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- inactive, on 11/17/2008, -92/+1384I support the free weed movement. Digg me or bury me...
- inactive, on 11/17/2008, -16/+702Tobacco kills 400,000 Americans per year. Booze ruins millions of lives. Cannabis makes you hungry and giggly. Guess which one is illegal.
- skiner24, on 11/17/2008, -25/+439I agree completely, but the government still says you can't have that weed that grows naturally.
- kingjame1985, on 11/17/2008, -28/+354do diggers have the power to help legalizing marijuana?
- georgemason01, on 11/17/2008, -13/+252I was gonna digg you too, but then I got high. Now weed's still illegal, and I know why...because I got high, because I got high, because I got high.
- chrisj46, on 11/17/2008, -17/+212I support it too! It will also help our economy, its win win
- tawnos, on 11/17/2008, -9/+164I cant see a reason why not to legalize it...
- lolupissed, on 11/17/2008, -7/+149I'm all for legalizing it and have never smoked it nor have had any desire to smoke it
- inactive, on 11/17/2008, -12/+150 My grandparents used to buy the oil for relief for their ache's and pains.
Imagine throwing people in jail for this, the elderly no less. - NinaOdell, on 11/17/2008, -5/+137While the article deals with a larger issues, I would like to make a point about Medical Marijuana.
Two of the pioneers (some would even say THE pioneers) of the Medical Marijuana movement are losing the land they have lived on for over 20 years because they have been brought to the brink of bankruptcy by huge legal fees (along with dwindling donations) and are forced to sell it. Valerie expected to die on it.
Valerie Corral and her husband Michael founded WAMM 15 years ago, but have been involved in Medical Marijuana much longer than that. In fact, Valerie uses it to treat her epilepsy. Over the years they've helped the very ill, the dying, AIDS patients, Cancer patients, even people with clinical depression.
In 2002, the DEA raided WAMM, despite the will of even the law enforcement of an extremely liberal community. Their entire crop was destroyed, and several people died while waiting on a new crop. Valerie Corral was at the bedside of many of them. The ensuing legal battle and the fear it aroused among long-time donors has lead to the fact that Valerie and Michael will be looking for another place to live sometime in January of 2009.
These not, nor have they ever been, rich or even wealthy people. In fact, they worked off twenty percent of their downpayment just to buy the land they own. They are good, passionate, and extremely COMpassionate. Wherever they go, it's almost certain they will never see the ocean from their house again. WAMM is dead.
It's great to support Medical Marijuana in theory. Its even better to stand up against travesties like this and say "no more". Get to know your congresspeople and find out where they stand on this issue. Write, call, or e-mail them if they're not on your side. Find out the laws in your community and where law enforcement actively arrests and prosecutes for Medical Marijuana.
If they do, get a proposition on your next ballot and change it. Our community did exactly that.
It's great to want change, but (to rather pompously quote Gandhi), it's better to "be the change you seek". - inactive, on 11/17/2008, -1/+123with our diggs combined...
- kemp34, on 11/17/2008, -8/+98No, no, let's continue to let the federal government play god with multiple militarily-armed drug enforcement agencies killing family pets, raiding medicinal cooperatives, stifling the medication of terminal patients, eradicating a plant that is natural on God's green earth, stifling a plant the not only helps ease the pain of cancer, but actually helps PREVENT it, let's throw a bunch of non-violent people in jail at huge cost to all taxpayers, let's clog up the courts with these same individuals, let's terrorize folks who simply want to relax and ease their minds similar to having a couple of drinks but in a healthier manner. It makes no sense to legalize when you have all these critical things you must keep doing!
- mikbunn, on 11/17/2008, -6/+91*Calls dealer*
Me: Hey man, you holdin'?
Dealer: Fresh outta bud, but I got some heroin.
Me: *sigh* Fine. - slapded, on 11/17/2008, -3/+87Legalize it please! My stock in Frito Lay will go through the roof!
- GregFD3S, on 11/17/2008, -3/+86I'm not a pothead, but even I realize that this stuff shouldn't be illegal.
- zheisey, on 11/17/2008, -47/+128It's too bad, but this won't happen anytime soon
- mikbunn, on 11/17/2008, -4/+81Ooh ooh! Pick me! I know the answer!
- MattB123, on 11/17/2008, -1/+73The prison, alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical industrie$ can!
- inactive, on 11/17/2008, -2/+68
Pot heads move to slow to commit crime,
unless they didn't pre-plan for the munchies... - deathsythe, on 11/17/2008, -16/+82While morally I am more against it - I do understand the benefits of legalizing it, and though it is a drug, there are far worse things that people do (many of which ARE legal).
It might be a good thing. - PaulCurrier, on 11/17/2008, -3/+68I don't smoke dope, crack cocaine, or persian heroin. I dont inject socially, pop pills, take mood altering psych-meds, booze it up, and recreationally (and/or professionally) enter altered states. That's my choice today. I also do not support the criminalization of pharmacopia. Socially, politically, and economically we should legalize it all, open state regulated and taxed dispensories, and use the revenue generated for the common good.
