Ben Carson: I would intensify the war on drugs if elected

Discussion in 'Marijuana News' started by ogderp, Oct 28, 2015.

  1. Hey everyone, just wanted to share his article before tomorrow night's debate and for those unaware. So if you support Ben Carson, you might wanna reconsider if you support marijuana legalization. I think that he probably has a lot of big pharma buddies and probably wants to help them out if he becomes president. Check out the article below:


    http://www.theweedblog.com/presidential-candidate-dr-ben-carson-i-would-intensify-the-war-on-drugs/



    If you have read my little bio blurb at the bottom of my articles, then you are aware that I have a degree in public policy. I have always been interested in politics, and Presidential election year cycles are like the poly sci nerd Olympics to me. There is something about the campaign battle that gets me excited. Admittedly, I look at campaigns differently than most people because I don't get as attached to candidates as easily as most people it seems.
    On the Republican side, businessman Donald Trump has led in the polls for quite sometime. That make some people shocked, some people sad, and regardless of how I feel about Donald Trump as a person, I found it fascinating that he could hold the top position in GOP Presidential candidate polls for so long without throwing out too many actual policy positions. Those days may be numbered though, because all the recent polls I've seen shows retired neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson in the lead.
    Dr. Carson has never been elected to public office. Whenever there is someone new atop the polls, I think it's very natural for cannabis consumers, reformers, and industry members to ask the obvious question, ‘How does the candidate feel about marijuana policy?' That could also just as easily be the question of, ‘How does the candidate feel about the war on drugs?' So how does Ben Carson feel about marijuana policy, and the larger war on drugs? To answer that question, I give you an excerpt from an interview that Dr. Carson did recently with conservative media member Glenn Beck, via The Atlantic:


    Glenn Beck: Do you continue the War on Drugs?
    Ben Carson: Absolutely.
    Beck: You do?
    Carson: I intensify it.
    Beck: Let me ask you a question. I mean, it doesn't seem to be working now.
    Carson: Yeah, well, go down to the border in Arizona like I was a few weeks ago. I mean, it's an open highway. And the federal government isn't doing anything to stop it.
    Beck: Okay. Legalize marijuana?
    Carson: I disagree with it.


    Poll after poll shows that a growing number of Americans want the drug war to be replaced with a public policy that isn't such a failure. Americans feel that the war on drugs has been an absolute failure, and it doesn't take much research to hammer home that point. The math is clear, the war on drugs has failed. The money that has been spent on the war on drugs has grown exponentially over time, yet consumption rates have remained the same. So why does Dr. Carson want to ‘intensify' it?
    Ben Carson has made many comments in the past about marijuana policy. The always hardworking activist Tom Angell wrote an article on Marijuana.Com that lists many of them, in addition to marijuana policy positions taken by the other candidates (some of which have dropped out since the article was published in April). Below are a couple of quotes pulled from that article. I strongly urge you to check out the whole article though, it's the most comprehensive article on the internet in regards to the candidates and how they feel about marijuana:
    Similarly, he told Fox News that, “I think medical use of marijuana in compassionate cases certainly has been proven to be useful.” But he went on to say that “marijuana is what's known as a gateway drug. It tends to be a starter drug for people who move onto heavier duty drugs - sometimes legal, sometimes illegal - and I don't think this is something that we really want for our society. You know, we're gradually just removing all the barriers to hedonistic activity.”
    Carson has also argued that marijuana use has long-term consequences. “We have known for a long time that people who engage in such activities can have flashbacks months and years after usage, that a lot of their abilities can be impaired at the time of use,” he told NewsMax TV. “So why would we throw into the mix something else that can impair people? We have enough impaired people already.”
    Carson doesn't think the federal government should let states implement legalization without interference. ”Regular exposure to marijuana in the developing brain has been demonstrated definitively to result in decreased IQ. And the last thing we need is a bunch of people running around with decreased IQ,” he said at a press conference in Denver.
    On the off chance that Dr. Carson ever reads this article, I'd like to point out that even the person that coined the term ‘gateway drug' doesn't believe that marijuana is truly a gateway drug anymore. Her research says that nicotine, and not marijuana, is more of a gateway drug for youth. Also, on that whole ‘marijuana flashback thing,' I have been consuming marijuana for a long time (over two decades), and I've posted well over 10,000 articles about marijuana on this blog in the last six years, and fielded who knows how many e-mails, and I've never heard of someone having a marijuana flashback. I would LOVE to see some evidence to back up what Dr. Carson is talking about. And finally, marijuana does not hurt people's brains like Dr. Carson claims. For a GREAT article on that, click this link here.
     
