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- tjClassic82, on 03/31/2009, -0/+16There's really one reason why to legalize it: Because it should never have been made illegal in the first place!
- inactive, on 03/31/2009, -1/+11This is Digg and this top 10 had to happen......
11 - 10,000 acres of hemp would trump 1 million acres of Forrest for cellulose.
8 guys could cut hemp 4 times a year and replace the need to cultivate forests and habitat.
Governments are stupid.. - ferny12, on 03/31/2009, -0/+7Reason #1:
Because I THOUGHT this was a free country. - inactive, on 03/31/2009, -0/+4What the ***** are you two talking about?
- inactive, on 03/31/2009, -1/+5Marijuana in the title?! This is going straight to the front page!
- atomicpoet, on 03/31/2009, -0/+4Because hemp paper is more sustainable than tree paper.
- inactive, on 03/31/2009, -0/+4It isn't going to happen in our lifetimes people. I know it can never hurt to hope but as long the current political system exists in our government they are never going to admit they were wrong all of these years and legalize. Just think of the nightmare of releasing all of the people currently serving sentences for marijuana related offenses. There would be lawsuits out the wazoo.
- WordsnCollision, on 03/31/2009, -1/+4But we keep on electing them, so what does that say about us?
- WordsnCollision, on 03/31/2009, -0/+3Your thoughts are free, your actions are not.
- BoneStamp, on 03/31/2009, -0/+3We don't have much choice when A and B both suck.
- inactive, on 03/31/2009, -0/+3The gang related point in the article deserves more respect than it is given. Non-violent marijuana smokers go to jail and become violent. Once their sentence is over, they are more violent than ever and walk the streets. Then they go to jail for gang related crimes and such. It's just a circle of madness.
It's very unlikely the Federal Government will lift the ban; they're going to leave this issue up to the states. Once several states have passed law legalizing marijuana, the Fed. Government will then make a decision to legalize it. - IKORKYI, on 04/01/2009, -0/+3marijuana works for me with anxiety
klonopin works for me with anxiety
I wish i had a choice between a drug with less addiction than cigarettes and alcohol vs. a drug with an addiction potential greater than heroin.
they give klonopin to me "just so i can get by" before i can talk it out with a professional and resolve the issues and anxiety. That doesn't even consider the tolerance you can build to klonopin compared to marijuana. I've heard of people popping 5mg to 15mg a day just to get relief...and that is no solution.
what is the difference from popping a 1mg dissolving tablet in my mouth a half hour before going to sleep and smoking a joint? the tablet makes me drowsy and drunk feeling, marijuana makes my mind active and the dicussions i have while on it (while mostly a little weird) do help me vent my troubles and frustrations. Klonopin makes me loopy too, i just don't get the reasoning. - BoneStamp, on 03/31/2009, -0/+2As long as you're not hurting anyone else, you're free to do whatever the government lets you do.
- BoneStamp, on 03/31/2009, -0/+2Chances are pretty good that you're right. But, the timing is good to try and change the ideology that people should go to jail because they ate a plant (or smoked it). When so many doctors recommend it, it shouldn't be punishable with jail time.
- Kershalt, on 04/01/2009, -0/+21st this country is very free if you compare us with the vast majority of the world are relative small population enjoys freedoms not alloted to the rest. Freedom of religion- most countries do not protect your right to worship freely while they may not enforce rules against it they will not lift a finger to stop you from being persecuted. The right to own and opperate a firearm under the law- most countries you get caught with a gun by police and you go straight to jail wether you bought it in a store had it shipped to you from the manufacture or just picked it up as a hand me down from your family.
This being said yes MJ needs to be legalized taxxed and made widely available for all users. - Kershalt, on 04/01/2009, -0/+2so sending nonviolent people to prison will make them violent? isnt that the opposite of rehabilitation?
- inactive, on 03/31/2009, -2/+4Like a Lawyer?
- Kershalt, on 04/01/2009, -0/+2sarcasm does not translate well to the tinternet.
- SantaClauz, on 04/01/2009, -1/+3Dear President Obama,
I was first introduced to marijuana a little over 2 years ago. Over time, I have learned many things about this Schedule 1 Drug that were contrary to what I had previously believed. As a marijuana user yourself, I am sure that you are well aware of its effects and can vouch for its relative harmlessness. Unfortunately however, marijuana remains illegal under U.S federal law despite a laundry list of reasons for why it should be legalized.
So when the American public learned you were holding an online town hall to address the issues which we feel are important and ready to be fixed, we were excited. As you are aware, marijuana law reform was one of the overwhelmingly popular questions - if not the most popular.
In response to this question however, you jokingly dismissed the online audience that helped raise millions of dollars for your campaign which successfully got you elected. In an almost disrespectful display to the millions of Americans who use cannabis medically and recreationally, the audience as well as yourself laughed in the face of a serious question posed by the thousands of users that responded. It is also worth mentioning that the question failed to even be shown on the screen as all the others had been and received a very short, simple answer compared to the 10+ minutes that some of the other questions received.
I am writing this e-mail to you today to ask you to not only reconsider your drug policy, but also pleading that you take your online audience more seriously. I believe it would be well worth your time and much appreciated by a significant portion of the general public if you could please readdress this question with a more serious, thought-out and detailed answer.
