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- chupavacas, on 02/26/2009, -4/+300These pot puns in the headlines are killing me.
- CoolHandLuke70, on 02/26/2009, -9/+139Legalize both marijuana and hemp to grow and use. By doing so end a large part of the war on drugs and the cartels that are destroying places like Mexico shipping their bootleg cargo.
- inactive, on 02/27/2009, -5/+98i don't even smoke and i think it's absurd that it's still illegal.
- Loulou07, on 02/26/2009, -6/+88Sorry I forgot the prison industry would suffer irreparable damage to it's bottom line if marijuana was suddenly decriminalized.
- Loulou07, on 02/26/2009, -7/+69You can't legalize Marijuana, how would the big pharmas make money of you?, how would the chemical industries survive against such competition? How would the drug trafficker in government and elsewhere make a living? The only winner in that situation would be the farmers and the simple citizenry ans we know this is not the job of government to listen to their electorate!
- aubinhick990, on 02/27/2009, -2/+56Is it just me or have I seen this graph before...? Alot...
- sunburner, on 02/27/2009, -16/+62If I only used Digg as a news source I would've thought
1) Last year Ron Paul would've been president.
2) Kevin Rose sits at the right hand of God.
3) Pot will be legal very soon.
Now...are any of these things actually a reality? Not that I'm against legalization TRUST ME I work on video games for a living but the pot articles are getting tiresome. I only need 1 or two articles to tell me that pot should be legal...not one every day.
I'm going to get dugg down now :( - supernovasky, on 02/27/2009, -2/+46Here are the legalization benefits I can think up right now:
Here are all the ways it will help.
1 - It will instantly provide a multibillion dollar industry to the united states.
The state that legalizes will experience a big boom in their economy in ust a few days.
2 - Medical users could then smoke freely instead of taking pain medicines that are damaging to their health.
3 - Non-medical users that smoke will face less liver-toxicity if they take when they have a headache than eating tylenol.
4 - 30,000 dollars a year is spent to keep a prisoner in prison. More if it is in a federal penetentiary, where several marijuana growers are spending hard time. Legalizing not only will provide an INSTANT gain in the money that it normally costs to keep these people in prison, but will turn THEM into taxpaying members of society, or hell, maybe even entrepreneurs.
5 - It will reduce many BILLIONS of dollars that we spend fighting corruption in the United States caused by the mexican drug cartels.
6 - It will reduce the national security concerns of the above as well.
7 - HEMP will be an even bigger industry than marijuana. Hemp will bring in much more money than other paper sources.
8 - Marijuana is GOOD for the environment. It produces a LOT of oxygen, and it is much more quickly grown than pine forests, which face heavy deforestation every year. It is a very renewable source of paper and tough fiber.
9 - It will make the PEOPLE feel good about their government not intruding on their lives unjustly.
10 - Imagine the sort of coffeeshops, smoke bars, paraphernalia, etc... the peripheral market for marijuana will be AMAZING.
11 - It will eliminate 60% of the violent mexican drug cartel's funding directly. The other 40%, cocaine, will be significantly reduced due to the virtual death of the black market centering around marijuana.
12 - It will draw people away from alcohol and cigarettes, which are much more dangerous and deadly.
13 - Marijuana is actually carcino-suppressive, cuts your chances of getting lung cancer in half, and is neuro-protective, meaning that people who DO drink on marijuana will possibly see less brain damage. Furthermore, as in point 12, who would drink all day when you could smoke weed all day?
14 - It costs 500 dollars every time we arrest someone for Marijuana. That does not take into account all of the maintainence programs, drug rehab programs that we pay for when they are on probation, drug testing, and constant purchasing of equipment meant to find marijuana growers. This will save billions of dollars in legalization. - biliabong6, on 02/27/2009, -5/+49That "marijuana" plant scares me. I think it will make America unsafe for my children. Its a deadly weed that will cause people to think crazy thoughts and destroy our society.
I will just stay in home, feed my kids infected Peanut Butter, have them watch violence on TV, give them pills for everytime they come down with a common cold, and let the Gov't spend my social security I have saved for the last 40 years. Because Marijuana is the real danger to society. - Frankyfan3, on 02/27/2009, -2/+37John Jay, the first Chief Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court stated in 1789: "The jury has the right to judge both the law as well as the fact in controversy."
Samuel Chase, U. S. Supreme Court Justice and signer of the Declaration of Independence, said in 1796: "The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts. "
U. S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes said in 1902: "The jury has the power to bring a verdict in the teeth of both law and fact."
Harlan F. Stone, the 12th Chief Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court, stated in 1941: "The law itself is on trial quite as much as the cause which is to be decided."
