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This probably won't help but I will say it anyway: Pot impairs you and alcohol impairs you (and both together are worse than either separately). However to agree that both impair you doesn't mean both behave the same as regards to driving. Drunk people (some anyway) behave like they think they are ...

At least in regards to contracts to develop X weapons platform / system, the time lag is typically because the customer keeps wanting to modify or add to the program. Initially it would be "developing X will take Y number of years and Z expensive" as an approximate. Shortly afterward they want to st...

The reason why there are less deaths from pot smokers than drinkers is a drunk will run a stop sign and a pot smoker will wait for the stop sign to turn green. Umm yeah no. Alcohol is a poison to your body, doesn't take much to overpower your system and send you into shock, aka alcohol poisoning. C...

Yeah the winds of change are very easy to pick up on. Majority of voters want the WoD to stop which either means stop prosecuting cannabis possession or full on legalization. And honestly I don't see why conservatives would be against it. It's a viable free market product, you can run a legitimate b...

I can totally see the Democrats making this a 2016 election issue. That's going to hurt Republicans still attached to the old liberal substance control legislation. It's ironic, modern conservatives are defending an ancient prohibition-era piece of radical liberal legislation. Next thing we'll know,...

Pretty much on point. I'm part of that moderate / conservative fiscal crowd that also happens to be more "liberal" on social issues. I really don't much care for someone telling me what my morals should be. Social issues should be left up to the individual states to decide, hell most issues should b...

EX I abhor liberals and socialism as a rule yet I also value the decriminalization of cannabis. So I often find myself with strange political bedfellows. I am in a similar situation and I am frequently amused. When I go to firedoglake to discuss drug issues the most I do re: politics is show how th...

But at the time they were limited in what they could do. Now... there doesn't seem to be any limits, nothing too small for government to 'help' with, and no real way to tell them "Okay, no thank you, go the hell away and let us do for ourselves thank you kindly..." There is a way but it takes work ...

You don't choose to be hungry. Food isn't something you can walk away from if you're starving, yet there is a functioning market for it. Emergency care is a special case where you can't shop around, but there is a way to still not get screwed over: negotiate a price before you need it, possibly thr...

Now as to why free market healthcare can't work. For anything to work in a free market supply and demand need to have a natural method to equalize. In commodities this is simple, you vote with your dollar. If something is priced to high you simply chose to not buy it or pay for an alternative. In h...

Nope wrong half of the world. I happen to think that Europe is totally frick. But hey try again, you got two more attempts. Maybe by then the vitriol would of worked it's way out of your arteries and you might actually talk rather then slinging words like a drunk liberal at the after party of a fem...

Nope wrong half of the world. I happen to think that Europe is totally frick. But hey try again, you got two more attempts. Maybe by then the vitriol would of worked it's way out of your arteries and you might actually talk rather then slinging words like a drunk liberal at the after party of a femi...

This is going to get very VERY ugly in coming months with - continued failure of exchanges to work. - millions losing the insurance they had. - sticker shock from more expensive policies with higher deductibles. - low information people showing up at hospitals thinking they have coverage they don't...

Now guys, just because China and India are responsible for the majority of world CO2 levels isn't a reason for us to not destroy first world economies and send they're populations back to the medieval period. Sometimes I think that it's China who's funding some the more shrill of the alarmists, poss...

Yeah the only reason AGW picked up political steam is that people figured they could make a ton of money off it. I used to be pretty neutral about it until I heard an alarmist attempt to explain it. My first thought was "that violates the laws of thermodynamics", my second was "do any of these peopl...