09-11-2007, 02:08 AM
Great post Beach,
Reality what a concept.. There it is in a nut shell. Prisons are Big Business and that's the bottom line.
My concern about the current MJ laws are that they're very hypocritical. The thought of a senator or any law maker or enforcer that supports these laws stopping and having a few martinis on his way home from work makes me sick. As it should anybody that believes in our democracy.
I do understand and respect Scotts position in that it's illegal. My struggle is not with the Scotts of the world but with the politicians that hold the same opinion as Scott without looking into the matter. Scott sounds like a "buy the book" kinda guy and thats understandable but the problem is "the book".
As a volunteer medic I've seen what driving and drinking does. I've unfortunately seen what it does to kids as well.
Living in a small town, I've actually been told, by an adult, that teen drinking is a "right of passage" my reply is and was "that's BS".
About six months later i responded to a "right of passage" situation and all the kings men could not put them back together again.
Yes "them". Oh the drunk teen ager, well he as much as walked away from it all. The family of three is now a family of one and he's (the one)was three or four years old.
I can only hope that he gets the love that his mother and father woud have given him had they not me up with that 16 yr old and his "right of passage"
It is these law makers, most of which I'm convinced are alcoholics, that are at the root of the problem. (End rant here)
OK.. I'll go back to my lurker status.
Blessings,
dave
"Sometimes your the bug and sometimes your the windshield"
Edited by - Dave M on 09/11/2007 06:12:33
Reality what a concept.. There it is in a nut shell. Prisons are Big Business and that's the bottom line.
My concern about the current MJ laws are that they're very hypocritical. The thought of a senator or any law maker or enforcer that supports these laws stopping and having a few martinis on his way home from work makes me sick. As it should anybody that believes in our democracy.
I do understand and respect Scotts position in that it's illegal. My struggle is not with the Scotts of the world but with the politicians that hold the same opinion as Scott without looking into the matter. Scott sounds like a "buy the book" kinda guy and thats understandable but the problem is "the book".
As a volunteer medic I've seen what driving and drinking does. I've unfortunately seen what it does to kids as well.
Living in a small town, I've actually been told, by an adult, that teen drinking is a "right of passage" my reply is and was "that's BS".
About six months later i responded to a "right of passage" situation and all the kings men could not put them back together again.
Yes "them". Oh the drunk teen ager, well he as much as walked away from it all. The family of three is now a family of one and he's (the one)was three or four years old.
I can only hope that he gets the love that his mother and father woud have given him had they not me up with that 16 yr old and his "right of passage"
It is these law makers, most of which I'm convinced are alcoholics, that are at the root of the problem. (End rant here)
OK.. I'll go back to my lurker status.
Blessings,
dave
"Sometimes your the bug and sometimes your the windshield"
Edited by - Dave M on 09/11/2007 06:12:33
Blessings,
dave
"It doesn't mean that much to me.. to mean that much to you." Neil Young
dave
"It doesn't mean that much to me.. to mean that much to you." Neil Young