You have the right as a juror to judge both the facts of the case AND the law.
Don't let the judge or the prosecutors deceive you. - silver26, on 02/27/2009, -1/+28I'm digging the puns...
- Frankyfan3, on 02/27/2009, -2/+26Deforestation and Hemp: How to Stop Global Warming
http://www.chycho.com/?q=Deforestation_Hemp_Global ...
Cannabis products span the consumer spectrum making it the only plant in the world that can help us curb global warming. It has “over 25,000 potential uses.” It rejuvenates the soil, can replace wood products saving our forests, it’s medicinal, and it can be used as building material, textiles, paint & plastic, fuel, paper, food and body care.
HEMP FOR VICTORY! - ipushmycar, on 02/27/2009, -2/+25Says the 12 year old who loves to play Halo and compares the real life financial crisis to Sim City.
- seventhc, on 02/27/2009, -2/+22You are one sorry ass son of a bitch, I hate brainwashed sheep.
It's a ***** plant you dickweed. - Gerz1219, on 02/27/2009, -1/+21I don't eat steamed tripe, but I wouldn't lobby the government to take away your right to eat it.
- KimmyGibbler, on 02/27/2009, -0/+19You imply that we're not ***** up already. LOL
- Frankyfan3, on 02/27/2009, -2/+21You don't need to smoke weed to be adversely affected or even killed because of the laws prohibiting it:
http://www.cato.org/raidmap/ - geoboy, on 02/27/2009, -0/+18Weed like for these puns to stop!
- gromdrig, on 02/27/2009, -0/+18i don't smoke weed and am for legalization, mostly for ecomonic reasons.
gov't can tax it in stores to make money, they could make more by taxing it than they get from fines. also it takes business away from criminal drug runners. im really not sure why its illegal,
alcohol is more harmful, from my exeriences, than weed.
edit: posted this before i saw supernovasky's post below, goes into much more detail. - czernel, on 02/27/2009, -1/+18Slippery slope - to freedom and personal responsibility
- JesusTeaseUs, on 02/27/2009, -2/+19The 'slippery slope' argument is a logical fallacy.
Just fyi. - MeatMountain, on 02/27/2009, -2/+19So alcohol and tobacco should be illegal too according to this train of thought.
- AbominableHoman, on 02/27/2009, -2/+17Who said anything about 'needing' to smoke weed, chump?
- SolituSneiku, on 02/27/2009, -3/+17But is it cool for me to say that I don't need to smoke weed?
- spiderbaby138, on 02/27/2009, -2/+16bad pun alert!
- KimmyGibbler, on 02/27/2009, -1/+15I love how someone with "Halo" in their SN is instructing others to get off of the couch. Tool
- Ellipsys, on 02/27/2009, -1/+15I keep hearing these arguments, but they never make sense. You know, aspirin has been patent less for ages. Tylenol and Advil have long lost the ability to be the only brand names for acetaminophen and ibuprofen. Currently, some "big pharma" also have subsidiary companies that make non-prescription drugs and package herbal supplements. Why wouldn't it be the same with marijuana? Why wouldn't drug companies invest in the cultivation packaging, branding and sale of something that doesn't require a huge lab to make, so is pretty much pure income with relatively little expenditure. Why wouldn't Pfizer or whomever make some sort of cold-pressed hash oil caplets or whatever?
Chemical and drug industries could just invest in marijuana - most of these companies make money on the volume of sales and banking on their branding (ie Tylenol), not on patents and lockout. Sure, when they come up with a new drug they unethically jack the price through the roof, but much of the funding for the development of that drug comes from churning out 50 year old antibiotics and analgesics that are generic by now, and used constantly for every headache and strep throat incidence that occurs. Marijuana is cheap and easy to cultivate - they should be embracing it.
As far as drug traffickers in the government, do you REALLY think they make big money on drugs? The bailouts of the past and present administration eclipse any income provided by drug sales, especially marijuana. When government needs money, it gets it much easier than running a covert drug trade. With the wave of a pen they can plunder social programs, levy tariffs, and more. Its simply easier than trying to run a drug trade under the radar. - KibibyteBrain, on 02/27/2009, -2/+15Not just the prisons,the whole criminal justice system. Fewer trials, less paperwork, less need for detectives to investigate, less of a need for defense lawyers and judges, less labwork in employment screening tests, the list could go on all day.
I'm not a drug user but I am a fiscal conservative, and there is no justifiable reason for these costs for the sole benefit of restricting the type of lifestyles Americans can safely live, when we are in a budget deficit over things we actually need. - liquidsys, on 02/27/2009, -0/+12You forgot that Cancer and AIDS were both cured multiple times.
