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- BorsKaegel, on 01/23/2009, -12/+455Legalize it and tax it! Blammo, another form of federal income.
- ironhide, on 01/23/2009, -13/+353While you're at it, legalize and regulate prostitution. Eliminate all the associated crime and disease and free up police assets to deal with more important problems.
- VaporBro, on 01/24/2009, -4/+258LET MY PEOPLE GROW!
- normlsparky, on 01/23/2009, -4/+205Wow, a trillion dollars spent on the drug war since Nixon. That's a significant waste of tax dollars. I haven't heard the argument that the war on drugs is the longest armed conflict in our history, but it would appear to be true.
The real opposition to significant change in drug policy is coming from people with a financial interest in maintaining current policies. Prison guards, rehab counselors, drug warriors at the state and federal level, medical personnel in the drug testing field, lawyers and stock holders in the privatized prison industry (like Cheney). Many of these people rely on current policies for their livelihood. Some even have time and money invested in the education required to hold these positions. Don't expect these people to go down without a fight. It becomes less about right and wrong when someone's career is threatened. - bkurilko, on 01/24/2009, -4/+169Just let me grow my own without the threat of assrape, please.
- JenniferInMO, on 01/23/2009, -4/+165AND a savings of billions being thrown away on a failed policy.
- danielberg, on 01/23/2009, -6/+162Legalize it...
- FDDIcent, on 01/24/2009, -3/+142$4.20
- bkurilko, on 01/24/2009, -4/+119This is pretty relevant. A man named Ryan Frederick in my area became yet another victim of this mess last year. This is truly a depressing story, but thankfully it seems to be brightening up a little bit lately.
Police break through his door in the middle of the night on a tip of a grow operation. No sirens, no warnings. His house had been broken into a few days earlier and so he had just upgraded his locks. He wakes up to his dogs going wild and someone crawling through his broken front door. He exercises his right to bear arms and defend his home. Surprise! No grow op, just a small personal quantity, and one slain officer. He's been in jail ever since as the courts try to figure out how to handle this. No criminal record, home owner, responsible employee and good neighbor. My guess is the "tip" probably came from the douchebag who broke into his house to begin with, in exchange for lighter sentencing or something. Was it even remotely worth it?
http://reason.wikia.com/wiki/Ryan_Frederick - TheLegionWolf, on 01/23/2009, -5/+104FTV " It's not the way it should be."
You said it... - inactive, on 01/24/2009, -5/+104legalize it. it is much less harmful than alcohol and its cheaper than a valium
- Amerijapoxicano, on 01/24/2009, -8/+99I'm sitting here at 1 a.m. on a (now) Saturday morning PROUD that I didn't drink last night. It's been a whole 5 days now since I drank. When was the last time I smoked weed? About 4 months. Would I smoke weed right now if it was in front of me? Yeah. Can I go months without it? Of course. Can I go 2 weeks without drinking? uhm,...what do I get if I do?
Alcohol has been much harder on me than weed. Much harder. - inactive, on 01/24/2009, -0/+77[citation needed]
- inactive, on 01/24/2009, -1/+75lol you sound like you have a good idea what you are talking about.
/sarcasm - MoDiggity455, on 02/27/2009, -12/+85preach it, cheech
- TheGreatZarquon, on 01/24/2009, -6/+79Legalize it, tax it, and rake in the revenue. We'd also be freeing up lots of prison space that is currently taken by nonviolent drug offenders, which are usually pot arrests.
We'd also stop wasting money prosecuting pot cases, and there would be fewer of them clogging up the nation's courts. We've had many different presidents, past and still living, who've smoked pot. I mean, come on, if we can elect a former pothead to the highest office in the country, we should be able to trust Joe Normal with a joint. - socivitus, on 01/24/2009, -0/+65It has the potential to create tons of jobs and bring in billions for the feds and yet they continue to throw people in jail and waste billions of tax-payer dollars. It's a long shot, but I hope Obama does something about this in the coming years.
- bkurilko, on 01/24/2009, -2/+65"an addictive psychoactive drug"
Oh you must be talking about caffeine. Oh no, sugar? Wait, alcohol? Sorry, maybe the quadrillions of largely untested pharmaceuticals that end up being pushed to us by the health care industry? No that doesn't make any sense either. You lost me, dude. - bigfatphony19, on 01/24/2009, -7/+66Uh oh I don't have access to weed because it's illegal. I'll drink a bunch of Robotussin and huff some glue.
Or maybe I'll get some alcohol and drive.
How the ***** can someone be against legalization. - bkurilko, on 01/24/2009, -0/+59Brilliant. I joined the other day so I could talk about windows 7, you *****. Do I not qualify for super AZBioDsl pointzzz or something? *****, how do I move forward from here?
- bigfatphony19, on 01/24/2009, -1/+51The only way it has "destroyed families" is because someone smokes some weed and it is blown way out of proportion because of how criminalized it is in our society.
Try it once and tell me it's going to destroy lives. - panda88, on 01/24/2009, -3/+52i wonder how much a pack of weed marlboro's would cost?
- Kaosaur, on 01/24/2009, -4/+53Yeah. LOL.
Joe Biden is arguably the chief architect of the War on Drugs over at least the last 25 years.
With that choice of a VP, do you really think he's at all interested in legalizing marijuana? - CaptOblivious, on 01/24/2009, -1/+47First, I haven smoked pot or gotten high in any way since the 70's. No particular reason, Too busy enjoying life I guess.
