# Is Tommy Chong Going To Move to Alaska?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-tommy-chong-going-to-move-to-alaska/36416>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [October 10, 2000, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-tommy-chong-going-to-move-to-alaska/36416 "2000-10-10T15:35:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Wildest\_Bill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Wildest\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wildest_Bill)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2000, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-tommy-chong-going-to-move-to-alaska/36416/21 "2000-10-10T22:29:56Z")

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Originally posted by DavisMcDavis

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> Oh, we almost agree there - that’s a first!
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> Anyway, I would rather the government spend more time and money on prosecuting _violent criminals and those whose crimes affect others_ rather than pot and (perhaps) other drug users. I can’t see legalizing possession and use and making sale illegal. Making pot sale legal will take power AWAY from drug dealers, wouldn’t it? It’d be just another item in the grocery store or coffee house or wherever.

Davis,

We might even agree more than you think.

I wasn’t so much talking about other drug users as much as I was pushers of such drugs as coke, heroin and crystal meth. I have seen what these drugs do to peoples lives. The might as well be in prison. I just get upset when people profit from people’s weaknesses. Plus usually coke, heroin and crystal meth dealers are the violent greedy type. Weed dealers are usually just friends or some friend of someone else.

Adros,

I would have typed that if you requested it. Really I would have. But I have been really busy today at work. I am trying to make a consious effort to be more responsive to inquring post.

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**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2000, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-tommy-chong-going-to-move-to-alaska/36416/22 "2000-10-11T13:27:38Z")

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Am I the only one who noticed “the voter turnout was very high”?  
hee heee  
If it Did pass, I suppose ALaska would get mighty crowded.

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**Author:** ![DavisMcDavis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dfb087/32.png) [@DavisMcDavis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavisMcDavis)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2000, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-tommy-chong-going-to-move-to-alaska/36416/23 "2000-10-13T04:44:58Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Wildest Bill \*  
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> Davis,
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> We might even agree more than you think.
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> I wasn’t so much talking about other drug users as much as I was pushers of such drugs as coke, heroin and crystal meth. I have seen what these drugs do to peoples lives. The might as well be in prison. I just get upset when people profit from people’s weaknesses. Plus usually coke, heroin and crystal meth dealers are the violent greedy type. Weed dealers are usually just friends or some friend of someone else.  
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Well, I’ve known a (relatively) nice coke dealer…I think “pusher” is the wrong word, really. I do know what those drugs can do to people’s lives, but I’d tend to put the blame and responsibility on the person doing the buying, not the person selling. And the need for violence would lessen if the drugs were legalized.

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