Palin on pot: Smoking a joint in your house no biggie

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Guess who isn't too uptight about about pot: Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. Key word there: Alaska. Ain't no thing there, as Comrade Fagan recently reminded us.

Mama Grizzly told the Fox Biz Network:

"If somebody's gonna to smoke a joint in their house and not do anybody any harm, then perhaps there are other things our cops should be looking at to engage in and try to clean up some of the other problems we have in society."

Palin is not for legalization. No. But she thinks the fuzz should "not concentrate on such a, relatively speaking, minimal problem we have in the country."

Even without endorsing legalization, Palin's comments could be a fever dream for the green-budders who want to pass a law in California to legalize and tax cannabis. To have a conservative bold-face name like Palin come out and say it's not a big deal...is a big deal.



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About the first sort of sane thing I have heard from her. Maybe she enjoys a bit of herb every once in a while?

[CBR]

1. I am pretty sure she has said that she has smoked before. nt

[rustydog]

108. Does that explain Tripp's name?

[YOY]

2. She certainly talks like a person who's incredibly baked.

& I mean INCREDIBLY baked.

[asdjrocky]

17. Not baked enough.

[global1]

28. Do You Mean - Half Baked?......nt

[YOY]

30. I've know hard-core stoners who made more sense than her.

n.t.

[asdjrocky]

34. LOL!

You're corresponding with one right now. Some don't, but I embrace the term stoner.

[spiritual_gunfighter]

65. +2

Another hardcore stoner here, I make sense sometimes as well.

[11 Bravo]

77. Yup. she makes Jeff Spicoli sound like Winston Churchill by comparison.

[hobbit709]

104. Cheech and Chong made more sense.

and they were easier to listen to.

[saltpoint]

105. LOL. True. Not baked enough, and the way wrong ingredients to

start with.

:hi:

[Twinguard]

64. Baked Alaskan.

[rustydog]

110. How much do you want to bet at least once she said

Baked Alaskian?

[berni_mccoy]

3. Wow, she may have just messed up her image with the RWers.

[Matariki]

35. I doubt it. They probably smoke pot too. Or do recreational Oxycontin at any rate. n/t

[ThomThom]

82. Almost every on gets high on something

pot, alcohol or religion, some get off from exercise, some get off from stealing money, some get off from helping people ...just name your poison

[mike_c]

4. Palin 2012!!!!!!!!

:rofl:

Seriously though, her stance makes no logical sense-- not that there's any surprise there. She says:

1) Smoking a little pot for personal enjoyment harms no one and should not be a legal issue.

2) Pot should not be legalized.

How can one reconcile those statements? In isolation, you can't. There isn't any reason for marijuana to be illegal if it is harmless. There are perhaps OTHER reasons-- not the least of which is jobs in the prison industrial complex-- but statement #1 undermines any implicit reasons to criminalize pot.

Palin is an utter dingbat-- even when we agree!

[eShirl]

8. Her brain would collapse if there were no such thing as cognitive dissonance. n/t

[mike_c]

16. OMG-- what a magnificent image!

Palin's brain prevented from collapsing into a singularity by the opposing force of constant cognitive dissonance! :rofl:

[pipi_k]

10. I think she might be using the same rationalization

as we have here in Mass...

It shouldn't be a legal issue as far as being on someone's record for life, but it should also not be legal.

Just not "criminal".


Whatever...she's still a dingbat.

:+

[zabet]

14. Yup....

decriminalization is a step in the right direction. Google just how many marijuana offenders are in prison and you will grasp totally why TPTB do not want legalization or decriminalization.

[OneTenthofOnePercent]

12. Support for decriminalization reconciles those two statements.

If pot were decriminalized, then private personal enjoyment of a little pot is not really a legal issue... however it would technically remain "illegal".

[mike_c]

20. but that's just a nonsensical dodge....

I don't think it reconciles them at all. If marijuana is harmless-- and it is certainly less harmful than the two most common legal recreational drugs, alcohol and tobacco-- it should not be illegal, technically or otherwise. What is the justification for keeping it "illegal?" The only one I can see is simple inertia, resistance to positive change.

[Oregone]

25. "What is the justification for keeping it "illegal?""

So that entrenched criminal cartels ingratiated with government officials can still justify their profit margins, being that manufacturing and distribution is illegal.

So that pharmaceutical & logging & textile companies do not have new market competition to their products

Etc.

[pipi_k]

29. that's the point...

there is no justification for keeping it illegal.

