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Gary Johnson stands up to Sean Hannity over marijuana legalization * 3
    #14534571 - 05/30/11 06:21 AM (12 years, 9 months ago)

Gary Johnson stands up to Sean Hannity over marijuana legalization
The Baltimore Sun
May 28, 2011|By Luke Broadwater

Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson, a GOP candidate for president, refused to back down from Fox News' Sean Hannity on the issue of legalizing marijuana last night.

In a 20-minute segment on Hannity's show, Johnson fared relatively well in an interview with the host who oscillated between complimentary stances and antagonistic stances.

Hannity called Johnson a "lesser known" candidate who is a "big underdog," but was generally hospitable to Johnson's ideas -- except when it came to drug legalization.



"There's not one thing you've said so far that I disagree with," Hannity said, before getting into the decriminalization of drugs.

That's when Hannity said the discussion got "heated." 

"Half of what we spend on law enforcement, the courts and the prisons is drug related and to what end?" Johnson asked. "$70 billion per year. We're arresting 1.8 million people a year in this country. And, we now have 2.3 million people behind bars. We have the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world."

Johnson said he's evaluated the issue from a "cost-benefit analysis" standpoint and determined decriminalization to be the wisest route.

Johnson compared marijuana to alcohol and said there was a difference between the two.

"Marijuana is a lot safer than alcohol," he said.

Hannity disagreed, and later referred to Johnson's views on this issue as "repugnant" and a "moral destruction" to the "human soul."

He said he didn't want the state to become "a pusher" and create "a bunch of junkies."

Johnson then told Hannity that, statistically speaking, one of his two kids would use marijuana at some point in their lives -- and he would rather parents dealt with the issue, rather than the courts.

"I don't want our kids criminalized," Johnson said.

After Johnson brought up examples in Europe in which drug decriminalization was successful, Hannity said "we're not going to agree on this issue."

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Re: Gary Johnson stands up to Sean Hannity over marijuana legalization [Re: Odd_Nonposter]
    #14534606 - 05/30/11 06:46 AM (12 years, 9 months ago)

i would like to watch that. thanks for posting it

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Re: Gary Johnson stands up to Sean Hannity over marijuana legalization [Re: Odd_Nonposter] * 3
    #14534704 - 05/30/11 07:42 AM (12 years, 9 months ago)

Hannity, what a tool. His show is worse for the human soul than marijuana could ever be.

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Re: Gary Johnson stands up to Sean Hannity over marijuana legalization [Re: Smawrpg]
    #14534822 - 05/30/11 08:28 AM (12 years, 9 months ago)

So far, Gary Johnson and Ron Paul are my front runners...I hope these presidential candidates live up to how they present themselves.


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Re: Gary Johnson stands up to Sean Hannity over marijuana legalization [Re: Mushie23] * 1
    #14534952 - 05/30/11 09:26 AM (12 years, 9 months ago)

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Mushie23 said:
So far, Gary Johnson and Ron Paul are my front runners...I hope these presidential candidates live up to how they present themselves.



the more i read about ron paul the more i want to go get his name tattooed on my forehead, the national media and polls have done everything they can to keep him in the dark but his popularity has grown substantially as of late. I like Gary Johnson but Ron Paul is taking it to the next level.

i stumbled across this forum the other day
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/

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Re: Gary Johnson stands up to Sean Hannity over marijuana legalization [Re: Smawrpg]
    #14535116 - 05/30/11 10:15 AM (12 years, 9 months ago)

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Hannity, what a tool. His show is worse for the human soul than marijuana could ever be.





Heh indeed


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Re: Gary Johnson stands up to Sean Hannity over marijuana legalization [Re: Pilz]
    #14535122 - 05/30/11 10:17 AM (12 years, 9 months ago)

Here it is


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Re: Gary Johnson stands up to Sean Hannity over marijuana legalization [Re: webidiot2k4]
    #14535378 - 05/30/11 11:24 AM (12 years, 9 months ago)

Bah. F the politicians, smoke weed!

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Re: Gary Johnson stands up to Sean Hannity over marijuana legalization [Re: Odd_Nonposter]
    #14535651 - 05/30/11 12:22 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

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Re: Gary Johnson stands up to Sean Hannity over marijuana legalization [Re: runepanther]
    #14536192 - 05/30/11 02:02 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

Notice how this idiot pulls away from the marijuana issue almost immediately and focuses on the harder and potentially more dangerous drugs. "A" typical stupidity that marijuana leads to other drugs. This is what our politicians have wanted people to believe for ages. And you can see that the white yuppies that are running our country have fallen for this non-sense.  He also doesnt let Johnson so much as get a full sentence out then goes back to his " you want a country full of junkies" rhetoric.  What a douche! 

Even with powerful point like what they did over in other countries, He refuses to listen. Flat out stupidity. I like that Johnson kept cool and collected while trying to beat this dead horse.  Hannity acted very childish.  Again showing what our "elite" are made of.  I like this guy.


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Re: Gary Johnson stands up to Sean Hannity over marijuana legalization [Re: DoDahDay] * 1
    #14536350 - 05/30/11 02:39 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

America is already full of "junkies" anyway - nicotine, caffeine, SSRI, amphetamine, opiate, benzos and alcohol junkies.


