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that's stupid, all those weed dealers packing heat are violent people. marijuana is a insidious and addictive drug. stop looking to illegal drugs as a way to fix things. they only fix the problem for a few hrs if that.
you are ignorant! Marijuana is less addictive and insidious than alcohol...yet that's legal?
Let alone ALCOHOL
That doesn't justify making marijuana legal. Alcohol and Tobacco shouldn't be illegal. However, it is a huge industry and if it was simply BANNED in one day then it would devastate many jobs and the economy. However, we are slowly stopping people from drinking too much and stopping so many people from smoking tobacco. A little marijuana is not comparable to a little alcohol. Don't even try with your psuedo science.
There is absolutely NO reason for marijuana to be illegal when one of the most harmful drugs on the planet (alcohol) is legal. Anyone who disagrees needs to try setting aside their ideologically-fueled bias and evaluate the situation again.
Legalize marijuana! It is less harmful than a great deal of legal substances...including some prescribed by licensed physicians. The bottom line is...we can not legislate morality.
Legalizing marijuana shouldn't have to be justified, because it was never harmful enough to be made illegal in the first place. Thanks to our laws, a man can be locked up, fined, and lose his job over smoking a joint in his own home, while another man goes to the bar and poisons himself to death with alcohol. Any man willing to smoke his life away is just as likely to drink it away. People should be allowed to deal with their own vices, not fed this B.S. for over half a century that something is bad and that's why we aren't allowed to have it, while we turn around and sell products that are far worse. If you're going to take that kind of moral stance on something, you can't have your cake and eat it too.
I agree Max Brooks, alcohol should be illegal too, No reason to legalize pot just because alcohol is legal, how dumb is that.
That would be all good banana, if smoking pot had no side affects. It does however, it is smoke in the lungs which can cause cancer and other smoiking related illnesses. When that happens the medical bills get pushed around to this company, this part of government and ultimately to the tax payer. I'm tired of paying other people's medical bills. Don't tell me pot smoking isn't bad either, all potsmokers hack their lungs out after smoking awhile.
Kevin – you are correct that smoking marijuana may have long term health consequences for the user, and you are also correct that some of the associated costs may be born by society at large. The problem with using that argument for banning pot, or alcohol, or tobacco is that the same argument could be levied against hundreds or possibly even thousands of other personal choices that potentially have consequences beyond the immediate user.
Should we also ban fatty foods? Heart disease is by FAR the largest killer in American society and can be linked directly to America's love affair with fat. How about foods with high sugar content that are linked to diabetes? Should we ban people from riding motorcycles? After all, if they crash and are injured they are likely to end up using at least some social resources. What about rock climbing, or skydiving? Do we ban all of the above? Where does it end... with some government safety bureau dictating every aspect of your life?
smoking pot isn't bad for you if you use a vaporizer. Or if you bake it into baked goods. There are a variety of products with THC that don't involve burning the plant,
You’re an idiot if you truly beloved what you just said. What happened after the prohibition? If the government sold marijuana then there would be no market for the drug dealers, and they would subside. Also marijuana is not addictive at all.
While I actually agree completely with your sentiment (and regularly smoke marijuana), marijuana is quite psychologically addictive, and also recently has been shown to have a minor physically addictive component.
Then again, caffeine is VERY addictive, so *shrug*.
Why would you think it's not addictive, because it's natural? Haha. I've seen many people who never did it before become daily smokers. It's addictive. Maybe you are saying the actual drug is not addictive, but the affects are. It's not the alcohol, it's the drunk you get from the alcohol. The high is a part of the drug, it's addictive.
dump those capture bails on the streets and the price will be about the same as hay. The drug dealers won't be able to afford bullets much less guns. It's the DEA that wants to keep the drug war going.
THC acts upon specific sites in the brain, called cannabinoid receptors, kicking off a series of cellular reactions that ultimately lead to the "high" that users experience when they smoke marijuana. Some brain areas have many cannabinoid receptors; others have few or none. The highest density of cannabinoid receptors are found in parts of the brain that influence pleasure, memory, thinking, concentrating, sensory and time perception, and coordinated movement.
Not surprisingly, marijuana intoxication can cause distorted perceptions, impaired coordination, difficulty with thinking and problem solving, and problems with learning and memory. Research has shown that, in chronic users, marijuana's adverse impact on learning and memory can last for days or weeks after the acute effects of the drug wear off. As a result, someone who smokes marijuana every day may be functioning at a suboptimal intellectual level all of the time.
all the weed smokers that I know are alive. Whilst all the alcoholics and drinkers are in jail, beligerent, violent, divorced and miserable, etc.. while weed has a medical value, and alcohol maybe alittle pain killing, tobacco vaso constriction, I don't see docs prescribing alc and tobacc. weed doesn't kill. all you other guys talking didn't graduate high school.
Get educated. Marijuana is not in the least addictive. Alcohol is quite the opposite. Alcoholics certainly don't
persist in their consumption from the "affects", or a desire to be drunk; it is indeed physically addicting.
How silly. Alcohol kills thousands of people and is far more insidious. You're a simpleton hypocrite if you think marijuana is worse.
The giant lie about marijuana's danger is actually a detriment to the war on drugs. Let's get honest about marijuana, like alcohol, and maybe kids will listen.
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Tax it and control it, like booze. Save millions on prisons and jails too. Makes sense to this taxpayer.
Not only that but we will be able to manufacture things from hemp again so maybe we can see a MADE IN THE USA sticker on something one day. So many jobs it would provide, money to the economy, plus it is so much less harmfull than alcohol and tobbacco. I would feel much better if I caught my teenager with a little pot than coming home drunk.
The whole problem with legalization and taxation is that it makes too MUCH sense! If it didn't make ANY sense they'd do it in a heartbeat. If we had really learned anything from prohibition, then pot would have been legal for 20 years already. Unfortunately we learned absolutely nothing. So it will continue to be absurdly profitable and this government will continue to spend millions on a "war" they'll never win.
What you may save in prisons, you'll spend in medical problems, cancer and other smoking related illnesses.
Kevin...the giant flaw in your argument is that it assumes there will be a massive increase in the number of U.S. pot smokers and in how much they smoke upon legalization.
After all, if there's not a massive increase in users, then there's most assuredly also not going to be a massive increase in medical costs that would eat up the savings in prison costs.
Unfortunately for your argument, a ton of Americans *already* smoke pot on a regular/semi-regular basis, so the medical issues *they* will face obviously aren't because of legalization. Like it or not, we are already having to deal with those costs *in addition to* the costs of prisons. So legalization won't increase *those* medical costs.
And, as far as the necessary giant increase in pot smokers goes? Well, the problem is, the data doesn't support that. If you look at the countries where smoking pot has been decriminalized, there wasn't a massive increase in smokers in *any* of them.