If we took these steps, we could close 80% of America's Prisons, and save hundreds of Billions of wasted dollars spent on incarceration, court costs, police, and prison guards.
The disease of addiction (cigarettes included) could then be approached as a public health matter, and the war on "others" will end. War on substances, tactics, and belief systems are reallly old school, and historic mistakes.
- evilesttoast, on 11/17/2008, -2/+66Hey he never answered it. No fair.
- albinoMithos, on 11/17/2008, -0/+62Get high.
- splinter09, on 11/17/2008, -7/+69The world would be a happier place if weed was legalized, look at the Dutch their are never sad.
- Bastet62, on 11/17/2008, -11/+71Legalize it.
- inactive, on 11/17/2008, -5/+64I smoke 2 joints in the morning
- inactive, on 11/17/2008, -1/+60It was eradicated and ripped from the land where it used to grow in abundance as a weed.
Time to reseed the country, ;)
Of interest: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-india ... - Shiloah, on 11/17/2008, -4/+62LOL. I can't believe anyone is pushing the "gateway" argument anymore. The only way cannabis is the gateway to anything else is when people can't get pot and they resort to a substitute.
- CalltoSanity, on 11/17/2008, -4/+60It took the Great Depression to see the end of alcohol prohibition, a substance infinitely more deadly and destructive than MJ, now it may take another economic calamity to see MJ legalized.
- inactive, on 11/17/2008, -4/+60While I appreciate your open-mindedness about it, I beg to differ with your logic. Your (or anyone else's) morals should have nothing to do with what is or isn't legal, and whether something is harmful or not shouldn't be a consideration either. If it were the case, surely bacon cheeseburgers would be illegal, between the moral objections of PETA, and the health concerns of the American Heart Association. The only criteria is simply whether you are infringing on someone else's rights. Moreover, the real issue is whether the government has the authority to dictate to you what you can and can't put in your body. In the grand scheme of things, it's further proof we're only free and self governed when you're listening to propaganda. We are neither.
- onlysc, on 11/17/2008, -14/+70yeah, this comes up from time to time. if you put it all on paper it is a complete no brainer that we should legalize it. but, for some dumb political reason it will never happen
- inactive, on 11/17/2008, -2/+53I appreciate your comment but the issue still stands. Regardless of how "illicit" or harmful a substance may be, your right to your body trumps that. Maybe I'm showing my libertarian roots, but I really believe that if someone wants to do crack until their heart explodes, that's their right. I'm sure that scooping up dead crack heads will be cheaper than the 40 billion plus we spend on drug enforcement, and less costly in human life than the gang violence we have with a black market for drugs, not to mention the suffering of people who lose property to seizures, and access to education and good jobs.
I suppose the difference is that I'm not looking for a perfect world. Utopian promises tend to be hollow and those who make them tend to be disingenuous at best. I'm only looking for a consistent commitment to principle, which one could argue is about as realistic as Utopia. - inactive, on 11/17/2008, -5/+54Correct answer! Here's a two pound bag of chocolate chip cookies and a half gallon of milk! :-)
- consoneo, on 11/17/2008, -2/+50Johnny Marijuanaseed anyone? Johnny Appleseed did it, so why not have someone do this generation's version? What could they do?
- inactive, on 11/17/2008, -3/+50stopping the prohibition of alcohol
- cyrusuncc, on 11/17/2008, -0/+46To make you feel alright?
- Bananigan, on 11/17/2008, -10/+56Legalize it! I agree with yellowcakewalk.
- VaporBro, on 11/17/2008, -4/+46VAPORIZE IT!
Vapor Brothers and Aromed 4.0 ftw - noumuon, on 11/17/2008, -0/+41"Taxation is not an incentive for legalization because it's too easy to grow your own."
yea, because we all know the government barely makes anything from tobacco with everyone growing their own... -_- - mllawso, on 11/17/2008, -1/+42Ignore him?
- mllawso, on 11/17/2008, -0/+41"I'll make teh negros and mexicans rape our white womens!"
/^ was one of the main arguments for making it illegal. - Paulorific, on 11/17/2008, -2/+42Why would the legalization of a harmless drug lead to the legalization of harmful drugs?
- normlsparky, on 11/17/2008, -0/+40I smoke 2 joints at night...
- j0ew00ds, on 11/17/2008, -2/+40The following are things that can kill you the first time you try it:
Bungee diving, Skiing, automobile driving, cycling, chainsaw juggling, crossing the street, general anesthesia, baseball, etc. I could go on forever.
My point is, lots of things can kill you. It's not up to the law to decide for you whether you partake in anything with an inherent risk. That's the job of your parents, peers, third-party organizations, your brain, etc. - rednaxela825, on 11/17/2008, -3/+40Digg you or bury you... what else do you expect us to do?
- VaporBro, on 11/17/2008, -0/+37I smoke two joints in the afternoon...
- MJDub, on 11/17/2008, -0/+36...I am Captain Digg-it!
- ezekiel105, on 11/17/2008, -7/+43Legalizing hemp would also hurt the paper industry and the cotton industry. It's sure not illegal because it's "bad for ya". It's all about money as usual.
- Paulorific, on 11/17/2008, -0/+34Same.
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