*booze

http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2012/06/25/on-booze-meth-suicide-and-goproud

Found this vid with this Savage Blog. Interesting reading, per usual.

Cart full of liquor. Smart play. >> ^lurgee:

upvote for bewbs~n~booze @1:18

upvote for bewbs~n~booze @1:18

Does it run on booze?

Yeah legalize it.

It's ridiculous how much money is spent trying to combat a substance that is in more ways than not safer or has greater benefits than alcohol. Estimates vary but most reviews I've seen range the cost of combating such a 'drug' as more than $10 billion per year in the US alone.

Example:
2010 had the US spend $15+ billion at Federal level and another $25+ at state level on the war on drugs.
That's $40 billion that could go towards medical, social, education programs, or even to work towards paying off some depts.

This site's stats seem to be including more than marijuana, but at near the end of April 2012, the total is already over $12 billion, almost 13.
http://www.drugsense.org/cms/wodclock

An estimated 50% give/take of citizens have used or use the substance.

Supply and demand encourage drug syndicates to form and become more ruthless in their enterprises, the prohibition on alcohol is a decent example.

The substance when consumed is significantly safer with heavy machinery like public driving etc than alcohol (not saying that driving stoned should be encouraged, but far less dangerous then alcohol), and it's common place behavioral effects leave the consumer with greater control re social behavior and better rational processing opposed to alcohol when high levels of the substances are compared.
Not trying to smash booze, just highlighting that if 1 is acceptable, then the other dam well should be as well.

Governments allow smoking Tabasco to be legal because of the taxation/financial benefits despite the well known and documented issues with the substance.

The medicinal properties alone should be enough to give the substance leeway that most other recreational drugs wouldn't receive.

Rather than spending money against it, regulating it would make it safer for use while also turning a profit for the government and being legal it could then be taxed to further the financial return.

As far as i know, no one has ever died from an overdose of marijuana.

I personally haven't used it for a few years (save the rare one-off opportunistic occasions) but am a strong advocate that it's a good and/or reasonable substance for personal use.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'mike molloy, stephen fry, alan davies, jimmy carr, free booze' to 'durable, mike molloy, stephen fry, alan davies, jimmy carr, free booze' - edited by calvados

You're acting as if the bond holders have been completely unwilling to work with Greece. They're willing to forgive more than half the debt if the Greeks would be willing to take a 25% pay cut. I know it hurts, but there has to be some shared responsibility.
>> ^artful_codger:

yep, the kid lied about his age to get into the nightclub, but once in there was plied with cheap booze by the Barman because he got a nice bonus at the end of the week, based on how much alcohol he sold.

yep, the kid lied about his age to get into the nightclub, but once in there was plied with cheap booze by the Barman because he got a nice bonus at the end of the week, based on how much alcohol he sold.

A couple of things about Australia Day:

http://www.theage.com.au/wa-news/australia-day-car-flag-flyers-racist-20120123-1qdoi.html

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-01-24/booze-violence-to-peak-on-australia-day/3789270

How high are the taxes that support this system? Is it federal, state, or both?

What percentage of food stampers could be considered gaming the system and/or generationally living off the system?

What percentage immediately sells or trades the cards for drugs or booze?

Unless 'SS' can throw down some hard facts and provide perspective, there's little reason to be moved either way.

Well, Kennedy's father (Joe) was a bootlegger of booze during prohibition with strong ties to the mob. I'm sure John and Bobby had some outstanding debts, as well, and their policies could likely be a red herring as to the reason for their assassinations.>> ^Sagemind:

Of course what he says makes absolute common sense, but what he says about being sat down and told, "No that's not how we do things" is also absolutely true.
In fact, I believe that's exactly what Kennedy tried to do is fix things and go against the establishment. Which would be why he was executed - and in such a public way - as a message to anyone who tried to do it again.

I can see why prim and proper folks of the time saw women doing this dance judged them as "Loose" corrupted by music and booze.

Now a days we have a different name for that kind of corruption. We call it "Fun"