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- inactive, on 02/08/2009, -3/+50Legalize it - all of it.
- StickWST, on 02/08/2009, -2/+34I am really sick of all these articles about pot still being illegal. I wanna be alive when the top FP article says:
"Toke Up! Cannabis Legal in the United States of America" - JenniferInMO, on 02/08/2009, -3/+32Good. People need to write to their representatives in their state government and in Washington. We need to blog, protest and force open a public debate on the expensive scam: "The War on Drugs."
- Mard, on 02/08/2009, -2/+28Really, we just can't afford this war on drugs anymore. It's time to end it.
- tgc1, on 02/08/2009, -1/+19Alcohol Prohibition = Fail
The War on Drugs = Fail
The War on Terror = Fail
That's 0 for 3. Maybe they should start rethinking this whole idea. - Dennisisok, on 02/08/2009, -1/+17"They must find it difficult, those that take authority as truth, instead of truth as the authority."
- RenderGod, on 02/08/2009, -1/+12Ask California how much state money was used to fight
marijuana last year. Too bad it's not legal there. Growing
some of the best and not getting taxed like beer and smokes
means all that money lost.
"Awwweee man we're broke dude.
I don't know how we'll make the money man.
Our state is broke dude...... Hey wait...... I know......
DUDE!" - allowners, on 02/08/2009, -1/+11Cut the budget, eliminate the DEA.
- Tyrghast, on 02/08/2009, -1/+10I'm sure you would also love to see the federal government outlaw gay marriage. Saps like you are what's holding the human race from progressing.
The law isn't black and white, and possibly the most patriotic service you can do for your country is standing up against laws and actions by the government that are inherently wrong by their infringement on basic human rights. It is wrong for the government to regulate your body. Sorry, but it's true. - kyoobeh, on 02/08/2009, -0/+8let them. when it's legal i'll grow my own damn buds
just like my mom and her tomatoes - Geist89, on 02/08/2009, -1/+9Drug infested agenda? While we're at it, let's close the pharmacies by your house. Need that penicillin? Too bad, it's too controversial. </sarcasm>
People that have a medical need for cannabis with proper and legal documentation from a licensed medical doctor have a right to obtain that medicine.
If you wish for these people to continue to suffer based on your backwards view on cannabis, you are a sick, sick person. - Geist89, on 02/08/2009, -0/+7It's unfortunate how our state legislature is befuddled at how our budget is failing when we have a potential industry right under our noses that could easily make us one of the wealthiest states in the union.
- ATXChappy, on 02/08/2009, -1/+7Oh good, the small government, states rights conservitives are here.
- coyote1284, on 02/08/2009, -0/+4I just don't want to see tobacco companies get their hands on it and ***** it up like they have with tobacco.
- inactive, on 02/08/2009, -0/+4why does this article act like bush made marijuana illegal? marijuana raids occurred under clinton too. and marijuana has been illegal in america for over 100 years now. obama never said he would legalize pot. and he wont either. if you want drugs to be legal we need to start voting libertarian.
- VisionX, on 02/08/2009, -0/+4Medical Marijuana patients in California can posses it legally as well - under state law, not federal law, thus the protests.
I would assume the same applies in Alaska, since they are still under federal law - unless Gov. Palin and her husband return to the Alaska Independence Party and sucede from the union. - fety, on 02/08/2009, -0/+4HEY!!!!!
PISS OFF!!!! you're not helping - BitSlicer, on 02/08/2009, -0/+3First-things-first, let's get Cannabis taken off the Schedule A. There is no scientific proof that it should be there. Maybe NORML should file a law suite against the FDA. It would be a good place to start and maybe, just maybe, that would stop the DEA.
- mranderson86, on 02/08/2009, -3/+6He won't do anything......New Boss same as the Old Boss.
- sajorojas, on 02/08/2009, -0/+3Where's that from?
- ATXChappy, on 02/08/2009, -0/+3@volleytennis, have you not seen the hunders of comercials for every kind of drug under the sun? What do you think those are about?
- reeds1999, on 02/08/2009, -0/+3The most important difference is that Marijuana can not be patented and exploited by the drug industry.
- anaclagon, on 02/08/2009, -0/+3You smoke salvia every other week? What the ***** is wrong with you? Salvia is a high that should be used sparingly.