  2. he is a cunt
     
  3. Of course he will, it is opposite of what the people want, typical republican smh
     
  4. top of the gop dung pile isn't something to be proud of...but that hasn't stopped today's right wing political puppets from fighting for the position.
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  5. Don't you know that liberals can be republican and conservatives can be democrats?

    They are all politicians, meaning they are full of empty promises, they just want to tell you what you want to hear in efforts to attain dominance.

    True government is not an external force, it is an internal power and the true community between the true people, not the hollow fake ass 2 faced governmental psychopaths referred to as "we the people" as in persona as in mask as in false truths.

    There is a difference between people (1 dimensional perspective) and human be-ings (multi dimensional).

    To be or not to be that is the question..

    Are we people or humans beings.. Perhaps both, or maybe none of the above. What about all of the above including none of the above, just a glimpse of true reality there and not this fake ass society game.

    Society is designed to keep us enslaved. Let us be, or else we will be no different than sophisticated cavemen.

    The USA is not united at all, we should call this country 50 states, this is just the sliver of the tip of the iceberg. Don't be stupid. Don't waste your time with real shit if you have the consciousness of a marble.

    Reality > Society
     
  6. ol' Mumbles Magoo better be careful that hubris does not bite him in his crazy ass...


    here is a challenge for y'all...go look up some of the interviews, etc that Michael Jackson gave later in his life before he passed away huffing anesthesia...watch his mannerisms and speech patterns...


    now watch Carson interviews....


    notice anything?


    telling you...Carson is on the MJ dope...


    additionally, the original poster here made a good observation....as a doc, Carson either sides with patients and wants them to have relief (pro-pot) or he wants to be a big pharma shill (anti pot)...its pretty clear which position he has taken


    my final analysis: crazy as a shithouse rat, a true and hardcore drug addict, hypocrite, sell out...

     
  7. I am not a fan of Carson's for far more reasons that this particular issue. It is frustrating when otherwise viable candidates turn into candidates who someone will absolutely not vote for based solely upon one issue though. Single-issue voters are, unfortunately, part of the reason we have some real shitbags that get elected. Obviously another big part is the uninformed voters who look only at a letter behind the name or color of the candidate's skin...
     
  8. Well after watching tonight's GOP debate, I was disappointed but not too surprised when the topic of marijuana legalization got brought up. They only asked John Kasich about it and how he feels about Colorado bringing in a lot of new tax dollars from legalization, and this is basically how it went: "Drugs are bad mkay? We shouldn't be sending children mixed messages about drugs." Then he just babbled on about his tax plan and how America should handle taxation. He said pretty much nothing about states reforming their marijuana laws and what he said was the same BS propaganda that has been repeated for decades. But I was even more disappointed that they only asked a very low polling candidate like him to weigh in on legalization instead of asking all of them to weigh in on this issue instead.
     
  9. Glenn Beck: Do you continue the War on Drugs?
    Ben Carson: Absolutely.
    Beck: You do?
    Carson: I intensify it.
    Beck: Let me ask you a question. I mean, it doesn't seem to be working now.
    Carson: Yeah, well, go down to the border in Arizona like I was a few weeks ago. I mean, it's an open highway. And the federal government isn't doing anything to stop it.
    Beck: Okay. Legalize marijuana?
    Carson: I disagree with it.
    Beck: Are you a complete asshole?
    Carson: Yes, at least the polls tell me that I am.
    Beck: Why should marijuana be kept illegal?
    Carson: Because I am a closed minded dipshit that wants to control the USA. Marijuana legalization means free spirit thinking. No way. Not on my watch.
    Beck: What is your foriegn policy?
    Carson: Nuke em all. Especially the middle East and Mexico.
    Beck: And your domestic policy?
    Carson. Control the poor. Kill em all. I mean, fuck em....ya know what i mean?


    This reply was written ficticoucly for shits and giggles. Carson and Beck never actually had this conversation.


     

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