To illustrate the flaw in Kevin's argument, I'd like to point out that the proportion of cigarette smokers versus non-smokers has actually gone DOWN in recent years even though cigarette smoking is still legal. Also, pot smokers don't smoke 25 joints a day like tobacco smokers (at least I don't think they do!). Furthermore, legal pot would presumably be either home-grown or regulated, so that it would not contain things like lead shavings, fiberglass, hairspray, mercury, iron filings, DDT or any of the other poisonous garbage that the drug dealers put into it now in an attempt to make more money. That said, I personally think it's a stupid drug, because it makes you temporarily dumber and slower rather than smarter and faster. Show me a drug that turns ordinary folks into mathematical geniuses (a la Frank Herbert's Melange) and maybe I'll try it.
@nonsmoker-it's called adderall
@ nonsmoker:
so that it would not contain things like lead shavings, fiberglass, hairspray, mercury, iron filings, DDT or any of the other poisonous garbage that the drug dealers put into it now in an attempt to make more money.
Really? Where do you get your information?
Ive been a daily smoker for over 20 years. I am a productive member of society with a very good income from a career that matters.
I must say the ignorance on display here is appaling and I have to also say that I hope some of you people aren't breeding. It's bad enough you are trying to spread your 1930's era propaganda.
Wake up folks, it's smoking pot. You can get worse things over the counter at your local pharmacy.
You speaking from experience?
How do you know weed is addictive?
its not addictive!!!! Get your facts straights......smoke a joint or a fat blunt or maybe even toke a bowl and see how much your outlook on weed changes!
You're a total moron.
marijuana is only related to violence at this particular time because of prohibition.do you see busch salesmen carrying a glock or kalashnakov?no.and to cannibus an insidious drug,well your out of touch with reality sir.i myself am not a smoker,but relate to those who have cancer,hiv/aids,etc or want to have a smoke after work to wind down.do your research on prohibition and marijuana before you dive deep into uneducated comments like the one you made.
Since you have the same name as one of my four fathers, I can't make fun of your name, but you are an idiot, Bob.
You have FOUR FATHERS???
Your poor mother!
I am 58 and a business owner , my two kids are both educated and successful . I have never been arrested for any criminal activity .I have been using marijuana daily for more than 30 years . I smoke and eat only organic , grown in the US .
Did a pothead steal your girlfriend. Sounds like you got your jimmy's rustled.
How about micro-grows, like micro-brews? Adults come in, choose a strain, sit down at the vaporizers and partake. Sell munchies there, too.
sorry, that was in response to tacc's post
So, if marijuana were legal and you could purchase it like you can alcohol, what would all those violent weed dealers (lol) sell?
Me, I would open up a cannabis vineyard and sell it like you would wine! Being that there are so many strains of cannabis, it would even have a bed and breakfast so that the people could sit around and try all the eatables and smoke while taking a tour of the land.
you're a moron
How many weed dealers do you know that pack heat? You clearly have no idea what you're talking about.
They used to tell people that pot caused insanity and violence, which was proved a lie, but that stigma stuck with a generation. Zero deaths attributed to marijuana alone in the U.S. <- FACT
Once the population turns over (sorry boomers), and the world is full of rational citizens capable of critical thinking and forming their own opinions, it will be legalized!
There is a lot of good positive post about legalization of marijuana but your is one of the best ones! America is waking up:)
Dude, dont say things are FACT, when in fact, they are not FACT. Drivers that are high kill people all the time. Read your local newspapers and police reports. I'm an EMT and I see it all the time. We had a girl last week that was high who drove into an embankment and got herself killed. What was in her system? THC. Hell, there was national news article last week about a 19 year old girl and her boyfriend that just toked up and drove off in the car with a baby in a car seat sitting on top. The baby went flying across an intersection and luckily was not killed. Point is never say never. Alcohol related deaths are prominent then marijuana but only because its more accessible and socially accepted. If marijuana was legalized, marijuana related deaths would go up because more people would be smoking it. Anything that alters your state of mind can lead to an accident. Thats why your not supposed to drive after taking cough syrup. Use some damn sense man.
Actually josh the EMT the reason you constantly see people with THC in their system getting into accidents is because THC stays in your system for up to 30 days. If alcohol metabolites stayed in your system for over 30 days you'd be accusing millions of Americans of driving drunk too I bet. The problem is that while the effects of marijuana last a few hours the metabolites stay in your system for quite a long time. I also hate to burst your bubble but the only study done on the effects of driving under the influence of marijuana actually showed that people got better scores while under the influence. The test subjects attributed it to being more nervous about messing up. Now I don't believe that having everyone drive while stoned would magically make everyone better drivers but the science is lacking in your argument.
You are right. A lot of thing that are illegal will be legal one day. People are waking up but waking up to what. It's the way things are suppose to go. I won't condone it though.
Josh- be honest, what's the percentage of fatalities from THC vs. alcohol? You know alcohol is a far greater threat. I'm sure there are many instances where THC is found in the system of traffic fatalities. You know as well as I do that THC stays in your system long after the effects. Furthermore, how many of those who tested positive for THC also tested positive for alcohol or another substance? THC can slow reaction time, and can definitely be a threat to drivers and others who share the road with them, but it's nowhere near the threat caused by drunk drivers or even people texting.
let's just say some of the posts are spot on A. The others are sadly F, but hey, at least they are on cnn and trying.
Bob, not only are you wrong, you opinion seems childlike. The violence in weed is created by the law enforcement. If it were cheap like it was in the '70s, there would be NO violence. The 'War on Drugs' is an artificial make-work program for people not intelligent and/or skilled enough to make it through life on their own, IE law enforcement.
You must be a cop to believe what you said. Even a 12 year old knows that your opinion is stupid.
" If it were cheap like it was in the '70s" Ahhh, if only we could bring back the $40.00 four and a half finger bag...
c'mon josh, i'm an emt, and a college grad, get over youself. emt's rarely if ever find out what was in there system, and you being an emt should know about marijuana....
You are truly a village idiot bob. It's better to say nothing when you have absolutely no clue to what you're saying. You are an angry, and confused individual who is begging for psychological assistance.
How are pot laws enforced? Answer: By immoral slimeballs with guns who care not a wit about freedom. Are you familiar with the concept of freedom? That's where you own your own body and aren't a slave. If government gets its authority from the consent of the governed, how can someone give the government a right they don't themselves have–like going after someone engaged in peaceful behavior with a gun? Rot in hades, killers!
That's why I love Ron Paul, he says the same thing. We need a revolution, the modern system has failed.
I agree totally.
We need to stop Muslims from coming to the Civilized world.
Aw, that's sweet, I see you still believe in fairytales; that's cute. But Bob, hate to burst your bubble, but the tooth fairy does not exists.
Bob, I'm going to make a guess that you've never smoked pot. I've smoked it off and on for fifty years. I now smoke it for about three weeks a year when an old buddy of mine makes a yearly visit. It's not addictive, Bob. It's not insidious, Bob. Your comment makes you sound stupid and uninformed to anyone who knows anything about pot. Wise up, Bob, and keep your comments to subjects that you know about.
Marijuana is safer than water.
