Kamala Harris great grand parents were slave owners

You certainly sound like one if you substitute "secular humanist" for "cultural marxist" They had it in for the SH's back in their day

 

The politically correct term for "cultural-marxism" is "political correctness."

I'm definitely not PC and I will call a spade a spade.

 

See. this is one of the few things I agree with you on - although I'm on the fence regarding some of the REALLY hardcore drugs. Meth - I dunno, I kinda think people using it create their own punishment considering what they end up as.

Convince me why that should be legal, IF you think so. And I'm absolutely not being snarky here.

 

I realize the danger of certain drugs but they are all readily available anyway. Most of the problems associated with drugs today stem from the fact that they are illegal. Anytime you take a product like heroin or meth which can be processed for about $10 a pound and can be sold for about $20’000 a pound, there will be crime, violence and corruption at every level. Also these clandestine meth labs are routinely killing and poisoning children of the toothless morons who operate them. I say, control the manufacturing of these products and sell them cheap right along side of the Thunderbird wine and let those who want to use them knock themselves out. We would save billions a year on inforcement court costs and locking people up for possession and sales. We have an army of $150 k a year narcs digging through trash, tapping phones and looking up peoples asses. We have tons of DAs making $100k plus a year prosecuting these CS cases. Judges, public defenders prison guards and on and on. Our courts are tied up with two bit drug cases and our prisons are over crowded. As a result violent crimes are being plea bargained down to lower charges with less jail time. Much of this violent crime is related to turf wars and other altercations having to do with the illegal drug trade. By decriminalizing drugs and thus cutting out the huge profits in selling illegal drugs we would reduce violence and save tons of money on enforcement prosecution and encarceration. That money and those Human Resources could be used to help those who are addicted to drugs and alcohol receive treatment.

 

I understand and agree with many of the points you are making but, if we are talking the legal question I would claim it is a legitimate act of authority to ban METH.

One point is that most of the money spent on drug crime was spent on Pot. Pot - unlike METH is an illegitimate abuse of authority- on many levels.

At the end of the day if an overwhelming majority agree that something is so harmful to society that Gov't should use physical violence to stop people from doing that activity - the law is legitimate.

The bar however is "Overwhelming Majority" = at least 2/3rds. I have posted numerous times on why this is so I will not do that here.

Pot obviously does not meet threshold. METH on the other hand does. On this basis I am OK with the Gov't banning it.

What is absurd is the Gov't running around chasing pot smokers when they could be dealing with stuff that actually kills people.