Comments on: Former Drug Czar Walters: “medical marijuana is an utter fraud” and “dispensaries of California fund the mafias of Mexico” http://stash.norml.org/former-drug-czar-walters-medical-marijuana-is-an-utter-fraud-and-dispensaries-of-california-fund-the-mafias-of-mexico The Growing Truth About Cannabis Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:08:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Brian Kerr http://stash.norml.org/former-drug-czar-walters-medical-marijuana-is-an-utter-fraud-and-dispensaries-of-california-fund-the-mafias-of-mexico/comment-page-1#comment-11497 Brian Kerr Wed, 18 Mar 2009 23:00:00 +0000 http://stash.norml.org/?p=5184#comment-11497 president’s race ? The pot calling the kettle mulatto ? I don't get it. 8-) president’s race ?

The pot calling the kettle mulatto ?

I don’t get it.

8-)

]]> By: fallibilist http://stash.norml.org/former-drug-czar-walters-medical-marijuana-is-an-utter-fraud-and-dispensaries-of-california-fund-the-mafias-of-mexico/comment-page-1#comment-11488 fallibilist Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:29:58 +0000 http://stash.norml.org/?p=5184#comment-11488 <blockquote>I find it interesting that a stimulus package intended to reverse the economic damage from eight years of laissez-faire policies of the previous administration - Walters’ administration - is considered “recklessly stimulating”, but throwing another $100M-$200M at the failed Meridia policies is “vital equipment and training”</blockquote> Way off-base, Russ. President Bush was incredibly far from <i>laissez-faire</i>. LF can be summarized in Adam "Father of Capitalism" Smith's dictum of "peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice" as being the only things needed to turn a desparately poor country into one that is characterized by prosperity and the opportunity it brings. Well, we know that the Bush administration did nothing even close to a tolerable administration of justice. 870,000 marijuana arrests a year? DEA raids on places that supply life-saving medicine? Imprisoning Tommy Chong for selling pieces of glass? etc. etc. Bush also spent something like $10 billion a month on a war with Iraq, a nation that was no threat to us. The best economic estimates we have say that that will end up costing us <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Three-Trillion-Dollar-War/dp/0393334171/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1237412792&sr=8-1" rel="nofollow">$3 trillion</a> when all is said and done. That's obviously a FAIL on the "peace" front but since all that spending will have to be paid off with either taxes or inflation, that's also an abrogation of "easy taxes." And then, of course, there's that whole <i>incredibly expensive bailout for the wealthy bankers<i> matter. It's true that Obama is continuing Bush's policies, but we can't forget that Bush started the money spigot for Wall St. (A true <i>laissez-faire</i> approach is to let failing businesses actually fail. Uncle Sam, please take your filthy hands off the economy!) <b>So Bush fails all three parts of the <i>laissez-faire</i> test.</b> Sure, it's true that Obama is also continuing the Bush-era policy of giving a few rich people a lot of money from ordinary taxpayers, but he can honestly claim he didn't start it. <a href="http://www.reason.com/blog/show/132297.html" rel="nofollow">Bush and Obama are more alike than it seems at first glance.</a> If I weren't partial to a more favorable substance( :pot: ) all of this would drive me to drink.

I find it interesting that a stimulus package intended to reverse the economic damage from eight years of laissez-faire policies of the previous administration – Walters’ administration – is considered “recklessly stimulating”, but throwing another $100M-$200M at the failed Meridia policies is “vital equipment and training”

Way off-base, Russ.

President Bush was incredibly far from laissez-faire. LF can be summarized in Adam “Father of Capitalism” Smith’s dictum of “peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice” as being the only things needed to turn a desparately poor country into one that is characterized by prosperity and the opportunity it brings.

Well, we know that the Bush administration did nothing even close to a tolerable administration of justice. 870,000 marijuana arrests a year? DEA raids on places that supply life-saving medicine? Imprisoning Tommy Chong for selling pieces of glass? etc. etc.

Bush also spent something like $10 billion a month on a war with Iraq, a nation that was no threat to us. The best economic estimates we have say that that will end up costing us $3 trillion when all is said and done. That’s obviously a FAIL on the “peace” front but since all that spending will have to be paid off with either taxes or inflation, that’s also an abrogation of “easy taxes.”

And then, of course, there’s that whole incredibly expensive bailout for the wealthy bankers matter. It’s true that Obama is continuing Bush’s policies, but we can’t forget that Bush started the money spigot for Wall St. (A true laissez-faire approach is to let failing businesses actually fail. Uncle Sam, please take your filthy hands off the economy!) So Bush fails all three parts of the laissez-faire test. Sure, it’s true that Obama is also continuing the Bush-era policy of giving a few rich people a lot of money from ordinary taxpayers, but he can honestly claim he didn’t start it.

Bush and Obama are more alike than it seems at first glance.

If I weren’t partial to a more favorable substance( :pot: ) all of this would drive me to drink.

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