i was not referring to mj’s cancer fighting qualities as baloney! the argument is baloney! whether it’s safe, fights cancer, nausea, whether it’s worse than alcohol is ALL IRRELEVANT!!!!!!! the point is that in a free society, i decide what i want to take whether it’s dangerous or not, beneficial or not!

the basic assumption in paul armentano’s argument is that if, in his opinion, mj was not safe, was worse than alcohol and did not have cancer fighting qualities, it would then be ok to keep the status quo! this is a dangerous precedent for libertarians to set because many more things can be outlawed in this way!

my argument also works wonders on social conservatives:

sc “drugs are unsafe, a danger to society and we must continue the war on drugs”

me”yeah bud, keep cheering on the big government crowd. right now one of them is arguing the same point about your guns!”

simple but effective!

Why is that a load of baloney? I don't know about curing cancer, but it's been shown countless times to ease the nausea and other symptoms caused by chemotherapy, and there's no question it's safer than alcohol.

But you're absolutely right that it's my body and I should have a right to do whatever I want to it as long as I'm hurting anyone else or treading on anyone else's rights.

More importantly THANK YOU Judge for your freedom watch on this subject. This is a true American tragedy. Over 20,000,000 arrested for a possessing a plant substance that is safer than coffee? And rob dee and all of us have been paying for it for over 40 years?

Ron Paul / Andrew Napolitano ~ 2012

there is only 1 argument for marajuana along with all other narcotics! this is America for god's sake! as an individual i have the right to smoke, drink, eat, inhale and/or inject what i want! in much the same way that i have a right to bear arms, the right to free speech and the right to economic liberty! if i abuse those rights and break the law by all means i must be punished but until then, drugs have no victim and therefore no crime!

and for those conservative idiots who have championed the big government, nanny state and encouraged the war on drugs for years, it is you who i will blame when they come for what's left of our bill of rights! that includes the 1st and 2nd! wake up!

I actually saw his interview in alot of places. I am taking credit by the way, I first submitted it to the marijuana reddit as soon as it hit, and it got upvoted over 200 times, then someone posted it in politics and it made front page.

DailyPaul put it on front page, now NORML blog running it, good stuff, alot of eyes!