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- NikoKun, on 10/26/2007, -5/+81I guess this shows one of the underlying political agendas behind prohibition... Course it's not the only agenda behind it...
Cannabis Prohibition protects no one... It is only there, to give those in power, more control and more money.
Hypocritical, counterproductive, and down right evil... Prohibition of Marijuana, a drug less harmful than caffeine and tylenol, needs to end. Action needs to be taken by everyone, whether you want to use pot yourself, or you want to help actually fix the 'drug problem'. (I say that, because it is Prohibition, that causes many of the problems, not the drug itself.)
We as Americans, should be offended and outraged, that our government continues this horrible injustice, this lie and evil agenda, and blemish on the face of freedom. If the people saw the true goals behind it, they would end it in a snap.
Marijuana prohibition is not about the drug problem, it is about money and power... If it was really about the drug problem, then legalization would be the best solution. - navitatl, on 10/17/2007, -5/+70Your comment made me laugh so hard that I dropped my joint into my bag of cheetos
- theshizzler, on 10/26/2007, -13/+56The Bush administration's thought processes are so foreign to me that I long ago gave up trying to figure them out. All I can say for sure is that they hold the opinion that it is acceptable to legislate morality. Are we so apathetic now that no one will do anything anymore?
- DudeAsInCool, on 10/26/2007, -5/+47Use coke and you can become President
- quiznos, on 10/26/2007, -4/+41why does the government have the right to tell me what i can and can't put in my body?
i understand DUI, people shouldn't be put in danger because of someone else, but what harm am i inflicting on society when i smoke a joint before i go observing in my astronomy seminar? - Phrag, on 10/26/2007, -3/+27I have a better idea. Lets try having a justice system that actually includes *gasp* justice where the punishment fits the crime and where actions for which there is no punishment necessary (such as smoking weed) are not crimes.
- desqjockey, on 10/26/2007, -2/+24I bet youre good at letting people tell you what to do. Ever think of a career in the military yourself?
- Trocisp, on 10/17/2007, -6/+24***** them dope smoking pot heads. None of them ever amounted to anything...
Except Benjamin Franklin, Willy Nelson, Every member of the Grateful Dead... to name a few. - inactive, on 10/17/2007, -4/+22You don't need a clean background in order to be killed.
- diggumjonez, on 10/17/2007, -2/+19You mean something like a college education?
- HippyInASuit, on 10/26/2007, -8/+22This is a civil rights issue. You people who tell us "just don't smoke pot" are as bigoted as any racist. You might as well be telling Rosa Parks that she ought to just sit in the back and not cause any fuss. ***** YOU, ignorant pricks!
- snappleman, on 10/17/2007, -1/+15Our founding fathers were major ganja farmers. if only we could educate the citizens about the truth. it's not harmful and hemp has been the leading product since the beginning of time until prohibition. How could the prohibition of alcohol end so soon and this one go on for decades? i mean we're living in a country where it's illegal to even grow industrial hemp which can't even get you high in the first place.
- TaranWalker, on 10/17/2007, -4/+18Because smokin' them tharr drugs is bad! Smokin' drugs is terr-ism!
Are cigarettes and alcohol illegal? Nope. It's a backwards societal taboo. Get over it. - Bananas21ca, on 10/17/2007, -0/+14Some Allergy medication can affect your ability to Drive. How is that any different?
- mclumber1, on 10/17/2007, -0/+14How long has this policy been in place? I remember when I joined the Navy, they could give you a "waiver" if you've smoked weed, and maybe even if you had a conviction. In fact, just about any thing you did wrong in the past could be waived with the proper officer's signiature.
- NikoKun, on 10/17/2007, -1/+14Well, for one, both caffeine and tylenol kill a good number of people each year... Whereas Marijuana kills no one at all... You can't even find a case of allergic reaction or anything.
And second, Marijuana is generally below caffeine, on the addictiveness scale... and way below alcohol or tobacco for that matter.
Not even lung cancer can be linked to even heavy pot smoking. So hey, seems like a low harm drug to me. And I wont even get into the health benefits, anti-cancer/boost braincell growth/fights hardened arteries/holds off alzheimers/fights glaucoma... etc... XD
# On September 6, 1988, the Drug Enforcement Administration's Chief Administrative Law Judge, Francis L. Young, ruled:
"Marijuana, in its natural form, is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known....[T]he provisions of the [Controlled Substances] Act permit and require the transfer of marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule II. It would be unreasonable, arbitrary and capricious for the DEA to continue to stand between those sufferers and the benefits of this substance."
Source: US Department of Justice, Drug Enforcement Agency, "In the Matter of Marijuana Rescheduling Petition," [Docket #86-22] (September 6, 1988), p. 57.
