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- Jazzillion, on 12/12/2008, -20/+465This is fantastic achievement for the drug reform movement. I encourage everybody to e-mail mainstream and internet news networks, as well as their elected politicians, to carry and address this story. The more publicity we can get behind this, the more pressure is put on Obama to publicly confront our failed War on Drugs. Come on digg, this is just the beginning.
- NikoKun, on 12/12/2008, -16/+362Not only did that Marijuana question place 1st... At least 12 other similar issue questions made it into the top 40! (add 4 more to that, within the top 50)
1. "Will you consider legalizing marijuana so that the government can regulate it, tax it, put age limits on it, and create millions of new jobs and create a billion dollar industry right here in the U.S.?" 7947 – 634 (93% liked question)
7. "13 states have compassionate use programs for medial Marijuana, yet the federal gov't continues to prosecute sick and dying people. Isn't it time for the federal gov't to step out of the way and let doctors and families decide what is appropriate?" 3394 – 272 (93% liked question)
11. "The US "War on Drugs" wastes billions every year tracking down and incarcerating non-violent users. What is your position on the legalization of marijuana? How do you feel about treating rather than imprisoning users of harder, addictive drugs?" 2521 – 102 (96% liked question)
13. "How will you fix the current war on drugs in America? and will there be any chance of decriminalizing marijuana?" 2538 – 238 (85% liked question)
15. "What kind of progress can be expected on the decriminalization and legalization for medicinal purposes of marijuana and will you re-prioritize the "War On Drugs" to reflect the need for drug treatment instead of incarceration?" 2329 – 182 (93% liked question)
18. "The U.S. has the world's highest incarceration rate, largely due to the War on Drugs. Our prisons are festering pits of rape, racism, and gang violence, and divert a lot of tax money to the corrupt prison industry. How can we fix this?" 1834 – 142 (93% liked question)
22. "Would you consider the legalizing of growing hemp (not marijuana) for food, clothing and bio-fuel use?" 1677 – 225 (88% liked question)
23. "Drug control policy in America is a mess, most specifically with regards to marijuana. Federal and state laws are in conflict all over the country. What do you plan to do about this? Will you allow the states to make their own determinations?" 1577 – 143 (92% liked question)
28. "What about the use of Hemp and finally legalizing marijuana for personal use?" 1385 – 265 (84% liked question)
29. "If we did not have over 2 million people in jail, many of which on marijuana charges, we would save billions a year and keep families together. Will you commit to a comprehensive drug treatment plan that will help keep families together?" 1296 – 132 (91% liked question)
33. "What will you do to ensure that the government takes scientific research into account when making laws? Especially when it comes to questions about the legalization of marijuana and the use of medical marijuana." 1198 – 129 (90% liked question)
34. "On the campaign trail, you said you would put an end to the federal raids on medical marijuana patients. Will you implement this policy within the first year of your term?" 1153 – 95 (92% liked question)
A total of 28,849 votes for these marijuana questions alone. - alapoet, on 12/12/2008, -17/+292This is a very, very encouraging sign that many Americans are sick and tired of the war on marijuana and its users.
One can only hope that the Obama team is taking notice. - TritonX, on 12/12/2008, -12/+165For once USA, be at the avant-garde of freedom and stop the prohibition of that plant.
- expertninja, on 12/13/2008, -1/+121Your wise words belie your atrocious grammar.
- inactive, on 12/13/2008, -11/+104I echo Jazzillion's sentiments. This is is a tremendous opportunity to push this through. We need to be digging this story, and emailing our congressmen, our senators, our law enforcement officials, the media, and most of all, Mr Obama. It's high time (no pun intended ... well, maybe a little!) to end this war on a plant, and on a peaceful lifestyle.
- The government wastes 44 billion a year enforcing laws the people blatantly don't want.
- The government is losing approximately 30 billion in taxes.
- The USA incarcerates more people than any nation in the civilized world, primarily due to marijuana laws. Most of these people are peaceful law-abiding citizens. Meanwhile, we early release murderers, rapists, child molesters, and armed robbers - genuinely violent offenders for lack of inmate space.
