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- uHaveASmallDigg, on 02/07/2009, -5/+120No, you may not light this plant on fire and breathe the smoke to help with your ailments. You may not even possess this plant or grow it to make paper or clothing or rope ... that's what it comes down to in the end. Absurdity. Founding fathers are rolling joints in their graves.
- absolutelytrue, on 05/26/2009, -2/+62It makes no sense for medical marijuana to be illegal. I wish the people in my life that I have lost to cancer had been able to access legal pot. I don't know if any of them would have taken advantage of it, but it would have been a better option than some of the stuff pushed by big pharm. Why not let people be comfortable? I don't get it.
- m3arvk, on 02/08/2009, -3/+52Just legalize drugs. It's ***** obvious to anyone that with a couple hours of effort you can pretty much get any drug you want. Legalize it. Regulate it. Tax it.
We have _real_ problems in the world and enforcing quaint ideas from the 1950s isn't helping. It's time to sweep aside these stale ideas and call them what they are: outdated. Obama I'm talking to you. - yoshiboy, on 02/08/2009, -1/+37It is a step in the right direction.
I'm sure if you legalized and created a tax on the stuff, we'd have a sound economy in no time. - r0g3r, on 02/08/2009, -1/+33"I now have absolute proof that smoking even one marijuana cigarette is equal in brain damage to being on Bikini Island during an H-bomb blast" - Ronald Reagan
Hopefully we're moving away from this kind of misinformation from our government regarding this plant. - inactive, on 02/08/2009, -5/+31is it just me or is weed the new obama on digg? and still obama too.
- Harbinger67, on 02/08/2009, -1/+18You can also make your own beer and wine, but Average Joe would rather buy a 12 pack at the grocery store. Weed is a pain in the ass to grow and prepare, which means that there will be/is a market for pre-prepared marijuana.
Worst-case scenario, I think the largest percentage of home-growers would show up right after legalization, but then it would soon die down as people realized that it's much easier to drop 20$ on an 8th (or a quarter or whatever the going market price would be) and be done with it. - novenator, on 02/08/2009, -1/+16Although I am not a smoker, I realize the ridiculousness, futility, and damage of the US govt policy towards cannabis. Drug raids based on cannabis are a complete waste of taxpayer money and harass those who usually least deserve it.
After that we need to work on making medical marijuana legal in all 50 states. I would advocate joining groups such as the Marijuana Policy Project, Norml, etc.(links below).
Next, the goal should be to permit its growth and application for industrial uses (hemp oil, rope, cloth, etc.).
Finally, we can work towards full decriminalization of recreational use of this plant. It has been in use for many thousands of years, there is a THC receptor in our brains for crying out loud! THIS is the time to get serious about making some change, slowly and one step at a time.
http://www.mpp.org/
http://norml.org/ - Infowarsdotcom, on 02/08/2009, -1/+15Until John Walters is gone, nothing will change.
The war on drugs depends entirely on cannabis remaining illegal and demonized as 86% of "drug users" use only cannabis. It is impossible to justify the billions we spend when arrest rates would go down by 86%. Not to mention, roadside stops that reinforce the impending police state wouldn't be justified either because nobody would be smuggling cannabis any more.
And whether we (cannabis users) like to admit it or not, the popular perception is that "legal medical marijuana" is one more step towards its overall legalization.
Obama and every president after him has his hands tied. It's up to the people to create the change we desire. - EssPii, on 02/08/2009, -0/+14On a trip to Spokane, Wash., to drop her son off for a flight to Florida, she was asked by a U.S. customs agent at the Nelway border crossing if she'd ever smoked marijuana.
Being a rule-obeying Canadian, she said yes, she had, as treatment for her painful leg spasms, and produced her medical permit, issued by Health Canada. She is one of the 2,812 people to whom Canada has granted official permission to use medical marijuana.
"I was truthful in all ways," she told me. "I had cards in my possession that identified me as a licenced user, and I didn't want to be caught lying."
The border agent, she said, examined her federal permit, photocopied it and then informed her she was being barred from the U.S. for being an "admitted drug user."
She says she was fingerprinted, forced to pose for mug shots, "and warned that if I attempt to enter the U.S. again, I will be heavily fined and any vehicle I'm in will be confiscated.
"It was horrible. Horrible, horrible horrible."
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/02/06/f-rfa-mac ... - mytealjacket, on 02/08/2009, -1/+14Well honestly I think it helps. We're helping to spread the issue online.
