Mitt Romney got asked by a medical marijuana patient, “Will you arrest me?” Mitt gave a brilliant answer. He turned his back on the guy. So much for compassionate conservatism.
My answer to the man’s question:
“I will not arrest you. We should have learned our lesson from alcohol prohibition. I do not believe in price supports for criminals and terrorists. Just as alcohol prohibition didn’t solve the alcohol problem, drug prohibition is not solving the drug problem and has in fact, like alcohol prohibition, compounded it by adding a crime problem.”
HT Eric of Classical Values
Will You Arrest Me?
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8 responses to “Will You Arrest Me?”
Yeah man…drug addicts haven’t anything to do with crime-ridden, poop-filled streets of liberally compassionate San Francisco.
It’s Bush’s fault!
(sarc off)
syn,
If the price of punishing drug addiction is support for crime and terrorism you are all for it.
Swell just swell.
I believe you are living proof that Americans have grown stupider since 1933.
syn,
You speak too highly of the drug addicts. Their addiction is no excuse for their criminality. It should garner them not even a pittance of pity. The people who allow them that excuse are every bit as responsible for the problem, as the addicts themselves.
Mike T.,
You haven’t a clue. In any case do you think it is worth supporting terrorists and criminals just so you can punish addicts?
Addiction Is A Genetic Disease
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Back to the post. No politician will touch this issue outside prohibition. I recall Clinton making some decriminalization comments *after* he was out of office.
> Mitt Romney got asked by a medical marijuana
> patient, “Will you arrest me?”
A better answer: “No, I’m not a cop.”
It’s an economic question. If there is no cost to demanding illegal drugs then why would an addict or casual user stop demanding the illegal drugs.
By the way, M. Simon, I think you have it the other way around. It is the Drug Addicts who are supporting terrorist and criminals, not the federal government or the DEA.
Romney was very courteous to somebody who was obviously antagonistic. I doubt Hillary or Giuliani would respond with such class.
Joseph,
Did they teach alcohol prohibition when you went to school? If so you must have slept through the lessons.
Obviously for reasons only dimly understood by most people (self medication) the demand for drugs is inelastic.
What happens when you put a prohibition on a product with inelastic demand? Criminals take over the distribution.
You blame people who want their medicine. I blame prohibition. What are the odds?