Legalize marijuana goes right to crack smoking murderers in the streets and comparisons of injecting heroin vs. drinking wine. Alan, you’ve got the right position, but expressed it very poorly.
The proper answer to “Do you want to legalize all drugs?” is “I want to end using prison for drug rehab.” Don’t let a prohibitionist take you from “legalize marijuana” to “legalize heroin”! We may indeed support some form of decriminalization for all drugs, but when people hear “legalize” they think “as available as beer”, because it is the only legalized intoxicant they’re familiar with. Keep the issues separate, perhaps with “Sean, pot and heroin are as different as wine and morphine. I don’t see a problem with making pot as legal as wine, nor with making heroin as legal as morphine.”
When Hannity takes it back to “injecting heroin in your arm is a lot different than a glass of wine…”, that’s when you reply with “but smoking a joint is a lot like a glass of wine, and we learned with Al Capone that making wine illegal caused more problems than it solved.”
Naturally, since it is Hannity’s show, he’s going to end it with a swipe like “Alan has to go take another bong hit…” Not much you can do there. But what I do in public when I get the inevitable sarastic jab like that, I counterpunch with, “Wow, for a drunk, you don’t slur your words at all!” Chances are the jerk drinks alcohol, because a) jerks drink alcohol and b) alcoholic jerks tend to really hate potheads. If he defends with “I’m not drunk”, you counter with, “But you drink, right? I support pot, and you make jokes that I’m high. You support booze, so I figure you’re drunk.”
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Its more than just Hannity. Its the televised news media as a whole. And I don’t just mean Fox here people. I mean all the televised news media. Throw away your television. Take the noose off your inner vision.
Its Sean Hannity. Getting objective coverage from him is like getting water from a stone. It just won’t happen.
This is hardly objective coverage. This cat isn’t making any friends taking jabs like that, especially when, as he just mentioned, most people disagree with his dumbass…
Hannity knew what he was doing with regard to his constituents, though. I can imagine them yelling at the television as they drink Light beer, “Yeah, do you want to legalize heroine!!??? CRACK!?!? I NEED ANOTHER DRINK!” I’ll tell you what you need…
Peace Russ
This is what I wrote to him about his comments “What a bum you truly are. You go from pot right to crack and other drugs that’s terrible. I tell ya buddy I think you just insulted an awful lot of people. You need to wake up and go check some recent polls. You should be ashamed of yourself to even begin to make such correlation between herb and those hard drugs. Plus you did not even report it accurately. You’re dam lucky they don’t have a “fire him now button” on remotes cause you would be canned like a pack of sardines. Todd
Two things, 1- See we are not the only ones that got Change.org/Change.gov.
2- Where is this Alen when we need him? Alen has major media potential, we need to talk to him,NORML!!!