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- geekchic, on 12/30/2007, -16/+283Its an interesting poster - but the problem with it is that it doesn't spell out the benefits of de-criminalisation in a manner which is compelling. After all, I could take the theme of the poster and use it to argue for the legalisation of murder - the prevention and prosecution of which is not cheap either.
Better to stick to selling the benefits of the product, not the cost of prohibition. - Emused, on 12/30/2007, -36/+248Turn on, tune in, Digg up.
- ApocOne, on 12/30/2007, -17/+166Buried, those joints are terribly rolled.
- doctorfungi, on 12/30/2007, -9/+146If the government was actually looking out for our health and well being they'd shut down every McDonalds in the country and criminalize alcohol and tobacco, neither of which have medical benefits, both of which are deadly.
They are trying to save face. They can't just suck it up and admit that their anti-marijuana scare campaigns from the 60's onwards were a crock of ***** and that they were wrong. - Munkey106, on 12/30/2007, -48/+124Legalize it!
- jeremy1967, on 12/30/2007, -5/+65Hmm, failed prohibitionist policy or freedom of choice? I choose the latter, thank you.
- inactive, on 12/30/2007, -6/+61And add these numbers up over almost a hundred years of criminalization.
Harry J. Anslinger is the person who made marijuana illegal in most of the world by making the rest of the U.N. countries adopt the single convention on narcotic drugs that included marijuana. Overnight, weed was illegal on the planet. He founded the DEA and was also reponsible for the prohibition of alcohol. He's yet another insane fundamentalist christian who ruined life on earth.
Here are some great Harry J. Anslinger quotes:
"There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the US, and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos, and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz, and swing, result from marijuana use. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers, and any others."
"...the primary reason to outlaw marijuana is its effect on the degenerate races."
"Marijuana is an addictive drug which produces in its users insanity, criminality, and death."
"Reefer makes darkies think they're as good as white men."
"Marihuana leads to pacifism and communist brainwashing"
"You smoke a joint and you're likely to kill your brother."
"Marijuana is the most violence-causing drug in the history of mankind."
He also had the government pay for hollywood movies that would portray marijuana as a drug that makes you insane and will make you rape and kill people. See "Reefer Madness".
http://blogs.salon.com/0002762/stories/2003/12/22/ ... - TylerL82, on 12/30/2007, -2/+48Wait, marijuana legalization means we're all required to smoke it?
I'm already sick of the government coming to my house and forcefeeding me tequila. - rye425, on 12/30/2007, -7/+51Asterisk at the bottom
*poster provided 50,000 rolling papers - candre23, on 12/30/2007, -1/+41About 830k for pot: http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/drugfact/marij ...
Nearly 2 million drug arrests total. Just in America. - inactive, on 12/30/2007, -4/+431 million arrests? just in America? really?
- swiftekho, on 12/30/2007, -4/+39The only thing bad in that picture is the quality of the roll on those blunts/joints.... Pathetic.
- trogdor282, on 12/30/2007, -4/+38Up, down, back, A, B, FATALITY!!
- ApocOne, on 12/30/2007, -6/+39While I tend to agree with this, it is unrealistic. If you drink anything with caffeine, alcohol or smoke cigarettes you can't really judge. We live in a drug culture, from the glass of wine to prozac, it makes no sense to oppress people based on their drug of choice, especially when that drug isn't really harmful compared to other drugs (Cannabis vs. Alcohol)
- Fantom05, on 12/30/2007, -4/+36What is iLegal? Is Apple offering attorney services now?
- fractalman, on 12/30/2007, -7/+38From the top down:
If pot was not ilegal, those 1 million people would not have been arrested.
If pot was not ilegal, 10 billion dollars in taxes would not have been wasted
By the current government's definition of "Violent criminal enterprises" any dealer that resists arrest by running is labeled a violent criminal.
Just think how much tax revenue could have been generated by the cultivation and sale of pot/hemp last year. - spammishking, on 12/30/2007, -3/+33It's an ad for the legalization of marijuana. It's trying to point out the resources that are used to combat pot use.
- NonServium, on 12/30/2007, -1/+30I don't smoke weed and I am concerned about this. Since you asked, the primary reason for my concern is that it is a complete injustice to lock people in a cage, often for years, where they will be treated horribly and kept with real criminals simply because they burned a plant and inhaled the smoke from it. Just because they've made a different choice than I have doesn't mean I agree that this is an acceptable way to treat them. It is cruel, it is anti-freedom, and it is an abuse of government power.
By the way, for getting high worry-free some recommend nutmeg or a substance called something like salvia(?), which can be legally sold and smoked but cannot be legally advertised as a means of getting high. - alexiadaisical, on 12/30/2007, -1/+30How about both?
- shadus, on 12/30/2007, -3/+31It's really a case of making victims in a victimless crime... so long as the people are adults, they should have the right to potentially ruin their life. We don't need a government that acts as baby sitters telling us what is and isn't okay to do to our own bodies. When you start infringing on the rights of other people, like driving drunk, murder, theft, selling legal drugs to minors, etc, then there needs to be some action taken to reduce the societal impact.
- Cloned, on 12/30/2007, -4/+31Exactly. You choose clarity of mind. Some people choose drugs. It should be a choice, not a law.
- candre23, on 12/30/2007, -2/+24I'm concerned about both.
- chucksmooth, on 12/30/2007, -5/+25maybe some weed would cure your insomnia
- WombleSlayer, on 12/30/2007, -2/+21Because they aren't as harmless as cannabis is.
- Shakermaker, on 12/30/2007, -0/+19After the success of the war on drugs and the war on terror, I can hardly wait until the United States declares war on sadness and melancholy.