# The DEA's Administrative Law Judge, Francis Young concluded: "In strict medical terms marijuana is far safer than many foods we commonly consume. For example, eating 10 raw potatoes can result in a toxic response. By comparison, it is physically impossible to eat enough marijuana to induce death. Marijuana in its natural form is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man. By any measure of rational analysis marijuana can be safely used within the supervised routine of medical care."
Source: US Department of Justice, Drug Enforcement Agency, "In the Matter of Marijuana Rescheduling Petition," [Docket #86-22], (September 6, 1988), p. 57. - tehnico, on 10/17/2007, -1/+14Going to Iraq?
- bloqmon, on 10/21/2007, -2/+14About a month ago I had a court date for a paraphernalia charge (I was charged with possession of paraphernalia/marijuana pipe) and the prosecutor had subpoenaed the wrong police officer so the case was continued. Today I had to go to court again for the same charge, but this time they couldn't find the officer or get him here in time to argue against me so it got a null process meaning that I have to show up again in a month or two. All for what amounts to a $20 piece of glass. This outrages me because if I had showed up in court and said "well your honor...I'm simply not ready to be punished today. Can I come back in a month?" do you think I would have gotten an extra month? I think that the case should be dismissed because the prosecutors can't get their act together and this whole situation is just a waste of time and money.
The docket for the day was also quite revealing. Nearly every case was for possession of marijuana. Maybe one or two cocaine possession charges, one prostitution charge, and a couple trespassing charges. The rest were all for weed.
The court is basically telling me "we're way too backed up with all these marijuana cases to deal with yours today, so come back in a month and maybe we'll have gotten around to it by then." It's a joke. A joke that does nothing but waste time and money and makes very few people laugh. - obelisky, on 10/17/2007, -4/+16would suck to wake up out of a daze and be like 'holy ***** i signed up for iraq'
- Frei, on 10/26/2007, -3/+15A single marijuana conviction hardly makes one a criminal. Bedsides is it only about getting caught? How many presidents have admitted to using marijuana and other drugs like cocaine? But this conversation shouldn't be happening because it should be legalized.
- Phrag, on 10/18/2007, -0/+12Then the way you see it is wrong. Murderers, rapists, thieves and all other criminals can get federal aide to go to school. Just not people who have tried drugs and got caught.
As for the straightening their life out part, do me a favor and check out the effects that PTSD is having on the soldiers coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan. I would say their lives are not straightened out. To the contrary, I would say that their lives are now completely *****. - tehnico, on 10/17/2007, -2/+14Cocaine is for presidents.
- gropo, on 10/17/2007, -0/+11"Cannabis Prohibition protects no one..."
Now now... It certainly protects the finances of cops and black marketeers alike. I'm simply amazed that blatant concern trolling still passes as logical argument in this day and age. Read the official Nevada anti-question 7 diatribe from the 2004 election. It's like the whackjobs that need to rail against *something... anything* naturally gravitate towards the drug issue so they can get their wacky moral supremacy rocks off. (logic be damned, but that's exactly the problem!) - quiznos, on 10/17/2007, -2/+13Thanks for your input, I think I'm gonna go flush my stash.
You should look up some facts about marijuana instead of listening to the lies Above The Influence spews.
And who are you to say I'm not productive? I am in college and have a job.
***** you. - itseffinkasey, on 10/17/2007, -2/+13Well yeah they somehow need to get more people to sign up.
- faskill, on 10/17/2007, -1/+11Get over it? Why don't we change it?
- petewiz, on 10/17/2007, -0/+10Ok so if you get an MIP (minor in possession) with either alcohol or tobacco, you can still get financial aid. However, if you get caught with weed, tough *****. Why are people being punished for doing drugs that are substantially less harmful (and even have medical benefits!)? This government is ass-backwards and if they had any sense they would legalize it already.
- KloroFormd, on 10/17/2007, -0/+10I was hovering over the digg down button, until I read the entire post.
I personally know an entire team of IT professionals that smoke pot all day every day, and bring in over $200,000 a year. - FluffyWolf, on 10/17/2007, -1/+10That's some heavy incentive not to use drugs: "Stay of drugs kids, or you'll all end up in the army!"
- inactive, on 10/17/2007, -2/+11You know why he's being buried.
- OverkillTASF, on 11/04/2007, -3/+12Where do I sign up for the Comma, War?
- AmonAmarth, on 10/17/2007, -5/+14Whether or not you personally enjoy marijuana is not the question. The fact is, marijuana is a harmless drug in comparison to even alcohol, and those who use it are not criminals. I smoke every single day. I go to school, I have good friends, I love my girlfriend, my family and my cat. I'm not a criminal, I'm an American that is doing something that shouldn't be illegal. If you think it should stay illegal, then you should either rethink your logic.
