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   XPost: soc.rights.human, alt.politics.libertarian, alt.activism   
   From: bliss@sfo.com   
      
   On 12/25/2010 01:46 PM, Brother Nate wrote:   
   > B Sellers wrote:   
   >>          What about Pat Robinson's recent call   
   >> for legalization of cannabis?   
   >   
   > That's isn't exactly what Robertson said.   
   >   
   > I can scarcely call on authorities to be honest about the real   
   > dangers of MJ without also holding legalization advocates to   
   > an equally high standard of accuracy.   
   >   
   > Yet sadly I'd say that while the legalization outcome you're   
   > reading into Pat Robertson's statement might be the logical   
   > implication that a reasonable person would come away   
   > with, I'd scarcely call Robertson a reasonable person and   
   > he definitely didn't waste any time backpeddling away from   
   > the legalization idea.   
   >   
   > So far all I'm seeing from his statement is that he sees   
   > that it's a shame that people's lives are screwed up by MJ   
   > arrests, and he isn't yet willing to admit the direct causal   
   > link that the arrests happen because of a 20th century   
   > prejudice that MJ is so terrible that it's worth choking our   
   > jails and wrecking our families.   
   >   
   > There are so many cliches now about "post 9/11" reality,   
   > but I'd hope that a small part of the new conventional   
   > wisdom might be that authorities will realize that pot   
   > smokers are not the worst of our problems.   
   >   
   > --   
   > Brother Nate   
   > bronate@gmail.com   
   > Moral Compass   
      
   	Thank you for the clarification of Robertson's position,   
      
   	later   
   	bliss   
      
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