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In reply to the discussion: President Obama's puzzling silence on marijuana policy [View all]RainDog
(28,784 posts)have noted that one of the best ways to talk about this issue with conservatives is to note the waste of money for arrests for something less harmful than alcohol.
Barney Frank also owned George Will on Sunday when Frank noted that conservatives are all for big government when they can prohibit others' freedoms.
Those are the two lines of attack that conservatives need to answer.
...and they SHOULD have to answer them. Why don't we ever hear any of the Sunday talking heads ask about this colossal waste and attempt to infringe upon people's right to privacy, to the 9th amendments understanding that those things not enumerated in the constitution are allowed - which is why alcohol had to have an amendment to prohibit it, btw - but with Nixon, it was simply one more line in the southern strategy to go after minorities and young voters.