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- whiteninjachild, on 03/05/2009, -9/+107at least now they are talking sense about marijuana. The only way that weed dealers are allowed to operate is by keeping weed illegal.People die the same way from weed as they did in liquor prohibition as in violence between cops and gangsters or gangsters vs gangsters, but the only thing is that liquor still kills people daily from overdose to D.W.I and i cant tell you of any case where that is the case with pot. yet you can still drink but not smoke. That makes a whole lot of goddamn sense
- inactive, on 03/05/2009, -3/+98We have effectively reduced the number of tobacco smokers with a sensible public health campaign, not by making cigarettes illegal. The same should go for marijuana; if people believe it's harmful, then don't smoke it. But by all means, don't prohibit it.
- jeches, on 03/05/2009, -4/+77If the government really cared about the safety of their people we would have stricter laws on tobacco and alcohol, not on petty drugs such as marijuana, which is less addictive and dangerous than tobacco or alcohol.
- inactive, on 03/05/2009, -3/+63April 20th, 2009 ---- Million Man Marijuana March in Washington DC.
Lets FORCE the mainstream to give marijuana legalization the attention it deserves. Digg is not enough. - idc5, on 03/05/2009, -3/+61you can be against smoking for personal reasons, but you can't seriously think any good comes out of it being illegal:
"In the U.S., incredibly there are more arrests for marijuana possession each year than for all violent crimes combined. This astounding human toll from enforcing the ban on marijuana costs taxpayers roughly $8 billion each year. And those wasted resources are further compounded by the total capitulation of the massive pot market to an underground economy to gangsters who laugh all the way to the bank."
Common sense seems to be lacking in some of the American people - elliotys, on 03/05/2009, -5/+59I feel like a hypocrite. I hate cigarettes, and I hate when people smoke cigarettes around me. However I love pot, and would enjoy sitting around people smoking pot.
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________OOOOOOOOOO_________ - angelgabe, on 03/05/2009, -1/+40The same way beer is regulated. Beer can be brewed on a small scale as well, remember?
- MattB123, on 03/05/2009, -1/+29I bet most people won't grow it if they don't have to.
We are also allowed to brew our own beer yet most people continue to buy it instead. - ExplorerNation, on 03/05/2009, -1/+28Ah, yes the slippery slope fallacy of logic. Dogs and cats living together....mass hysteria!!! This reminds me of the Pro Prop 8 arguments: "Let gays marry?!? What's next? People marrying animals?!?" Try not to be so ignorant, please.
- KloroFormd, on 03/05/2009, -2/+27Buried for misinformation.
The single most successful person I've ever known has smoked pot for 35 years all day every day. He's an IT supervisor, and not the one that doesn't know *****, but the one that worked his way up from the bottom. - shadus, on 03/05/2009, -0/+24Prohibition of any kind doesn't work. That's a universal truth. When the government prohibits people from doing something it just moves underground, funds criminal organizations, and increases crime across the entire spectrum of its manufacturer to its end use.
- inactive, on 03/05/2009, -3/+27Yes to DUI's, substance abuse, addiction, liver and lung cancer, second hand smoke, deaths, innocents killed in drunken rage and/or drunk drivers, throwing up, being arrested for public intoxication, alcohol influencing you to commit crimes and not act yourself, the posibility of being date raped, alcohol poisoning, choaking on your own vomit and dieing and ruining peoples families/careers.
No to marijuana which has never killed anyone and something you cannot get addicted to.
I love how the government operates. - BoneheadFarker, on 03/05/2009, -1/+24Funny...the stuff I buy is grown locally. I actually don't know anyone that buys their pot from sources outside of a 50 mile radius from where they live. Maybe you just don't have a clue about what you're talking about...
