Apparently, Sudefed is a controlled substance in KY now...

[SineSwiper]

No, seriously.

[Nev]

You crazy tweakers...

[Imakeholesinu]

Mmmmm METH!

[SineSwiper]

Fucking paranoia. Goddamn War on Drugs will sacrifice any amount of freedoms to get their way, even though they know they've lost.

[Nev]

The war on drugs is becoming the dumbest thing I've ever heard of. Besides the fact that I *like* pot and salvia (the only non-societally-acceptable drugs I have much experience with) - neither one of them seems to have destroyed my brain completely - and the fact that I strongly think that in moderation drugs can be an extremely positive force in one's life - it just isn't really working and it's a huge frickin' waste of resources. I mean, imagine how much more revenue the government would be getting if they regulated pot and put a tax on it!

It's not like it's 1) hard to find pot as it stands and 2) not already a bloody public health problem anyway. If the government taxed it, we could use those tax revenues to offset the potential public health problems from overuse (lung diseases and etc.).

Besides which, I understand that the Surgeon General from the 1980's, C. Everett Koop, stated that he believed the primary cause of lung cancer from tobacco smoking in the U.S. was irradiation of the lungs, caused by radioactivity in the tobacco due to overuse of phosphate-rich fertilizers on most American tobacco-growing lands, and not anything inherent in the tobacco smoking process itself (I'll find the reference if anyone wants). This would seem to imply to me that if proper care is taken in growing tobacco, and possibly pot, (read: we don't overgrow everything in typical capitalist fashion) there may not be as large a public health threat as everyone seems to think. Certainly it's still not a great idea to overuse it, but in moderation it may not be that bad - at the very least it seems that more research would be indicated.

[Ishamael]

Crazy. The real irony is that if Kentucky were really serious about getting the most bang for the buck via banning drugs to insure public safety, they'd ban nicotine. However, I don't think there's much chance of that happening in the middle of tobacco road.

[SineSwiper]

You know, just about everybody I talk to, see on Fark, or just about any message board or anywhere, is for the legalization of hemp. They may not be completely for legalizing every single drug, but they have no problem legalizing hemp and taxing it. If the public is this unianamous about it, then why don't we just fucking vote for it? Shit, Britian and Canada have both already decriminalized it.

Of course, with even the Supreme Courts going against the state's right to try out medical marijuana laws, it's still an uphill battle to get the representatives of the government to listen to its people.

BTW, despite our large tobacco fields here, hemp is our number 1 cash crop.

[Zeus]

The Right Side of the Spectrum is cunning

[SineSwiper]

What's ironic was that the three justices that were for the state's right to legalize medical marijuana were all pretty right-winged justices, including Reinquist, a hardcore Reaganite.

[Oracle]

Reminds me of this song

http://uregina.ca/~johnsode/thetussin.mp3

[SineSwiper]

Yeah, friend of mine showed me MC Chris's site. That guy is fucking weird.

[Nev]

Hardcore Republicans crossover with states' rights and dislike of big government...