Or rationalization, either.


For the cuckoos who see it as "evil", it just IS evil. They were TOLD it's evil, so therefore it must be...

crazy...

[Bert]

89. baby steps

I think one big step to stopping this war would be to change the UN charters stance on marijuana being equivalent to heroin. One way I dont like the UN, though I am not as paranoid about is as most right wingers.

[dixiegrrrrl]

45. decriminalization is too big a word for Palin

tho it sounds as if that is what she meant.

[ThomThom]

84. so how does one acquire this substance that we can enjoy in the

privacy of our own home? Who will provide it? Doesn't make much sense to me. The black market would remain intact along with the violence.

[no limit]

18. Actually her position seems in line with what Obama thinks

Obama doesn't want to see it legalized but I don't think he wants law enforcement making a big deal out of it. Yes, it's not logical but that's what they believe for political reasons. And I'll give credit where credit is due.

[mike_c]

21. see # 20, above....

That stance makes no sense no matter who expresses it.

[no limit]

24. I totally agree with you. I'm just pointing out you can't really call her brain dead cause of this

Obama thinks the same damn thing.

[Oregone]

5. Broken clock syndrome

But much more sane than many sitting "liberals" on this issue alone

[Arkana]

6. Uh oh.

This is bad, because first of all I agree with her, and second of all it'll piss off the Puritans who are her adoring fans.

[FirstLight]

7. classic!

I loooove it...maybe this could make the conservatives in CA calm down and vote yes on the initiative? wouldn't that be a hoot?


I have always said that the best way to ease political tensions is to put them all in a room and get them high...nobody can fight in that mental state, except maybe for the last brownie... :rofl:

I can dig it :smoke:

[bullwinkle428]

9. The legalization movement needs her support like another fucking

oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico... :eyes:

[wmbrew0206]

60. Disagree.

While she may be the idiot that all of us know she is, the RW'ers take her very seriously.

Legalization is not going to happen with progressives and democrats supporting it alone. It is going to need broad support from both parties to get done. If Palin is the first RW politico to back this idea and it becomes acceptable to discuss for those on the right, this could be a big step forward.

[Bert]

90. disagree

The primary people agaisnt weed are old people(at about 75% against) and republicans(at about 75% against). Maybe if we could get more republicans to support at least decrim. we could joint the approx. 70% of democrats to get the total percentage from around 40-45% now to over 50%.

[rurallib]

11. UH, Sarry - it's people like you that keeps those drug wars going.

I'll leave it to Sarry to figure out why.

[LynneSin]

13. I think her kids graduated pot ages ago

What's her opinion of her kids doing oxycontin and meth?

[no limit]

19. You have evidance her kids are doing oxycotin and meth?

Or are you just pulling shit out of your ass?

[LynneSin]

23. Where were you when this story broke

http://www.nationalenquirer.com/celebrity/65407

And don't you dare say "Oh it's the National Enquirier" - remember they were right about John Edwards.

And don't forget they had a source too - Levi Johnston's mom

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/19/levi-johnstons-mom-drug-d_n_152524.html

[dionysus]

55. funny how some go out of their way to defend palins and teabaggers, innit?

[Maru Kitteh]

67. funny how some people are so very quick to believe any manner of trash

about not just political foes, but their children no less, just because they dislike the politics of the parent. It's EXACTLY like the right-wing nutjobs with their obsession with Big Dog not being Chelsea's father and all the other nonsense they come up with.

[Urban Prairie]

40. Dunno for certain about her kids doing those drugs in particular...

But during the campaign in fall of '08 there were a couple of members posting on You Tube videos featuring Sarah, who claimed that they lived in Wasilla and posted that Track, Bristol and her bf Levi were notoriously heavy drinkers and druggies. Alaska is obviously not immune to the spread of meth in rural areas of the US, and Levi's mom Sherry was busted for "second-degree misconduct involving a controlled substance, generally manufacturing or delivering drugs, as well as fourth-degree misconduct involving controlled substances, or possession.", but I never read anything about what happened to her afterward, and the result of her arrest.

Obviously their posts could have been complete BS, but one of the poster's profile pages did indicate that he lived in Wasilla, and signed up as a You Tube member about a year or so before Sarah became the GOP pick for VP, I now wish that I had bookmarked it.

[LynneSin]

44. National Enquirer came out about it and NE is getting reliable sources lately

they were the first to find out about John Edward's mistress.

