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Are Liberals Bigger Drug Users?
Monday, June 16, 2008 12:47 PM
By: Jim Meyers
Author Peter Schweizer wanted to know if there could be a link between a person’s political leanings and illegal drug use. His eye-opening finding: Liberals are five times more likely than conservatives to use marijuana and cocaine.
Schweizer, a research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, writes in his new book “Makers and Takers”:
“Academic studies have found that those on the political left are five times more likely to use marijuana and cocaine … Another survey found that Democrats were five times more likely to use marijuana than Republicans…
“A study published in the American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse found that among heavy drug users, the ratio of Democrats to Republicans was more than 8 to 1.”
Yet another survey found a “direct and linear relationship” between liberalism and the use of any illicit drug.
Schweizer, whose other books include “Do As I Say (Not As I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy,” observes:
“The liberal search for autonomy and the credo ‘if it feels good do it’ have a strong influence on who uses drugs and why. Many liberals denounce drug use as a danger while at the same time engaging in a wink-wink attitude towards its actual use.”
Drawing on extensive attitude surveys, Schweizer also details in his book how liberals are more motivated by money than are conservatives, are angrier than conservatives, give less to charity, and are more likely to believe in ghosts, ESP, and reincarnation.
The full title of Schweizer’s book is “Makers and Takers: Why Conservatives Work Harder, Feel Happier, Have Closer Families, Take Fewer Drugs, Give More Generously, Value Honesty More, Are Less Materialistic and Envious, Whine Less … and Even Hug Their Children More Than Liberals.”
http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/Liberals_Drug_use/2008/06/16/104882.html
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Democrats are more likely to use drugs, that is pretty damn obvious.
Repubs are more likely to touch 17-year old male soccer players.
So it's kinda a wash.
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Ah Newsmax, finally, a credible web site brimming with invaluable scholarship such as this sort.
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I wonder if any of the studies considered age as a factor.
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Democrats are more likely to use drugs, that is pretty damn obvious.
Repubs are more likely to touch 17-year old male soccer players.
So it's kinda a wash.
hahaaaaa !
bush's spiritual adviser Rev.Ted Haggard did meth and rode cocck......somewhat normal neocon behavior lately.
NT
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"makers and takers" wonder who is the maker and who is the taker, haha
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Are Liberals Bigger Drug Users?
His eye-opening finding: Liberals are five times more likely than conservatives to use marijuana and cocaine.
But Conservative are 10x's more likely to be addicted to vicodin and oxycontin, and to lie, steal, and commit fraud to get it.
(http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/11/22/cindy.mccain/cindy.mccain.jpg)
Cindy (The lying, stealing, fraudulous, drug addict) McCain
(http://streetknowledge.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/rush-limbaugh_oxycontin.jpg)
Rush (The lying, stealing, fraudulous, drug addict) Limbaugh
(http://homepage.mac.com/topcover/blog/user_files/rush-limbaugh-parody_thumb.jpg)
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hmmmmmm, Jag ever heard of the saying "don't get high off your own product"
put that to use, and quit crushing those gas pills
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hmmmmmm, Jag ever heard of the saying "don't get high off your own product"
put that to use, and quit crushing those gas pills
Oh no, ...I don't crush them myself... they come pre-crushed.
We call them our MPG Mega Crumbs. The trucker's and diesel users just love 'em!
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Oh no, ...I don't crush them myself... they come pre-crushed.
We call them our MPG Mega Crumbs. The trucker's and diesel users just love 'em!
Oh so you bootey bump it?
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Oh so you bootey bump it?
Ok, I'm not familiar with that term?
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Ok, I'm not familiar with that term?
Haha they all say that.
;)
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Haha they all say that.
;)
{giggle} no really, what does it mean, ...or do I really not want to know?