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Drug War Pledge

Started by maxxoccupancy, October 25, 2006, 09:43 PM NHFT

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maxxoccupancy

I have started a pledge encouraging activism regarding the war on drugs.  This is aside from the fsp, and is targetted nationwide.

Anyone wanting to help out or encourage more activism, please click through and sign up.

www.pledgebank.com/drugwar

Albert "Max" Abramson

aries

Does using them indirectly reduce the harm? The larger the surface that the enforcement is spread out upon, the less can be done for each individual case... right...

Fluff and Stuff

Quote from: aries on October 26, 2006, 07:56 AM NHFT
Does using them indirectly reduce the harm?

Does using drugs = working against the war on drugs?  Sure, why not. 

Voting for pro-freedom people, or in your case, running for office as a pro-freedom person sure is a good way to help reduce the war on drugs!

MaineShark

Quote"I will work to reduce the harm of the drug war but only if 99 other people will too."

Hell with that.  I'll work to reduce the harm of the drug war, regardless of how many people sign an Internet pledge...

Joe

maxxoccupancy

Hey, I don't condone the use of drugs, either.  Drugs hurt the drug user, but the drug war is killing innocent bystanders.

I believe that using drugs only serves to boost the illegal drug industry and all of the corrupt government officials who are involved in it.  Buying drugs illegally only helps the criminals and officials who are getting rich off of all of this.

--Max

maxxoccupancy

Quote from: MaineShark on October 26, 2006, 10:24 AM NHFT
Quote"I will work to reduce the harm of the drug war but only if 99 other people will too."

Hell with that.  I'll work to reduce the harm of the drug war, regardless of how many people sign an Internet pledge...

Joe

Pledges like this help to draw attention to the problem, and help involve other people who would sit on the fence.  If you are working to educate people about this, it does no harm to sign and state that you will continue working toward this goal.  If anything, it shows that there are more people who want to fight this travesty.

maineiac

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Quote from: maxxoccupancy on October 26, 2006, 09:14 PM NHFT
Hey, I don't condone the use of drugs, either.  Drugs hurt the drug user, but the drug war is killing innocent bystanders.

I believe that using drugs only serves to boost the illegal drug industry and all of the corrupt government officials who are involved in it.  Buying drugs illegally only helps the criminals and officials who are getting rich off of all of this.

--Max

Max,

I don't feel "hurt!"

You don't condone? The new politicians are going to be incorruptable, right?

BTW, cool pledge website!

:P

maxxoccupancy

What?  I don't know what you're smoking, bud, but it can't be a health product.  I don't think that sugar, caffiene, alcohol, marijuana, cocaine, fritos, etc, are good for you, but what you put into or take out of your own body is none of my business.

And why should I have to pay $25,314 a year to put you behind bars for eating/drinking/smoking bad stuff?

--Max

maxxoccupancy

From Drug Policy Alliance's site:

>Harm reduction is a public health philosophy that seeks to lessen the dangers that drug abuse and our drug >policies cause to society. A harm reduction strategy is a comprehensive approach to drug abuse and drug >policy. Harm reduction's complexity lends to its misperception as a drug legalization tool.
>

I support legalization, anyway, for the aforementioned reason.

lordmetroid

I don't support it because it heightens the risk of some fucker doing harm to me.

Lloyd Danforth

It might lessen the risk of some fucker doing harm to you

Dreepa

Quote from: lordmetroid on October 27, 2006, 01:34 PM NHFT
I don't support it because it heightens the risk of some fucker doing harm to me.
Don't support the pledge or don't support the drug war? ???

lordmetroid

I'm not sure what I don't support. I don't support this crazy drug war, but I also don't support a moral legalisation of drug addiction as it will put other people's money and lives in jepardy when an addict can't controll himself.

d_goddard

Quote from: lordmetroid on October 27, 2006, 05:52 PM NHFT
I also don't support a moral legalisation of drug addiction as it will put other people's money and lives in jepardy when an addict can't controll himself.
Your position is based on irrational fear.

Nicotine is as addictive as any illegal drug there is: heroin, cocaine, you name it.
And it's orders of magnitude more addictive than Marijuana, LSD, or mushrooms -- all of which are much, much less addictive than alcohol.

Now ask yourself: when was the last time you heard of a nicotine-and-alcohol-addicted person being unable to control himself, and killing an innocent bystander?

You haven't.
And it's not because "illegal" drugs are chemically or physiologically more dangerous than "legal" ones.

Caleb

Max ... what are you trying to accomplish with your pledge?  It's a little vague.  All you say in the pledge is that you will "work for an end to the drug war."  I think your pledge would be better if it named something specific that you will do to end it, and then try to recruit people to that idea ... rather than trying to get 99 people to work for some nebulous, generalized concept.