POLL: What to do about the Drug problem?

[JyRO]

Actually...

No, I don't have much problem with Mary J. I don't consider it to be a hard drug, like cocaine, LSD, meth, etc. Personally I've never done it, but if the conditions were right, I might. And with Mary J you don't lose your coordination as easily as you do with drinking, or so I've heard.



I don't smoke, but my dad does. He's so addicted its sad. Now the cancer is starting to get him. And yet he won't even try to quit. Sad, sad, sad. At least with Mary J its not so (or not at all, I'm not sure) addictive and you get something out of it. With smoking, all you get is an image of being cool, and a smaller back pocket. Its funny to me that the only reason people start smoking these days is to be cool or do it because they know they're not supposed to (rebel image). I don't think they look cool, or anything, they're just stinky. That's their business as long as I don't have to breathe it.



- JyRO

 

[NVR FNSH]

Does anybody have any data on the Netherlands? Aren't they the ones that sell pot & hash at coffee shops? I'm curious to know how much of a problem addiction and drug related crimes are over there.



Brian

 

[JSmith]

Get rid of the plea barganning system.

If you can not be found guilty let you go.

If found guilty face the music.



Face the facts guys & gals the dope seller on the street corner is not the one that has a boat load of drugs headed to America. This is done by some guy/gal behind a desk. Trickle down I think he called it. Kill the head and the body will fall.



Get the person on top(death penalty),the importer and work your way down. Set some examples.



Drug dealers should face the death penalty. Not sit in prison for who knows how many years.



Drug users should loose all possesions.



Send all illegal persons back home(thier home land) within 48hrs.



Fine all employers of illegal workers $5,000 per illegal worker.

Second fine $20,000,per worker.



Bring back the draft. Help get these kids off the streets,turn them into responsible citizens(both male and female).



Let parents discipline their young.



Get rid if this this PC(political correctness)CRAP.



I`m getting off track

 

[JyRO]

JSmith...

Maybe getting off track, but I think I like it.



- JyRO

 

[R-N-R]

CNN Poll

CNN was interesting tonight.....



Poll Results



"BLITZER REPORT



Fighting the war on drugs and terror

By Miles O'Brien

CNN



ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- When I was in college, Jimmy Carter was president, interest rates were more than 20 percent, job prospects were scarce (especially for slacker history majors such as myself) -- and conventional wisdom held that it was only a matter of time before marijuana possession would be decriminalized. I remember writing a lot of articles for my college newspaper about the efforts of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML).



Of course the pendulum has swung a long way since those days of relatively loose, tolerant views about the benefits and risks of recreational drugs.



These days, NORML is still out there and still after a goal that seems elusive as the "insights" on life that dawn on pot smokers in their purple haze.



But pot is here to stay and so are efforts to make the use of it a legal thing -- not the sale and distribution, mind you -- just the possession of small amounts.



In my daily column for CNN.com, I will share some perspective on the day's news, including behind-the-scenes background and details of conversations I've had with newsmakers. You will be able to find it right here every Monday through Friday. I'd love to get your feedback. You can always email me at -- email address removed --.



In Nevada voters are debating a referendum that would make it legal to possess up to three ounces of weed. Sure, NORML has weighed in on this -- but there are some strange bong-fellows on this one. To wit: The Nevada Conference of Police and Sheriffs -- which represents 65 percent of the state's police officers -- is pushing (if you will pardon) for passage of the referendum. That's right: John Law is allied with Cheech and Chong.



Tonight, we will bat this one around with Asa Hutchinson, head of the Drug Enforcement Administration, who opposes this sort of thing, and Robert Kampia of the Marijuana Policy Project. Hutchinson espouses a "zero tolerance" stance -- sort of like the way former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani approached law enforcement in Gotham: Stop big crimes by going after little things like public urination. It's the domino effect, according to some: Small stuff leads to big stuff. But aren't the courts and the jails already a little pre-occupied with other matters?"





Wolf's Report



NORML Working to reform marijuana laws