- KimmyGibbler, on 02/27/2009, -2/+14Yea "tavern", we should probably re-ban alcohol too, just to be safe
- insanebrain, on 02/27/2009, -0/+12Stop being an ass. You don't know what you are talking about. To show you, simply take a look at my country... the Netherlands. We tolerate (not legalize... strange legal situation... blablabla) marijuana, and therefor we can educate a lot of young people on what it does to you (both positive and negative); therefor it's no taboo anymore. The thing is that because we educate about soft drugs, we can also show what hard drugs does to you. Young people now say 'joint.. sure (or, no thanks). . needle. . no way'. Hard drugs are no 'forbidden fruits' in my country... we now know it's plain stupid. Education will always win from forbidding it.
- boulderomen, on 02/27/2009, -1/+13Don't forget about California's failing government and mounds of debt!
- anarcurt, on 02/27/2009, -1/+12God forbid someone should be able to make a choice for themselves.
- lennybird, on 02/27/2009, -0/+11Is it just me or has the legalization of Marijuana suddenly exploded as far as popularity and media coverage goes in the past... Month?
I'm all for it, please stop handing out these unnatural prescriptions that BARELY pass FDA tests (if at all). Marijuana may not be absolutely perfect (for those who don't want the mood altering experience but just want its pain killing properties, plus when not using a vaporizer for your lungs) but it easily beats everything else out there and trumps over alcohol. - getbusyliving, on 02/27/2009, -0/+11Don't worry about it, nobody takes Digg seriously anyway.
- SpykerSpeed, on 02/27/2009, -1/+12When the older generation dies off it'll be made legal pretty easily. Just give it time. Not to get all Lion King on your ass, but the circle of life is a wonderful thing!
- Cronwerks, on 02/27/2009, -0/+11If you really think no one is taking it seriously you are missing the whole point I'm afraid.
- Frankyfan3, on 02/27/2009, -0/+11It's from COMEDY central. As much as I'm sure Jon Stewart and his crew are in favor of legalization, they are paid to make jokes. And sometimes, humor can be the best tool against oppression.
- max1018, on 02/27/2009, -2/+12***** you for not smoking weed.
Of course, I joke. - x0rcist, on 02/27/2009, -0/+10Don't forget the all important spike in the munchies market. Supermarkets and convenience stores will see widespread growth.
- Gerz1219, on 02/27/2009, -0/+10So is the only thing stopping you from doing coke, heroin and meth the fact that it's illegal? Would you be shooting up in an alley the minute it became legal? If that's the case, then you are blindly obedient to your government and you have no free will.
Or have you instead made an adult decision not to engage in those substances because you made a rational risk assessment and decided that the reward of getting high was not worth the potentially damaging effects it could have on your life? If so, why would you assume that current drug abstainers would not make the same decision once drugs became legal? - dumass4u, on 02/27/2009, -4/+14or maybe, JUST MAYBE, they'll use the money they save not fighting marijuana to concentrate on fighting the other drugs (cocaine heroine crack ext.)
- supernovasky, on 02/27/2009, -1/+11http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/573/zogby_poll ...
This poll actually shows a MAJORITY of west coast wants legalization, and 44% of people nationally want it legal. - ipushmycar, on 02/27/2009, -1/+10i dont love following your comments. i clicked your name to see how old you are. no age, surprise surprise. keep on saving the world there master chief.
but yeah, try smoking a bit of weed and then see how fun playing halo high really is? A LOT MORE FUN! - kentoe, on 02/27/2009, -2/+11I agree the pot articles are getting excessive, and they're almost the same articles too.
- Qbryzan, on 02/27/2009, -0/+9Sure you can compare them. Willow bark can be grown, and used as home-made aspirin. Aspirin's just willow bark extract with a buffer.
Of course, they are also both the same in that most people would still rather not have to bother producing them themselves. - stvh1, on 02/27/2009, -0/+9 Why should marijuana be illegal in the 1st place ! The people of California voted on it and the use of marijuana was voted legalized.The "Feds" stepped in and overruled it.We could tax it like any other substance of pleasure. We could take away the money the gangs make selling it.I could pick up my phone and have my pick of half a dozen assorted varieties at my doorstep in 15 minutes as it is.
- diskit, on 02/27/2009, -0/+9Oh man, you're using that "logic" thing that's been going around. Be careful when you're handling it.
- wcarver, on 02/27/2009, -1/+10Legalize but don't commercialize. The last thing I would want to see is weed in the hands of the tobacco industry. Although the TV ads could be really funny.
- itsbob, on 02/27/2009, -1/+10One last one
"Marijuana bill passed!" -
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