Pot Laws: Name That Conservative!

[ideologyhunter]

Okay, you conservative watchers. Here's a quote from 2012. You will be asked to identify who said it.
"It's shocking how many of these young people wind up in prison and they get turned into hardcore criminals because they had possession of a very small amount of a controlled substance...That's baloney! ...I really believe we should treat marijuana in the way we treat beverage alcohol. If people can go into a liquor store and buy a bottle of alcohol and drink it at home legally, then why do we say that the use of the other substance is somehow criminal?"
So... was this:
Lindsey Graham?
Pat Robertson?
Tucker Carlson?
Mitt Romney?
Michele Bachmann?
(A hint: the speaker of the quote has since gone back on this and no longer supports regulated legalization.)

 

[bleubird]

Marijuana was legalized in Alaska last November.I,as a smoker,voted no because I saw a Hugh bureaucratic mess coming.And I was right!Advise to others,do not use the Colorado/Oregon/Washington model.Just go for simple decimalization.

 

[ideologyhunter]

Boy, did this post ever sink like a stone! Anyway, it was Pat Robertson speaking in 2012, and MAKING SENSE!!! He even called the anti-drug line of his fellow Bronze-Agers "baloney". I love it. Granted, what he said could have been sensibly concluded in 1967, but he said it well. Then, last year, Pat recanted, saying that he was now against legalization because a lot of young kids were getting high (well, it's happening when pot is still criminalized in a lot of the country, so...?), and that pot is a gateway drug to harder drugs -- the great cliché argument of the criminalizers. Sigh...I wonder if Pat felt a little better, in his day of sanity back in '12?

 

[Elixir]

I'm in Colorado, and the whole thing is overblown. I deal with law enforcement personnel every day, all over the country - local, state and federal. They often ask "how's that working out", and i generally respond "no major effect as far as I can see", and they ALL pretty much grunt and say "I thought so".
Simple decriminalization would probably have been better, but there are massive tax implications and no politician is eager to let that kind of revenue get away.

What really posses me off: Oklahoma, railing against "all that pot coming into our fair state from our depraved neighbor". Apparently they'd prefer that all the money their citizens are spending in Colorado go instead to the cartels in Mexico. They want to continue to interdict, detain, prosecute and incarcerate lots of foreign nationals and keep the federal funds allocated to that effort. Idiots.

 

[Bomb#20]

Marijuana was legalized in Alaska last November.I,as a smoker,voted no because I saw a Hugh bureaucratic mess coming.And I was right!Advise to others,do not use the Colorado/Oregon/Washington model.Just go for simple decimalization.

Darn right. The amount you're allowed to possess should be specified in the metric system. No more of this crazy "ounce" BS.