[Raschel]

47. Actually they've had accurate info for years. They had info on the O.J. case that came out

weeks later in the newspapers. (anyway, as if newspapers are reliable).

[ThomThom]

86. I think the boy friend's mother got arrested for selling something?

meth?

[NNN0LHI]

15. That explains her 10 seconds of staring into space when she gets asked a question

I was wondering if she had epilepsy?

Turns out she was just shit faced.

Don

[Oregone]

26. Yeah, and the way she rambles mid sentence and makes no sense answering questions

Sorta like I do when stoned.

If she is an active toker, maybe I can see her in a totally new light. Half the shit she says could be a joke, and the other half, random muttering she cannot even follow. She may of went home, threw Dark Side on, and lit it up every night after campaigning with that ol grouch McCain.

[IDemo]

22. This has me stoked for the Tina Fey take on Sarajuana

[muffin1]

36. +1

:thumbsup:

[RainDog]

27. good for her

I hope this makes her fundie supporter heads explode and helps to make the case for ending the drug war (she, like Obama, is not going to come out in support of legalization b/c of the major stick up the asses of too many Americans who have swallowed the drug war bullshit... the govt is in a strange place... are they going to admit they've been lying assholes and ruined untold lives for decades? - no. the govt is too worthless to do something that is morally right.

so instead you get pols dancing around the issue.

but, if this makes her fundie worshippers face some facts, then at least she can do something good with her carnival barker show.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

31. Sarajuana?

[Raschel]

48. Sarah Jane?

[Occulus]

56. Sarah Jane Smith?

[AnArmyVeteran]

74. LOL

[Caliman73]

87. Play on Marijuana and Sarah

Marijuana- Mari + Sara = Sarajuana

[Ozymanithrax]

32. Considering her similiarities in mental abilitiers to Reverend Jim Ignatowski...

I'd say she has enjoyed herbs in her living room on many occassions.

[Blue_In_AK]

33. Alaska has had virtually legalized pot since 1975.

It's not surprising that she would say this. Everybody gets high up here.

[Bert]

91. There are reasons for Alaska

First off it is isolated from the US and has a low population density. If only we had laws like that in the lower 48 we would be on the road to legalization.

[Blue_In_AK]

99. The main thing that led to the Alaska Supreme Court ruling

in Ravin v. State, 537 P.2d 494 (Alaska 1975) is the very strong privacy clause in our state constitution. You can read the decision here: http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/ravin.html This decision came down the very month I moved to Alaska. I knew I'd found home. :rofl:

Irwin Ravin, who was himself a lawyer, just passed away a couple of months ago. He's an Alaskan hero. :smoke: http://homernews.com/stories/041410/news_1_003.shtml

[Booster]

37. OMG, I've got to make a dr's appt. I AGREE WITH PALIN on

something. That scares the shit out of me.

[krabigirl]

38. I saw some (barf) clip of glen beck saying to legalize it. Maybe it's the new fox meme. Ro

I doubt it willl stick...the christian conservatives will freak out.

[fishbulb703]

57. One good thing about the last decade has been the push of conservatism towards libertarianism

[Bert]

92. Wonder about that

I knew some christians who were way into weed, they were liberal and younger christians though, also for gay rights. I think some christians dont like anyone having any kind of pleasure that is separate from their version of god, hence their control over sexual issues and involvement with prohibition. Though I could make a much better argument for alchohol and tobacco prohibition than for weed.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

39. There must be a pot bust somewhere among her brood.

[jazzelle]

41. Maybe a little weed would mellow out her sorry ass ?

she finally gets it rigt

sarah BONG-HIT

[old mark]

42. Does anyone think Palin is a serious stoner?

Or is she just a natural born dumbass?


mark

[AnArmyVeteran]

75. Doesn't it take two brain cells to be able to get stoned? Palin is incapable of having a synapse.

A one-celled amoeba are more functional than Sarah Palin.

[jazzelle]

85. There isnt enough weed in the universe to be that stupid

nt

[Caretha]

96. You seriously ask that?

Have you ever heard her ramble on and on and never complete a thought?

She & the 'Dude' have probably been toking for years man. It's the only explanation.

[old mark]

101. Well, I used to toke for several years, have not for almost 30 years...

In her case, I favor the "dropped on her head repeatedly" theory...probably on purpose, too.

:silly:

mark

[Javaman]

43. Big deal. since when did we ever mistake her for being anything other than a libertarian.

you know what a libertarian is right? a pot smoking repuke.