- paperclipsNsoup, on 03/05/2009, -0/+22Really, unproductive? Like who:
Bill Clinton
Barack Obama
Willy Nelson
Michael Phelps
John Kerry
John Edwards
Stephen King
Jon Stewart
Steven Spielberg
George W Bush
Michael Bloomberg
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Al Gore
Clarence Thomas
Montel Williams
John Wayne
Bill Maher
Miles Davis
Norm Coleman
Harrison Ford
Bill Murray
Louis Armstrong
Dan Aykroyd
Stephen Jay Gould
Aaron Sorkin
Carl Sagan
Newt Gingrich
Rodney Dangerfield
Sarah Palin
George Pataki
RON PAUL!!!
There's more but I didn't feel like typing any more because I'm an unproductive pothead like those listed above.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfZ2v019GvM - zbeast, on 03/05/2009, -2/+24It's all about letting those who are in power that we want pot legal.
It's not that I can't get pot, it's not that I can't grow pot.
it's about that I have to hide when I'm doing it. I can sit in my backyard drink a beer
but I have to hide inside like criminal when i'm want to take a bong hit. - MWeather, on 03/05/2009, -0/+19"Prohibition of Meth and Crack prevents them from being wide spread."
Ask someone why they don't use meth or crack. I promise you the law will not be the reason.
Besides which, it has not prevented them from being widespread.
In addition the only country to have legalized (sort of) marijuana, the Netherlands, experienced a drop in use similar to the drop in alcohol use after the repeal of the volstead act. And not only did use drop, but also crime rate.
The fact is that unenforceable laws against vice breeds disrespect for the law. The rebelliousness one feels breaking the law actually reinforces use. The repeal of prohibition of both alcohol and marijuana successfully made both substances boring. - avianeddy, on 03/05/2009, -1/+20buried for weak, outdated, unsupported, argument
- IgorUnchained, on 03/05/2009, -1/+19The same way you can bootleg whiskey in your backyard and they are still able to tax
booze.
Or
The same way that tobacco is a major lobby/cash crop for some southern states, but 80% of the price of a pack of cigarettes is from the tax on it.
Not everyone is going to turn their hallway closet into a growroom...not everyone lives in a climate or region conducive to growing outdoors.
Milk is regulated, but people are still allowed to own milk cows and drink the milk from their cows.
This really wouldnt be "unprecedented" stuff at all. - Yez70, on 03/05/2009, -0/+16So far, the only benefits I've seen to pot prohibition is to the private prison industry.
Why we started privatizing punishment, I never understood - but now they lobby to keep the harsh victimless drug laws and pot prohibitions for their own bottom lines. It's all about profit at the expense of society.
They're as bad as the RIAA in my book. - emjaymj, on 03/06/2009, -0/+15Not a weed smoker, but who the hell are you that MY productivity is any of your business? If I want to sit on the couch all day, so be it - provided I'm not using welfare to do it. If I want to live a simple life of self-subsistence in the woods rather than become a doctor, that's my prerogative.
As for increased medical costs, just about everything contributes to that. Not just alcohol and tobacco, but cars, fast food, watching television, sunbathing, candy, etc. Why not outlaw all of those? In fact, why not have doctors publish a minute-by-minute routine and have everybody adhere to that? - HopeForTomorrow, on 03/05/2009, -7/+22I'm starting to feel that once pot has been legalized, Digg is going to have significantly fewer articles on the front page.
- ninjadanger, on 03/05/2009, -3/+18out of all the "legalize marijuana" articles i've read on digg not one of them has mentioned the industrial hemp aspect of it. if marijuana is made legal then farmers in the united states could then not only grow the sweet chiba we all know and love but also it's turbo-useful sibling. hemp can be used in an industry setting for so many things. the obvious ones are things like rope, paper, and clothes. the less obvious being various heavy building materials (fiber board, beams) and the possibility of it being a viable biofuel. i hope the bills that are being circulated in various states take the revenues of the industrial hemp sector into account as well. i feel like those numbers may be more impressive than just the numbers from taxing recreational marijuana use.
- IgorUnchained, on 03/05/2009, -2/+16It is illegal and it is still the biggest cash crop in California.
It doesnt take a rocket scientist to understand that if it is legal it will work wonders for their (our) economy.
