Comments on: Drug Freedom Works in Portugal

By: able1

able1 — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 13:36:23 +0000

Romaray is spouting an ONDCP Drug Czar line when he says, “do we need another drug (cannabis)?” This implies that cannabis isn’t already a ubiquitous substance whose very popularity was brought to us by prohibition turning pot into a ‘forbidden fruit’. Prohibitionists know that it’s human nature to want what we’re told we can’t have. Prohibitionists knew that by employing this simple trick of reverse psychology they would turn recreational cannabis use into a problem they would be given jobs to fight the use of. prohibition itself has created far more problems for American society than cannabis use has. Let’s turn the question of, “do we need marijuana?” around. Do we need the prohibitionists becoming so powerful that they bypass the US Congress (our lawmakers) & make their own drug laws from within the Administrative Branch? This means prohibitionists are so powerful that they impose their gateway policy upon the masses via dictatorship. Once again we see how the prohibitionists can turn a plant that’s safer than the legal recreational drugs (alcohol & tobacco) into a justification to trample rights & steal private property that was not gained from trafficking pot. Yes, we need prohibition horrors that are far worse than cannabis use itself. How hard would you fight to keep your well paid job & benefits? Even if you knew your job was to oppress people, trample their rights & steal their property for the flimsiest of reasons? Gotta love those who like the fascist Gestapo Agents of Nazi Germany defend their actions with “I was just doing my job”. Look hard enough & you’ll find people willing to use propaganda justify any kind of oppression. Let’s get this straight, prohibition makes it easier for minors to get cannabis, not harder. So, stop copping our with lines like, “we have to protect the children (with prohibition)”. Thankfully, we have LEAP.cc members who were the worlds leading drug warriors to prove to us that pot prohibition only makes matters worse for our nation.

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:25:44 +0000

Uncle B, you brought a tear in my eye.

By: Unsophisticated Answer

Unsophisticated Answer — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:57:26 +0000

Cripes. These comments are all so lengthy. May I just say, “Pass the bong while I read all this?”

By: Rodrigo

Rodrigo — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:39:14 +0000

I do not know where you and the Americans live. you talk about statistics without knowing the real situation in the field.
Yes, it is true that Portugal has decriminalized drug use, BUT not quite. there is still a lot of things bad. So it is not for use as a flag that question without really knowing how it really is!
one good thing about this law is that if a person is caught with one or two grams of drug , he is not subject to criminal prosecution, but is bound to other situations, such as present in front of a psychologist, etc. I think it is more than five grams of possession which a person is accused in criminal tremor.
But in the streets police still does the same shit has before this law!
Still a lot of years to come for people to freely use drugs lawfully. But it’s always good to discuss these situations but always try to see how is for real. A person like me, Portuguese and smoker sees a drawing like this, it is only to make me laugh!
This makes remenber Hugo Chaves, president of Venezuela, that all so said that in Portugal the President all so could do more than 2 terms in the office just to convince the people and that is just another lie!

By: i heart freedom

i heart freedom — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 07:26:25 +0000

To global thinker: if one is truly free the freedoms cant be abused because one is free to choose one’s own path, which takes a sense of personal responsibility; therefore, these “freedoms” that you are “allowed” are not freedoms, but privileges set forth by an institution. An institution that made these laws when i wasnt even allowed to vote. Saying that all laws are made for a reason is like giving divine authority to an institution, our government, which you have to remember is run by HUMANS. humans with their own private agendas. always question authority, especially the ones who (and this is a proven fact) use fear to manipulate and control what you think. read the constitution, know your rights, know what our founding fathers thought about religion and state, about what we as humans should have as natural-born rights. be an objective observer rather than a member of the moral majority and then speak up for what you see going on.