tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18542739.post116191852813563722..comments2024-01-05T09:33:41.964-05:00Comments on Dare Generation Diary: Up next... cigarette prohibition?Garret Overstreethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09591273708913985060noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18542739.post-26741238240614164082009-09-26T01:36:40.080-05:002009-09-26T01:36:40.080-05:00When cigarette prohibition goes into effect, and i...When cigarette prohibition goes into effect, and it WILL; mark my words...I am an unapologetic smoker with no intention of quitting soon, but I am also a cynic; I know the mass mob is dumb enough to fall for this kind of authoritarianism...<br /><br />When smoking becomes illegal, people will never smoke cigarettes again. Smoking a cigar or a cigarette leisurely will become a thing of the past...<br /><br />No, this is what will happen instead:New and far more deadly, and potent, tobacco-derived substances that are purified and refined for the street, will come into existence. Instead of smoking their nicotine fix, people will be snorting and injecting their nicotine fix, in huge doses. Imagine tens of thousands of tobacco plants crushed together, boiled, and refined using toxic substances like Benzene, and out comes a nifty little brown powder that is either freebased through a crack pipe or snorted.<br /><br />Think about it.<br /><br />People have a short memory. Remember when the Coca leaf was an innoculous little plant that was like a mild stimulant that could be chewed by Peruvian Indians or smoked by bearded Founding Fathers?<br /><br />Coca leaf in it's natural form is relatively weak. But take thousands of coca leaves, refine them with Benzene, and transport them in a vast organized crime network, and you get a very toxic and potent substance: Cocaine.<br /><br />Well couldn't the same thing happen with nicotine? What new street drugs will be created? Has anyone ever heard of the concept of overdosing on nicotine in the first try? Well they will. It will become a reality.<br /><br />Mark my words.<br /><br />Let me introduce the new concept:<br />The Super Cigarette. Crack-tine<br /><br />Which is not a cigarette at all, but a dangerous substance that is smoked through a crackpipe, injected, or snorted.<br /><br />Mark my words. It is coming. Death and jail is coming for millions. It's just a matter of time.alexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03344094885459500361noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18542739.post-1162177531206412022006-10-29T22:05:00.000-05:002006-10-29T22:05:00.000-05:00Ironic isn't it that we are now siding with the to...Ironic isn't it that we are now siding with the tobacco companies.<BR/><BR/>But true American freedom includes the freedom to (possibly) kill yourself slowly with tobacco. (Only about %33 of long term smokers get cancer, though most die a few years prematurely).<BR/><BR/>Everyone here knows that prohibition and the criminality associated with it is FAR worse than even tobacco (which is the most deadly drug). Criminalizing a drug cannot stop it. Only telling the truth about its effects can do that.<BR/><BR/>I don't think tobacco prohibition will actually happen though. Tobacco is too addictive. How the heck would they force everyone to suddenly quit? There would be riots and such. It just wouldn't work.<BR/><BR/>It is scary that so many people are thinking in the wrong direction about prohibitions though. It just means we need to get our message our louder and clearer.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18542739.post-1161957935878392242006-10-27T09:05:00.000-05:002006-10-27T09:05:00.000-05:00Law Professor Charles Whitebread very presciently ...Law Professor Charles Whitebread very presciently predicted nascent tobacco prohibition in his 1995 speech, <A HREF="http://www.druglibrary.org/SCHAFFER/history/whiteb1.htm" REL="nofollow">The History of the Non-Medical Use of Drugs in the United States</A>, presented before the California Judges Association.<BR/><BR/>His analogy in his Conclusion is particularly apt:<BR/><BR/><I><B>"Now, all you need, and here is my formula, for a new prohibition every time is what? We need an intractable, difficult, social, economic, or medical problem. But that is not enough. There has to be another thing. It has to divide by class --- by social or economic class, between US and THEM.<BR/><BR/>And so, here it comes. '<BR/><BR/>You know the Federal Government has been spending a lot of money since 1968 trying to persuade us not to smoke. And, indeed, the absolute numbers on smoking have declined very little. But, you know who has quit smoking, don't you? In gigantic numbers? The college-educated, that's who. The college-educated, that's who doesn't smoke. Who are they? Tomorrow's what? Movers and kickers, that's who. Tomorrow's movers and kickers don't smoke. Who does smoke? Oh, you know who smokes out of all proportion to their numbers in the society -- it is the people standing in your criminal courtrooms, that's who. Who are they? Tomorrow's moved and kicked, that's who.<BR/><BR/>And, there it is friends, once it divides between the movers and kickers and the moved and kicked it is all over and it will be all over very shortly."</B></I><BR/><BR/>And those very forces are aligning themselves, right now. <BR/><BR/>Doesn't <I><B>anybody</B></I> learn from history?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com