Comments for Get off my pot! at http://www.theind.com , comment 1 to 15 out of 15 comments http://www.theind.com Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:48:38 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/7893-get-off-my-pot#comment-15586 "The drug screening industry is beast that needs be shoved into a pet-carrier and time-travelled to a place more properly fascist." This is why weed is still illegal after all these years. - ragin_cajun Sun, 13 Mar 2011 06:15:34 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/7893-get-off-my-pot#comment-15581 1) who cares about california? 2) isn't louisiana worth it? 3) generally spaking, less government in all life, cigarettes, and weed. 4)The drug screening industry is beast that needs be shoved into a pet-carrier and time-travelled to a place more properly fascist. They single-handedly successfully lobbied for state-funded drug tests for welfare recipients, by exploiting former junkies on the capitol floor and pissing on the liberties of our poorest citizens. We all know about their sweet contracts with the probation department, and the INSURANCE industry. It's like this: not only do thc remnants from 3 weeks ago not impair my job performance, I REFUSE TO PISS INTO A CUP for an employer or anyone else (my former probation officer notwithstanding.) Just because they are selling the shit outta their product doesn't mean it's any kind of good product. There may be a time and a place for drug screens (like rehabilitation facilities with willing patients) but free countries ain't that place. - betterinformed Sat, 12 Mar 2011 21:20:52 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/7893-get-off-my-pot#comment-15527 Marijuana is the safest drug with actual benefits for the user as opposed to alcohol which is dangerous, causes addiction, birth defects, and affects literally every organ in the body. Groups are organizing all over the country to speak their minds on reforming pot laws. I drew up a very cool poster for the cause which you can check out on my artist’s blog at http://dregstudiosart.blogspot.com/2011/01/vote-teapot-2011.html Drop in and let me know what you think! - Brandt Fri, 11 Mar 2011 01:49:25 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/7893-get-off-my-pot#comment-15495 How can we legalize pot in the same society that is incrementally criminalizing smoking cigarettes? How can we POSSIBLY legalize weed when we have an ENTIRE federal regulatory regime that requires almost every employer to have random drug screening-DOT drug screens? How are we gonna legalize weed in Louisiana when it just failed a statewide referendum in California? If you want to legalize weed, you should perhaps start with some other more realistic efforts to limit government control over society and the economy first. Because the government we have in place now SURE isn't gonna do it. - ragin_cajun Wed, 09 Mar 2011 23:35:51 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/7893-get-off-my-pot#comment-15483 All drugs should be legalized through prescription. Then we can use the savings for a tax cut. - James Melancon Wed, 09 Mar 2011 16:00:18 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/7893-get-off-my-pot#comment-15480 Good job Plumpy! Compelling argument... You must be the tired, predictable spawn of Northsidian Shotgun. - Boullion Cube Wed, 09 Mar 2011 13:50:23 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/7893-get-off-my-pot#comment-15462 Hey man, like just legal it , man...yaaaah...like, you know ?...make it , like legal it thing...yah...you know?..just like do it...you know?...yah...like legal ..you know?...yah...yaaah!...just do it.. yah...you know? - Plumpy Fri, 04 Mar 2011 20:58:46 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/7893-get-off-my-pot#comment-15450 Is it too much to ask the staff at the ind to grill the DA and some of the others who are ruining peoples lives by busting them for a harmless offense? Can you please ask them which is worse? Smoking pot or going to jail? Ask them if the law should be changed. Ask them who is more dangerous, a person under the influence of pot or one under the influence of alcohol. ASK THEM WHY THEY ARE HURTING PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT HURTING ANYONE ELSE! - @theind Fri, 04 Mar 2011 15:49:40 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/7893-get-off-my-pot#comment-15441 Another thing to consider is this: If marijuana is legalized, some people, who are alcoholics and drive on our streets and endanger our lives, would likely give up drinking - since another, similar and less toxic vice is available to them. You might be surprised to find that it is a very considerable number of people. Now maybe you are saying driving drunk or driving stoned... what's the difference? And I will say to you that you have either never been drunk or never been stoned or both. Because a drunk is more likely to want to get in the car and go find a party. A stoner is more likely to sit on the couch and chill. And the drunk stoner... yea he's asleep on the couch. See where this is going? You know it's true. I'll say this. I've been drunk before and I've been stoned before and I'd much rather be on the road with people who are stoned than those who are drunk. But if you REALLY want to keep impaired people from killing innocent citizens, you should look at that whole bar concept. You know the thing where you get in a car and drive to a place to get hammered and then drive home. Yea THAT is a really stupid idea. - pronent Fri, 04 Mar 2011 06:50:27 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/7893-get-off-my-pot#comment-15440 People remark how drugs ruin peoples lives. But they don't discuss the fact that getting busted for drugs can ruin your life WAY worse than actually doing drugs. Smoking pot is a crime, yet it is no less moral than drinking. We are criminals, not because we are hurting anyone, but because it remains illegal for illogical reasons. If you pay attention to who the only advocates left in the war on drugs are; you will find it is the prison industry. " The prison industry complex is one of the fastest-growing industries in the United States and its investors