Alcohol is the mother of all sins. Alcohol destrys families and societies. pot is proven it has nothing addictive about it. American lawmakers have their head up their asses since most of them are a bunch of alcoholics
So does the poisonous thoughts put into muslim children such as:
1. A Jew dies and candy is given to children.
2. Kuran states specifically to kill, lie, be deceptive...
Go away Debbie, no one wants to hear your drivel.
I like to read what Debby has to say.
Only an islamist phukk doesnt.
Bob, Bob, bob, pot is not addictive.
bob=="ignorant fool"
Let's stop selling cigarettes, liquor, coffee, and pharmaceuticals too Bobby boy!
The answer to question one is Uruguay
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Your Alcohol has killed millions of more people than marijuana ever has. You are ignorant.
you wanna talk about addictive drugs just look to whats legal, caffeine,alcohol, tobacco and pain killers
the only reason Hemp is illegal is because theres too much money in alcohol, tobacco, caffeine, and pharma drugs.
Want to know the biggest three opponents and lobbyists against legalizing hemp? isnt too hard to figure this one out
Merck Pharmaceuticals, Annheiser Busch and Phillip Morris
Bob:
You have no idea what you are talking about. All you are saying is what you feel/think with no facts to back- up what you said. Just think about the facts:
How long has the War on Drugs been going on?
Long time, so long I don't remember when it started.
How much money has been spent on the War on Drugs?
I don't know, but it is in the millions, maybe even billions.
How much has the War on Drugs stopped the flow or use of drugs?
None.
How many persons have been killed as a result of the War on Drugs?
In Mexico alone, it is approaching 50,000, and this is in just in 2 or 3 years.
Don't tell me that you don't care because it is Mexico. I'm talking about people, no matter where they are from and they have relatives and friend too.
What do you think would happen if ALL drugs were legalized? Cocaine, heroin, marijuana, etc.
I'll bet you haven't thought about it all, just a knee-jerk reaction: What?! Legalize drugs?! Are you crazy!?!
Here is my opinion of what would happen:
1. The drug cartels would be put out of business because the addicts could then get all they want real cheap at WalMart
Nothing against WalMart, it would be legal, probably a prescription drug or something.
2. I don't care about drug addicts, that is their problem. I DO care about them stealing, robbing and killing to get money to pay for their expensive habit, which would not be expensive if it were legal.
3. All that money being spent on the War on Drugs can be used somewhere more usefull. The troops can be sent someplace else.
4. The prisons would no longer be clogged with drug users, each one of them costing the taxpayers appx $25,000 a year.
This number I saw somewhere in the news, I don't remember where.
On top of all that, no amount of legislation is going to stop someone from using drugs if that person wants it. They will find a way to get it. They do it now and it is against the law.
Zuazua,
Your argument makes no sense. Majority of the drug addicts you are referring to that steal and kill to acquire money for their next fix don't have jobs. Therefore, legalizing those said drugs would accomplish nothing at all. Those jobless individuals who are scrounging around to find a few bills, would still be jobless and likely still addicted to the now legalized drug that they would have no money to pay for. So tell me, how would they attain that money?? By doing exactly what they were doing before, stealing and killing people.
Obama killed innocent Mexican citizens and then closes all Medical Marijuana Dispensaries in San Diego so the Cartels could dominate again – Obama is a stupid little terrorist and belongs in prison along with Holder, Bush and Cheney...
Marijuanah is illegal because drug companies don't want an alternative to the expensive drugs they sell.
Prescription drug overdoses are an epidemic in this country. Legalizing marijuanah would fix that. It's easier
to get ahold of RX drugs than it is marijuanah for a lot of people but you can not overdose on marijuanah.
Legalizing marijuanah would create jobs rivaling those in the alcohol and tobacco industry only without the
deadly side effects. The other reason, perhaps the most important one, is prohibition feeds millions of
people into the prison-industrial complex. America has more prison labor than China. America has more
incarcerated people than any other nation on earth. We have 25% of all the people on the planet who are
locked up. America. The land of the free. Free labor for the prison-industrial complex!!!!
Weed does not ruin lives but prohibitions do. Weed doesn't create violence. Greed creates violence.
The evil prohibition makes marijuanah very lucrative. The traffickers aren't made evil by weed. They're made
evil by the senseless, counter productive prohibition directed at poor people. One reason alcohol is legal,
wealthy people use it. They use marijuanah too but they don't have to cop a plea because of poverty,
instead they get a private lawyer. Public defenders are pretty much just induction bureaucrats for the
prison-industrial complex. And America sits still for this. It's a disgrace. George Washington (who grew
weed) would be ashamed.
Dealers carrying weapons and being violent is a result of the prohibition, not the substance. If chocolate were illegal, there would be a criminal underground market marred by violence. Would you blame chocolate, or the laws that created the market? I don't smoke marijuana, or use alcohol, but I'd much rather have neighbors who smoked pot all day than drank all day. That's actually a good barometer of the effect it has on society. Ask a dozen people you know who they'd rather have as a neighbor, someone who drinks all day or someone who smokes pot all day. I would bet the overwhelming majority would pick the stoner.
WHO ARE YOU TO TELL OTHER PEOPLE WHAT THEY CAN AND CAN'T DO!? If you think that I'm not allowed to drink or smoke than I think you are not allowed to take prescription pills, or drink caffeine, or pray, or exercise freedom of speech an protest. See where that goes?
"Weed dealers packing heat". Lol. What are *you* smoking?
You sir are ignorant. You are obviously repeating something you heard, and choose to not hear all accounts. If this is your normal method of operation in daily life, then you are in need of a mental makeover.
Yeah, I always read about crazed people people under the influence of marijuana who rob banks and kill people. Well stated, sir.
Trust me. Marijuana is not in any addictive in the clinical sense of the word. Have you ever tried to quit smoking cigarettes? That's what addiction feels like. Quitting marijuana produces absolutely no physical withdraw the way cigarettes do. You might miss it. You may have trouble sleeping at first if you had been using it as a sleep aid, but that is about it.
Marijuana addiction would be akin to the "addiction" of going to the gym every night or treating yourself to ice cream on the weekends. Nothing more than that.
I'm not trying to promote the use of marijuana, so if there are any kids out there, you shouldn't smoke weed. It will make fat and totally annoying to everyone around you. And so will alcohol. It's much cooler to live sober.
well, bobby, if you want prohibition, this is one of the results
My God you're right! Marijuana is more evil than crack cocaine, heroin and crystal meth combined! We must pour all of our resources into obliterating it! We must escalate the war on drugs, it is the only way our great nation shall be saved!
What WOULD fix the problem, Bob?
YO! Marijuana does not make people violent, just sleepy. And THEY'VE TRIED making alcohol illegal. It was called prohibition, look it up. People didn't stop drinking, they just created a black market for it, which means prices went up, criminals controlled it, and got rich from it, but noone got tax money out of it. It didn't decrease problems from drinking, it increased them – AND increased crime. Where is your logic?? Legalize it and actually help the people who suffer from addiction instead of throwing them in jail.