We need to come to our senses and stop this madness. For our sake, and our children's sake, for safer streets, an end to urban war zone neighborhoods, and apartheid policies toward the counter culture, this must end now. It can ... but we the people need to take action! - NightC, on 12/13/2008, -8/+97Oh I HOPE HOPE HOPE! They nearly ruined my life after arresting me with $10 worth of pot. I Work, I go to College, why should the government bother me and take all my savings away?? I Pray it is legalized... PLEASE OBAMA!
- MattB123, on 12/12/2008, -20/+98This is Hope.
- borez, on 12/13/2008, -12/+86Larijuana Megalization
- inactive, on 12/13/2008, -16/+85To the dimwits who say it's all "stoners" doing this: Quit being so ***** retarded.
Some of us want to harness the many OTHER uses of that plant. Stop worshiping big government and learn to leave others the ***** alone for a change. Who knows!?! Capitalism might happen, and your buddies' oil wells might just get out-competed in the process. I think some people are afraid of that very outcome, in fact, even though they're not honest enough to admit it. That's ok, I just admitted it for them. - inactive, on 12/13/2008, -11/+77You know what pisses me off about the anti-pot people? They'll lecture you for days on wasteful government spending, and yet they have no problem with the billions in taxpayer money blown every year to incarcerate pot smokers. What the ***** kind of logic is that?
- JuanFushashi, on 12/13/2008, -0/+62Clinton: "I experimented with marijuana, and I didn't like it, and I didn't inhale"
Bush: Never tried.
Obama: "When I was a kid, I inhaled frequently...that was the point." - NikoKun, on 12/13/2008, -13/+64Quit being so ignorant.
Marijuana was wrongfully criminalized by racism, scare tactics, moralist ideals, and flat out lies. It is safer than alcohol or tobacco, and that fact alone should be enough to legalize it. Never mind the freedom individuals should have over their own bodies.
For 70 years this country has forced a huge personal-freedoms injustice not just on it's own people, but the rest of the world. This Prohibition has created a black market with crime and violence and unregulated product/distribution, preventing us from controlling it properly (for safety, quality, and age limits) and depriving our country of an incredible tax income in the billions and a huge industry that would revolve around this recreational drug, bringing jobs and vast amounts of cash to our economy... Prohibition has also killed the Hemp industry, and deprived our medical science of a valuable medicine.
The list goes on and on... The prohibition of Marijuana is a huge injustice, long overdue for being repaired... AND it is an issue at the core of many other issues and problems... Jailing millions, and preventing millions more from getting decent jobs to contribute better to society. Prohibition itself has created a criminal black market, where profits fund gangs and cartels, and prohibition boosts the problems with drugs, and the risks involved, pushing the problems farther than they ever needed to go.
These are just some of the problems which prohibition itself creates, and which you are all too ignorantly willing to blame on the plant, instead. If people like you have their way with their ignorance, we will NEVER bring progress to the drug problem... We will never reduce the real problems... And we will never be able to address the many other problems which foolish prohibition policies create!
This issue is Just as important as any other issue facing America now... More so IMO, as we have FAILED to correct this issue, for 70 years... We haven't even given alternative policies a chance in this country!
All our other problems pail in comparison to one which has lasted 70 years. -_- So STFU. - BedPost, on 12/13/2008, -0/+46Marilize legaljuana.
- inactive, on 12/13/2008, -1/+42That was the "so you can't ignore it, even if you want to" factor. Considering his appointments (Biden & Emmanuel are both drug warriors whose minds are unlikely to be changed by logical argument, IMO) I doubt we'll see much "change," but this kind of overwhelming response sure gives "hope."
- Spoomeister, on 12/13/2008, -12/+52"Once again proving that this IS a top issue to the people."
No, it's proving that it's a top issue to people with internet connections who read this specific website, or websites that pointed to it. It's a very skewed sample.
By this logic, prop 8 in California proved definitively that barring gay marriage was important to the people. - KrsRain, on 12/13/2008, -42/+82They should legalize pot
not just for the leisure purposes
but definitely for medical purposes
they spend billions of taxpayers dollars a year prosecuting
potheads for the most ***** reasons
makin them look like some ruthless criminal
out causein all kinds of problems in society
when the truth of it is
its a fukin plant that works wonders
its been proven by science how effective this lil plant can be
in so many different aspects
bottem line
no pothed is gonna run out of weed,break into your house and steal ya tv
no pothed is gonna start foamin at the mouth and o.d at the club
worse case secnerio
lil fuka pasted out on the kitchen floor
wakes up eats everything
hit a bowl
pass out again
wake up hungray
out of food
go to the sto
his lil stoned ass will run around walmart for hours
buyin all kinds of stupid *****
hencefourth
are lil potheadial specimen is boosting the econmey
(hes doin a good thing speakin the shape its in)
he'll then go home
and zone out into a world of interesting ***** that
noone will understand but him
a world free of violence and hatred
tearaney and persacution
a world free of people dyin from carbombs and retarded ***** who had a bad day
tryin to kill everybody ova some fukin OIL
.....and whats wrong with that
he aint hurtin noone - cheezintern, on 12/13/2008, -1/+40LOL@Bush: never tried it.......no, he just stuck the blow and alcohol.
