug-use/#comment-11804 Wed, 25 Feb 2009 05:08:45 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=2066#comment-11804 We don’t disagree Bikeboy. I just want to install an “express lane” to assist them on their journey!

]]> By: bikeboy https://boiseguardian.com/2009/02/21/jail-dopers-for-criminal-acts-not-drug-use/#comment-11801 Tue, 24 Feb 2009 23:54:13 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=2066#comment-11801 Cyclops: “… help me lobby to make possession, manufacture, and distribution of all other drugs (coke, meth, heroin,LSD,et al) a capital offense.”

Dr. Jay isn’t distinguishing between “demon reefer” and harder drugs. His point seems to be that there’s no benefit to society, in imprisoning offenders for POSSESSION of any of those drugs. (Manufacture or distribution – different story. Crimes committed by users – different story.)

I tend to believe that adults should have the freedom to self-destruct, if that’s their choice. Or at least it’s not the govermnent’s place to intervene… or selectively intervene. (Self-destruct on alcohol… no problem. Self-destruct on amphetamine or cocaine – jail time for you!) If meaningful help can be provided, for those who want to reform… and if the cost of such help is less than imprisonment… why not?

]]> By: Cyclops https://boiseguardian.com/2009/02/21/jail-dopers-for-criminal-acts-not-drug-use/#comment-11800 Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:17:15 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=2066#comment-11800 I agree with you Dog about pot. I have never understood why it was so demonized. The balance of hard drugs however, are a different story. I am not speaking about “gateway” anything. I am simply saying that hard drugs serve no pupose in society and therefore neither does anyone who decides, yes chooses, to use them!

]]> By: dog https://boiseguardian.com/2009/02/21/jail-dopers-for-criminal-acts-not-drug-use/#comment-11795 Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:51:56 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=2066#comment-11795 Cyc,
Explain what coke, meth,heroin,lsd et al, have to do with a plant God invented? The stuff grows wild by the side of the road in Nebraska. The so called “gateway drug” idea is a crock. If you buy that logic then all criminal drug users started with coffee and cigarettes. Some people get addicted to sex so why don’t we kill them? Cigarettes are more addictive than heroin and cost billions in health care expenses from the damage tobacco causes. George Bush used cocaine, or so the legend goes. Capital punishment should be reserved for criminals not users or addicts. I’ve never seen where capital punishment has deterred murderers.

]]> By: bikeboy https://boiseguardian.com/2009/02/21/jail-dopers-for-criminal-acts-not-drug-use/#comment-11794 Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:45:05 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=2066#comment-11794 Dr. Jay: “… find legislators from both parties (who do not think with their glands)…”

Stop trying to confuse us with the medical mumbo-jumbo, Doc!
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]]> By: Cyclops https://boiseguardian.com/2009/02/21/jail-dopers-for-criminal-acts-not-drug-use/#comment-11784 Tue, 24 Feb 2009 03:43:27 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=2066#comment-11784 For all those wanting to legalize, or de-criminalize pot, I’ll make you a deal.
I will help you lobby to legalize pot if you will help me lobby to make possession, manufacture, and distribution of all other drugs (coke, meth, heroin,LSD,et al) a capital offense. You want to solve the drug problem? Let’s do it!

]]> By: dog https://boiseguardian.com/2009/02/21/jail-dopers-for-criminal-acts-not-drug-use/#comment-11781 Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:30:20 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=2066#comment-11781 John Mitchell,
When I lived in Alaska you could grow your own weed legally. Everyone had a few plants or the neighbors had some. I don’t remember kids being stoned all the time. It grows everywhere in Asia and the mob could care less. The locals don’t even do it.
Why do the kids want your Playboys? Because you try to hide it from them. Like almost all wars, this one is a total looser. The folks (morons) that bought you the war on drugs are the same ones that told us guys we would go blind or grow hair where it normally doesn’t grow.

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