Why do people assume that if marijuana is legal there would be more smokers, marijuana is easily found and anyone that wants to try it already has. Also, the only reason humans get high is because we have cannabinoid receptors in our brains or marijuana wouldn't do anything to us, we were created with the option of smoking marijuana and getting high so why is the government trying to take away our right? Don't forget, George Washington had a marijuana plant in his garden.
you're just wrong with everything you said bob lol. that simple. weed is not an addictive drug. do some research.
There nothing wrong with weed ur either stuck on ur couch, being productive or very cautious.. every person I've met like that are better people then most of you people.. so don't judge it.. alcohol and meth and every other drug is what u should be worried bout..
Words of a simpleton, that cannot even grasp proper grammar.
Just imagine, If you legalize the sale of marijuana the state gets to sell it, control it and make a profit. If America did the same, the profit would go to the states that are already in trouble, its apparent at this point the war on drug is a bust! Why not keep the money here instead of sending to the cartels! People are still gone smoke pot regardless.
You're an idiot if you truly beloved what you just said. What happened after the prohibition? If the government sold marijuana then there would be no market for the drug dealers, and they would subside. Also marijuana is not addictive at all.
Tell him Jack. He must be an alcoholic,idiot for sure.
From your comments, you must believe in the tooth fairy, Santa Claus, the caliphate...
God Forbid! that the Government should EVER get in the marijuana sales business!
Quality will decrease, and instead of having good pot, all we will have is "3.2" pot [just like 3.2 "beer'.]
We'd have to smoke an 1/8th ounce just to get off!
Ever smoke Nebraska "ditch weed"? That's what the Government would try to sell us.
KEEP IT in the hands of the PEOPLE., where it belongs!
I'm OK for laws controlling its use while driving or using heavy machinery.
In my home, I will [and do] smoke what I desire. If I smoke too much, all
that will happen is that I will wake up in a few hours, feeling refreshed.
Marijuana gives one the ability to think differently, rather than in the old
"Party Line". That's why the powers that be don't want us using it in the
first place.
Legalize ["the kind"] NOW!
President Obama, get the DEA and Justice Department off our backs!
Maybe we'll vote for you in November. Maybe we won't. But the DEA and
Justice Department can be put to BETTER use removing the scourge of
Crack from our streets.
Take marijuana OFF Schedule 1, where smack and coke are now.
BTW, I'm in my late 60's, and have been using marijuana since I was 20.
The ONLY thing about marijuana which has harmed me is the laws against
it.
Pot is the best "medicine" for anxiety I know of [and I've been using anti-anxiety
drugs legally since I was 18]. Give me pot any day over the c_ap the drug companies
and their captive doctors provide.
Set my people free!
Keep it in the hands of citizens, and DON'T let the Government have anything but the taxes on it.
Not ONE person has EVER died from the consumption of pot. The leathal dose is 1,500 POUNDS consumed in 15minutes. It's LESS addicitive than Coffee. Anti Drug Researcher Donald Taskin conducted the most extensive study on heavy pot smokers of its kind and concluded that, not only does pot NOT cause cancer, it provides a protective effect (cannabinoids.)
So why are we wasting tens of billions each year on this FAILED prohibition. WHY do we criminialize people for choosing the SAFER alternative to Alchohol and Tabacco? Science for the win.
My question is since is it illegal, why can't one just not use it? Wny do they need any drug? Just like alcohol, marijuana does affect the mental faculties so people are using the failure of prohibition as their argument? The argument should be if marijuana is illegal why isn't alcohol so I consider it a wash. The real issue why can't people just follow the laws and just find a legal alternative not why make an illegal drug legal. They can fight to make it legal, just don't use it until it is. A new problem with making it legal is that there are growers coming up with hybrids that are stronger than years ago. If it is legal who is to decide when it has too much strength? Unfortunately somehow Pandora's box needs to be closed and too many people are too weak to live without it causing thousand of people to be killed in drug wars. Yes those that take drugs are responsible for keeping an illegal business alive and the causing the deaths resulting in the industry.
Why cant you just eat vegetables instead of sugar or read literature instead of romance novels or exercise instead of watching tv? Why can't I do what I want with my time and my body if I am not hurting any one and not particularly hurting myself? It's controlling and stupid to think you can make me do what YOU think I should. If that was the way things were supposed to work YOU would have the only brain and the rest of us would be machines.
So many misconceptions! Stronger pot means that people SMOKE LESS than they did in the past. Less smoke is healthier than smoking all the time. Civil disobedience is actually a principle that founded this country. The only people responsible for violence are the ones that commit violence. The prohibition is only still in effect because it is BIG BUSINESS for the government at every level. Stop persecuting these "crimes" and tens of thousands of police, lawyers, jailers, probation officers, and drug testing companies will have to earn their living doing something useful.
If this were the 1850s and slavery is perfectly legal, would you argue that since it is illegal to aid an escaped slave, "It's illegal to aid an escaped slave, why can't people just follow the law and not help escaped slaves?" The law is not always on the just side of an issue. Cannabis is a plant. As a human being, I have an inalienable, innate right to use whichever plants I wish, however I wish, so long as I do not hurt someone else (i.e. I can't poison someone). All plants belong to us all. You can't prohibit me from using any of them. Just like I can't stop you from using any that you wish. Cannabis vastly improves some people's quality of life. It's not a matter of "needing a drug to get through life" because someone can't deal with it. You believed all the lies they taught you DARE class didn't you?
because it's the principle of the matter, us the US citizens are right and the government is wrong. we are free people and no one has the right to tell us what to do so i will do whatever i want. im not going to be on my deathbed wishing i did things differently when i was younger. im gonna fight for legalization and i'll use it regardless of its legal status (if i wanted) because i'm right.
If everyone believed such as you do we'd still be bowing to the royalty of England. Blind obedience to immoral and ignorant laws IS NOT THE AMERICAN WAY.
Because we don't live in a perfect world, and if you wanna smoke weed after work and chill who am I to say you can't
How does using something you can grow for yourself promote ilegal buisiness??? Living in Alaska does have is't advantages, and unlike getting someting from questionable sorces (ie, Big Phama) I know whats in the substance...
God in Heaven above created pot which is harmess and has many good and just uses. Man created alcohol which can poison you and destroy your family. We have sided with Satan!
I understand your argument, and since I don't use either I don't really have a horse in this race. However, we already tried prohibition of alcohol with disastrous results, and we're seeing many of those same results from the prohibition of marijuana. I don't think the comparative argument is the best way to make the point, but marijuana is clearly favored in that comparison. My argument for decriminalization of marijuana is simpler, we would raise millions in taxes and reduce drug related violence in one fell swoop. The biggest threat marijuana poses to society is the illegal market that exists because of the prohibition. If I were a pot smoker though, I'd probably argue against legalizing it. Once it's legal it will be taxed and regulated, the potency and availability will most likely decrease and the cost will probably increase.