- mk1288, on 12/13/2008, -8/+47Sad story of paraplegic who died in a prison that couldn't support his needs- all brought about by marijuana laws
http://www.popehat.com/2008/12/11/crime-marijuana- ... - ryan83189, on 12/13/2008, -8/+45He ain't gonna legalize *****. He is no different than any other politician. He is not going to touch it with a 10 foot pole, just like all of the other hard questions on that list.
- centran, on 12/13/2008, -3/+36haha... you don't know politics do you?
Of course they can still ignore it! Especially if it is just from the internet community. - inactive, on 12/13/2008, -0/+31the law's stupid. it's an herb that grows in the ground.
if the government really cared about your health, you'd be unable to purchase smokes and alcohol @ the 7/11. - iloveliberals, on 12/13/2008, -4/+34That's what's sad: people treat this issue as one of compromise. "If you let us have this, you can tax it, regulate it, etc, etc."
How about, instead, people ask: What right have you, my government, to tell me what I can or can't do with my body and my life? How about, instead, people say: F.O., government, get out of my life. - drmobutu, on 12/13/2008, -5/+34People are sick and tired of their friends and family members being criminalized for non-crimes, is why.
- SuperMoses, on 12/13/2008, -5/+34I think Obama, like every other politician, will do the lambada with this question.
- drmobutu, on 12/13/2008, -1/+26I think that was supposed to be a rap?
- prodevel, on 12/13/2008, -5/+30Because no one has ever, ever overdosed on weed.
It's much less dangerous, from a common sense point of view than alcohol.
It's been used for thousands of years.
It's not addictive.
...ad infinitum - rotundo, on 12/13/2008, -2/+27No, marijuana reform is of very high importance, and that is coming from someone who has never smoked in their life: me.
Consider how much money our debt ridden nation spends on the war on drugs ($48 billion just this year). Consider how much money could be recovered with marijuana regulated and taxed like alcohol (possibly $5 billion/year). Consider the opportunity cost of law enforcement being able to focus on violent crimes and theft and the resultant reduction in those crimes. Consider the social benefits when we don't process harmless pot smokers through the prison system which is essentially a factory for making dangerous people.
Quite the opposite to what you're saying: given the more pressing issues that face our country, I find it sad that people want to maintain the ridiculous war on marijuana. The biggest issue the country is facing right now is a lack of financial resources. To have the resources for things like universal health care, we first need to stop wasting our money and effort. Ending the war on drugs is a no-brainer.
Cheers. - Frankyfan3, on 12/13/2008, -12/+37put your money where your mouth is, people... or where your keyboard is... whatever, give what you can (including your time):
www.mpp.org - inactive, on 12/13/2008, -3/+27Because drug dealers are a pain in the ass.
- illt, on 12/13/2008, -3/+27Unfortunately Joe Biden is a huge supporter (i don't wanna say leader, but pretty close) on the War on Drugs.
- ImOnYourTeam, on 12/13/2008, -2/+25Damn. We're a bunch of potheads, huh?
- Vbp6us, on 12/13/2008, -0/+22Damn man...it is examples like you, NightC, that should state in a loud manner why marijuana laws are not working.
I smoke daily and carrying 19 units of engineering classes for those who think smoking is only for people that sit around all day. - inactive, on 12/13/2008, -12/+34Fortunately he's not the president, genius.
- treas, on 12/13/2008, -1/+21Do you see any more black-market dealing of alcohol now that alcohol prohibition is over? Ending the war on drugs would end the black-market dealing that exists today, and stop the violence associated with it.
win/win - inactive, on 12/13/2008, -2/+22Oh, minor things like:
Food. Oil (both edible and for fuel). Fiber (that's stronger, softer, and more absorbent than cotton while using 0 pesticides on marginal land). Plastics. Building materials.
