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Laws we don't need.

Posted : 2/1/2007 5:12:54 PM

Here Billy Billy! JK.

But I'm wondering if there are really some laws out there that are truly not needed. My TV guide station has some Crazy Laws that flash on the screen once in a while. One of them is In Alaska You can't throw a moose out of a moving airplane at anytime. I mean really is there a big problem with this up there? Another one is You can't have a Gorilla in the back seat of your car. Can't remember where that one is, but does that mean you have to let your gorilla ride up front with you?

Apparenly Billy thinks Canada's gun laws are silly, I'd be interested in knowing what else there is out there.

Xebby

Posted : 2/1/2007 5:17:27 PM

NM has all kinds of crazy law but most are not enforced.

One I can remember offhand is there was a law that said a man and woman can not live in the same household unless married. First time a jealous ex-wife tried to enforce this on her ex and his new girlfriend it got tossed out the window.

Theres even stanger ones here but I just can't think of them.

ColleenC

Posted : 2/1/2007 5:23:51 PM

In Oklahoma, it is illegal to make ugly faces at your dog! Whaling is also illegal. If anyone can manage to go whaling in Oklahoma, I think they should be rewarded seeing as how this is a landlocked state! Tattoos used to be illegal until very recently. One day, I walked outside my apartment, and there was a tattoo shop right there! A ton of them popped up as soon as this law was repealed.

huskymom

Posted : 2/1/2007 5:26:41 PM

I seen something concerning that on Miami Ink. I thought that was stupid since, forcing Tatooist underground just means there are no governmental regulations on it. But again I suppose if your stupid enough to get a tatoo in some grungy underground parlor...You know what is best for you.

Xebby

Posted : 2/1/2007 5:49:50 PM

ORIGINAL: huskymom

I seen something concerning that on Miami Ink. I thought that was stupid since, forcing Tatooist underground just means there are no governmental regulations on it. But again I suppose if your stupid enough to get a tatoo in some grungy underground parlor...You know what is best for you.

Not to start an argument but that's how I view most of the illegal Drug laws as well. I think most make crime worse instead of helping it. I really think that most laws are very unnecessary and cause more harm than what they are trying to fix. I say make them legal and put a contorl over them.

espencer

Posted : 2/1/2007 5:57:48 PM

For me is stupid to need a prescription to buy some medicines, if i have a throat infecction i know that i need peniciline and i know i am not allergic, why do i need to pay the doctor to tell me what i already know and need?

So they dont let me buy some medicine that i need without prescription but they let me have as many guns i want in my house? that's ironic

Xebby

Posted : 2/1/2007 6:03:52 PM

I'll just cross-post this onto here becuse you just killed your other thred...

For me is stupid to need a prescription to buy some medicines, if i have a throat infecction i know that i need peniciline and i know i am not allergic, why do i need to pay the doctor to tell me what i already know and need?

Me:
Penicillin is a controlled drug for a reason. The more you take the more your body builds immunity to it. If given too much in your lifetime the drug is no longer useful to you. The Dr. is needed to monitor the amount you get so that it is not harmful to yourself. It's not as simple as say ibroprophin where you know how much you should take before you take it and the effects it will have on you.

I do believe that some medications should be over the counter and not in the pharmacy but for the most part I trust my Dr. He/She went to school for about 10 years just to know exactly what I need. I know that the stuff behind the counter was tested over and over till it was proven safe for me. The other stuff, eh is alright and if it doesn't help then I'll go to a Dr. If you have a throat ack and the stuff on the self isn't working for you then you should see a Dr. not just take a while guess at what you have. What if it isn't an infection at all? The you would be putting a drug into your body that it does not need.

gayle

Posted : 2/1/2007 6:06:03 PM

i do not smoke anymore, but i still think if alcohol is legal pot should be too. honestly, how many people get stoned and beat up their wives, or get in accidents. probably a few, but nothing in comparison to alcohol. they are too lazy to do that kinda stuff.

Xebby

Posted : 2/1/2007 6:11:08 PM

It use to be a law in NM that Native American could not buy alcohol (back when my grandparents were young[

]), during this time there was a higher rate of drunk Natives. As soon as the law was lifted the number of drunk Natives droped.

I think the same would be true for pot, things would not be so crazy for thoes who smoke pot if they would only make it legal.

espencer

Posted : 2/1/2007 6:17:49 PM

ORIGINAL: gaylemarie

i do not smoke anymore

Yeah right, i'm sure you dont [

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gayle

Posted : 2/1/2007 6:23:10 PM

quote:

ORIGINAL: gaylemarie

i do not smoke anymore

Yeah right, i'm sure you dont

i have 2 kids and im breastfeeding one of them. im a laidback person for sure, but i'm not an idiot. i would never expose a child to any drugs, i don't even drink caffeine right now.

Xebby

Posted : 2/1/2007 6:34:55 PM

ORIGINAL: gaylemarie
i don't even drink caffeine right now.

Funny how you say you don't drink caffeine because that is the most addicting drug by far and yes it is a drug. It is addictive and when a person who is addicted to caffeine stops drinking it they have really bad drawbacks. For example one of the sevral thing about Caffeine is that it is a vaso contractor- meaning that when you drink it, it contracts the blood vessels in you brain, if you become dependent on it for a long period of time and then suddenly stop drinking it the vessels in your brain will expand and cause horrible headaches and even migraines. Yet we still allow caffeine to be legal in the US when it is very much a dangerous drug.

huskymom

Posted : 2/1/2007 6:38:48 PM

ORIGINAL: Xebby

It use to be a law in NM that Native American could not buy alcohol (back when my grandparents were young[]), during this time there was a higher rate of drunk Natives. As soon as the law was lifted the number of drunk Natives droped.

Oh hun that was not so long ago. It was quite a while after my mom got out of residential school. So unless your grandparents are in thier 40's.

Unfortunately alcoholism is a disease that hit the native population pretty hard. Like Diabetes. Its a white man's disease that my people have no immunity to.

But there I go off topic again.[8D]

cyclefiend2000

Posted : 2/1/2007 6:41:17 PM

tattooing was illegal here until last year. everyone i knew went to either NC or GA to get theirs. so as i see it the state was just loosing possible revenue and nothing else.

when they made tattooing legal, they made the health codes so strict it took about a year before any tatoo parlors started opening. but now there are a few here and there.

smoking in restaurants and bars was just made illegal in city of greenville. there was a huge uproar until the cash registers started ringing. a place we go for lunch sometimes is in a local bar, and the wait staff tells us that business overall has improved since making smoking illegal. the night business isnt up as much as lunch, but still up. i think it is unfortunate that we need such laws, but i really appreciate being able to go out without choking to death on 2nd hand smoke.

Xebby

Posted : 2/1/2007 6:46:30 PM

ORIGINAL: huskymom

ORIGINAL: Xebby

It use to be a law in NM that Native American could not buy alcohol (back when my grandparents were young[]), during this time there was a higher rate of drunk Natives. As soon as the law was lifted the number of drunk Natives droped.

Oh hun that was not so long ago. It was quite a while after my mom got out of residential school. So unless your grandparents are in thier 40's.

Unfortunately alcoholism is a disease that hit the native population pretty hard. Like Diabetes. Its a white man's disease that my people have no immunity to.

But there I go off topic again.[8D]

I only say back in my grandparent time becuse they are the ones who told me about it and my parents don't remember much about that time. but I can see how it can also be more recent. Yes I agree, that is a debat in it's self so I'll hold my self back from going any further as I am also part native (my family will never admit to having native in their bloodline but I know it's true, sad part about being hispanic)