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I'm all for locking up junk food dealers. Not only does obesity directly hurt people, but all that money is going to some nasty, nasty people. You let a junk food dealer into a neighborhood and all kinds of bad things happen - including prostitution. A junk food dealing pimp and his hooker right across the street from a schoolhouse...
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If you think that a pile of "Messicans" was gonna pay taxes on $950K you're frigging insane.
That's the laughable part of the whole taxation argument. These guys break the law by possessing / distributing drugs now, but if drugs are legalized they'll obey the tax law. What a joke.
Any money saved from ending the drug war would go toward funding a war on tax evasion. Do y'all REALLY want that?
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The cheeseburgers are a "gateway drug" before you know it you are craving the whoppers, large fries and a giant soda!
I like to do my hunting BEFORE I pull the trigger! There is only one kind of dead, but there are many different kinds of wounded.
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If the banning of potentially harmful substances works - then the people who believe that - should be drawing up new laws and rules and penalties to those who sell junk food. Perhaps we should round up all the obese people for the harm they are doing to themselves? And what about people who sell junk food to children?
Obesity has a larger cost to society, and kills more people, than all the illegal drugs combined.
Knowing that - how do those of you who support the prohibition of drugs, feel about that idea?
Doesn't that analogy clear things up for you?
Somehow, that line of reasoning sounds vaguely familiar.
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Who the hell brought up cheeseburgers? Now I'm tweeking for one. The donut shop's gonna get pissed !
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The cheeseburgers are a "gateway drug" before you know it you are craving the whoppers, large fries and a giant soda! We can argue about "gateway" drugs - but you are correct. Personally, I think it all begins - with cookies. Once a person thinks of a cookie as a food - his future path in life is pretty much determined. It's all downhill after that.If we could just have death sentences to those who sell junk food to children - we wouldn't have any more problems with obesity.
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Huh. I've never met a teen turned to prostitution to get her next fix of freedom fries. Or seen a house burglarized so a fatty could get money for another burger. Or known someone shot in bed because he was trying to sell snickerdoodles on someone else's turf.
But you're right, junk food is the same.
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Huh. I've never met a teen turned to prostitution to get her next fix of freedom fries. Or seen a house burglarized so a fatty could get money for another burger. Or known someone shot in bed because he was trying to sell snickerdoodles on someone else's turf.
But you're right, junk food is the same. depends on what ruler you use to measure.....based on emotional trauma? no, definitely no comparison.......based on cost to us via health care costs likely surprising on how similar it really is.....
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I'm talking about the trauma of getting shot in the face. It happens over drugs on a regular basis.
That's the ruler....not a hard one to see.
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Some people eat to get the nutrition they need, and some eat to fulfill an emotional need. They feel like no matter how much they eat it isn't quite enough. I think that is how food is similar to drugs. Some people just want to feel a little buzz to be social, others want to drown their sorrows, and don't care if they die trying! (Sometimes they kill others while behind the wheel.) whelennut
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War? What war?
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I'm talking about the trauma of getting shot in the face. It happens over drugs on a regular basis.
That's the ruler....not a hard one to see. happens over money and family feuds just as much.....see more ppl killed round here cause they said the wrong thing to someone and the guy decided it was worth killing the [bleep] over.....more times than not alcohol was in their system but quite often no more than that....
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I've read this whole thread [shows how empty my life is lately ] and there cerainly is no clear picture of what de-criminilizing drugs would do .We make distinctions between products within a generic group all the time as far as what should be legal and what should be regulated .But drugs are either legal , or illegal . People keep mentioning alcohol in the same breath as drugs and there is a big difference : Alcohol has no addictive properties inherently . Meth most assuredly has addictive properties . Marijuana probably falls in between these two and other drugs could be rated according to their addictive properties . Regulation , or prohibition , of them BY THE STATES , NOT THE FEDS , based on their addictive qualities makes more sense than the way it is done now .
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Some of the arguments used here, that seem legitimate to the presenter, are a prime example of why kids shouldn't use drugs.
Y'all are right. Yesterday I had a steak finger basket from DQ. Today I'll shoot up. How utterly frigging retarded.
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The ironic part of it is that most shootings happen as a result of somebody using drugs and/or alcohol. The political solution is to ban handguns? What part of DUH don't they understand?* *Buffy the vampire slayer
I like to do my hunting BEFORE I pull the trigger! There is only one kind of dead, but there are many different kinds of wounded.
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Rattler, show me a teenage whore working for Dr. Pepper. Show me a violent turf war between McDonald's and BK.
Bottom line, it happens with drugs and not junk food.
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It never happens - where marijuana is legal either.
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Talk to a cop.
Ask him how many domestic violence calls are related to - alcohol consumption.
Then ask how many domestic violence calls he's had - where marijuana was to blame.
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Meth addicts and coke pushers are suddenly peaceful where pot is legal?
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Rattler, show me a teenage whore working for Dr. Pepper. Show me a violent turf war between McDonald's and BK.
Bottom line, it happens with drugs and not junk food. How many deaths can you attribute to marijuana in a year in the USA? How many death are due to obesity? Now tell me - which one is more dangerous?
Brian
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