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- HippyJM, on 11/10/2009, -1/+167This is a huge step forward for changing the draconian drug laws of America. This would not only lay the foundation for marijuana to become more readily available for medicinal purposes, but also build towards legalization, regulation, and taxation.
- CopsSayLegalize, on 11/10/2009, -1/+137Anyone who doesn't realize that America is in the process of undergoing a much-needed shift in drug control strategies just isn't paying attention.
- elliotys, on 11/10/2009, -2/+103This is what we need. Research, research, and more research. We have just begun to understand and identify, the possibly hundreds, of active cannabinoids in the plant. We also need to research exactly what the purpose, and physiology, is of the cannabinoid receptors in the human body (at this point we still know very little).
With the scientific establishment stepping up like this, and effectively saying "Get your ***** politics out of my science!", we have brought the argument to the naysayers. And when the debate is held, and the naysayers arguments are overwhelmed by the mountains of evidence supporting it's medicinal properties, it will be a step forward for mankind. - mf2112, on 11/10/2009, -8/+94***** you.
- Aliwalla, on 11/11/2009, -2/+82Dear America,
Please legalize cannabis. If you do the British government will have one less reason to keep it illegal.
Your sincerely,
The people of the UK - footbag01, on 11/10/2009, -1/+77Something's happening!
- jorgio, on 11/11/2009, -2/+76The writers of the Constitution would piss positive...
- inactive, on 11/10/2009, -5/+58No, he's right. For anyone who has sold pot, its a lot more valuable illegal. Calling for its legalization is calling for a billion dollar market to dry up.
You want to lay off millions of stoners? Seriously?!! - jorgio, on 11/10/2009, -4/+47NoLibertarians = Drug Dealer?
- sb66, on 11/10/2009, -6/+49You have no right to decide what others can do, you ***** douche.
- shycyberguy, on 11/11/2009, -1/+44 They should have done this thirty years ago, well I suppose better late than never. They should give everyone with a marijuana conviction on their record a pardon plus compensation!
- life036, on 11/11/2009, -0/+43Middle quarter of the 21st century? Yep, you's high :)
- inactive, on 11/10/2009, -6/+47I'm stoned out of my mind right now honestly, but I will try to make a point.
I believe that weed got off to a terrible start during the first, middle and last quarter of the 21st century. Whether or not we should demand legalization is one thing, I would be happy with just proper education and the abolishment of misinformation spread by phony scientific studies performed at the behest of such stick-in-the-mud old crusty ***** like Ronald Regan.
Marijuana does not damage brain cells! It just makes homework get put off til a lil later and might cause you to miss your exit ramp... and it makes playing Xbox extra enjoyable! - sb66, on 11/10/2009, -4/+45What are the republican pricks gonna do now? Saying that the AMA said marijuana had no medical value was their main talking point against medical marijuana. Now they have absolutely no argument against it. This is a victory for reason and a victory for freedom.
- govtdoesnotwork, on 11/10/2009, -3/+42And it's funny (well, not really) how those who tend to complain most vehemently about the cost of government never seem to count trying to re-do prohibition as a cost. It's as if, in the neoprohibitionists' blinkered dreams, jail cells were free. They're in an economic fantasy land, and fiscal reality has finally busted them. It's about time.
And they totally ignore the tax & spend drugwar's connection - via stupid 'mandatory minimum' sentencing laws - to bad ***** like Jessica Lunsford's rapist/killer getting out of jail EARLY despite having a known proclivity for rape of young children. Yeah, Florida, put those pothaids in the slammer and ignore the social (let alone fiscal!) costs! No wonder the government gets such respect!! - alman783, on 11/11/2009, -4/+39No libs is a troll block him and move on.
- card51short, on 11/11/2009, -5/+38so you support the banning of cars, alcohol and pharma drugs? They kill hundreds of thousands of people a year.
But they're OK because you use all of them, right? - jorgio, on 11/10/2009, -2/+35If Republicans were the only ones to object to it, it would not be illegal.
- card51short, on 11/11/2009, -5/+36well then you should want it legalized. When I was in school I couldn't turn a corner without being offered pot by dealers who don't care about selling to kids.
If you legalized it, it would be much harder for a kid to purchase. - absurdist, on 11/11/2009, -4/+35Unfortunately, stupidity like yours remains legal and rampant.
- Kaegro, on 11/11/2009, -3/+33Hurray for the most harmless fun thing in the world!!
- falconear, on 11/11/2009, -1/+30Isn't the constitution written ON hemp paper?
- daEvan, on 11/11/2009, -0/+27ACTUALLY, you're half right. The first two drafts of the Declaration of Independence were written on hemp paper. And actually, the hemp versions stand up better to time than the real draft did. Don't bury falconear, he just mixed up the two documents.
- card51short, on 11/11/2009, -4/+30What about a cancer patient who is prescribed by a doctor to smoke? Are you even for that?
- absurdist, on 11/11/2009, -4/+29LOL!! "Just the facts?" Sorry, amigo, I'm old enough to have seen Dragnet first run, and you're about as relevant as Joe Friday.
- NorthMass, on 11/11/2009, -3/+27NoLibertarians - Many people have greatly benefited from marijuana. For example, Irv Rosenfeld would probably be dead right now without marijuana.
Here is a video of him explaining how marijuana saved his life(quite literally).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvzX8aNwxgM - marx2k, on 11/11/2009, -2/+26No Libertarians = failtroll.