Actually, the lethal dose for an adult human male (roughly 175 lbs.) is about 750 fat joints, ingested in roughly 2-1/2 hours. Still pretty damned hard to do, but also not 1500 lbs. – lol...
A recent Rasmussen Poll showed that 56% of Americans want marijuana legalized and regulated like alcohol. The Federal Government and politicians are behind the times on this issue. If the Federal politicians are too timid or partisan to legalize it on a Federal level, at the very least, they should pass a law that respects State laws on marijuana within that State's borders. If someone is legally using or manufacturing marijuana in a State and doesn't cross the State's borders, then the Feds should have no interest in it. Actually, this is exactly how alcohol prohibition ended.
What's driving the Drug War is an unholy alliance between the prison industry, law enforcement, the defense manufacturers, and the drug dealers, themselves. All of these groups are making outrageous amounts of money off the status quo. Unfortunately, these groups also have mountains of money that can be used to influence politicians and elections.
It's a scientific fact that marijuana is less dangerous than alcohol and is not physically addictive. If someone wants to use marijuana and is not harming anyone else in the process, then the government has no right to interfere.
The fact that marijuana is still illegal in the face of a poll like the Rasmussen one is proof positive of how the US Government is failing its people. In the post 9/11 world, the politicans have become isolated from the people. Access to politicians only comes soley through large campaign donations. They don't care what the average person on the street thinks, anymore, other than how they can cynically manipulate those people.
When I was a kid, I rode in the same Senate subway car with Joe Biden when my parents took me to tour the Capitol Building. It was a vivid childhood experience in US Government that I remember 30 years later. I sat quietly in my seat not beliving that someone like me could walk up and access my government that way; I was very proud of the US system, at that time.
I doubt, though, that, in the post 9/11 world, that it would happen today.
The US democratic system is dying and it's being replaced by an entrenched oligarchy before our very eyes. The US Government is starting to look more and more like a corrupt, Third World government every day, where a few, extremely moneyed interests run the government for their own benefit.
That is a stretch dont you think?
Just because the government of the USA will not allow the legalization of marijuana, then it is failing the people!
If you want to complain about something that really fails the people, talk about the influx of muslims.
The ruling of the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg is for member states of the European Union. Those outside though not affected do feel obliged to comply to the law of the European Union.
Darn, still haven't reached newshound status. I swear the most interesting questions are the ones i never see the story for.
Anyone that says pot is addictive has obviously never smoked it (or should I say consumed it). It is great to smoke it if you are responsible with it. I admit, these people who smoke all the time, dont work, dont WANT to work, are abusing it. But, if I am with friends or even by myself and have nothing to do for a while, HELL yes, I would love to smoke it.
We are dealing with a government where 50% of it wants to return to the Dark Ages. Who believe and man in the sky is going to save them after death. Its so antiquated. I doubt pot will ever be legal but it wont stop me from toking out every once in a while.
I am seeing signs of collapse of Chin dynasty in North America >> drugs.
I smoke daily. More or less, all the time. It helps me to deal with the lower back pain that is one of the constants in my life. I am also a job creator. I make things. I am not a parasite.
Now, you probably do something that manufactures nothing. IOW, you are a parasite. Now, I'm not going to say that we don't need parasitic members of society, as they relate to mutually beneficial relationships, so I'm not going to say something completely ignorant and suggest that you are abusive by association.
You should probably endeavor to do the same.
All druggies have an excuse to justfy using drugs just like all alcoholics have an excuse for drinking. All druggies are wanting to legalize drugs so they can get a CHEAP fix. If pot is legalized next it'll be cocain then crack and crank. AND that IS what the drughead agenda really is.
Dude your paranoia is hanging out. The only agenda is that my friends and family shouldn't be in jeopardy over something that is only illegal because it is a tool for the state to raise revenue.
Cocaine, crack, heroin, meth, all can cause stroke, heart attack, sudden death, and are crazy addictive. It would be ridiculous to legalize them. Pot does none of that. Slippery slope argument flies with some things, but not pot legalization.
AND EXACTLY what is wrong with that agenda, aside from it hurts your twisted sense of morality? Look, some drugs are worse than others. Cannabis isn't crack or heroin. Personally, I don't like people using hard drugs(crack, meth, H, etc.). I've never liked them myself and have watched some friends seriously F' their lives up because of their addictions to them. I'd really rather that no one used those drugs. But I am not naive enough to think that if we decree that these drugs are bad and make them illegal that no one will use them. Hell, they're ILLEGAL RIGHT NOW and that didn't stop my friends. So, why can't w just educate people about the harms of these substances while still having them available, and as safe as possible, to those poor souls who would use them anyhow? At least then we could offer these people help instead of trying to lock them up. You disgust me.
Dude, STFU before I go over there and slap you. All we want to do is be free to smoke a damn joint after work - you freak.
Your slippery slope argument doesn't hold much water to educated people.
That is not true. Neither my 80 year old father nor I smoke marijuana. We both support legalization because too many billions of tax dollars are spent on enforcement that could be used elsewhere. Also, the U.S. could earn millions, if not billions in taxes on the sale of marijuana in stores. Gangs would be out of business and the smuggling at the border down. I live in San Diego next to the border of Tijuana and have seen first-hand Customs busts of marijuana smugglers. The smugglers act like they just got caught stealing 5cents of candy. No big deal to them. Enforcement is barely making a dent in the smuggling. Of course, Law Enforcement would be against legalization of marijuana because they would lose funding and get staffing cuts. So DEA, Customs & Border Protection, police, etc. would all be against legalization.
sfisher, best to go fishn if you don't know the difference. you didn't graduate high school. maybe c's and d's for you.
SharkFister.....that logic makes as much sense as Jerry Sandusky's defense!
JERRY SANDUSKY IS INNOCENT, AND YOU KNOW THAT. He was set up by the Jews after the stock market crash.
Jack, once again you are right,
The truth is that no one ever had the right to make pot illegal in the first place...Its a plant that grows from the earth...Man didn't make it...It's just there...How can you make a plant illegal?? Where's the logic??
Truth!!! Well said. Let's all grow poppy and cocoa plants, start a nursery. The only violent 'potheads' I've ever seen were those on Reefer Madness.
Hey, take it easy on Bob, willya?
Maybe if you smoked a little bit of that stuff instead of trying to solve society's problems, you would be a little mellower.
Well, you know the government is full of morons when the head of the DEA equates pot to heroin.
And when the mary jane doesn't do it , sell heroin! Sounds like a Californian thought this up........
Sigh...They are totally not the same thing. It doesn't work that way.
Tobacco killed 150,000 people last year
Alcohol related deaths top 40,000
Marijuana? NEVER killed a single person in the history of the human species.
yes ,true....but......
In God we trust. its all about the dollar..
You would rather hear "In Allah we trust to let us lie, cheat, kill, maim, malign, cuckold, beat, burn, ..."