This will creat jobs/industry all over the country. If pot were legal to smoke, it would be legal to harvest hemp. It would STILL be the biggest cash crop in MANY states, but wont be going toward black market players. I was raised in a family supported by the timber industry and where I live that opportunity is almost completely gone. Mining employs about 25% of the people it did 30 years ago. Im all for getting wasted, giving sick people medicine, being able to feed more hungry people and fuel more hybrid cars......but it is the possibility of a thriving industry for this troubled country that I am most looking forward to. The jobs it will take to build the infrastructure alone will help to turn around the country in a month....think about it. - Kahnza, on 03/05/2009, -3/+17I'm diggin your groove man. :D
- jackal42, on 03/05/2009, -2/+16as long as they dont harm anybody else in the process
- Talphin, on 03/05/2009, -1/+15Don't forget all of the otherwise innocent people being sent to prisons, where they are exposed to REAL criminals, and are either beaten and raped, or actually become real criminals themselves after spending 7 years becoming best friends with nothing but murderers, rapists, burglars and other like minded thugs.
- inactive, on 03/05/2009, -1/+15Not sure why more people aren't doing this. This spring just take your extra seeds and toss them in places in the wild that won't get mowed. (Johnny Potseed) Eventually the stuff will be growing everywhere. Then wait for the government's reaction. If the government starts going around paying companies to chop them down then they obviously don't want it legal. If they instead say it will cost too much to go around and clear out all the plants then legalization may be next. Why should we wait for them to tell us what to do, when WE should be telling them? Show them how much we want this. Actions speak louder than words.
- Import98, on 03/05/2009, -3/+16Article pretty much says it how it is. Legalization would be a huge money maker, I still do not see why this has not happened yet.
- inactive, on 03/05/2009, -2/+15I love how idiots continue to argue this point out.
"WHAT ABOUT PEOPLES THAT WILL GROW IT IN THEIR HOUSES??!?!"
Its VERY hard to grow quality weed when you are just starting out, you would have to invest HUNDREDS of dollars into it and since you are inexperienced, WASTE all of that money, and it takes a couple months before it is ready to harvest.
So yeah, ill buy from the government when it is the best out there, taxed, and dont have to deal with growing or shady drug dealers, thanks. - avianeddy, on 03/05/2009, -1/+14Well since growing that plant is so hard, I MUST obtain it from terrorist-harboring countries.
/s - ygeoff419, on 03/05/2009, -3/+16LOL, go have another beer and beat your kids. With any luck you won't have a job by Monday.
'you have a different opinion then me, I hate you' good mentality, still trying to get over your daddy issues middleblocker? :) - evilsin, on 03/05/2009, -3/+16the government should let people take whatever drugs they want
- TVarmy, on 03/06/2009, -1/+14That's the double-edged sword of freedom. Just like how freedom of speech lets both Amnesty International and the KKK spread their views and causes, most rights tend to have an unpleasant side. However, so long as nobody is put in serious harm (ie the KKK can't legally commit a hate crime and declare it freedom of expression), most liberties are a net good for society and culture.
- marksism, on 03/05/2009, -0/+12BREAKING NEWS: Cheeseburgers are delicious.
- NOFXY, on 03/05/2009, -1/+13also, WHY THE ***** NOT!? How about we educate people and let them decide if they wanna ***** up their lives or not? How's that for land of the free? People who are going to do drugs are going to do them and people who aren't, aren't. I don't think it can get any simpler.
- MacEnvy, on 03/05/2009, -1/+12And even more of them will be about bacon.
- gimpsta, on 03/05/2009, -0/+11I, for one, would much rather my driver or pilot to be stoned then drunk.
Drunk people run red lights.
Stoned people sit through 2 red lights waiting for it to turn green. - jenkies, on 03/05/2009, -4/+14Dude, people everywhere want it legal. It embarrasses me that people are dumb enough to think alcohol is a safer drug for society. The arguments made in this article are pretty legit. I can't believe the numbers on incarcerations and tax dollars spent so uselessly. Half of those dudes aren't hurting anyone.
