1. : secret agreement or cooperation especially for an illegal or deceitful purpose acting in collusion with the enemy

It’s really no big deal. If Chelsea Clinton was doing the same thing I’m sure everybody would be totally cool with it. Btw, for those not conversant in sarcasm, this was sarcasm.

“they might better understand keeping their fellow citizens alive as a benefit to everyone if we thought about in the same terms we do roads, bridges, etc.”

Unlike you, most intelligent people can focus on more than one issue at a time, so being concerned about Trumpcare, AND an attack on our MOST PRECIOUS INSTITUTION, are not mutually exclusive. Try Adderall or Ritalin, Einstein. Most people, including members of the intel community (who liken it to Pearl Harbor), are…

Yeah, why respond to the attack on Pearl Harbor? Countries attack each other all the time. Why worry about electing an amoral, narcissistic sociopath? Countries do it all the time. Your bortsch is showing comrade!

Sure Vlad. 👌🏿

Why would everyone assume that? Just because he launched his political career by relentlessly flogging the fake Obama birth certificate story, that he desperately clung to for years after it had been debunked? Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice...oh wait he was elected president.

You’ve obviously never seen someone die from alcoholism. I have. Or watched somebody slowly die from COPD, lung cancer or emphysema. It ain’t pretty, and quite frankly I’d probably take a quick heroin overdose over that slow agony. I smoked for 20 yrs, and I’m so happy to be free of the clutches of that awful…

Interesting that you think prohibition works for drugs, but not alcohol, yet you provide no reason other than your say so. When was heroin legal? Arguably it still is, as long as you’re a pharmaceutical company, since the opioids they sell (OxyContin for example) are pharmacologically indistinguishable from heroin. By…

Decriminilization is a good starting point, with outright legalization perhaps better suited for deliberations at the state level (as is being done with marijuana). Treating substance abuse as a public health issue, like we do with alcoholism, as opposed to a criminal matter, makes sense both practically and morally.…

Incorrect on both counts. The “war on drugs” is a relatively recent phenomenon. Nixon’s own aides have conceded that it was largely politically motivated (https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2016/03/23/politics/john-ehrlichman-richard-nixon-drug-war-blacks-hippie/index.html). The distinction you make between…

You’re right, I pass by bars every evening, and can see it first hand. It’s too bad that whole Prohibition thing didn’t work out. Oh, wait, you’re outrage is selective. Stop worrying about what other people do in the privacy of their own homes. It’s none of your concern. There’s a reason why we have a government of…

It’s not the job of the government to dictate personal behavior. Until my conduct impacts you, it should be none of your concern. Which, by the way, is why the government is perfectly willing to allow people to drink themselves to death, so long as they don’t drive drunk or otherwise endanger others. Giving the…

It’s actually not uncommon in other countries that either have alcohol bans, or regions where alcohol is not easily accessible, for people to die from homemade liquor (basically moonshine). Big problem in India and parts of Africa. So yeah, black markets are dangerous on a number of levels for all substances.

Just a lil speedball, vodka & molly to take the edge off!

Does anybody really know though? People use for all kinds of different reasons. For some people, life is very hard to bear, and they’d prefer to be in a “galaxy far, far away”. It actually, for me, strengthens the argument for legalization. At least than people would have a better idea what they’re getting in terms of…