Yes,if they make maijuana legal,a lot of the crime in venezuela will be taken care of,and that is the problem in many other countries ,In venezuela,the gangs that control the sell of pot ,are trying to control their territory and they kill themselves .If it was legal ,people could grow it in their homes and never look for it in the barrios illegally,so no more crime..cocaine is not a problem as a drug,but is a big business,so in order to kill the business ,flow the market with cheap cocaine legally ,so production is not attractive anymore,so business is gone....supply and demand.
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People should take note of current liquor store dealers. They carry guns and are violent people trying to push their liquid drug down your throat. They threaten your kids and shoot up schools in effort to get you to buy their drugs.
Its the same thing with weed. All those people who own liquor stores know how tough things get.
A recent study concluded a stoned driver is TWICE as likely to have an accident than a sober driver.... but a DRUNK driver is 13 times more likely to have an accident ! I should have a LEGAL CHOICE between the two substances.
That may be true but neither the Stoner or the Alchy should be on the road. Stay at home and smoke and drink!
Never met a bud I didn't like, but I like some buds better than others.
Tax it like alcohol. End the prohibition. It will create new businesses. Watch th money flow. I saw it happen in small communities deckades ago. The government is the only one missing out, on the taxes. Even a few of the off duty, cool law enforcement officers were smoking, from woodstock to california, and countless points inbetween. Partied with them on numerous occasions, at nude beaches too. Just tax it already. Lift the frigin' ban man. Even the psychedelic relics know that is billions of dollars going uncollected.
Dear Prohibitionist,
I'm sure you didn't know that The United States of America patented pot for its health benefits. Please see US Patent 6630507, Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, DC). We were a nation built on cannabis as sails, clothing, paint, paper and a myriad of products were created along with the cousin of cannabis, hemp. The drug laws enacted were rooted in a racist propagana campaign to protect the paper, pharmaceutical, chemical, alcohol, and tobacco industries and continues to protect these industries along with a prison industrial complex war machine. The war on drugs has been the longest running, most costly war in history, and the result is that The United States of America is the world's number one jailer per capita, we spend more money fighting this war than we spend on building schools and we are no closer to victory than when the war was initiated. The prohibition of alcohol was a dismal failure and it only took a few short years to realize that morality cannot be legislated, because the end result is that ultimately more harm than good is produced by attempting to enforce prohibition. At the present moment, depending on which polling organization conducts the poll, roughly 75% of Americans are in favor of medical marijuana and roughly 50% or higher are in favor of full legalization, meanwhile Congress is enjoying the lowest approval rating according to Gallop since the poll question was first asked almost 40 years ago. Its time to reject the propaganda that pot, marijuana, cannabis and hemp is bad for you. Its high time we legalize pot, marijuana, cannabis and hemp.
Sincerely,
Voting Legalization Advocate
no, it's 500 pounds in 15 minutes. That is the official measure of toxicity for marijuana as based upon dosing rats.
There has never been a human toxic reaction to marijuana. I bet if you tested actual human beings you'd find it wasn't toxic at all.
Look it up.
The only issue I see with making marijuana mainstream (which it pretty much already is), is what effect it would have on motivation or work ethic. Would everyone become lazy stoners who want someone to do everything for them?
I dunno...
Under that logic making Viagra legal caused everyone to stay home all day and screw?
Alcohol is legal, and some of us like to drink it, but it doesn't mean most people who drink are alcoholics. Weed is no exception to the rule. Don't get me wrong, I'm a pretty lazy stoner. But I still go to work everyday and on time, pay my bills on time, have no debt, donate to charity out of each check. I just like to come home and get high and play some video games when I'm not worried about all that other necessary crap. I don't feel like that should earn me a prison cell.
At the same time, if you want to accost the lazy, we could use laws to start attacking obesity (some places are already), but how far do we plan to take it?
WE HAVE IGNORED SCIENCE AND THE TRUTH FOR DECADES.
WHY STOP NOW???
OUR GOVERNMENT LIES AND STEALS FROM EACH AND EVERY ONE OF US.
WHY STOP THAT???
THINGS ARE PERFECTLY FINE AND DANDY.
THE SAFEST MOST HELPFULL DRUG PLANT ON THE PLANET IS WAY TO DANGEROUS FOR THE PEOPLE TO HAVE.
THE MIGHT START TO AND BE ABLE THINK FOR THEMSELVES AND DO THINGS FOR THEMSELVES LIKE THEY USED TO BY USING NATURE AND THE PLANTS THAT GROW FOR ALLMOST FREE.
Americans have been so far dumbed down it may never get back to what it was.
The ability to have the truth and basic knowledge has been supressed and the cost of any education worth while is for the rich and the usefull idiots only.
Andrew Carnegie paid John Lindew 850 dollars in 1864 to serve the union in the war so that Andrew Carnegie could go on with his war profiteering. Many Irish were indentured because of the famine and took some money to go to war for someone else. The smart ones took the money and ran. Many did. These men were considered cowards as were the men who didn't line up in formation and march to their deaths. So go ahead and smoke up.
If you agree with what ever society says is right and proper you might be making a mistake.
Who exactly do you define as "society?" Because if I'm included in it, I don't recall ever being given a choice.
Think for yourself
Or maybe you shouldn't smoke unless you can think for yourself
Marijuana is illegal since Immigrants prefer it. Alcohol is legal since white folks prefer it. Got it?
most of the immigrants to the USA are white. everyone from south america is white. mexicans for the most part are white, very few black mexicans. there are only 3 races white black and asian as far as science goes. even native americans are white people.
brotherbill999,
Sorry, bud, but you have that wrong. ALL people, whether an immigrant or a "white" person, use alcohol, as well
as pot. However, many more people of color fill our prisons for simple possession than whites. In Texas one can
still get 20-Life for a single joint or blunt. In a mixed group, the whites will get lawyers and get out the same day, while the people of color get shafted. Something's not right about that...
In a few more years, us white folk are going to be the minority. Then what are we gonna do? Hope that they will
be kinder to us than we have been to them, is my guess.
If one has always been on the top of the hill, he has no idea what life is like for those at the bottom.
I have two loved ones in the ground because of Alcohol. Anyone – Please post an actual Marijuana death, if you can find one.
pot is decriminalized in amsterdam and that city has a higher crime rate then newark nj. a lot of the violence is done by drug gangs.....yes DRUG GANGS. DOPE DEALERS STILL EXIST EVEN THOUGH ITS DECRIMINALIZED
Right! Because its only decrimilized not legalized. Legalize it and the drug gangs go away and they would have alot more taxes in the coffers-
If its only b/c of pot which the drug gangs exist, which I doubt is the case-
Marijuana should be legalized and taxed in the U.S. It would save billions of tax dollars in enforcement costs and earn millions, if not billions, in taxes. It is probably less harmful to the health than alcohol. Furthermore, it is helpful to cancer patients and chronic pain patients. Law enforcement (Police, DEA, Customs & Border Protection, etc) is afraid of losing funding and staffing if the U.S. makes marijuana legal so they have ALL the reasons NOT to support legalization. Even my 80 year old father supports legalization. We need to legalize it and tax it!