And unfortunately Mr. President, the question is not a simple one, but multifaceted. I believe it’s important for you to begin addressing the situation so we can move toward becoming a more stable country. So let me begin by providing you with a few issues that you might want to consider.
As you are well aware, cannabis is currently a Schedule 1 Drug, which means it is defined as a substance with no medicinal value. Do you believe that marijuana is not medically helpful to patients who for example suffer from cancer or HIV/AIDS and have trouble eating or are in pain?
Why is the DEA continuing to raid dispensaries in California despite assurance from Attorney General Holder as well as yourself that federal resources would not be used to circumvent state laws?
Roughly 800,000 people were arrested in 2007 for possession of marijuana. This figure is higher than it has ever been before and has grown every year. Even patients who have been prescribed cannabis by their doctors have been arrested. Don't you believe it is wrong to be spending billions of dollars every year incriminating these people for non-violent crimes while the violent criminals run amok? Isn't it time to stop supporting private prisons that benefit from the imprisonment of others?
Are you aware the marijuana is a safer drug than both Alcohol and Tobacco, not to mention less addictive than caffeine? In fact, its impossible to overdose on marijuana and its potentially harmful smoke related effects can be lessened if not eliminated by using a vaporizer. Over 400,000+ people are killed by cigarettes every year, and another 15,000+ from drunk drivers, yet no one has ever died from marijuana consumption. What's keeping it illegal?
With the drug cartels more powerful than ever, don't you believe it is time to take away some of their power? Some estimates say that marijuana makes up over 50% of the cartel's income. Legalizing marijuana would eliminate much of their income and power. In addition to this, we would stop spending the billions of dollars that we currently spend fighting marijuana while generating billions of dollars by regulating and taxing this substance as well as hemp.
Mr. President, needless to say I was very disappointed when you hypocritically laughed in our faces on March 26th. I hope that you can take the time to redress this situation and reassure the American public that you are the man we elected on November 4th. I hope the power of presidency does not blind sight you to the obvious beneficial effects the legalization of marijuana would have on America. I know you are an educated man Mr. President, and I know you will make the right choice.
Hopeful for Change,
Anand S.
- Letter I wrote to obama via whitehouse.gov. I encourage you all to do the same and bring this issue to the forefront. I'm not expecting a response, but you never know - will keep you updated. - MCA2142, on 04/01/2009, -0/+2Why it became illegal:
First internal combustion cars ran on Hemp ethanol. The petroleum lobby saw this as a threat. Pumped money to illegalize, paid for the film, "Reefer Madness."
Or so I've heard. - IKORKYI, on 04/01/2009, -0/+2maybe its a reference i don't get, but another holocaust or genocide campaign would NOT be legal.
- Pigeon, on 04/01/2009, -0/+2"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."
"Reefer makes darkies think they're as good as white men."
"...the primary reason to outlaw marijuana is its effect on the degenerate races."
Thank the lovely Harry J. Anslinger.
Oh I almost forgot these two which are frankly insane:
"Colored students at the Univ. of Minn. partying with (white) female students, smoking [marijuana] and getting their sympathy with stories of racial persecution. Result: pregnancy"
"Two Negros took a girl fourteen years old and kept her for two days under the influence of hemp. Upon recovery she was found to be suffering from syphilis." <- Lol? - pirlok, on 04/01/2009, -0/+1Your freedom? http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3425/3397619343_b92 ...
- inactive, on 04/01/2009, -1/+2The holocaust is worse than marijuana so I see no reason not to legalize.
- poprocksandsoda, on 04/01/2009, -2/+2Government regulation of anything always ends badly. If you really believe legalization is a solution you need to quit smoking so much pot.
- Kershalt, on 04/01/2009, -1/+1LoL if you want to trace the start of why MJ has been persecuted on so much look at the history of "the War on poverty"
to shorten this up ill give you the cliff notes.
1. america adopts a bill dubbed "the war on poverty" this bill is widely known as a scham a way to arrest the poor and put them in prison, where they were cheaper to care for, and of course protect the working man from the oh so dangerous hobo's.
2. After 30 years of failing to make any real progress and vast overcrowding of prison populations the courts decided the bill was unconstitutional and that a man can not be jailed for his debt.
3. a poorly written and very missleading bill is introduced to replace the war on poverty. Dubbed the war on drugs this bill asked for large sums of money to be used to enforce the illegal transportation of foreign and domestic drugs. this bill called for the scheduleing of drugs into different categories to establish harsh rules against those deamed the worse drugs.
4. MJ was scheduled in the 2nd class of addictive substances, the class reserved for those drugs that cause you to halucinate, mostly because it was the cheapest drug (and to this day still is) with the most propaganda against it.
5. armed with the ability to create agencies to enforce these policies a senat sub commitee creates the DEA which takes over the war on poverty by arresting the main base of MJ users the poor.
basically MJ is illegal because its to cheap, if it had been more expensive to grow and harder to prepare like tobacco the big companies could make a profit off of it and the law would have been set in a way like it is with tobacco where due to regulations the only ones who can afford to grow it properly are the goverment and the large corporations who fund them. - mebbin, on 03/31/2009, -10/+5Anybody knows that Marijuana boosts psychotic tendencies and makes the user an escapist who keeps wandering in the world fantasy away from real world.
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