are on Wall Street. "This multimillion-dollar industry has its own trade exhibitions, conventions, websites, and mail-order/Internet catalogs. It also has direct advertising campaigns, architecture companies, construction companies, investment houses on Wall Street, plumbing supply companies, food supply companies, armed security, and padded cells in a large variety of colors." Someone is getting rich from busting people and you'll find it is the people who own prisons. The victims are the people who are imprisoned because they smoke. And we the taxpayers are paying that bill." THINK ABOUT IT! We are putting people in prison for smoking a plant. That is morally wrong. And you people who are judges and legislators and cops who call yourselves religious and righteous are ruining lives everyday over this. One day you may find yourself before God and you may find that our laws mean nothing to Him, only how you treated your brothers and sisters. You may find that your righteous crusade against drugs was not so righteous after all. It's time to change this atrocity. - pro Fri, 04 Mar 2011 06:39:19 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/7893-get-off-my-pot#comment-15437 Marijuana medicinal properties are vast and un-refutable, Stress is relieved immediately upon toking a joint, the problem is that the plant is an organic product derived from nature and "The Pharmaceutical Money Giants, cannot own and obtain a patent on " Marijuana, its Gods gift to us....." MAKE LOVE NOT WAR. - Doctor Ciano Fri, 04 Mar 2011 04:14:35 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/7893-get-off-my-pot#comment-15430 I just can't help but thinking about those poor kids in Angola for Pot Possession when people for like Rush Limbaugh get away with having hundreds of tablets of illegal synthetic heroin. - scottman Fri, 04 Mar 2011 02:00:25 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/7893-get-off-my-pot#comment-15429 hell yea that's my brother's story! - coy nolley Fri, 04 Mar 2011 00:36:19 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/7893-get-off-my-pot#comment-15413 MJ is like tobacco. You buy it, then burn it. Investing it delivers a better return and can be guaranteed by the FDIC. - Cajun Yodeler Thu, 03 Mar 2011 19:26:56 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/7893-get-off-my-pot#comment-15407 I think Dave's sign said Romans 11-15. 11 28 As far as the gospel is concerned, they are enemies for your sake; but as far as election is concerned, they are loved on account of the patriarchs, 29 for God’s gifts and his call are irrevocable. 12 1 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. 2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will. 13 1 Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. 2 Consequently, whoever rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves. 3 For rulers hold no terror for those who do right, but for those who do wrong. Do you want to be free from fear of the one in authority? Then do what is right and you will be commended. 14 1 Accept the one whose faith is weak, without quarreling over disputable matters. 2 One person’s faith allows them to eat anything, but another, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables. 3 The one who eats everything must not treat with contempt the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted them. 4 Who are you to judge someone else’s servant? To their own master, servants stand or fall. And they will stand, for the Lord is able to make them stand. 5 One person considers one day more sacred than another; another considers every day alike. Each of them should be fully convinced in their own mind. 6 Whoever regards one day as special does so to the Lord. Whoever eats meat does so to the Lord, for they give thanks to God; and whoever abstains does so to the Lord and gives thanks to God. 7 For none of us lives for ourselves alone, and none of us dies for ourselves alone. 8 If we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord. 9 For this very reason, Christ died and returned to life so that he might be the Lord of both the dead and the living. 10 You, then, why do you judge your brother or sister? Or why do you treat them with contempt? For we will all stand before God’s judgment seat. 11 It is written: “‘As surely as I live,’ says the Lord, ‘every knee will bow before me; every tongue will acknowledge God.’” 12 So then, each of us will give an account of ourselves to God. 13 Therefore let us stop passing judgment on one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in the way of a brother or sister. 14 I am convinced, being fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for that person it is unclean. 15 If your brother or sister is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy someone for whom Christ died. 16 Therefore do not let what you know is good be spoken of as evil. 17 For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit, 18 because anyone who serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and receives human approval. 19 Let us therefore make every effort to do what leads to peace and to mutual edification. 20 Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean, but it is wrong for a person to eat anything that causes someone else to stumble. 21 It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything else that will cause your brother or sister to fall. 22 So whatever you believe about these things keep between yourself and God. Blessed is the one who does not condemn himself by what he approves. 23 But whoever has doubts is condemned if they eat, because their eating is not from faith; and everything that does not come from faith is sin 15 1 We who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak and not to please ourselves. 2 Each of us should please our neighbors for their good, to build them up. 3 For even Christ did not please himself but, as it is written: “The insults of those who insult you have fallen on me.”[a] 4 For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through the endurance taught in the Scriptures and the encouragement they provide we might have hope. - betterinformed Thu, 03 Mar 2011 18:34:08 +0100