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Post by ♫anna♫ on Mar 9, 2012 2:49:33 GMT
news.yahoo.com/pat-robertson-marijuana-legalized-regulated-alcohol-says-181400955.html QUOTE: Pat Robertson: marijuana should be legalized, regulated like alcoholVIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson says marijuana should be legalized and regulated like alcohol because the government's war on drugs has failed. The outspoken evangelical Christian says he has never smoked marijuana, and he is not encouraging it. But he says the war on drugs is costing taxpayers billions of dollars and people should not be sent to prison for marijuana possession. Robertson's support for legalizing pot appeared in a New York Times (http://nyti.ms/zMys8R) story published Thursday. His spokesman confirmed to AP that Robertson supports legalization with regulation. Robertson was not made available for an interview. Robertson in 2010 called for ending mandatory prison sentences for marijuana possession convictions. Robertson hosts "The 700 Club" on the Christian Broadcasting Network.
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Post by lakshmi on Mar 9, 2012 3:33:55 GMT
Also i thot they better not put ppl in jail bcz they gotta WEED.
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Post by Big Lin on Mar 9, 2012 17:26:38 GMT
I think this could well be the first thing Pat Robertson has ever said that I actually agree with!
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Post by DAS (formerly BushAdmirer) on Mar 11, 2012 3:24:11 GMT
I can't stand Pat Robertson and certainly disagree with him on this.
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Post by Hunny on Apr 13, 2012 23:45:31 GMT
I never thought in a million years Robertson would say anything I'd agree with, but, amen Pat.
The "drug war" is costing us actually hundreds of billions of dollars, which we can not afford. (15 billion per year / 200+ billion total so far)
Police arrested an estimated 858,408 persons for cannabis violations in 2009*. Of those charged with cannabis violations, approximately 89 percent were charged with possession only. An American is arrested for violating cannabis laws every 30 seconds.
Since December 31, 1995, the U.S. prison population has grown an average of 43,266 inmates per year. About 25 per cent are sentenced for drug law violations.
Total arrests for all drug violations: 1.7 million per year.
Out of a population of 300 million, America has more than 3 million currently in jails. That's more than 1% of its own people, the highest rate of any country in the world.
Not only is the drug war not working, as Robertson pointed out, but it's part of what's bankrupting us, and it causes grievous harm unnecessarily, to the families of all these incarcerated people.
When something absolutely doesn't work, but you keep doing it anyway, it's embarrassing to us all, it's foolish, insane by definition, wrong.
The United States looks stupid, to the rest of the world, for things like this, and it's insane Health Insurance Industry scam. And Americans know it too. But when you have a government that does whatever the hell it wants, just to rob you, and there's nothing you can do about it -or you do nothing about it - this is what happens. And we get encouraged to go along with it, encouraged to turn against each other and jeer at the spectacle of it which is televised 24/7. Awful. This is not a civilized country.
*Source: Uniform Crime Reports, Federal Bureau of Investigation
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