Hah – laughable. Do you work on McCain’s campaign?
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Your statement is incoherent.

http://www.columbiaheightsnews.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=900

How happy I now am that we could not affort to buy a house that “far” South in CH.

Same goes for restaurants. Smoke all you want at home. But you can’t smoke others out of restuarants, airplanes, etc.

Don’t pollute the argument by using Marion barry. Assuming he had run the city effectively, noone would care what he did in his past time. That was his failure more than anything. Our last 3 presidents Bush, Mccain/Obama, and Clinton have been weed smokers. All (Bush, Obama) have probably done some coke. It’s time we stop thinking that drugs are evil. Plenty of people use it recreationally without ruining themselves.

I recently bought a house. Guess what was growing in the front yard? A tall plant of marijuana. Just growing out of the ground with no special attention paid to it. Explain to me how any police force can combat a “drug” that is this simple to produce. The gov’t did a good job with meth as it is primarily a synthetic product.

Hah – laughable. Do you work on McCain’s campaign?

For instance:

It was late on a Sunday evening about a year ago when I heard a huge commotion outside of my house. I looked out the window and saw about 15 police cars and officers (of all colors and creeds I might add). It appeared the police had apprehended two robbery suspects. The suspects were hispanic men in their twenties and didn’t speak english. After about an hour and an additional 15 police officers, they were able to confirm the two dudes were not the robbery suspects. The police let them go but not before taunting them with cries of “ARRIBA ARRIBA” and other ethnic slurs as the men walked away. It was disturbing on a whole new level. To top it off, for the next hour, about 25 police officers stayed at the scene, loitering around, pimping themselves, making jokes about the suspects and generally imitating Reno 911. I couldn’t believe it.

And just last week, some poor tranny prostitute was harrassing a man parked in front of my house. The guy punched the tranny and somewhere along the way, the police were called. All I could hear from my window was “Get on the GROUND NOW!!!” When I looked out I saw at least three cops with their guns pointing at the puncher who was trying to drive away.

Within five minutes, there were at least 15 more police officers at the scene. The ambulance came, even though the punch was minimal and the tranny didn’t want assistance. Also – the fire department came because the police forgot to turn the suspect’s car off so it overheated. All told, there were at least 50 firemen, EMTs and police who responded because some guy/girl got punched in the nose. Completely over the top!

With that said, we have two options. We can allow what happened on the Fairmont Streets of the world to keep happening. Or you can stir things up and take a different approach. I guarantee you that if we stay on this path, 50 years from now we will be having the same petty shootouts between rival drug dealers.

I don’t even think telling people to stop doing drugs is a viable option. It is none of the government’s business what you do as long as you do not put anyone else at risk (i.e. driving drunk/high).

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ok, but let’s look how well that works with alcohol. How many times have you seen someone at a club that sells liquor get roughed up and beat up by bouncers rather than just calling the police.

Are you going to say that liquor distributors and nightclub owners never get into shootouts over turf? I knew a family that worked in cigarette machine distribution and almost nothing about their business was above board.

I truly do believe my Atlantic City example is accurate- legalize it and be prepared to wallow in businesses as above board as casinos, bars and liquor stores.