Pat Roberson Endorces the Legalization and Regulation of Marijuana
I am a big supporter of the legalization of marijuana. I think it should be taxed and regulated in the same way that we tax and regulate tobacco and alcohol. Right now, you can buy any drug in any city in America on the black market. It’s obvious that the Drug War has failed. Its lone accomplishment seems to have been making the cartels rich. There are hard drugs that we should work to keep off the streets, but marijuana isn’t one of them. Keeping marijuana illegal carries too big of a cost. Our prisons are full, and resources that could be used elsewhere are being wasted on a drug that can’t kill you. People across the country are incarcerated for being pot smokers and come out as hardened ex-convicts.
Now, I’m sure it’s not shocking to anyone that I feel this way, but I got the surprise of my life on Wednesday when I heard that Pat Robertson agrees with me. Granted, we have very different thoughts on how things got this bad, but we agree on the solution.
Legalizing marijuana would also lift the DEA’s ban on industrial hemp production, the effect of which could revolutionize American energy policy and revitalize the economy. Hemp is the world’s strongest natural fiber and produces an oil that can replace petroleum in a wide variety of applications. The first Model-T relied heavily on hemp. Its panels were made from a hemp-derived plastic that was said to be 10 times stronger than their steel equivalent. Hemp works as fuel, too. Interestingly enough, Rudolf Diesel, inventor of the diesel engine, designed his engine to run on vegetable and seed oils like hemp, not the petroleum based “diesel” we buy today. If refined to produce methanol, it produces ten times more than corn.
Pat Robertson speaks out for marijuana legalization – CNN.com Blogs
Watch a clip that feels like something out of the Twilight Zone below. Oddly enough, he still blames liberals.
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I could not agree more, what a truly spiritual statement from a man of god.
The 1960’s saw a frightening epidemic of drug use primarily of heroin, marijuana, and LSD. These drugs were horrible because they destroyed the ambition, self respect, and health of their victims. However, the vast majority of drug users of this era recovered and went on to live productive lives (many like Bush Jr. and Clinton are advocates of the war on drugs).
In 1973 President Nixon created the DEA. Since that time the US has spent over 5 trillion dollars on the war on drugs, imprisoned over 2 million people, diverted police resources desperately needed in other areas, and created the richest and most dangerous criminal organizations the world has ever seen.
During that same time period we have seen our youngest and most vulnerable citizens migrate toward horrific, terrifying poisons like Crack cocaine and methamphetamine, the likes of which the world has never seen. These modern chemicals permanently destroy the health and hope of their victims to a degree never before seen.
Now consider that the DEA was created to end drug use. And, some 40 years later after spending 15,000 dollars for every man woman and child in this country, there are far greater numbers of younger addicts, using more deadly drugs than ever in history.
Yet big government politicians on both sides insist the war on drugs has been a success. Is it really so radical to consider a change in course?
Amen to brother Pat