I can tell you for the Obama campaign the internet made a huge difference. - m3arvk, on 02/08/2009, -1/+13Spend a minute and actually try and answer your own questions. My personal feeling is that this could be up and running within a year and would generate be generating profits in terms of both a decrease in non-violent incarceration and as a consumption tax.
You seem to be arguing from the position of being pro-use but anti-legalization and only a couple types of people (in my experience) fit that description: dealers and growers. - lukedamonkey, on 02/08/2009, -1/+13I'd rather buy pre-rolled marijuana ciggars and joints than grow and roll my own.
- mytealjacket, on 02/08/2009, -1/+12It's not Obama's opinion that needs changing, it's public opinion I'm talking about.
- sodade, on 02/08/2009, -0/+11*****. Thank you for that quote. At this point, I am for a law stating that it is treason for an elected official to blatantly lie to the people they represent.
- Claverhouse, on 02/08/2009, -4/+14I don't have any particular views on marijuana --- other than to think that it should be completely available to those who want it: something I would extend to nearly all drugs --- but I think the tone in the article is misplaced. Whatever one's views upon police bodies such as the DEA, there is no way in hell that they should change policy merely because of indeterminate signals and hints from either the president or any of his team: they are not supposed to 'get the message' and relax the law just through --- alleged, since these may be pure wishful thinking --- coy, non-specific giggles and winks from the new administration. If the president wants to end such federal action he must say so plainly and give out new directives.
Apart from the fact that agencies are supposed to enforce any law unless instructed differently; law cannot be changed whimsically by what members of an administration would prefer, but also prefer not to say out loud. - writerwriter, on 02/08/2009, -0/+10Marijuana became illegal for several reasons, a main one being that the US was trying to control migrant Mexican workers - meaning trying to find any way possible to get them out of the US. Then, along came Harry Ainslinger who was an ambitious, right-wing, evangelical zealot who had an agenda when he was offered a post with the then drug commission and man, he ran with it.
Oddly, considering the violence of the laws, there have been several times in US and Canadian history where farmers were legally required to grow hemp because the rope and textiles from it are very durable and it's extremely cheap to grow; but those were wartimes.
Another "problem" with pot is that it makes people chill - unlike alcohol, which makes people aggressive - so, y'know, not really awesome if you want your young men to go fight a war that began due to a lie (see "Bay of Tonkin"). Some of you might remember how heated-up the whole pot thing was around the time of the Vietnam "war," when "hippies" were protesting and chanting, "Make love not war."
Pretty much everything we've been forced to believe about pot in the last 60 years is totally, utterly *****. Pot is not addictive; pot is extremely effective for MS, cancer sufferers, glaucoma sufferers and those who suffer a raft of other diseases; the list goes on and on... but, if you're the R&D department of (name any) big pharma organisation, would YOU want your livelihood challenged by a cheap, easy-to-grow weed? Nope.
As for Ronald Regan, he was an actor and he certainly smoked weed. However, as Ainsligner's stupid, ethnic-cleansing policies were still on the books, he sucked it up. I suspect anyone who was working in Hollywood when Regan was would have a bunch of stories to tell....
Go find the Woody Harrelson documentary, GRASS (here: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1450016703 ...
Or have a look at THE UNION; THE BUSINESS BEHIND GETTING HIGH (to be released to Video in Canada in April 2009);
or another excellent docuIN POT WE TRUST (http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=%22In+pot+we ...
Do not accept lies that protect huge, predatory corporations or the stupid paid-off politicians who depended on them for votes and money.
Apologies for the plug but I have written LOADS on this subject on my blog: Click my user name if you want to read. Lots my archives from late October 2007 onwards. - 3nder99, on 02/08/2009, -0/+9Sort of hard to damage a brain after its incinerated.
- blix797, on 02/08/2009, -4/+13It could be they're just blowing smoke.
- doctorgrim, on 02/08/2009, -0/+9The DEA has outlived it's usefulness. Time to shut it down!
- slyminx, on 02/08/2009, -1/+10The Netherlands makes about a billion euro a year on marijuana sales and that country is TINY. Imagine if it was legal in the US the way the Dutch have done it. Put that tax money gained from marijuana sales to rehab, education, or what have you...
- monkiboi, on 02/08/2009, -2/+11The struggle for legal medicinal marijuana is States rights issue too.
- pinchduck, on 02/08/2009, -0/+8End the War on Drugs and legalize it. Free all the non-violent drug peddlers. Reduce our prison population, allow people to home-grow and sell it. The reduction in prison and enforcement expenditures, plus the legitimization of a large part of the black market, will do quite a bit to help our economy and restore our freedom. In the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave, why do I have to fear a violent search and arrest just for smoking some weed? The number 1 cause of crime is laws. We just cant afford stupid ***** like the war on drugs any more.
