He already had the coke habit (ducking) You guys need to read 'The Corner"...still not quite "studies and shit" but a very effective argument about the war on drugs, written by one of my journalistic idols. (/David Simon likes carrots) It changed the way I look at that issue.
And don't you ever stand for that sort of thing. Someone ever tries to kill you, you try to kill 'em right back! ... You got the right same as anyone to live and try to kill people.
Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Spike's Bitches 23: We've mastered the power of positive giving up.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
erikaj - Apr 14, 2005 11:52:59 am PDT #3620 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
beekaytee - Apr 14, 2005 11:53:15 am PDT #3621 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
He should go play with...okay, I'll stop now.
Very scary voices wafting in the window. Apparently, all the cars on East Capitol St. (a major thoroughfare) are being towed right now. All cars must be off the road for the next 5 hours.
Paranoid much?
And perhaps I should be MORE paranoid considering I'm two blocks away.
Aims - Apr 14, 2005 11:55:22 am PDT #3622 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
This is me, too. Could lead to lots of problems, I suppose, but it's not like we don't have lots of nasty problems with illegal drugs already.
Maybe it'd cut down on gang stuff. Like Gang X sells X on these blocks. Gang Y sells X on those blocks. The Man comes in and says, "Her eya go kiddies. Get it at 7-11." Maybe no more turf wars. I don't know. Maybe it wouldn't work. But the way it is now ain't working either.
Lyra Jane - Apr 14, 2005 11:57:00 am PDT #3623 of 10001
Up with the sun
Wee Lillian is so tiny and pretty. I love BIG-EYED babies.
And I never liked Indian food until after college. (I had it, like, twice in college and got kind of freaked out by the mushiness, so i really just ate samosas.) But one day I had it and it was just perfect. I don't think of paneer as being cheese, more a soft protein ingredient, like tofu. Seen that way, it's prettty good, but I probably wouldn'y want it in a ham sandwich.
-t - Apr 14, 2005 11:58:10 am PDT #3624 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
It makes sense to me, Aimee. I'm sure it'd lead to other problems, because every solution does, but "legalize and tax" seems like the American Way. Exept for the fact that it's not, in fact, what we do.
erikaj - Apr 14, 2005 11:59:24 am PDT #3625 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
They say that on the Wire, Aimee. "Other places, they sell shit, and nobody's got to die behind it. Why can't we sell it and walk away?"
Aims - Apr 14, 2005 12:02:16 pm PDT #3626 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
ITA, erika.
My frustration comes from the way people with multiple DUI's are treated versus a first time "drug" offender get treated. The guy with some pot could get 25 years to life while the DUI guy gets a free night in the jail and released the next day.
Amy - Apr 14, 2005 12:08:40 pm PDT #3627 of 10001
Because books.
The guy with some pot could get 25 years to life while the DUI guy gets a free night in the jail and released the next day.
Exactly. But everyone seems to think illegal drugs are the "dangerous" ones, when drunk driving kills a hell of a lot of people.
And I've known people whose licenses were taken away that keep right on driving (and drinking) anyway, without a license.
tommyrot - Apr 14, 2005 12:10:10 pm PDT #3628 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
He missed his true calling as a baseball player, then.
Castro wanted to be a major league baseball player. History would have been different if he'd been successfull.
erikaj - Apr 14, 2005 12:10:53 pm PDT #3629 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
David Simon says(after "touch your nose, motherfucker" ha ha) it's because there's not a paper bag for drugs. Drunk in public used to be a massive problem in the early years of this century, but about the 30s or 40s cops started turning a blind eye to drunks with their fixes in paper bags. But everything about drugs is a criminal offense, which he calls "fighting human desire with laws and guns" and says we can't beat human desire, at least not like that...I've not memorized the book, but that is a perfect sentence.