I couldn't have said it better. The benefits of legalization are obvious, as they have been for decades that pot should be decrimiinalized, but now it's like the king with no clothes, the 800lb. gorilla.... they've been denying and lying about it for so long no one dare bring it up. We owe it to future generations, our kids and theirs, to assure that pot use in the future, while perhaps frowned upon by many, will not threaten them with arrest, prison, loss of jobs, and a permanent criminal history for marijuana use.
God created cannibus which is harmless and has many good and just uses- Man created alcohol which can poison you and destroy your family. We have sided with Satan!
Imagine the benefit to agriculture. A cash crop with multiple uses, including biofuel, and hemp manufactured products.
Pot might be addictive in the sense that you want to do it, it gives you pleasure and/or just feels good, but it's been proven to be not physically addictive, as are so many other drugs. You want addiction, go to nicotine, alcoholl, cocaine, heroin, meth., and all the hydrocodone based pharmac. Try smoking Marlboros for a year and then quitting. That's addiction....
cocain is not a physically addictive drug, you wont get withdrawls from coke.
Roger,
Only the rich use powder Cocaine. The rest use crack. It is HIGHLY addictive, and makes those who
use it very violent., as does powder.
Legalize marijuana NOW!
Even if they legalize MJ it will be with many restrictions. No smoking until 21, no smoking in public places, etc. What about smoking in Apt buildings? Smoke does get out of your apartment into the next one. Anyone with a Pothead in their hall could tell you. Your right to get high absolutely does not interfere with my right not to. However, it it less harmful than many of the legal pain killers on the market. I am not convinced making all these drugs legal has made us a better society. Amy Winehouse, Michael Jackson, Heath Ledger, Elvis among others died of legal prescription drugs.
Jeez... if all these people that took the time to post comments on here just took the time to protest the legalization of cannabis.... it would have been legal by now!!!
Uruguay
Oooh, good idea. Now that we are forcing cigarettes out of the world with taxes and regulations, we can replace it with pot. Now pot doesn't have as many chemicals in it as cigarettes but it's smoke in the lungs, that's never good for the lung. I love paying for smoking related illnesses and don't want that to go away with cigarettes. I'd really enjoy the potheads hacking their lungs and germs out on me as I walk down the sidewalk (yes you potheads do that). Legalize pot to save money judicially, I wonder what we'll legalize next.
Kevin,
You need to get educated about marijuana.
1) Marijuana alone does NOT cause cancer. In fact, it protects one from cancer.
2) Marijuana alone does NOT cause lung diseases. At the most, it causes bronchitis, and only if one also
uses cigarettes. I would say in that case, it isn't the pot which is causing the bronchitis, it's the cigarettes.
3) Marijuana alone doesn't cause violence. If one uses beer or alcohol along with it, he can become violent,
but it's not the pot causing the violence, its the alcohol.
Facts are, the Right-Wingers don't want us using pot for a simple reason: They have religious scruples about it.
That's OK, though. But those with these scruples have NO RIGHT to force them on everyone else.
Legalize pot NOW!
The answer to question two is Jordan.
and who are these people that will be smoking all these legal drugs? where will they get the money to buy them? almost all companys do drugs tests. so the meth users and pot heads will have to rob people for money for their drugss
lol, wut? Marijuana will be cheaper than tobacco if it is legalized.
It will be cheaper than cigarettes at first.
After a while, the price will rise and rise and rise...
and the quality will go down, forcing you to buy more and more and more.
Pat,
Marijuana is already pretty-much "legalized" in states with Medical Marijuana laws on the books, yet the price has
gone UP, not DOWN. Of course, that might be because those states don't have laws controlling large-scale growth.
The People voted for MM, yet the States make it almost impossible to obtain it. We really need to vote those jokers out of office, and put progressives and liberals in office who will stand up to the Feds.
Don't count on cheaper pot. Men are greedy, and as long as they can make a buck from it, they will charge all the market will bear.
BTW, California pot growers are the ones who kept marijuana from being legalized recently, cause they would lose their monopolies.
Get those greedy ba*tar*s out of the business! They are taking advantage of the People.
Marijuana is the PEOPLE'S.
Power to the People!
weed is illegal because society wants it illegal. people ran on platforms to make alcohol legal again and won elections.
pot will remain illegal until society as a whole decides it wants it legal. we live in a society,
I don't understand how people can preach against marijuana when most of the health risks and dangers have been scientifically proven to be false. At one time it was said that smoking weed could, over time, cause brain damage and could also result in an increased risk of lung cancer, but it has never been proven. There has never been a single report of death or lung cancer in users caused purely by marijuana, and in fact, a study in 2006 actually showed that even heavy users had no sign of increased risk of cancer. Also, current medical tests used to detect brain damage have yet to link brain damage of any sort to the use of marijuana, even in heavy users. Most of the health claims were based on reports that date back a quarter of a century, which had never been supported by scientific study. There has never been convincing evidence that marijuana has any harmful effects on the human body at all. Why then is it that this substance is illegal, however, tobacco and alcohol is legal within public acceptance and an age limit? Tobacco is the second leading cause of death world-wide with an annual death rate of over 440,000 for three reasons – lung cancer, COPD, and cardiovascular disease. Marijuana does not. People smoke weed for the same reason people drink: euphoria. But alcohol, too, has been linked to a proven increased risk of various types of cancer, brain damage, kidney failure, and even strokes. Not only that, but alcohol is the cause of a staggering two million deaths a year world-wide, namely alcohol related car accidents. How often do you hear of someone getting in a head on collision because they were high? And while overdosing on marijuana is physically impossible, alcohol poisoning is actually more common than people think, and is sometimes fatal. I also strongly disagree with the people that say that marijuana is dangerous in the fact that it can be highly addictive. No it can't. The only reason marijuana is ever addictive, as with any substance, is because you have poor self-control. If you can't restrain yourself from taking certain actions and limiting your intake, then maybe you are the one who shouldn't be using the substance. It is not marijuana's fault that you can't realize what is a priority in your life, nor is marijuana the addiction problem. You are. It's the people that can't comprehend what is important in life, and what is not, and they need to learn to excersize self-control before you start blaming a substance for their own shorcomings like it's some kind of crusade against weed. You calling it an "addiction", like it couldn't have been prevented, is just a fine way to relinquish responsibility for their actions. It is only an "addiction" if you let it be, and just because a handful of people lacked the self-control to be responsible with a substance doesn't mean it's dangerous.
God Created Cannabis to heal the nations of the world. Marijuana is the drug of peace that is why it is illegal. There's no profit in Peace and War is money.
You Sir, are an ignorrant!
Phillip Morris,
"lefty" is an ignorant WHAT? Can't you finish your sentence? Or are you simply a hypocrite?
But if everyone got laid back then how would our government incite the masses into cosigning a war?
by denying muslims access to the civilized world.
Why not? They've tried damn near everything else and it didn't work.
