Comments on: Obama and Clinton good, McCain Unclear, on Medical Marijuana

By: Dan tdaxp

Dan tdaxp — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:54:33 +0000

Adrian’s comment about hitler is supported by a published article via wikipedia [1,2,3], so seems to be legit.

I can’t wait for the field of biohistory to emerge — probably a lot of otherwise unsolvable questions (why did Hitler go from genius to idiot in such a short time) have biopsychic explanations.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methamphetamine
[2] Doyle, D (2005). “Hitler’s Medical Care” (PDF). Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh 35: 75-82. Retrieved on 2006-12-28.
[3] http://www.rcpe.ac.uk/publications/articles/journal_35_1/Hitler‘s_medical_care.pdf

By: Adrian

Adrian — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:34:10 +0000

The irony of comparing anti-marijuana people to Hitler and fascists is that Hitler himself was a hardcore drug user (meth).

By: stephenpampinella

stephenpampinella — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 01:52:59 +0000

Thank you Dan.

By: Dan tdaxp

Dan tdaxp — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 01:42:39 +0000

stephen’s comment links to this URL [1]. WordPress is way cooler on comments than blogspirit was, but chops out hyperlinks from them to cut down on google spamming.

[1] http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/23/a-200-a-gram-tax-on-cocaine/

By: stephenpampinella

stephenpampinella — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 01:34:28 +0000

Sorry, [1] City Room: A 200 a gram tax on cocaine

By: stephenpampinella

stephenpampinella — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 01:33:05 +0000

Jay,

Agreed that the Fascism talk goes too far. I figure regular elections should count for something.

But, what if the dimebag was the only way it could be worth the effort? As in, if you wanted to tax it and were worried addiction, the social consequences, etc, it would probably be best to sell it in the smallest quantity possible. [1]

City Room: A 200 a gram tax on cocaine

Note, I do not support the legalization of cocaine or other narcotics.

By: Jay@Soob

Jay@Soob — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:48:12 +0000

Tossing about the term “fascism” seems to be a trendy sort of rhetoric these days. So prolific that I wonder if a decade hence it won’t become mainstream in American lexicon.
“Yo, fascist, stop bogarding that jibber.”
And the Bush-Nazi comparison is tedious.

That aside, like P’slog I’m a non-user (ex-user, really) but I’d like the entire drug war to go the way of the dime bag. Either go away altogether or be scaled back to such a tiny proportion that it’s not worth the effort.

By: stephenpampinella

stephenpampinella — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:52:31 +0000

The first dimebag goes to anyone who finds a picture of any candidate smoking a j.

By: purpleslog

purpleslog — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:00:59 +0000

I am a non-user who is pro-legalization. When I read stuff like…

“Sure sounds like a Fascist government to me”

…I know the pro-legalization advocates will be dismissed as lunatics. Couple that with the abuses of “medical” marijuana in CA, it isn’t going to be legalized for awhile.

By: Dan tdaxp

Dan tdaxp — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:53:32 +0000

Jeff,

Like much pro-marijuana rhetoric I’ve encountered, your posts begins reasonable and ends with a conspiracy theory. The conclusion part of your paragraph embarrasses your position and makes it harder to achieve what you wish to.