- m3arvk, on 02/08/2009, -0/+7There's some chance our combined sentiment may reach his ears. Doesn't hurt to try, right?
- inactive, on 02/08/2009, -0/+7reporting from my age group i know that the most us early twenty-somethings do not at all see weeds as any sort of threat. so i sense (smell?) a change coming with the overall attitude towards illegality. i hope that when i'm an old legally stoned man I can tell my grandchildren the old story of the Olympic swimmer who took the rip heard round the world.
- inactive, on 02/08/2009, -2/+9It's really a cut and dry issue (no pun intended). Marijuana was made illegal because of the paper trade and the taboo. There is a vested interest in keeping people in jail for marijuana "crimes", and in conventional logging for paper products. As the younger generation comes to power the taboo will fade and this counterproductive prohibition will end. I wonder about how we might have fared in the world wars without hemp, and how America might fare in the future without it.
- novenator, on 02/08/2009, -0/+7wtf are you talking about akchrs?
Instead of having some cheese with your whine, why don't you join in the fight to help get cannabis decriminalized? Strange, you seem like a right winger who thinks of pot as a dangerous and addictive gateway drug. - lukedamonkey, on 02/08/2009, -4/+11It's a good thing. Maybe people will stop to write their representatives and donate to groups such as NORML or the MPP.
- cornfeed, on 02/08/2009, -0/+7Those '60's and '70's Hippies, as you put it, are in charge. And smoking weed is still illegal. And they want it that way. Those very same people are the ones who are most adamant about government knowing what is best for you today.
- nicktheawesome, on 02/08/2009, -1/+8@akchrs
Why do you insist on calling it "Marijuana," a name that was chosen by William Randolph Hearst, because of its connections to Mexico, and the Mexicans that use it? It is a Spanish slang word.
Cannabis hemp, is the proper English term. Many people shorten it to just "Cannabis." Not only is it an actual name, it is the more credible name (scientific name is Cannabis sativa-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_sativa ) rather than just using slang. - fishstock, on 02/08/2009, -0/+7A friend of mine with HIV has prescription for Marinol synthetic THC the price to buy these 1000 dollars for 100 pills luckly an organization that help HIV patients pay for their meds helps him but what a ridiculous price you could but overs a pound of regs for that
- ndrehobl, on 02/08/2009, -0/+7maybe hes talking about ron paul or bob barr? there were more than two people running for president guys... far too many people forget that, its really scary.
- Paranor01, on 02/08/2009, -0/+6um, maybe cause those are two names the plant species is known by?
- lukedamonkey, on 02/08/2009, -6/+12Lies, McCain was against medical marijuana in any form, even for states rights.
- inactive, on 02/08/2009, -0/+6it's not just those who use it who think policy is absurd and should be changed.
http://www.leap.cc/cms/index.php
legalize it, tax it, remove the criminal element. it worked in 1933 with alcohol... - whateverHeSaid, on 02/08/2009, -0/+6Kaitsu: "Not your personal political springboard, piss off. This constant spam of Obama and Weed articles is getting ridiculous."
Um, the articles you see making it to the front page are what's voted on by Digg users around the world. If your opinions differ with those of the majority and it bothers you, perhaps you are the one that needs to "piss off". - allowners, on 02/08/2009, -2/+8Put some thugs out on the street, close the DEA.
- ndrehobl, on 02/08/2009, -0/+5sorry, but ive done all sorts of drugs, from mushrooms, lsd, cocaine, heroin, marijuana, mdma, speed, dxm, what have you, and ive never hurt another human or took another persons freedom away while under the influence of those drugs. drugs dont make you hurt people. if you do hurt someone while on drugs, you should be arrested for it. same as if you are sober. trying to legislate the motivation behind the crime delves into the area of thought crimes, something im not too fond of.
what does hurt people is having a billion dollar federal agency of people with guns trying to lock people in cages by any means necessary who choose to use certain mind altering substances the government deems unfit for us to use. - whateverHeSaid, on 02/08/2009, -0/+5mytealjacket: "It's not Obama's opinion that needs changing, it's public opinion I'm talking about."
Which is exactly WHY you see articles about it on Digg almost every day. - JoeVet, on 02/08/2009, -0/+5Apparently, Obama didn't look at his new DOJ attorney general when he suggested a lenient medical marijuana policy. Holder is hard core for jacking up time and money spend on prosecuting innocent infringers. He wants to put more kids in jail for longer terms. He is no friend to the cancer patient in need.