Anytime you try to put in a system of prohibition you allow elements of organized crime to get very powerful, you cause lots of carnage and mayhem and death. See Alcohol prohibition and organized crime.. See drug prohibition and drug cartel wars of today..
I do not want my kids getting their hands on any of these substances, but since its illegal it will be on the streets and able to be got by anyone regardless of age, and from dangerous people since its not regulated.. When i was in high school kids could get their hands on about any drug, but alcohol was tough to find someone to risk their neck to buy it for them. Think it through people. Lets quit paying $30k a year in jail cells for non-violent people. - Non user
Here in Holland we learn to distinguish the effects, the addiction and socially acceptance of drugs within a social environmental matter.
For instance alcohol is a hard drug, but it is socially accepted, you have all these alcohol meetings, so it's quit addictive. Also when you drive a car, alcohol causes many death a year. Cannabis is a soft drug (not to compared with coffee, caffeine and tea, theine , because those are also soft drugs, but have less influence and addiction factor), the addiction ratio of Marijuana is very low, second there are no rates that tell people get killed because of cannabis on the road. How ever there is a problem when you use Marijuana in combination with alcohol.
Cannabis to coffee, is like heroine to alcohol. Heroine is a hard drug, alcohol is a hard drug. Cannabis is a soft drug, also coffee is. Because heroine isn't socially accepted, US forbids the use of. Because the socially acceptance of alcohol is there, US doesn't forbid alcohol. US forbids Marijuana (while it's a soft drug), because Marijuana isn't socially accepted, but most American drink coffee and tea. Legalizing Marijuana would save the US an enormous amount of tax money and at the same time would get dealers off the streets. Why. Dealers can't get people to use hard drugs when they can't make them happy with a soft drug in the first place.
I can see what marijuana has done to your thinking process.
He's from holland. Lets see you write something half intelligible in their language. He makes sense in my book.
For short.. US that would decriminalize Marijuana. Picture this. Local mayor is giving coffee shops a licence to sell pot. When they screw up, they'll lose their businesses. They'll lose their license when they start offering hard drugs. Alcohol, heroine, xtc.. you name it. Because people don't want to lose their businesses, those pot sellers will also tell people not to use hard drugs, to keep their imago alive. When dealers don't get a chance, their businesses stay alive. That's how easy it works. You would have some dealers on the streets, 90% will be gone. And that's how US should fight a war on drugs. Those Mexican don't know how to sell their hard drugs. It's like US taking away their commercial channels. Dealers are gone, they don't sell, no market, less US junkies on the streets.
Marijuana legalization is about personal freedom.
You got that right, friend.
Legalize Pot NOW!
The penalties are more dangerous then the use of the herb. What used to be taboo is now a beneficial thing that anyone may enjoy...If you are against it you should not be allowed to have it...and if you are for it you should be allowed to enjoy it...no one in history has ever overdosed and died from it... So Come On People, Let's Live a Little with it !!!
fareed...........
do you want more complicant voters along with lazy non-workers,
or....do you want hard working, "i can take care of mysef", but thanks
anyway ppl?
Um.... wow I know a lot of people who smoke and are extremely hard working and productive members of society... You really shouldnt talk about something when all you know is the stereo type
VIVA LA MARIGUANA.......
I am always amazed at how ignorant you people are, until a rich timber magnate decided he didn't want to compete with hemp products marijuana was legal and something like 60% of our medicine was made from this one product. Before you speak out about a topic you should try reading something about it, if you can read. The government has been blowing smoke up our asses about this and so much more it scares me that so many of you are sheep blindly believing a government that cares so little about its people. Wake up America before its to late.
This is ridiculous. Everyone knows that the alcohol industry will spend billions to prevent marijuana from being legalized. It will not happen in our lifetimes. The only industry special interests that have more clout than alcohol are the NRA, oil and pharmaceutical interests.
Hey Lary of the dune Iam your daddy. Call your mom to come and play with my toys
"Make the most you can of the Indian hemp seed, and sow it everywhere!"
George Washington (1794)
The Writings of George Washington, Volume 33, page 270 (Library of Congress)
"Hemp is of first necessity to the wealth & protection of the country." ~ Thomas Jefferson
"We shall, by and by, want a world of hemp more for our own consumption." ~ John Adams
“Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of
sweet hemp, and playing my Hohner harmonica.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
(from a letter written by Lincoln during his presidency to the head of the Hohner Harmonica Company in Germany)
HEMP IS NOT MARIJUANA.
Close but not the same.
Believe me, Lincoln isn't stupid enough to smoke what we call today, hemp. Hemp, cannabis, and marijuana were used synonymously back them. There is no reason to smoke hemp but to induce a nice massive headache. Hemp has no recreational properties. He was definitely talking about smoking some sweet sinsemilla in that pipe of his. Just like most of our forefathers did. God bless them!
It is interesting that almost every comment is pointed to the marijuana portion of this quiz. It is even more interesting that our heads-of-state laugh when we want to seriously discuss this issue. Thank goodness for the internet!!!
ban twinkies, they make you fat and give you heart attacks
everyone I knew in school that started on marijuana and moved on the others drugs. A couple are dead now and the rest have drug problems in their 50s. This is not science just reality.
Read some history. Our governments have been peddling drugs for centuries. Britain is largely built on the proceeds of the opium trade with China. Britain went to war with China TWICE over the right to peddle opium to the Chinese masses. The american government simply carries on the tradition. In making drugs illegal they have guaranteed it will have an 'illicit' value allowing them to make more unaccountable monies. The CIA today, using american troops, guards afghanistan poppy fields that the Taliban had destroyed. Both the DEA and CIA have been recorded multiple times smuggling drugs INTO the usa. And not just from Mexico. Air America anybody? Further, on top of the raw monies to be had there are benefits to the careers of politicians and law enforcement in the form of raises, promotions, citations and all the other goodies of fighting evil drugs. Only the most thoroughly ignorant moron is not aware of these issues. The War on Drugs is a complete and utter load of poo-poo.
It wil be 30 years next september since I¨ve been smoking pot almost everyday and, still haven¨t developed an adicttion
and, yet, you smoke daily.
But, you are not addicted.
Legalized POT would mean, our prisons are not full of first offense pot smokers, talk about a cash crop big brother could definitely make alittle profit (look at tobacco and alcohol sales). Addiction to pot, doctors say no, but some regular smokers do tend to get alittle irratable with out it. The "war on drugs" would not cost us millions to TRY to keep it out of or borders. Yeah there will always be reasons why people say no to legalized pot, but you can legally buy 'bath salts' over the counter, you can smoke all the tobacco you want in a day, and you can legally consume all the alcohol you want. And its okay. Just the legal and medical costs of Legal Drugs you can snort, smoke,and drink makes me wonder where the hell or who the hell is making these decisions for me. Because bottom line "I would sooner be in a head on collision with a POT HEAD than a LEGAL DRUNK." Okay not legal to drive, how many years have we tried to stop them???
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