- ZapochGenitalia, on 03/05/2009, -2/+12Finally, people who display a reasonable level of intelligence! We must legalize and tax.
- marx2k, on 03/05/2009, -0/+10Did alcohol consumption go down during prohibition? No one knows. Know why? Capone didn't pay taxes. But there WAS a lot more deaths due to acute alcohol poisoning.
- LordStandley, on 03/05/2009, -1/+11Your arguments are retarded. Would you want someone under the influence of anything while they drive? Of course not, how does legalizing something automatically make it ok to use in any situation. This type of logic is ***** stupid to me. Alchohol is legel yet you have rules that go along with it, the same owuld be for marijuana.
Also, you talk about all the stoners you know that don't do *****. How about all the drunks you know, what do they do?
This is another thought process that escapes me as well. Why is that anyone who smokes weed in any form, is a stoner and can't hold a job. You are not making much sense with this argument. People can smoke weed casually just as drinkers can, and they can also hold jobs and have normal lives just as casual drinkers do, they've been doing it for centuries.
I have news for you, a lot of people smoke weed and they do it just like casual drinkers with no problems coming from it. Not all who drink are drunks, and not all who smoke are burned out stoners. I think you need to research your ignorant views on the subject a little more.
Lastly do you want someone who has had no sleep driving or flying a plane?
Would you want someone who is talking on a cell phone and reading a book driving or flying a plane?
Would you want anyone do anything distracting or anything that could be remotely dangerous to your drive or flight?
Probably not huh? Once again your argument does not make sense. - malex, on 03/06/2009, -0/+10You're right. It's absolutely terrible in California. It's nothing but taxes and earthquakes and killer bees.
Please don't move here. - Restil, on 03/05/2009, -3/+13Oh, there will be as many articles. They just won't be quite as coherent.
- lostsymphonies1, on 03/05/2009, -1/+11It's just too bad no matter how loud we yell, what lengths we go to or how long we try, the government will never listen to the people on this issue. Why would they take away billions in profits from their pharmaceutical friends? Why would they let the 'evil drug dealers' have their way? Why would they want to have to admit to the American people the amount of money they have wasted on their 'war on drugs'.
If there is a time to legalize, it is NOW. If someone doesn't agree with legalizing, DON'T SMOKE IT. I know plenty of people (myself included) who don't drink alcohol or smoke cigarettes. Does that mean I want them made illegal? No.
Welcome to the land of the free, - MWeather, on 03/05/2009, -0/+10What did Carl Sagan ever do to you?
- marx2k, on 03/05/2009, -0/+9Yes, the government having money for services and protection is inherently a bad thing.
- TVarmy, on 03/05/2009, -0/+9Claverhouse, those are celebrities on all the spectrum of public consciousness. I mean, Carl Sagan was an astronomer who instilled Americans with enthusiasm for science, while making great contributions of his own. Bill Murray has made a bunch of funny movies that you're free to enjoy or ignore, as with many of the other comedians above. Plus, we've got accomplished musicians and actors, who contribute to culture, which makes life enjoyable. And we've got libertarians, Democrats and Republicans, so you likely align to a degree with one of those groups (low regulation, left of center gov't, or right of center gov't), unless you're a social anarchist.
So, are you a social anarchist who has no sense of humor and hates science and entertainment? Because I'm planning on throwing a surprise birthday party for a guy like that, and I want to make sure he enjoys it... somehow. - MWeather, on 03/05/2009, -0/+9"With other drugs however, a lot of them are grown outside the US in dangerous countries. We don't, and do not want to support weed and other drugs coming from organizations that support crime and put other's lives in danger."
You are a retard. - EdibleBadger, on 03/06/2009, -0/+9As much as I agree with everybody here, Digg articles alone will not shift any paradigms. Please, everybody who dugg this, write a letter or email to your local congressmen. Just a reminder...
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