- ATXChappy, on 02/08/2009, -0/+3One of the policy reform groups did just that. And, the DEA's own administrative law judge ruled that it should be. He even went so far as to say "Marijuana, in its natural form, is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man. By any measure of rational analysis marijuana can be safely used within a supervised routine of medical care" But, the DEA ignored it's own judge. http://www.mamas.org/fjudge.htm It still amazes me that we as a country let the DEA influence what will or will not be a scheduled drug. Of course they aren't going to remove Marijuana from schedule 1. They get half of their funding to fight it. They couldn't justify all those helicopters if it where not for Marijuana. Poppies or Coca won't grow in the country. So, what are the going to spot from the air?
- felkakarp, on 02/08/2009, -2/+5I have and signed the petition: "Legalize marijuana and end the senseless "War on Drugs'".
Please take a moment to read about this important issue, and join me in signing the petition. It takes just 30 seconds, but can truly make a difference. We are trying to reach 1000 signatures - please sign here:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/26/legalize-marijua ...
Once you have signed, you can help even more by asking your friends to sign also.
Thank you! - ATXChappy, on 02/08/2009, -0/+2Oh yea, Oxycontin doesn't get you stoned. That's why no one is getting addicted to it these days.
http://www.rxlist.com/oxycontin-drug.htm - coyote1284, on 02/09/2009, -0/+2And I could grow my own tobacco, it wouldn't stop the anti-tobacco crusade from pushing for the outright banning of the "lethal substance". It's not the tobacco, it's the ***** that tobacco companies do to the tobacco, paper, and filter that make the smoke toxic to the user and those around him.
- yocouchdigga, on 02/08/2009, -1/+3maybe you should make like fox corp and as DOB (i think?) so elegantly put it, eat all the dicks?
- Paranor01, on 02/08/2009, -0/+2@akchrs: And I'm fed up (as well as many others) with religious dogma telling me what a human being is supposed to be, as told in their written-by-man dogma, instead of what a human being really is.
- cyrix, on 02/08/2009, -1/+3No, I honestly feel he will be alive when it happens. I smoke salvia every other week or so and it's perfectly legal where I live, and it is WAAAAAAAAY more dangerous in my eyes than pot (as far as what it can do in terms of altering reality...) My point is both drugs serve a purpose that can help people. A few states have realized this and I suspect more will follow. To me this whole war has just been a sad long drawn out version of prohibition that will inevitably end with the govt realizing "***** we're stupid we can make far more taxing the ***** than we can fighting it."
- inactive, on 02/08/2009, -0/+2it's not just those who use it who think policy is absurd and should be changed.
http://www.leap.cc/cms/index.php legalize it, tax it, remove the criminal element.
it worked in 1933 with alcohol... - twistaspliff, on 02/08/2009, -0/+2akchrs you are a fool.
- kyoobeh, on 02/08/2009, -0/+2Gerald Massey
- ATXChappy, on 02/08/2009, -0/+2It was made illegal by the Marijuana Tax act of 1937. So, it's only been 72 years. But, you are right, people should vote libertarian. There doesn't seem to be any difference between Democrats or Republicans on drug policy. Our new VP Joe Biden is one of the main architects of the current war on drugs. So unless, like Bob Barr, he has come to realize how much of a failure the current policy is. I wouldn't expect there to be more that token reform from Obama. Even though he has said he is in favor of decimalizing Marijuana in the past. The politicians can never seem to get a backbone on this issue. Which is really sad considering Obama himself call the war on drugs an "utter failure". Yet he is having trouble finding federal programs to cut back on to save money. How does any of this make sense?
- JPOOPOO, on 02/08/2009, -1/+3I don't understand why one person feels so compelled to decide how someone else lives their own life. Who decides which drugs are the good ones and which are the bad ones? Why is it that alcohol and tobacco are addictive yet legal? Cannabis isn't. How is it that alcohol can kill one hundred thousand a year and tobacco can kill four hundred thousand a year and its physically impossible to die from smoking cannabis and there has not ever been one recorded death from it? Yet its a bad drug? ***** it is.
- Geist89, on 02/08/2009, -2/+4@akchrs
That's actually been done before, kind of. It hasn't been very successful.
There's are 4 generally accepted medically applicable compounds in cannabis: tetrahydrocannabinol (THC, the main one), cannabidiol (CBD), cannabicrhomene (CBC) and cannabinol (CBN).