Now, that said, I think that the government has pretty much proven beyond any doubt that prohibition is NOT and will never be the answer to the "drug problem".
Perhaps using all that interdiction money for education and treatment and perhaps
Helping people improve their lives so that getting high ISN'T the best part of their lives would do more good for society than the (supposed) bad that the drugs themselves do.
If recent history is not enough proof the history of anti alcohol prohibition had exactly the same effect. It made regular citizens into criminals and funded the criminal element of society to the point that they were able to outgun the authorities.
Those who refuse to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. - coyote1284, on 01/24/2009, -1/+45You DO NOT want the tobacco companies touching weed without strict regulation that they will not add anything to it like they do to tobacco.
- Physpher, on 01/24/2009, -3/+45You dont go to work drunk do you?
- coyote1284, on 01/24/2009, -0/+38We prefer to call it "inter-species erotica".
- kemp34, on 01/24/2009, -2/+40Anyone who argues for federal marijuana prohibition has some serious neurons misfiring up top.
- Mixand, on 01/24/2009, -1/+38Legalizing prostitution works.
It is legal here in Australia and it works.
Less rape because the brothels are guarded and regulated and disease because they have regular check ups. - inactive, on 01/24/2009, -4/+39Oh boy, the "lazy potheads are bad for the economy" argument. Try something better.
- TwwIX, on 01/24/2009, -3/+37Legalize and regulate marijuana and brothels. The surplus will skyrocket in the matter of weeks. America's right wing and religious nutcases need to stop enforcing their false concepts of morality onto the rest of us.
- inkubusfan, on 01/23/2009, -6/+38bout time.
- bkurilko, on 01/24/2009, -1/+33"How is a small personal quantity not a grow op again?"
Are you retarded or something? They are completely contrary. I'll illustrate this for you in simple, simple terms. Please try to follow along with me here, cap'n.
Grow operation: an organized operation to grow marijuana for distribution.
Small personal quantity: A small personal quantity.
Still not catching on? Allow me to elaborate further: ***** off. - Syugo, on 01/24/2009, -1/+29Quick! Trademark™ it!
- Ne007, on 01/24/2009, -1/+28I think the pharmaceutical industry is what is keeping marijuana from being legal. They don't like any natural competition and do heavy lobbying against many herbal remedies.
- nitsua11513, on 01/24/2009, -0/+27Tobacco industry is also a huge opponent of marijuana since they tend to see it as a competitor, not too long ago I remember hearing about tobacco lobbyists moving to restrict head shops from selling paraphernalia etc.
- coyote1284, on 01/24/2009, -1/+27Wow! He must have been psychic or something to know that this very article would be posted the day after he joined! Do you even ***** think about what you're typing? If I didn't know any better, I'd say you were stoned when you wrote that, so I won't jump to the conclusion that you are on some heavy perscription drugs.
- bkurilko, on 01/24/2009, -3/+29Buried for stupid stereotypical crap. Tell that to my girlfriend who's legs painfully spasm every night because of MS. I guess the fact that smoking ***** STOPS it means nothing, right? We're just waste of space reefers.
- bkurilko, on 01/24/2009, -1/+27I have to say, that's pretty brilliant.
- qeffect, on 01/24/2009, -2/+27I'm from switzerland, talking about the will of the people: some 4 months ago we could vote for a much more liberal stance on marijuana. guess what, the motion was rejected. About the 5th time in recent history! What exactly happened is unknown, about 30% are regular marijuana smokers. With a voter turnout of barely 50%, this group alone would have been able to get the bill thru.
My personal opinion: legalize the damn drugs already! The worst drugs of all are already anyway: alcohol and cigarettes. Personally i don't smoke marijuana (voted yes of course anyway) but i like psycedelics. mushrooms, lsd etc. doesn't even qualify as a drug in my book, since they barely/rarely provoke any drug behaviour. it's just a trip :-)
It would be fantastic if the USA with Obama would legalize marijuana and possibly other drugs. The world will follow. It's the land of the freeeee! :) Go Obama!! - SEANWOOKIE, on 01/24/2009, -2/+27No it would be better because we would buy more food then ever and buy more movies to quote and why do you think stoners would go to work stoned?
- treytravis, on 01/24/2009, -0/+24you sir, are an idiot.
- vsujohn2, on 01/23/2009, -3/+27http://www.leap.cc/cms/index.php
- ahatter, on 01/24/2009, -1/+24ever heard of retiring?
- CoryTrevor, on 01/24/2009, -3/+26You don't have to stop the war on drugs. You just stop spending your resources on weed. It's stupid. Redirect those resources to the rednecks and Mexican gangsters making and selling meth. I've known hundreds of normal people who smoke weed, but the guys I've known who used meth always got ***** up in the end. Guys you've known for 15 years would start stealing from you.
- CaptOblivious, on 01/24/2009, -6/+29Yes well, those jobs exist to ruin other peoples lives so, pfffftttt.
- Gndoab, on 01/24/2009, -21/+43ugh. Obama can't legalize drugs by himself. There has to be a bill that goes through house, and passes, then goes through the senate, and passes.
Learn how the government works before spouting out what a president should and shouldn't do. - inactive, on 01/23/2009, -5/+27Legalize the Donkey Show!
- Woodstove, on 01/24/2009, -0/+21and we will advertise it.
- dagnome1984, on 01/24/2009, -1/+21But he has the power to curtail the DEA's enforcement of said laws.
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