[Warren DeMontague]

46. She's right. Unfortunately, the Authoritarian Right Wing she represents wants none of that.

And she also supports putting a police presence in 150 Million American Uterii, pretty squarely knocking out any "libertarian" labeling that might apply, here.

[SpiralHawk]

49. Palin the Pothead

fer sure

[EOTE]

50. Holy crap. I guess even a broken clock is right once every couple of years.

We're talking about a seriously broken clock here.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

51. That explains everything from her. nt

[shanti]

52. wow

she's only 99% stupid now...

[Soylent Brice]

53. i'm speechless. n/t

[ecstatic]

54. This should warm the hearts of the pot smokers who don't intend on voting for Obama

in 2012. I guess Palin won't be so bad after all. Plus she's hot! :sarcasm: :eyes:

[Maru Kitteh]

58. Well. This should make her a DU cool kid in no time at all.

[Warren DeMontague]

68. On this particular issue, she's right.

You don't agree?

[deutsey]

59. Feel...universe...breaking apart...and imploding

:nuke:

[MisterP]

61. they don't call them "dope-smoking Republicans" for nothing

they also don't call them "unhinged rifle-stroking selfish man-child welfare-taking prats" for nothing

[KamaAina]

62. Looks like she can see Amsterdam from her house, too

:P

[Kokonoe]

63. The kind of republican you would want to smoke a joint with.

PALIN 20!2

[Name removed]

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[Blue Owl]

69. Chill baby, chill

As much as I hate the rabid right-wing GOP, I think they just budged a tiny bit in a pro-hemp direction.

Now that is a big deal.

[Rex]

70. Well since she is a Repuke there can only be one reason

SHE or someone in her family smokes dope in the house! Otherwise she would hate pot and the people who smoke, as per Repuke brainthink.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

80. Tawd gets my vote.

And I don't blame the guy one bit, living with Sister Sarah and all.

[RagAss]

71. Yes! Sarah 2012 ! ...Who needs this democracy shit !

[harry_pothead]

72. For the first time ever, I think I'm gonna take Palin's advice on something.

Right now.

[cliffordu]

73. So apparently she's going for the stoner/horndog audience

[ironic name]

76. Good move

She knows someone would need to be at least a little bit high for what she says to make sense

[RagAss]

78. Come to think of it...that may be the key !

[Urban Prairie]

79. Even if Palin is in favor of decriminalizing smoking pot

in the privacy of one's home, she still would also be in favor of making it so the pot smoker's "home" is solely comprised of a cardboard box in an alley, if he or she is receiving any form of government-provided "socialist" entitlements.

I despise the grifter from the tips of her painted toenails to the top of her coiffed head.

[jmowreader]

81. Well, this is true...

but polydrug use like Palin appears to be suffering from is a different story.

[spanone]

83. i don't care about her opinion on anything. anything.

no offense to poster....

[JBoy]

88. Levi's glad to hear that. He's got the bong bubbling over at Bristol's.

[Robeson]

93. She's wrong...

...it should be legalized.

[Johonny]

95. of course

Her argument that we should have laws but just ignore them selectively is laughably stupid. For instance that's basically what is happening with immigration right now... and she's for that right. Oh she's totally against that. If the laws not worth enforcing, it's not worth being a law.

[Sebastian Doyle]

94. Moosealini's certainly smoked a few joints in her time

She looks high to me in this pic. And I'm reasonably certain I see a lighter and some ZigZags in front of her in this pic. Probably a baggie of weed too, but that's not as clear.....

[TK421]

97. She should probably smoke more...probably sound more intelligent than she really is n/t

[jazzelle]

98. " i see the planet Krypton from my house....far out , man"

stupid dipshit

[AnnieBW]

100. Sorry, Sarah

The word isn't "biggie", it's "fattie"!

:hippie:

[gauguin57]

102. This is Sarah Palin's brain. This is Sarah Palin's brain on drugs. Any questions?

[meow mix]

103. as a single issue voter this strikes me extremely hard... palin is correct on this.

and our guys are a bunch of assholes about it.

[peekaloo]

106. Jackie Treehorn treats objects like women, man!

the Dude derides

[SpiralHawk]

107. PotHeadery is a RepubliBagger Family Value?

Who knew?

[D23MIURG23]

109. I'm glad she said it, but I'd hate to see people aggrandize her for it.

We don't need her to gain any credibility.