Pat Robertson Endorses Decriminalization of Pot

[Jim Finnel]

Christian-conservative leader Pat Robertson is the newest supporter of the decriminalization of marijuana in America and is endorsing faith-based rehabilitation houses over mandatory sentences for minor drug offenses. Robertson, a one-time Republican presidential candidate, said on his 700 Club television show earlier this week that he's not exactly for the use of drugs, but believes criminalizing marijuana ruins young lives.

"Young people go into prisons; they go in as youths and come out as hardened criminals," Robertson said. "That's not a good thing. We're locking up people that have taken a couple puffs of marijuana and next thing you know they've got 10 years with mandatory sentences."

Robertson joins a growing list of conservatives to endorse the decriminalization of marijuana, including California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who decriminalized the drug in his state on October 1 based on economic realities and prison overcrowding. Last June, Sarah Palin also suggested prioritizing law enforcement efforts when it comes to decriminalizing marijuana and other non-violent drug crimes.

"If somebody's going to smoke a joint in their house and not do anybody else any harm, then perhaps there are other things that our cops should be looking at to engage in and try to clean up some of the other problems that we have in society that are appropriate for law enforcement to do and not concentrate on such a, relatively speaking, minimal problem that we have in the country," Palin said on Fox News.

Robertson referred to decriminalizing marijuana as getting "smart" on crime and said locking up offenders is not the answer.

"I just believe that criminalizing marijuana, criminalizing the possession of a few ounces of pot, that kind of thing it's just costing us a fortune and it's ruining young people," Robertson said.

Law Enforcement Against Prohibition executive director Neill Franklin said marijuana prohibition laws which send people to prison are immoral. "As a Christian, and as a former law enforcer who is now working to undo the damage these laws have done to our families and our communities, I'm glad to see Pat Robertson joining the chorus of faith leaders calling for reform," Franklin told Raw Story.

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[Siscokid]

This guy gives me the creeps!

 

[Captain Kronic]

I don't put much faith in Robertson but... it is another step in the right direction for decriminalization!
When the leaders of people get behind something... the people soon follow!

 

[420vape]

I don't put much faith in Robertson

As you shouldn't. Put your faith in God.

 

[dragontoker]

As you shouldn't. Put your faith in God.

Have faith in yourself not some fictional character used from the age of time to promote fear in an attempt to control the masses.

 

[GrowinGirl]

I would bet serious money that ol' Pat (and Sarah Palin for that matter) has taken up a MJ habit recently. Otherwise there is NO WAY that jackass of an authoritarian would support its decriminalization.

 

[Weed420]

Its hard to put faith in someone who believes in talking snakes, talking burning bushes and living in a big fish for 3 days. Its like trying to believe anything that comes out of the mouths of a person who wears magic underwear to protect himself from guns and knives like Romney. How about if we start doing something new and just base our laws on scientifically proven facts. That would be a nice change over the last 50 years.

 

[Weed Dude]

Never liked science they tell you stuff they made up.. Wait there is a planet out there even though we can't see it. because the star wobbled one millionth of an inch (Stupid geek left his keys lying next to the instrument and they had a magnetic key light on it). It is all about the money... How the H+++ you get a million dollar grant to study some fly sh@t . Another scam by big government...

 

[Weed Dude]

Your first step should be actually learning something about science, what is and is not being done within the methodology. No one has ever, for example, asserted that planets existed "because the star wobbled one millionth of an inch (Stupid geek left his keys lying next to the instrument and they had a magnetic key light on it)".
If scientists (WHICH scientists BTW?) are motivated by money then most of them are in the wrong line of work. They are not getting millions of dollars to "study some fly sh@t", whatever you meant by that. Also government ("big" or otherwise) does not govern science and science is not, nor can it be "another scam..." by such government.

EDIT: As for the story proper, we have to keep in mind that Pat Robertson made a fuck ton of money from blood diamonds in Africa. Now he is seeing profit to be made in marijuana. When there is more money to be made endorsing homosexuality instead of bashing it then he will have a sudden conversion in that direction as well.

Science is bull@@@@. Those dudes lie and scam like everyone else. They told us MT. ST.Helen's would take years for the area to recover WRONG. They said we were putting to much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere which was causing greenhouse effect. Wrong MT ST. Helen's dumped more CO2 into the atmosphere than the whole Industrial revolution. I am not saying science is useless it has made great strides but all this medicine they made what did they actually do? They took something from nature that man has known about for thousands of years. Which had medicinal benefits and found ways to synthesis it or extract it. Then changed it and add a bunch of filler crap that kills you.. Look at our beloved plant we have known that it has so many medicinal properties and uses. Yet now big pharma is stepping in trying to take it away and give use some commercialized water down genetically altered crap... Just saying...

 

[canabinerd]

In the words of Samuel Clemens, never argue with a fool, bystanders may not be able to tell the difference.

But anyway, I don't know which is scariest, prison or a focus on the family reeducation camp. Puts a piss shiver down my spine.