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Re: Gary Johnson stands up to Sean Hannity over marijuana legalization [Re: Remix]
    #14536566 - 05/30/11 03:35 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

Almost anyone from fox news is gonna answer the issue of legalizing mj as the most destructive immoral saccreligous thing we can do to the USA, and when the TV host gets put in the conner, the last thing he'll say is think of the children. Never mind the fact will fill up our court systems with victimless crimes. Hannity probably still thinks after Nixon declared the war on drugs you can't find anyone who smokes the stuff.

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Re: Gary Johnson stands up to Sean Hannity over marijuana legalization [Re: Inspiration]
    #14536583 - 05/30/11 03:41 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

There's dumb.  There's stupid.  And then there's Sean Hannity.  He is to journalism what Brittney Spears is to female singing.  Both are famous.  Both are extremely poor at their craft.

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Re: Gary Johnson stands up to Sean Hannity over marijuana legalization [Re: Mushie23]
    #14536587 - 05/30/11 03:42 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

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Mushie23 said:
So far, Gary Johnson and Ron Paul are my front runners...I hope these presidential candidates live up to how they present themselves.



:ronpaul: I'm going with Ron Paul, I love how he's campaigning to bring back Freedom in the "Land of the Free".


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Re: Gary Johnson stands up to Sean Hannity over marijuana legalization [Re: EntheogenicPeace]
    #14536615 - 05/30/11 03:50 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

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Sean Hannity exemplifies the inherent hypocrisy of social conservatives who love to plaster the word freedom on anything & everything they can find, yet either lack the intellectual ability (or simply the desire) to understand that their subjective definition of the term (which in actually is much closer to fascism) contradicts the objective definition of the term, & that those who who adhere much more closely to the objective meaning of the term don't feel compelled to use the word 100 times per day (or per show) to describe themselves, & put in on bumper stickers.



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Sean Hannity exemplifies the inherent hypocrisy of social conservatives who love to plaster the word freedom on anything & everything they can find, yet either lack the intellectual ability (or simply the desire) to understand that their subjective definition of the term (which in actually is much closer to fascism) contradicts the objective definition of the term, & that those who who adhere much more closely to the objective meaning of the term don't feel compelled to use the word 100 times per day (or per show) to describe themselves, & put in on bumper stickers.




QFT. twice.

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Re: Gary Johnson stands up to Sean Hannity over marijuana legalization [Re: Me_Roy]
    #14536764 - 05/30/11 04:56 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

Ok this Johnson guy looks soft. He was not standing up to hannity he was talking sense and being too nice to the war monger, war criminal hannity.

Johnson only wants to legalize marijuana largely leaving the drug war in place. He should stand up for people's rights to digest whatever plants they want along with synthetic drugs used for recreational/ spiritual purposes. We have to publicly proclaim our right to use these plants and synthetic drugs and then we, not some opportunist politician, will start to put a stake in the heart of this drug war.

Here is the kind of group I am talking about like, share and participate  in this group  - https://www.facebook.com/pages/Union-of-Recreational-Drug-Users-of-America-caffeinenicotinealcohol-too/221785961167336?sk=info


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Re: Gary Johnson stands up to Sean Hannity over marijuana legalization [Re: dondoodle]
    #14536898 - 05/30/11 05:32 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

Who cares don it's more than you're doing, progression will take it one step at a time. If he does what you say "He should stand up for people's rights to digest whatever plants they want along with synthetic drugs used for recreational/ spiritual purposes." He'll lose for sure and no progress will happen. Most americans won't vote for someone will such radical ideas.

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Re: Gary Johnson stands up to Sean Hannity over marijuana legalization [Re: Harri]
    #14536925 - 05/30/11 05:38 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

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Who cares don it's more than you're doing, progression will take it one step at a time. If he does what you say "He should stand up for people's rights to digest whatever plants they want along with synthetic drugs used for recreational/ spiritual purposes." He'll lose for sure and no progress will happen. Most americans won't vote for someone will such radical ideas.





You have no idea what I do first off, check your mouth. Second off Johnson is not even slightly radical and he is going to lose for sure because the Republican party built the drug war with their democrat friends and they profit from it in a not so indirect way. Johnson was not in any way on this segment proposing ending the drug war. If he won't do it on his biggest propaganda appearance opportunities, FOX then I see him to a large extent supporting the drug war.


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Re: Gary Johnson stands up to Sean Hannity over marijuana legalization [Re: Harri]
    #14537097 - 05/30/11 06:19 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

What's the best move to move forward in ending the drug war, that comes across reasonable to the people of america? I take back what I said, I have no idea what you do.

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Re: Gary Johnson stands up to Sean Hannity over marijuana legalization [Re: Pilz]
    #14537960 - 05/30/11 09:17 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

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the more i read about ron paul the more i want to go get his name tattooed on my forehead, the national media and polls have done everything they can to keep him in the dark but his popularity has grown substantially as of late. I like Gary Johnson but Ron Paul is taking it to the next level.

i stumbled across this forum the other day
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/




Amen brother. I plan to walk across America this summer starting in California and ending in Washington to spread the great name of Ron Paul. I'm taking a trip to NC and when I get back it's on like a chicken bone. I am tired of the government stealing our freedom and civil rights. We are suppose to be free, but the old farts in Washington expect us to keep living the way they did and they are also against our views;therefore locking us up for personal choices we choose to make. This will be his last year to try and run, so get up and spread the word!


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