On 03/08/2010 05:32 PM, Ross Sauer -> Ed Hulett wrote:
 RS> "Ed Hulett -> Ross Sauer"  wrote in
 RS> news:20531$MATZDOBRE{at}JamNNTPd:

 RS>>> No, he was less than 1,000 feet from a day care center, (that's
 EH>> about RS> 1/5th of mile from a place he probably didn't even KNOW
 EH>> about,) and had RS> he .6 of an ounce less pot, he would have been
 EH>> charged with a RS> misdemeanor.

 RS>>> 35 years.

 RS>>> Yet if the same guy had 40 ounces of booze or malt liquor?
 RS>>> No charges.

 EH>> Booze and malt liquor are legal in Texas, moron.

 RS> That is exactly the point.

That booze is legal? Huh?

 RS> He wasn't harming anyone.

He was violating the law, moron.

 RS> He wasn't shooting up heroin, smoking crack or meth. And both of those are
 RS> not only physically addicting, they can alter a person's actions, too often
 RS> towards violence.

They are also illegal just like pot.

 RS> He wasn't drinking excessive amounts of alcohol, which is also physically
 RS> addicting, (ever hear of the "D T's?") and can cause
violent actions.

Don't tell us pot doesn't cause violent actions because it has.

 RS> No, he was smoking a little weed, which is not physically addicting, and
 RS> unless altered (like with angel dust,) does not cause violence.

You cannot make blanket statements like that without backing them up.

 RS> It's an arbitrary designation from our government "for our own
good," based
 RS> on hysteria.

The only one who is close to hysteria here is you.

Ed

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