Just Say Yes

[mikesilvia]

If you have kids, you most likely prayed hard that they would avoid drugs and alcohol. Once a child becomes intoxicated, childhood is over. The young person will never be the same again.Thus, a sane society discourages...

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[JustAlex]

I'm going to have tons of fun with this one....

If you have kids, you most likely prayed hard that they would avoid drugs and alcohol. Once a child becomes intoxicated, childhood is over.

No Bill, Childhood ends with a corresponding age....

With almost 30 million Americans currently categorized as "substance abusers," you would think that Nancy Reagan's "Just Say No" campaign, which launched in 1983, would be resurrected. But saying no is not what America in 2013 is all about. Saying yes to whatever you want to do is the rule of the day.

You see Bill....we live in a society where people are free to do as they please with their bodies. (well there are some things that are illegal, but they really shouldn't be).

Anyways, whether or not these things cause the person harm simply does not matter because they are the masters of their own body and you have NO RIGHT to tell them what they can and can't do with it.

Washington State and Colorado have legalized the use of marijuana, and many Americans are celebrating. As Bob Dylan once sang: "Everybody must get stoned!" The usual excuses are put forth: It's a freedom issue. We can tax the drug to generate revenue. It will get the criminal element out of it.

Wow Bill....You are capable of making a good point!

But the truth is that legalized pot (or drugs of any kind) creates massive unintended consequences.

I take it back, you're too stupid to understand that just because something can create a bad consequence doesn't mean you should ban it......like guns they create a LOT of "unintended consequences" wouldn't you agree Bill?

So the solution is not to ban.....it's to....(I know you hate this word Bill, but I'm gonna say it).....REGULATE IT!

--In Holland, so many problems arose from pot being sold in "coffee shops" that a law banning the sale of cannabis to "foreigners" was passed. It seems the streets of Amsterdam, in particular, have become saturated with stoned people doing things outside that should be done inside.

Wow, so you love to misinform people on the internet too?

Unfortunately for you most people who use the internet are NOT the mindless idiots who watch your show.

http://www.amsterdam.info/coffee-shop-news/

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/02/wo...open.html?_r=0

^Here you go....as you can see the mayor of Amsterdam will NOT ban tourists or "foreigners" as you called it to enter coffee shops. Furthermore, he has said that these people do NOT create a disturbance to the city.....and if they do or have, it's probably because they (the tourists) come from places like the U.S where they are paranoid about being caught with a stupid plant that they don't know how to act in a country that doesn't care if people smoke something that is many times less harmful than Tobacco!!!

-The Netherlands recently passed a new law, forbidding children from smoking pot in school. That's right, some of the urchins were getting high between classes. One teacher told the press it's hard to stop that when pot is being sold legally across the street where hard-core drug addicts buy it and then sell it to the kids in order to get heroin money.

Wow, I'm not sure where to begin.

First of all, there are NO schools in Netherlands that allow any students to smoke weed in school. The reason they made it "illegal" to smoke weed in school is more of a way to make it official.

Think of schools in America where they are called "drug free zones"......lol, as if there were such a thing as a legal "drug zone"!

Secondly, "drug addicts".....wow, that's a first. Because almost NO ONE becomes addicted to marijuana since it's NOT an addictive drug.

You can read more here: http://www.thestar.com/news/world/ar...or-netherlands

--In Portugal, they have legalized all drugs. The result: Drug-related homicides have increased by 40 percent. Drug overdoses are up by 30 percent.

Mind showing me where you got those stats from Bill?

Because I can actually show you stats of how the decriminalization of drugs in Portugal has indeed WORKED! (BTW Bill you moronic buffoon....they did NOT legalize drugs, there's a HUGE difference between "decriminalization" and "legalization"!)

http://www.businessinsider.com/portu...n-works-2012-7

^There has been a MAJOR reduction of addicts.....reports show up to 50%

Portugal's drug usage is also one of the LOWEST in the EU!

Also, Drug related diseases and STD's including OVERDOSES have been reduced even lower than usage rates!!! (Bill you are a lying sack of potatoes!)

--In Switzerland, drug-related deaths doubled and the health care system was overwhelmed after heroin was made legal in Zurich. The law was rescinded.

Unreal.....this is just a straight up lie right here and since some of the IDIOTS who read the nonsense O'Reilly says, can't do their own research they'll swallow up all this garbage!!

http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/...69O3VI20101025

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/44417.php

^The Swiss drug policy is actually a great model according to experts.

They exchange needles with clean ones and provide free methadone and the results have led to lower deaths, while crime rates have DECREASED!

Fine with me. I'll risk the stigma. According to the federal government, 8,400 Americans begin using drugs every day, half of them under the age of 18. And 68 percent of folks who become addicted to drugs begin with marijuana. Get the picture?

NO! I don't get the picture, you lied or misinformed about everything you said and anyone can easily look up the REAL information the way I did.

Furthermore, here at the end you make a the same old tired argument that marijuana is a "gateway drug".

That has been debunked a million years ago, but then again in your world facts are things you make up, so it doesn't matter!

[mugatu471]

Ethered.

[centrehice]

If you have kids, you most likely prayed hard that they would avoid drugs and alcohol. Once a child becomes intoxicated, childhood is over. The young person will never be the same again.Thus, a sane society discourages...

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I'm sensible, I don't pray.

[Wickabee]

I don't want my kids to avoid drugs and alcohol. I want them to be informed and logical so they can make smart decisions regarding drugs and alcohol.
Also, if I did want them to avoid drugs and alcohol and all I did was pray and shield them from drugs and alcohol, I'd be a pretty lousy parent.

[ajcorleone]

I have to agree praying is not enough,educating your children of the bad of alcohol and drugs is a good way to learn.

[shrewsbury]

educate then pray

[Wickabee]

Pray if you want to, but it is the unnecessary of the two.

[JustAlex]

Pray?

According to the christian god....he has given us "free will" which means that he CAN'T interfere with our lives, because that is a direct violation of "free will".

When you pray, you are asking for divine intervention.....do you see the problem?


OH WAIT.....that's right, the Christian god does NOT follow logic, therefore he has given us free will but he can intervene at the same time.

Yup...that makes sense.

[shrewsbury]

alex, again you show your limited knowledge and bias opinion of Christianity. Prayer simply means we are talking to God, confiding in Him, venting with Him, not all of us are asking for favors. Personally, even if God did favors, I am sure I am unworthy of getting one. I view prayer as my acknowledging Him and try to keep Him on my mind as much as possible, helps me stay focused.

if you are using logic, it seems to be flawed.

and funny how you will use free will when you are trying to put something down, otherwise you say it can't exist.