- Evilhenchman, on 12/30/2007, -0/+18829,625 persons arrested just for marijuana violations in 2006?? Nearly 1 million people just for pot. Does it make any kind of sense to waste that kind of tax money and ruin that many lives over pot? according to: http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2006/arrests/index.html
- Barnolde, on 12/30/2007, -2/+20Harmless? Wars are never harmless and the war on drugs is no different, except it's a civil war perpetuated by ignorance.
- Rassa, on 12/30/2007, -1/+19Violent criminal enterprises got the money? Shocking. Now if it was legal that money would shift to farmers, tax money and your normal nonviolent criminal corporations. (Insert smile here) I watched a show on The History Channel not long ago on marijuana. It was very interesting. States used fear with racism at the time to outlaw it then Federal laws followed. Really had nothing to do with scientific findings or health reasons why they outlawed it. I think it's time we rethink the laws on marijuana.
- shadus, on 12/30/2007, -0/+17Also mind those are arrests, not convictions... and lets not forget to seize your property they don't even need a conviction.
- tschau, on 12/30/2007, -0/+17I have never once heard someone say "heroin is harmless," on Digg or elsewhere. You seem to be inventing an argument that's easy to mock, and it comes off as quite lame.
- Daedalos, on 12/30/2007, -1/+18That's how much money it costs taxpayers to detect, arrest, detain, try, convict and imprison drug users. The prison industrial complex is full of non-violent drug users who have all had to move through the system and that system is executed by people who must be paid. There are special police units designed specifically to detect and apprehend drug users. Prisons need to be continuously built and maintained to accommodate the rising population of prisoners. All this time, the total number of drug users continues to increase. "The Drug War" costs a lot of money and it puts a lot of people in prison.
- danwallace, on 12/31/2007, -0/+16People hate you.
- petewiz, on 12/30/2007, -2/+18sobriety =/= clarity of mind
I'm not advocating drugs, but anyone that thinks they are of sound mind just because they don't use drugs is fooling themselves. Just look at the people walking around any given Walmart. They might not all be heavy drug users, but I certainly wouldn't describe them as having "clarity of mind". - jeremy1967, on 12/30/2007, -1/+16You're an idiot. Come back to the discussion when you've developed some common sense.
- shadus, on 12/30/2007, -3/+18I support legalization of all drugs.
- procrasti, on 12/30/2007, -1/+15There are laws to protect a child against neglect... These should apply regardless of the parent's drug use. Drug use by itself doesn't mean the children are neglected or endangered.
- porkchop009, on 12/30/2007, -0/+14i think that was the ***** point of the poster.
- RoyalPineapple, on 12/30/2007, -1/+15Marijuana is compared to alcohol not because pot heads dont like to drink, but because alcohol is legal and seen as acceptable in our society. The only reason the marijuana prohibition has lasted this long is because they outlawed it before it became very popular.
- inactive, on 12/30/2007, -2/+16Then again, you could say the same thing about watching television.
- kreneskyp, on 12/30/2007, -0/+14im sure there are even more costs. you put someone in jail and you dramatically increase the chances they will commit yet another crime. The longer they are in jail the more likely they will be a repeat offender. The repeat crimes are more likely to be something violent.
The main reasons for this are people who might have been productive now have a criminal record and less likely to get hired. Take away someones work (money) and they will find another way (crime). People who spend too much time in jail become institutionalized. They forget or stop caring how to behave in society. - gute123, on 12/30/2007, -0/+14also it's clogging up the court system
- skidooer, on 12/30/2007, -2/+16Except I know why murder is illegal, but I'm not certain why drugs are.
- NonServium, on 12/30/2007, -2/+16Where's the caffeine, alcohol, prozac, adderol, aspirin, tylenol, etc.?????
- geekchic, on 12/30/2007, -0/+13The poster is about marijuana, not coccaine.
- generalhooha, on 12/30/2007, -2/+15No. Dr. Leary wouldn't be impressed.
- renagadex2, on 12/30/2007, -2/+15*cough* alcohol has numerous beneficial qualities in small quantities *cough*
- dothepanic, on 12/30/2007, -2/+15I smoke all the time, and I'm not a useless burden. I have a job, I pay bills, I don't steal, and I deserve to smoke the pot whenever I want.
And I hate drinking. I don't hate when others do it, but I recognize that it's more detrimental than beneficial to my health.
But anyways, how can pot be harmful, really? People need to relax more.. - SzaszMan, on 12/30/2007, -0/+12I think any sane person would merely want drug users to be held strictly accountable for their actions, just like sober people. Here's an analogy for you: if a person has a car accident while using a cell phone (distracted driving), we should charge this person with a crime. However, we don't make cell phone use illegal because some people might use them in dangerous circumstances.
Same goes with currently-illegal drugs. Someone using, say, cocaine or cannabis in the privacy of their own home or in a safe and regulated establishment isn't hurting others (except, arguably, themselves). That should be recognized. - bdawg123, on 12/30/2007, -0/+12Way to take something way out of context. Is this the best the anti-drug crowd can come up with?
When you resort to hyperbole you come across as a desperate individual who does not know how to make a valid point. - i208khonsu, on 12/30/2007, -5/+17While I stay away from weed it is mostly because I feel that I already have enough vices with alcohol and caffeine, cannabis is proven to be less damaging than alcohol and far less addictive than both alcohol and caffeine. When given the facts there is no real reason why cannabis is illegal other than profiteering and racism. And quite frankly if we are fighting a war on terror, illegal marijuana provides the majority of revenue to middle eastern terrorist groups.
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