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mikemover · #1 02-24-2007, 03:24 PM

Get kicked out of college for one joint!???!! ??!!

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cmac2012 · #2 02-24-2007, 03:33 PM

Amazing stuff. Half the world's gone mad.

Unleashed · #3 02-25-2007, 04:10 AM

There's a simple answer you know. Don't smoke it.

LaRondo · #4 02-25-2007, 04:12 AM

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Originally Posted by cmac2012

Amazing stuff. Half the world's gone mad.

Only half...?

Well, maybe on a good day.

Jim B. · #5 02-25-2007, 05:08 AM

In "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" (1971), Hunter S. Thompson reported that there used to be a billboared sign on the outskirts of Las Vegas that read:

DON'T GAMBLE WITH MARIJUANA!

POSSESSION: 20 YEARS

SALE: LIFE

Botnst · #6 02-25-2007, 09:57 AM

I never exhaled.

B

t walgamuth · #7 02-25-2007, 10:19 AM

me neither.

tom w

Hatterasguy · #8 02-25-2007, 10:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Unleashed

There's a simple answer you know. Don't smoke it.

No don't shine your simple facts on this debate!

Know one put a gun to there head and said smoke this joint or your dead. They were adults, they knew what could happen if they were caught, deal with the results.

AustinsCE · #9 02-25-2007, 12:37 PM

Hats got it, but its still a little excessive. The problem I have is they sound like they feel entitled to the money, which is another debate altogether.

mikemover · #10 03-01-2007, 05:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Unleashed

There's a simple answer you know. Don't smoke it.

Not the point. Not at all.

When it comes to this subject, I don't care what one's stance on drug use and drug legalization is.... It is absurd by ANY standard to allow murderers and other violent criminals while barring marijuana users.

Mike

Old300D · #11 03-01-2007, 06:37 PM

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Originally Posted by mikemover

Not the point. Not at all.

When it comes to this subject, I don't care what one's stance on drug use and drug legalization is.... It is absurd by ANY standard to allow murderers and other violent criminals while barring marijuana users.

Mike

Yep. Non-violent "criminals" are filling our prisons. Legalize the stuff, and use the prisons for what they were designed for.

German Stare · #12 03-01-2007, 08:19 PM

If you know the penalty, roll the dice and get thrown out for smoking it. Don't whine here. Graduate first, then light up. Set priorities!

It's like these people that get busted for pot in some foreign countries that have strict laws, like getting 40 years to life and then try and elicit our sympathy for them for their stupidity.

Austin85 · #13 03-01-2007, 10:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Unleashed

There's a simple answer you know. Don't smoke it.

If you think there's a simple answer and that's it. you're wrong again.....

IMO if a kid of 17 or even 18 gets caught with or in the presence of a joint, it is not a good reason to take away his/her possible only chance to attend college and make themselves a better life.....

What do you want a bunch of mormons & amish people running the world.

1 joint is a little excessive to lose that chance for. Any free person should have the right to persue higher education.

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AustinsCE · #14 03-01-2007, 11:37 PM

Yeah but thats argued away in saying then they can pay for it themselves.

mikemover · #15 03-02-2007, 01:09 AM

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Originally Posted by German Stare

If you know the penalty, roll the dice and get thrown out for smoking it. Don't whine here. Graduate first, then light up. Set priorities!

It's like these people that get busted for pot in some foreign countries that have strict laws, like getting 40 years to life and then try and elicit our sympathy for them for their stupidity.

PRIORITIES are exactly what I'm talking about!

Man, how are you guys missing this point so badly?....

I understand the whole "you break the law, you pay the price" concept, and I agree with it.

My point is: The laws and rules pertaining to this subject are WRONG, backwards, counter-productive, unfair, and quite simply STUPID.

Mike