The same holds true for: homosexuality, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Matrix, American Idol, MTV, chocolate, everything else in the world. There are many more variables that differentiate the two, and oversimplifying religion and drugs makes it look as though pot heads are simple-minded.
Calling the people who matter in this "simple minded" isn't going to win you too many brownie points, Messy. But of course, what's to be expected from a Republican? You guys can't go for more than 5 minutes without calling people names.
BTW, I noticed that other thread was locked (conveniently) and you posted this:
After some thought, it does seem to me that one really can't validate a drug-user's idea on how the War on Drugs issue, because they don't seem to believe that drug-use is bad, and therefore won't offer alternatives to minimize drug abuse, which I'm sure is the main reason why the War on Drugs exist (I really doubt it's because the government wants to take away people's "God-given rights."
This has to be the most ignorant thing I have ever heard anyone say. Of course you can validate a drug user's idea on the WoD issue as far as responsible drug use goes. Drug use, not abuse.
You see, this is where you are proving your ignorance. Drug ABUSE is bad...responsible drug USE is not. It's not necessarily good and it's certainly not for everyone but it's far from being bad. It's neutral, and in the realm of personal choice. Just because you have never done any drugs in your life and have been taught that drugs are the most evil scourge the world has ever seen doesn't mean that it's the truth.
As far as minimizing drug abuse goes, you do that by legalizing and controlling it, like alcohol and cigarettes, not by keeping it in the black market where 80% of it is marketed to teens and younger adults.
As far as the government not taking people's right away, or that not being their intentions...? May I suggest you borrow The Emperor Wears No Clothes by Jack Herer from your local library...you might change your mind a bit once you read through that.
It reminds me of pacificists, who also have problems with the current way things are done, but do not offer any decent alternatives. Until they accept that the country does not want drug-abuse to proliferate, even if it does mean that one can toke as they please, they will be seen as potheads who are only interested in blazin' their lives away.
Drug advocates do offer solutions...they just aren't the solutions you want to hear...you want to hear some sort of amazing plan to eradicate drugs forever, from people who know that it will never happen. You are, in essence, wanting people to lie to you. Well wake up Messy, you want the truth and the true solutions...you've recieved them. It's your choice whether or not to realize that people are telling you the best solution.
Hell, even the most faith-driven prohibitionists know that the Drug War will never end...I don't know how you could seriously expect to get an answer from anyone on how to end the Drug War other than ending it...because fighting drugs will be an ever-losing never-ending battle. And when you're fighting drugs, all you're really fighting is people, good people who do nothing else wrong or illegal except enjoy themselves with a substance the government wants to make a profit off of (being illegal).
And btw, most people who are fighting for legalization
don't want drug abuse to proliferate either. It's just that drug advocates know there are better ways to control the stuff than by making it illegal (which makes it pretty much completely out of control).
It really isn't about drug abuse. It's about drug use. You need to keep those two issues seperate, as hard as it might be to do...because they are two vastly different issues and you can't lump them together to justify that "all drug use is bad, therefore the WoD is necessary." That's just being willfully ignorant and evasive.
