Ron Paul answers a question from a medical marijuana patient

[Psycho4Bud]

Being older doesn't give your opinions legitimacy by default P4B. Not to say you don't tout some very good ones, but people of "more experience" stand on just about every point. In fact doesn't Ron Paul himself technically has more life experience than you?

Just making a point my wizard friend. I guess all of us old folks just get our information from Fox over our good morning coffee. Pretty humorous to say the least.

I'd have to see these votes you speak of, but I get the feeling you're relating to votes against government funding for abortion at the federal level; which would be more a constitutional issue than an abortion issue. .

It was discussed in here before. The bill before congress would state that life begins at conception and that states would then have the right to create laws based off from that. More/less...what sort of prison time is in store for those that do this under the wire.

And the "God hates fags" church people may have voted for George Bush, that doesn't mean George Bush believes "god hates fags".
Peacenick hippies are undoubtedly more prone to voting Democrat, that doesn't make Democrats peacenick hippies.
Stoners would be inclined to vote for Ron Paul, it doesn't make Ron Paul a stoner. You see what I'm getting at here? It's backward logic, saying those who vote for the candidate represent the candidates views in every respect..

Has he tried to distance himself from what main stream America would classify as the "conspiracy sector"? Since that's a good part of his backing I can see why he doesn't. BUT the little remarks about on how we provoked the wars is just enough to keep them on board but not so much as to be classified as a fruit loop.

His anti-constiutional claims regarding the war are to do with a foreign policy of non-interventionalism, not the actual process by which war was declared..

And were is that in the Constitution? In those days we were taking over the Indian Nation and running Mexico out of the Southwest.

Hemp and marijuana, while biologically related, are two very different matters. We're talking about medicine/recreational drugs versus indsutrial products for sails, clothing, ropes and the such. It makes a lot more sense to fix these government policy's toward hemp/cannabis one step at a time. The first step, obviously, is legalizing hemp.
If Paul was lying and not actually for legalizing marijuana, why would he bother saying it when it's political suicide?.

Once again...where is the bill in Congress? Many congressmen try to put through bills that they know have no chance in passing.....like his anti-abortion bills.

erm.... do you mean $400 or $400 million/billion? Personally I suppose tax incentives and investment in keeping industry/economy strong. Anyway, I'd have to see what spending specifically you believe is hypocritical. Ron Paul is against the big over-spending that is bankrupting the nation, he's not against all spending in any form. As he said in the last debate, "cutting income tax would result in a 1/3 loss in government revenue. As is, that would take us back to 2000 levels of spending. Are you saying this government can't get back to 2000 spending levels?".

Yeah, it was suppose to be million.......nice catch!:thumbsup:

How can anyone state that they're against over-spending but yet have pet projects in the tune of over $400 million, some that are directly for a market (the Shrimp Industy) that is in his area? If that's the case, then representatives from areas that are heavy into oil, coal, auto, etc...have the same halo over their heads in regards to spending? Isn't that the pot calling the kettle black?

I'm not experienced in economy enough to make a judgement on this. However I think I agree with you here. I disagree with most Ron Paul supporters claims that America has a dollar "backed by nothing". Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the dollar is backed by gross national material output. Production/consumption, output/input as a basis for financial output.

Exacty...and at the present we have a GDP over $13 trillion.

Have a good one!:s4: