Daily Topics - Thursday October 14th, 2010
By shawnt56
Quote of the Day: Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could. -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
Hour One: "Brunch With Bernie" - Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) spends the hour with Thom discussing the issues and answering listener questions www.sanders.senate.gov
Hour Two: Has 30 years of Reaganomics turned America into a third world nation? Plus, Geeky Science Rocks - What can humans learn about treating illnesses from...butterflies?!
Hour Three: "Shoule we legalizing pot or criminalize alcohol? - Thom confronts conservative Charles "Cully" Stimson of the Heritage Foudnation www.heritage.org; Plus, why are so many in law enforcement in favor of legalizing pot? Judge James P. Gray of L.E.A.P. will be here www.leap.org
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#2
Please everyone in WI get out and Vote early you can vote now.
#3
My wife heard from Keith and Lawrence that Obama has conceded the midterms and Congress to the conservatives. Obama says that he will work with the Republicans. Apparently Obama has accepted the fact that he will be a one term president. Obama has failed the Grand Experiment in America.
Eighty-five percent of the students will return home to Mom and Dad after college graduation. Why??? There are no jobs!!!
#4
Third World Levels!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/14/access-to-justice-in-us-a_n_762355.html
#5
Don't forget that alcohol affects EVERY cell in your body. When my wife was undergoing chemotherapy she had severe nausea and could not hold down a glass of water, I demanded that her doctor prescribe some form of marijuana. The doctor prescribed Marinol, a Roche product that was very hard to find because it requires a triplicate controlled substance prescription. I once spent a whole day trying to find it in local hospital pharmacies, only to be turned down by one whose supply had been kept past the expiration date. Another time, the mailed prescription took eight days to get to my mail box, and the prescription was out of date - it had to be filled within three days. I got the doc to mail me another prescription with no issue date. The pharmacist gave me a dirty look as I filled out the date field with the current date.
Gawd, we're just crazy.
#6
Don't forget Harry Anslinger and his campaign to make marijuana illegal when it was obvious that the Vollstead Act (prohibition) was going to be repealed, cutting his Alcohol Control department. The only "expert" evidence presented to Congress was a news article penned by Anslinger.
#7
Prohibition has always been good for business. Our "civic leaders" don't want to talk about that point. The money behind prohibition makes millionaires out of successful criminals and state prison privateers.
#8
War-On is appropriately close to Mor-On.
#9
It's a turf war
The pharmaceutical companies oppose the legalization of marijuana because it will cut into their turf.
#10
Re: It's a turf war
I should add the "alcohol" corporations are part of the turf war as well.
#11
Instead of citizens voting on the marijuana issue we should have law enforcement and judges decide how to effectively use their time. I know of law enforcement officers who feel that much of their time is a waste in having hookers picked up and put in jail for the night and for people smoking marijuana.
We should ask the inmates from our prisons how the state can help them to not be repeat offenders for a crime. Prisoners serve their time and when they are released they return to the same environment that caused the problem for them to go to prison. We should not treat former convicts as idiots.
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