Goodbye Mr Howard

[Tom]

I expect Rudd to come out with a more progressive drug policy, but not immediately, probably after the new Senate is seated.

The cannbis laws that effect us as growers and users are controlled by the state governments, Rudd and the federal Labor Party have no real say in it.

 

[Luke Skywalker]

True, state laws enforce federal drug cheduling though, and the federal government has a lot of leeway in this matter. There's also the international treaties regarding illicit drugs.

 

Heck, they could use the corporations powers if they wanted to, apparently that's now a blank cheque to do what you want as a federal government.

[Al B. Fuct]

The cannbis laws that effect us as growers and users are controlled by the state governments, Rudd and the federal Labor Party have no real say in it.

 

 

That's a matter of some disappointment- NSW Labor is only slightly right of Mussolini. I'm sure Joh smiles on Iemma from his little cave in hell.

[Tom]

We need to start off our own country on an island where all we need to do is grow one big arsed outdoor crop each year.

 

Rudd is a practicing Baptist and and in the US that church is a supporter of medical marijuana, maybe he could get something done along those lines if they do take over the health system.

 

[loylty gets u nothing]

Tom for PM

i vote for tom

bil

[Al B. Fuct]

[...]a practicing Baptist and and in the US that church is a supporter of medical marijuana

 

Baptist churches in the US are not as centrally organised as are outfits like the Catholics and Episcopalians (Anglicans). They tend to be more individual entities, less able to muster numbers for political agendae. If US Baptist churches in general have a common political thread, it's conservativism; anti-drug, anti-gay marriage, anti-abortion, anti-Jew, anti-Muslim, etc.

 

There are a few Baptist churches which more resemble 'old-school Christianity' in their commitments to social justice issues (including pro-cannabis matters) over expressing what they think their flocks should hate, but they are much rarer birds in that flock.

[Dallas]

hahaha i second that billo..

Tom for PM.

[roid]

If US Baptist churches in general have a common political thread, it's conservativism; anti-drug, anti-gay marriage, anti-abortion, anti-Jew, anti-Muslim, etc.

 

Don't know about that anti-jew one. You sure of that? Seems to me Religious America is very PRO-Israel.

[iamnotacop]

Don't know about that anti-jew one. You sure of that? Seems to me Religious America is very PRO-Israel.

 

Yeah but every religion is a business, so therefore it is in their best interests to bag out other religions. From experience I know of no church/religion that practices tolerance towards other religions. They are all the same, if you are in another religion, and not ours, then you are in the wrong one.

 

I don't think that Religious America are for the Jewish community, but the Government is, because 'you don't bite the hand that feeds you'.