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Just hours after Whitney Houston’s death, Tony Bennett told the crowd at Clive Davis’ pre-GRAMMYs party that drugs should be legalized. The Turks weigh in. Tune in Weeknights at 7:00/6:00c on Current TV current.com
Epic Politics Man casts sole TYT vote against legalizing drugs, no matter what Tony Bennett says
February 15th, 2012 
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Just another reason why i like Tony Bennett.
`It has ever been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues’
- Abraham Lincoln –
“As far as I’m concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue. ”
Albert Einstein
“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty, than those attending too small a degree of it.” – Thomas Jefferson
“We in this country have to make up our minds — we can not have it both ways: we cannot be both drug-free and free.”
Lester Grinspoon, M.D., Harvard
what a hypocrite.
Michael almost had me there. I respect the man greatly and I agree America can’t handle any vice, but then I thought… there’s a lot of gun crime in this country, and alcohol abuse, and if there’s one thing marijuana does, it cuts down on alcohol consumption, and violent crime. Kill two birds with one stone, legal marijuana and reduce other social ills while promoting a more peace-oriented environment. I can’t even play devil’s advocate on this issue because the benefits are so vast.
Death to Jewish bankers.
Long live Europe !
I only watch for Ana, they spew too much garbage when shes off camera.
Michael what do you think of this video.
/watch?v=TvlKSPppZqo&feature=g-all-u&context=G2652cb4FAAAAAAAAAAA
Its still amazing that we havent legalized this plant yet. Imo Marijuana can do more for ppl and is safer than taking prescription pills with a milloin side effects, I hear you Cenk thre has NEVER beem a marijuana overdose. Cant say the same for pills though.
IIRC, Cenk leaked way back then during one of the shows that Michael got scared by silly republican propaganda into voting against legalizing in California in 2008. IMO he’s still trying to save his silly face by “standing by” his choice, instead of admitting that he was a scared sheeple biatch and is only trying to man up.
It’s curious that Tony Bennett automatically assumed that Whitney Houston overdosed from an illegal drug (for example, cocaine, heroin or crack).
Someone should tell Tony Bennett that Xanax and alcohol are already legalized.
SMH.
The Netherlands legalized drugs and took some of the money they were spending on enforcement and instead spent it on counseling and treatment for addicts and on education about drugs and their harmful effects.
Result? Overall drug use declined, less people in prison, less violent crime, and better public health. Sounds like a win on all fronts to me.
But then again, this is Michael Shure. I doubt concrete data and facts will convince him of anything.
Wow good argument actually. America is too stupid. I’m gonna use that one in other arguments.
Michael Shure is the absolute biggest sniveling piece of shit in America.
“I hear the arguments for it, I just happen to be against it.” So, just ignore the arguments and claim it’s bad anyway. Brilliant.
Boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Michael.
Epic Politics Man is for War on Vices!
@AtomicDaytime
He’s not a bad guy but he is mad on this.
Love Tony but last I saw there are people dying from cigarettes and booze (which are legal).
Tony should have said I want every man & woman on drugs to commit themselves for a year and cut themselves off from the enablers.
@kupigana True,but the criminalization of drugs creates an unhelpful stigma around all substance abuse. Tony is not itching to get high, rather he is trying to create an environment where addicts can feel okay about getting help. America is a prurient society that delights in the suffering of percieved “sinners”. Whitney’s death was a preventable and shameful waste.
@sidecar771 Xanax is not illegal. Alcohol is not illegal. Whitney Houston has ALREADY been in rehab. Yes, dying from a combination of Xanax and alcohol is preventable. Don’t do it. It is a shameful waste, but has nothing to do with a prurient society. Xanax is prescribed by a doctor. Alcohol can easily be bought by a 47 year old woman and there is no environment that prevents a grown woman from going to a liquor store. The criminalization of drugs did not kill Whitney Houston.
We can’t handle our vices so therefor we should be thrown into prison for anywhere from a significant number of years-to life simply for being caught with a joint?
Nice, Michael.
@WhiteKnitter, What is even funnier is that those prisons or the maximum security prisons where there are guard towers with rifles, armed guards, walls, barbed wire, several layers of prison gates and doors and yet drugs are still being brought into prisons.
If we can’t even keep drugs out of prisons what chance is there to keep them from the public.
All it does is makes the drug dealers wealthy and powerful just like it made the Mafia rich and powerful during prohibition.
michael shure is a moron! he believes in the nanny state…from his past pro tsa porno scan and grope fest stance to his asswipe lean towards gas fracking and suggesting censorship to protect people from being offended from hate speech…and now to this retarded dribble about americans can’t handle the vice of weed. yeah, michael, facts show america can’t handle people speeding in cars…let’s outlaw cars altogether then, right? ha! ridiculous!
While I’ll respect your opinion Michael I’m really surprised at your argument. Your claim “America does not know how to handle any kind of vice” is firstly based on the premise that prohibition stops drug use; this of course is totally unsubstantiated. Also, shouldn’t we teach Americans to handles vices through education and public health initiatives rather than violence and jail cells?