Let's fight back against the NDAA

[o.pwuaioc]

I smoke pot.

[Hatta]

I smoke pot.

Bwahahahahaha. All that vitriol about being persecuted and "I smoke pot" is all you've got? Good thing you're not a minority in a state where racism is unfortunately still alive in some regions or where Confederate flags were still flown over the capitol building until as recently as 2000.

I lived in Mississippi for half my life, so I've seen racism. It's true, I would not trade places with a rural Mississippi African American. But still, racism is not an official policy of the US government. Persecution of drug users is.

[Hobie-wan]

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

[BoringSupreez]

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

That's inconceivable!

[o.pwuaioc]

They prosecute, not persecute. When you're rounded up and sent off to a concentration camp or just outright shot, then you can say you're persecuted.

[Hobie-wan]

If pot users were really being persecuted (to use the non religious/race definition) then people wouldn't wear t-shirts and things with pot leaves on them for fear of being arrested or followed home. I don't think Jews ran around in 1940s Germany with a Star of David embroidered on their jacket.

[Jmustang1968]

I have been trying to avoid these political threads recently, as they are typically ridiculous and futile, but this one has become laughable... and I even support ones right to use marijuana, and think it should be legal as I think alcohol is a more dangerous intoxicant than weed. However, if one knowingly breaks a law you risk suffering the consequences.

[MrPopo]

I don't think Jews ran around in 1940s Germany with a Star of David embroidered on their jacket.

Actually, they did. But not by choice.

[o.pwuaioc]

I don't think Jews ran around in 1940s Germany with a Star of David embroidered on their jacket.

Actually, they did. But not by choice.

Up until a certain point...

[Hatta]

I don't know what you call imprisonment of people for harmless lifestyle choices, but it looks a lot like persecution from this end. I can't think of any other way to describe it.

However, if one knowingly breaks a law you risk suffering the consequences.

You could have said the same about interracial marriage in the 60s, or gay sex in the 40s. The point isn't that people should break the law and get away with it. The point is that the law itself is oppressive.