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Fri Jun-17-05 09:25 AM
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Poll question: Which Will Happen First? Same-Sex Marriage, or Decriminalizing Marijuana? |
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More specifically, which will happen first 1) "complete state and federal recognition of all benefits, responsibilities, protections and privileges associated with same-sex marriages" or 2) "complete and full decriminalizing of ALL marijuana use" (not just for medical purposes).
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Fri Jun-17-05 09:25 AM
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1. wow, thats a really good question |
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Edited on Fri Jun-17-05 09:26 AM by MadAsHellNewYorker
and i have no idea :shrug:
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i miss america
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Fri Jun-17-05 09:26 AM
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2. Option #3: Neither one in our lifetimes |
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Fri Jun-17-05 09:32 AM
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. . . .legal marijuana, for medical use in patients with intractable pain only; certainly not for recreational use.
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Fri Jun-17-05 09:35 AM
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4. Gay marriage will come first |
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there is no stake in the matter from corporations to keep it being illegal, as with cannabis.
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Fri Jun-17-05 09:39 AM
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but I agree with another post that neither will happen in this country, in our lifetimes and probably never. The utterly ludicrous arguments for keeping drugs illegal (except of course the ones that have killed the most, alcohol and tobacco) will be passed on among fundies for generations to come.
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Fri Jun-17-05 09:39 AM
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5. I don't think that was the question. |
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I disagree. It's hypocritical for cigarettes and alchohol to be legal while marijuana isn't. I think almost anyone who has tried marijuana and alchohol will tell you, alchohol is much worse.
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Fri Jun-17-05 09:40 AM
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7. I'm going to say gay marriage |
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but only because of economics. Homosexuals make money just like everyone else - and most of their households end up being DINKs (Dual-Income, No Kids). That translates into more disposable cash, and businesses want business.
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Fri Jun-17-05 09:43 AM
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Fri Jun-17-05 12:44 PM
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Fri Jun-17-05 09:44 AM
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Edited on Fri Jun-17-05 09:49 AM by personman
I think more dems are more willing to fight harder for gay marriage. I'm not gay and I'm pro gay marriage, where all the non-potheads who are willing to help a brother out with marijuana legalization?
Edit: Also I feel intolerance is becomming more and more obsolete (it always has been but intolerance of intolerance is becomming more mainstream), and probably 60 years from now, people will look at anti-gay-marriage people the way we look at racists today.
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Fri Jun-17-05 09:53 AM
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11. It's not up to pot smokers to change the laws. |
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The pot laws wont be changed cause there is too much to lose, for the corporations. It just will never happen. Big money runs this country, and it always will.
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Fri Jun-17-05 03:32 PM
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24. Seems like defending weed |
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is too easily villainized by people who don't know what they're talking about. The slippery-slope argument is ingrained in people as far as "gateway drugs."
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Fri Jun-17-05 09:46 AM
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10. How 'bout "hell freezing over"? nt |
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Fri Jun-17-05 10:22 AM
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because of the potential for taxation. Talk about a cash cow - if weed production were subsidized and taxed as heavy as tobacco.... Some accurate projections of the potential dollars would get those congressmen drooling! :smoke:
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Fri Jun-17-05 12:47 PM
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14. Money to be made with same-sex marriage, money to be lost with legal mj |
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therefore same-sex marriage will come first.
A lot of people make money off weddings.
A cheap and easily grown alternative to some expensive medicines would not make pharm. companies happy.
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Fri Jun-17-05 12:48 PM
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"Smoking a bone" (marijuana) will not be decried as being "against the Bible." The other kind...well, we know how that argument goes. :)
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Fri Jun-17-05 03:08 PM
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20. It could also be argued that Jesus used cannabis |
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Was Jesus a Stoner? is the mischievous title of an article about the use of cannabis in ancient Judaism in next month's High Times, a pro-cannabis magazine. Its author, Chris Bennett, likes to shock. He is the host of Burning Shiva, a show on Canada's Pot-TV, and an advocate for the medical use and decriminalisation of marijuana. http://www.cannabis.net/articles/jesus-cannabis.html
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Fri Jun-17-05 12:59 PM
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16. i will not live to see pot legalized |
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i'm 41
i figure i'm about halfway.
so, 2046. no way.
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Fri Jun-17-05 03:03 PM
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17. That's The Way I Feel Too. By The Time Same-Sex Marriage Is Legal... |
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... and recognized in all 50 states, either I or my partner will be dead or too old to care anymore.
We look back in amazement that 40 years ago, interracial marriage was ILLEGAL in many states. In another 40 years, I hope that people will also be shaking their collective heads in amazement (and hanging them in collective shame) when they talk about how same-sex marriage USED TO BE illegal.
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Fri Jun-17-05 03:03 PM
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18. pot will be legal first |
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Fri Jun-17-05 03:04 PM
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19. Where's the "Hell Freezing Over" option? |
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Fri Jun-17-05 03:26 PM
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I think that you're probably right for both....
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Fri Jun-17-05 03:22 PM
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21. LGM, The CIA (Iran-Contra) isn't going to get up off the dope money. n/t |
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Fri Jun-17-05 03:29 PM
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23. Can I just say "Don't hold your breath" on either issue |
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as long as the Bush dynasty remains in absolute power?
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