- tradwolley, on 10/17/2007, -1/+10I don't know what college you went to, but I saw very little "straighten[ing] their life out" at Arizona State.
- NikoKun, on 10/17/2007, -4/+12Oh well, I use too many commas. =P What does it matter?
- mclumber1, on 10/17/2007, -1/+9No you're not.
- banq59, on 10/17/2007, -0/+8Yeah because kids just aren't going to drink themselves into a stupor once they get to college, or smoke pot all day. Ahh college I miss you.
- Lagstorm, on 10/17/2007, -4/+11Smoke and then get smoked?
- Frei, on 10/17/2007, -1/+8I think that was the plot to Pauley Shore's "In the Army Now."
- petewiz, on 10/17/2007, -0/+6Apparently you're not a big fan of evidence.
Evidence that shows pot damages your brain: none
Evidence that supports your ridiculous claims: none
Open a book for once in your life. Until then, shut the ***** up. - petewiz, on 10/17/2007, -1/+8"Meanwhile, President Bush and some of his friends in Congress support a law that has prevented 200,000 aspiring students from getting the financial aid they need to afford college just because they have drug convictions (most often for misdemeanor marijuana possession)."
Let me get this straight: Since the government thinks we need to rehabilitate drug users, they've decided to make it impossible for many to get into a college and get a decent career. If we are letting a ***** coke-head/alcoholic be the president, we should probably reconsider this retarded double standard. No joke, about 80% of the valedictorians that went to my high school smoked pot on a daily basis. Hey Congress, think about the lives you ruin and the potential you impede before you decide to make ***** like this into a law. - Ferre1, on 10/18/2007, -1/+8I have not one but two science degrees, I have worked for Monsanto, Dupont, Shell, Bayer and Dow chemicals as a product manager before I started my own business and could retire at the age of 42. In my country weed is NOT illegal and most highly educated and successful people that I know smoke pot, I do too and the stereotyping that we see displayed in the (mostly America) press is not at all according to the truth, the truth is that weed is a mind enhancer and if anything, it makes people use their brains more efficiently.
I recommend everyone to read this article by a biology professor who did research on this issue for years:
http://www.digg.com/political_opinion/Cannabis_and ... (Funny how this didn't get digged btw, this should be world news) - pudgyv, on 10/17/2007, -0/+6As a religious person it pains me to say this.
There's nothing worse than a whore that gets religion. Do as I say not as I did. - Pimptastic, on 10/16/2007, -0/+6Its been in place at least when I enlisted in 97. Hell back then it was easier to enlist with a drug conviction and get a waiver for that than it was to enlist when you have allergies to walnuts and get a waiver for that.
- NikoKun, on 10/17/2007, -0/+6Well consider this... they are not denying financial aid, to loser dropouts and drug junkies.... The ONLY people they are denying financial aid too, are the students who work hard enough, to qualify for the financial aid, in the first place!
This means that ONLY hard working successful students, are being effected by this backwards policy... -_- So why don't you rethink how you see this?
By kicking the successful students out of school, for mere pot possession, these laws make American society, even worse off, in the long run. -_- - WilliamDavis, on 10/17/2007, -0/+6"Break all the laws you want."
Uhhh... please don't. Just break laws that are unjust. And yes, complain about unjust laws. - TeamWookie, on 10/26/2007, -0/+6I think if Bush still smoked weed our country would be a lot better off.
- robisfunky, on 10/17/2007, -2/+8 If you're too stupid to smoke weed without gettin busted by the cops, you're probably too stupid to do well in college anyways.
- NikoKun, on 10/17/2007, -0/+6-_- Will you people please get over that 'pothead' stereotype...
From the take action letter:
"since students already have to make good academic progress to
receive financial aid, the penalty only affects hardworking students who
are doing well in their classes." - HanSolo69, on 10/17/2007, -0/+6no one is making these people enlist in the army. There are other choices.
and i don't think that anybody doesn't know that possessing drugs is illegal, so if you choose to do so, then be prepared to deal with the consequence if you get caught. Don't just go and make a whiny YouTube video about how unfair it is that you broke the law, got caught and are now for some strange reason being punished for it.
Do all the drugs you want.
Break all the laws you want.
Be who you want to be and do what you want to do.
But don't think that you're changing anything by bitching about it. - douggmc, on 10/17/2007, -3/+8FUD / Propaganda folks! The "Aid Elimination Penalty" as part of the Higher Education Act was enacted in 1998 under Bill Clinton. Yes ... the DOD under Bush has created policies allowing exceptions for character (e.g. drug use/offenses) for enlisting ... but they had nothing to do with this act. Do some research yourself and Google it : http://www.google.com/search?q=Aid+Elimination+Pen ...
While I'm not GW fan, it is getting pretty old reading the blind fury that is spewed towards GW and company by the vast majority ... regardless of facts. -
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