THC was chemically synthesized, FDA approved, and marketed for the treatment of chemotherapy-related nausea. It's trade name is Marinol. It is the exact same chemical, the only difference being that it is in pill form, and it does not come with the other medically beneficial compounds. As a result, it also does not get you high. It is pretty effective at controlling nausea, but that's about it. Most medical proessionals agree that it is minimally effective when compared to the plant material itself.
In Canada, there is another medication called Sativex, which is an oral spray containing THC and CBD. This has been shown to be much more effective for a wider range of symptoms. However, this does make you high. It's currently undergoing clinical trials in the US.
Last but not least, there is a synthetic cannabis pharmaceutical called Cesamet. It has been demonstrated to be very effective for nausea and neuropathic pain. however, this also will get you high. It's the best FDA-approved cannabis-based medicine we have in the US.
The strange thing about cannabinoids is that singular compounds do not really show any benefits in and of themselves, but the different compounds working together that do. This is why it is so hard to just isolate the "good stuff" from the plant and make socially-acceptable pharmaceuticals. - sodade, on 02/08/2009, -0/+2Don't feed the troll.
- sajorojas, on 02/08/2009, -0/+2When William Randolph Hearst, the father of yellow journalism, unleashed his “marijuana, weed from hell” stories - feeding racist fears, he chose an obscure Mexican slang term, Marijuana, that few people realized was Cannabis Hemp.
- inactive, on 02/08/2009, -0/+1they shoulda voted for ron paul
- StratMan172, on 02/08/2009, -0/+1He's actually quoted saying marijuana that is prescribed is just as appropriate as any other prescribed medication. Read it here:
http://digg.com/world_news/Whiff_of_change_in_US_m ... - StratMan172, on 02/08/2009, -0/+1Another difference is these medications cause side effects and have actually killed A patient. Plus Marijuana grows in the ground making it much more affordable than the other meds. Plus it's nothing synthetic at all its 100% Natural.
- Me1000, on 02/08/2009, -0/+1I have a feeling you smoke something other than pot if you smoke it often yet still think it should be illegal.
- Me1000, on 02/08/2009, -0/+1actually there are several nations that have legalized pot, not only for medicinal use but also recreational use.
so yeah... - inactive, on 02/08/2009, -0/+1nope im right with ya.
- cyrix, on 02/09/2009, -0/+1I do it once every like 14-25 days....that is using it pretty sparingly.
- ygeoff419, on 02/09/2009, -0/+1IF YOU SUPPORT THE WAR ON DRUGS, YOU ARE A RACIST! let the hate mail come, simple breakdown, the war on drugs targets minorities. If u support this senseless war on humans personal choices, you support racism as this is what the war on drugs feeds on.
more Hispanic and black males are arrested for drugs then any other group of people, people across all social boundaries toke, why pick on the minorities? because you hate anyone who isn't you! - ygeoff419, on 02/09/2009, -0/+1umm yes it can.... protesting can be very effective in changing laws as is voting, and contacting your representatives. way to slap down the people who are standing up for your right to make a choice on what you put in your body. yes its illegal, that's what people are trying to change, thanks for making it that much harder. maybe you should put down the bong and do something to help the movement instead of holding it back.
- inactive, on 02/11/2009, -0/+1Dear Congress, etc old *****
Hello, we are the general population United States of America. We like pot. We are not just "those stupid lazy bastard children", we are your coworkers, your bosses, your gold medalists, your friends, your family, your children. We are your painters, writers, programmers, drivers, doctors, lawyers, president. We are free-thinkers, positive members of society who work day in and day out, roll models, atheists, CEOs, financial advisers, construction workers. We build your cars, your homes, your neighborhoods, your offices, your paycheck.
We are not the lazy, immature, ignorant, uninformed, lifeless sheep you label us. We are not the over zealous bible thumping, child spoiling, over sensitive, finding hidden messages in records and Disney movie freaks that you listen to and base your decisions off of.
We are America. We like pot. - tekgnos, on 02/09/2009, -0/+1For the Thirteenth?
- UnoriginalMind, on 02/08/2009, -0/+1It's legal to use medicinally and that is why the dispensaries have it. There should be no reason for them to take the marijuana, save for evidence of illegal dealing, of which none has been put forward.
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