By MICHAEL FELBERBAUM
AP Business Writer
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson says marijuana should be legalized and treated like alcohol because the government’s war on drugs has failed.
The outspoken evangelical Christian and host of “The 700 Club” on the Virginia Beach-based Christian Broadcasting Network he founded said the war on drugs is costing taxpayers billions of dollars. He said people should not be sent to prison for marijuana possession.
The 81-year-old first became a self-proclaimed “hero of the hippie culture” in 2010 when he called for ending mandatory prison sentences for marijuana possession convictions.
“I just think it’s shocking how many of these young people wind up in prison and they get turned into hardcore criminals because they had a possession of a very small amount of a controlled substance,” Robertson said on his show March 1. “The whole thing is crazy. We’ve said, `Well, we’re conservatives, we’re tough on crime.’ That’s baloney.”
Robertson’s support for legalizing pot appeared in a New York Times (http://trade.cc/auwm ) story published Thursday. His spokesman confirmed to The Associated Press that Robertson supports legalization with regulation. Robertson was not made available for an interview.
“I really believe we should treat marijuana the way we treat beverage alcohol,” Robertson was quoted by the newspaper as saying. “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 this other substance is somehow criminal?”
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Damned hippies. Jake, are you going to put up with this shit!
You can visit TT Boy or RealityKings and talk to them about your Mom acting for them sPukey. As for me, I may have had your mom, I don’t know. But they’ll help you and your family out with what appears to be a pimping contract assistance “scene”, tho it sounds like admitted to criminal intent.
Not my taste. Never was. I like really sexy women. And generally reject ones with SOB such as yourself.
Good Luck!
wtf spook. do you really have a problem with legalizing pot? or do you simply not like the dude promoting it? wake up man. pat robertson is on your side.
quite possibly the ONLY coherent thought this “Christian Conservative Curmudgeon” has uttered in the last 20 years!
the dear departed steve jobs can have around 500 thousand peeps workin in slave factories and still be godlike. but pat robertson is the devil?
*100. A game fail again.
who called Robertson the “devil”? I certainly didn’t.
I simply stated that with a history of saying a lot of stupid shit (much of which he has later either retracted or apologized for) the senile old fart finally got one correct.
Weed is illegal along with other drugs because it is needed to fund black ops which cannot be on public financial record and compartmentalized so that there is plausible deniability for the leaders.
By making it illegal, they control a monopoly on it and make it much more expensive. And to top it all off, the FBI confiscates drugs and can elliminate the competition and confiscate the drugs and send it back on the street again when they need to fund a black ops project.
At least that is the story I would tell if I was a movie writer… And then tie it into a shadowy government controlled by aliens
Plausible.
Weirdo, I believe you’ll find black ops outlays/appropriations in the official federal budget. While the use of the funds is secret, I do not believe the allocations are.
That would not make an exciting movie
“The CIA has the unique legal ability among all US government departments and agencies to generate funds through appropriations of other federal government agencies and other sources “without regard to any provisions of law” and without regard to the intent behind Congressional appropriations.”
http://www1.american.edu/salla/Articles/BB-CIA.htm
You can read into that in different ways.
Interesting find Weirdo.
This comment has been removed by the CIAthe prison industry is why it is illegal. fuck loads of jobs and pensions are on the line. grand ideas of other sorts are just that.
I tend to agree with you on this fake. Not to mention many of our police officers and state troopers depend on the revenue.
we are falling apart as a socitey, giving all with out the means to pay. we are rome. we just dont know it.
I’m just goofing around with Jake.
If you must know, although I did my fair share in my youth, I’ve come to believe that potsmokers–and forgive me if I give offense here–are pretty lame. I’m not saying it’s fair of me, or that it’s not hypocritical, but one of the benefits of old age is to call out stupid things you did in your youth. That is the way of the world.
As for legalizing pot, that’s another issue. I’m probably for some kind of heavily-regulated legalization along the lines of tobacco, alcohol and firearms. Devil is in the details.
I also think that kids shouldn’t be exposed to violent movies and video-games or porn.
I even think that family life is important.
Most of all, I think that Blind Read couldn’t dish his way out of a paper bag.
I agree with everything you’ve said except for the last line about Blind Read.
It should be decriminalized federally and left to the states. MJ alone does not retard the average person’s life, a lack of discipline and vision does.