Comments on: Illegal drugs mean danger

By: Responses to Doug Hunter piece published - Drug WarRant

Responses to Doug Hunter piece published - Drug WarRant — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:43:34 +0000

[...] to Doug Hunter piece published The Tri-City Times has published several letters responding to the Illegal drugs means danger OpEd that we [...]

By: chris

chris — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:55:16 +0000

Yay, several of the letters to the editor got posted on the website. Mine included

By: hANOVER fIST

hANOVER fIST — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 07:52:32 +0000

“But…how will we pay for the Police State?”

What an asshat.

Doug Hunter…I suggest those pharmaceuticals are rotting away what exists of your grey matter.

By: Legalize

Legalize — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:31:33 +0000

We should have legalized marijuana years ago!

Every year it’s illegal the cartels make $8 – 10 BILLION and murder thousands of people to protect this cash flow.

We MUST be allowed to undercut their prices with legally grown weed! That alone will eliminate two-thirds of their incomes and end the 6,000+ murders they commit every year.

Legalize – Save Lives!!

By: ERIC

ERIC — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:50:14 +0000

Amendment 2?
The Right of the People to control the chemistry, mind altering or not, of ones own body. The right to posses, share, cultivate distribute & engage in commerce of any and all natural substances. As-well as the right to free, impartial information on all substances this right may refer. Without undue imposition of law or administative order.

By: Dreau Preau

Dreau Preau — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:54:25 +0000

I think the story of Matt Rogul would be great to utilize as a story for the legalization movement. The line “I just want a ten sack” is a poignant reminder of how harmless drug dealing could be without the involvement of criminals. I’ll probably use this in my blog, only without referring to Doug Hunter and his insanity at all.

By: DdC

DdC — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:47:20 +0000

MARIJUANA VS. ALCOHOL – DO THE MATH ON THE DANGERS
May we please discuss marijuana, medical or otherwise, and alcohol in the same sentence? If I were to try to poison myself to death by consuming alcohol, I could easily do so. That was proved in our community last year. Were alcohol illegal and marijuana legal, perhaps we wouldn’t have lost a minor to alcohol poisoning last year. No regular user has ever “poisoned” themselves with marijuana and no one has ever died as a direct result of having smoked it.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:28:14 +0000

I’m from Michigan so I did my first LTE:

This is in response to Doug Hunter’s article, “Illegal drugs mean danger”. To me it reads like a piece of fiction, but sadly, it isn’t one. That is simply disrespectful to the victims. Caught up in the gory details, Doug clearly misses the point of all this violence. Imagine that when the two men stopped at the gas station to get their gas and cigarettes that they also asked for a pack of joints. If that were the case, this story would have ended with them simply returning home safely instead of at a hospital. To argue that the drugs caused this to happen is illogical. It would have played out the exact same way if cigarettes were illegal and marijuana was legal. The black market is what causes the violence we see happening on the streets, not the drug, and especially not marijuana. To be blind to this fact is to ignore the laws of economics, which were illustrated during alcohol prohibition. I never worry about being robbed when I go to purchase alcohol, and I have the legal, regulated distribution of that drug to thank for that. Funding or not funding road patrols isn’t going to change this, only re-legalization can stop this problem.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:02:09 +0000

In a rational world the writer to that article would have came to a conclusion based on logic. What caused this man to be killed? Was it the drugs or the law? Which is more dangerous? And why can’t they see the parallels to alcohol prohibition here?

By: Just Legalize It

Just Legalize It — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:14:23 +0000

That article makes a perfect case for legalization while trying to make prohibition look good. This is just awesome in my view, because any rationally thinking person would view those problems as a result of prohibition.

Its funny how some people cant think of “cause and effect”.