- Paranor01, on 11/11/2009, -1/+24it helped save my life. 30 years of ptsd depression created from abuse, past the suicide point, gave up hope. had a mental implosion (psychotic break) and Cannabis helped my mind free up and reset.
1000 thoughts in all directions every moment - gone
phobia of heights with vertigo - gone
anxieties that gave panic attacks & agoraphobia - gone
pain from genetic back disorder, which no pain meds touch because my body doesn't metabolize them - gone with cannabis
need more?
btw nolibertarians... cannabis is the least harmful substance compared to every other pharma drug on the market. why? cause it's natural, not synthesized. you have made your mind up and closed it based on lies. open your mind up and maybe, just maybe you'll be a happier person. otherwise, you're a child refusing to grow up and a moron for deciding to stay that way - Paranor01, on 11/11/2009, -0/+22follow the money
- marx2k, on 11/11/2009, -3/+24Beatles. Don't make yourself seem more out of touch than you already have.
- jorgio, on 11/11/2009, -4/+23If you'd just look a little deeper you'd see that the people who want it legalized don't want children smoking it either. This should not be an argument about health (fast food, caffeine, tobacco, alcohol, etc etc etc), and if it were cannabis would still hold up. There is a reason for the dramatic drop in speakeasies and moonshine and its not because Jack Daniels wont kill you and Shine will.
Pot -> Legal
Adults Buy Pot at Store -> Drug Dealers go out of buisness b/c kids cant keep em in buisness (thankfully)
: - / - lennynumberone, on 11/11/2009, -3/+22Yet, it's farther forward in the limelight than in the past 20 years. Go figure. You think we'd be getting this far if ***** McCane were in office with Palin as Veep?
- cvesper, on 11/11/2009, -0/+18No way, the risk of STDs is way worse
- funkedup, on 11/11/2009, -3/+21If you're a remotely consistent person, then you have to support the illegality of alcohol, tobacco, and most prescription drugs since they are more harmful. Marijuana is far safer than those mentioned, and the fact that it's illegal is what makes it dangerous and stigmatic.
- sodade, on 11/11/2009, -0/+17That's because their government has been lying to them for decades and they are from a generation that somehow still manages to trust their government.
- daEvan, on 11/11/2009, -0/+17Guys, guys. It's okay, it's just a troll. Nothing that NoLibertarians says has any merit to it. Just go about your day.
- mediamaker, on 11/11/2009, -1/+18cannabis should be legal
- marx2k, on 11/11/2009, -0/+17You've been encountering people who think anything that may cause any iota of change in their lifestyle is ***** and will give you anecdotal examples that may or may not be real but don't prove anything either way as proof that it's *****.
It's the same with people who smoke "BAH! I'M GONNA DIE ANYWAY!".
It's the same with climate change "BAH! IT'S THE SUN, STUPID!"
Any excuse that allows these people to keep to not have to change their lifestyle, works.
It's just lazy people, that's all. - celust, on 11/11/2009, -0/+16We in CA are one step ahead...
http://www.californiacannabisinitiative.org/ - marx2k, on 11/11/2009, -1/+17I'm liking the AMA more and more this past week.
- waydee, on 11/11/2009, -1/+16I was just about to post this exact same comment.
I like that drug legislation is being discussed again in the UK after our inept, illogical government fired David Nutt for daring to speak the truth regarding Cannabis. For a while it seemed that the scaremongering morons responsible for the reclassification had 'won'. Such a move in the US would massively strengthen the case for review of our drug laws.
Unfortunately we're about to elect a conservative government, you can be almost assured no such review will happen with them in power. I'd like to be wrong but liberalisation of drug laws and establishing legislation based on evidence is not something that the conservatives stand for. - lennynumberone, on 11/11/2009, -1/+12Dude, I like the way you think.
- SpeedSteamBoat, on 11/11/2009, -1/+12Erm, I don't advocate driving high, but the fact of the matter is that, unlike alcohol, not one of the studies which have looked into the matter have shown a link between driving high and a greater likely-hood of getting into an accident.
Simply put, it's just not the same as drunk driving, and you can't equate the two.
At worst it might be on par with driving under the influence of a regular dose of NyQuil, but it's hard to say if it's even that bad. - SpeedSteamBoat, on 11/11/2009, -0/+11"Democrats and their never-ending need to control every aspect of one's life."
Yeah, totally like the anti-abortion, anti-gay marriage, anti-drug Republicans, right? They clearly don't have any "need to control very aspects of one's life." /s
Stop trying to dichotomize the political parties in this way. They're both retarded about government intervention, just on different issues. - Aliwalla, on 11/11/2009, -0/+11To be honest it's more like 400.
- sodade, on 11/11/2009, -2/+13I don't know - the UK seems to be even more of a nanny state than the US. Did you wave to each of the 104 cameras that watched you today?
- shinepdx, on 11/11/2009, -0/+11Blow jobs?
- rocknog, on 11/11/2009, -1/+12You know, I understand why it was made illegal in the first place, but everyone involved is now dead. I don't understand why it persisted after so many decades despite mountains of evidence that it wasn't the evil, dangerous drug it had been portrayed as. Why are so many people still convinced that the government propaganda is true? The only explanation I can think of is that they're all high.
- rsh28630, on 11/11/2009, -1/+12I'll vote for that... even though mine is from 1968. :-)
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