Google is your friend. And hysterical, big spending, tax wasting politicians are your enemy. Digg's young stoners cost Digg's hysterical prohibitionists NOTHING until the stupid system the stoners decry catches them getting stoned. Then the hysterical prohibitionists rant about how much all of this costs without considering the costs -- both tax money and freedom -- of prohibition.
The tax and spend drugwar is a religion. Think about it. Nothing else but a religion could keep costing more, being wrong, and still get funding. The power of faith is very strong, even if it's faith in big-government disguised (poorly) as faith in God. - calenerd, on 12/13/2008, -1/+21Were you getting higher and higher on weed as you continue typing your post?
- inactive, on 12/13/2008, -3/+22I disagree (and I hope the following prediction is wrong). I think, despite this excellent response, Obama will do the minimum he can do. Pot patients in California will be safe, but others -- especially recreational users in no-medicine states -- are likely to remain screwed. Growers of industrial hemp are also probably screwed.
I think making pot legal is about like "going to China." It took a Nixon to do it, there's no way if McGovern had won he could have done the exact same thing Tricky did because of the politics surrounding the situation. Democrats have been painted as pro-pot because in the past some have displayed signs of slightly-libertarian sanity compared to Republicans, who have generally adhered to control-freakery.
In pot's case, the control-freakery is analogous to anti-communism rhetoric. Even though Democrats were anti-communist, too (blockading Cuba, etc.) it took a Republican to open up China. In fact, for another analogy to another weird thing, it took a Democrat like Jimmy Carter to deregulate airlines. No way a pro-business Republican could have ever done it, even though it was great for both business and the average person. Anyway, if I'm right (and I hope I'm not, and Obama just goes sane) it'll take a Republican to give America's long suffering hippies legal weed. And it might take a Democrat (Obama?) to give America's long suffering gun-nuts a bit more freedom, for much the same ironic reasons, which I hope I've gotten across. - GeNe07, on 12/13/2008, -6/+24/b/lackup succeeds again
- drjekelmrhyde, on 12/13/2008, -10/+28Out of all the other problems we are facing Weed is #1
- andrewlotta, on 12/13/2008, -5/+22"...Once again proving that this IS a top issue to the people."
I support the legalization of Marijuana, but should it the TOP issue to the people? - inactive, on 12/13/2008, -4/+21I hope it helps, but a LOT of people will have to get the word out. This will meet opposition by a lot of people who stand to lose a lot: weapon's manufacturers (who arm the jackboots), local, county, state & federal (DEA, FBI) law enforcement, rehab facilities, for profit privately owned prisons... gosh I must be forgetting someone. Oh right! The spooks won't have a way to fund their black ops if this precedent leads to decriminalization of coke & heroin, so they're likely to oppose it. Of course, almost ALL the pressure will be behind the scenes and only the sensational stuff (like politicians) will make the press. Maybe a few soundbites from FBI and DEA.
Think of the money we'll save; au contraire mon amis, we'll probably break even if it's properly taxed. At 20 bucks a pack rolled like store bought cigarettes, fine hydro cigarette manufacturers and growers could make a mint and the government would break even and crime would drop dramatically. - Namingway, on 12/13/2008, -2/+18Many of us that grew up smoking pot & know that it isn't inherently evil,are baffled by it's prohibition.
The current group of 25-35 year olds WILL begin the push that will legalize weed. - Spiritualized, on 12/13/2008, -8/+24I'm all for it but Obama will never go there.
- crackerjohn, on 12/13/2008, -6/+21The coming of the times. The times when people who currently run this country being born in the 40's-50's are dying out and its our generations time to straighten things out.
- TheTaoOfBill, on 12/13/2008, -1/+16Right now major issues are a lack of tax revenue leading to an out of control debt and a rising unemployment rate.
So let's legalize marijuana, add billions in tax revenue and millions of new jobs. - normlsparky, on 12/13/2008, -2/+17These guys are the real deal. Check out why:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5ipj4_why-you-sh ... - vtbarrera, on 02/03/2009, -12/+27Obama might be the only one who can help create a reformed and more sensible policy that will finally allow a key first step towards ending the war on drugs.
- inactive, on 12/13/2008, -2/+17No....
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