- jgzman, on 02/08/2009, -0/+5We are already regulating it, and it costs money. Or do you think the DEA SWAT teams work for free? Or that the coast guard only intercepts drug smugglers on their lunch break?
Do not be so intentionally foolish. We regulate alcohol, don't we? Never heard anyone complain about the costs of that. - BitSlicer, on 02/09/2009, -0/+5First-things-first, let's get Cannabis taken off the Schedule A. There is no scientific proof that it should be there. Maybe NORML should file a law suite against the FDA. It would be a good place to start and maybe, just maybe, that would stop the DEA.
- coyote1284, on 02/08/2009, -0/+5Tobacco is taxed up to 90% of wholesale price, yet we can't regulate that tobacco companies not add all the ***** to it to make it more addictive and control the rate of burn and at other points in production. Clean tobacco, keep it legal, and legalize weed. BTW, I don't use either.
- jgzman, on 02/08/2009, -0/+5Incorrect in many cases. In this case, the Federal Government has no right to have passed the law in question, and states rights comes into play.
- ndrehobl, on 02/08/2009, -1/+6i dont know why they are saying there is a change in policy if there hasnt been any... if obama was serious about ending medical marijuana raids he could do so now. the head of the dea could be told to stop prosecuting these things immediately, or he could have been changed the first day obama got into office. its all talk. obama appointed rahm emanual to office, he was a vocal opponent of sick and dying patients in california using medical marijuana and supported federal raids against them. obama is part of the establishment, i will be incredibly surprised if he makes even the slightest effort to change medical marijuana policy. not to mention all drugs should be legal. using drugs hurts no one but yourself, and making them illegal only creates a huge black market that kills people and gets criminals rich. if we want real change in our drug policy we need to start looking to third parties like the constitution party, the libertarian party, or the boston tea party. even someone like ron paul who has vocally stated his opposition to the drug war, and never voted in a way to make us believe otherwise would be far better than obama's doublespeak on the issue. obama stated that one of the reasons he thinks medical marijuana should be legal is because its a state's rights issue. well what about all the other issues that are states rights under the constitution, such as road construction, education, gun laws, health care, and just about everything else he is delving into. obama is just saying that to be popular, he wont do anything, he has no core principles.
- dhichens, on 02/08/2009, -1/+5It's not the 60's and 70's hippies that are in charge. It's the ones who were all stuck up and stuffy and went to the 'good' schools who are in charge. They were always jealous of the hippies, who had more fun and more sex.
- Paranor01, on 02/08/2009, -0/+4There enough Republican paid trolls on digg, who says there aren't people watching digg (and other sites) for Obama? It would be foolish to think there aren't, especially with the way Obama ran his campaign listening to the citizens of the US.
- writerwriter, on 02/08/2009, -0/+4Marijuana became illegal for several reasons, a main one being that the US was trying to control migrant Mexican worker. Then, along came Harry Ainslinger who was an ambitious, right-wing, evangelical zealot who had an agenda when he was offered a post with the then drug commission and man, he ran with it. There have been several times in US and Canadian history where farmers were legally required to grow hemp because the rope and textiles from it are very durable and it's extremely cheap to grow; but those were wartimes.
Another "problem" with pot is that it makes people chill - unlike alcohol, which makes people aggressive - so, y'know, not really awesome if you want your young men to go fight a war that began due to a lie (see "Bay of Tonkin"). Some of you might remember how heated-up the whole pot thing was around the time of the Vietnam "war."
Pretty much everything we've been forced to believe about pot in the last 60 years is totally, utterly *****. Pot is not addictive; pot is extremely effective for MS, cancer sufferers, glaucoma sufferers; the list goes on and on... but, if you're the R&D department of (name any) big pharma organisation, would YOU want your livelihood challenged by a weed? Nope.
As for Ronald Regan, he was an actor and he certainly smoked weed. However, as Ainsligner's stupid, ethnic-cleansing policies were still on the books, he sucked it up. I suspect anyone who was working in Hollywood when Regan was would have a bunch of stories to tell....
Go find the Woody Harrelson documentary, GRASS or have a look at THE UNION; THE BUSINESS BEHIND GETTING HIGH; or another excellent documentary, IN POT WE TRUST.
Do not accept lies that protect huge, predatory corporations or the stupid paid-off politicians who depended on them for votes and money. - NeverReturnKid, on 02/08/2009, -0/+4Good for medical marijuana. Now what about making hemp legal? That would actually help the economy.
- inactive, on 02/09/2009, -0/+4"Founding fathers are rolling joints in their graves."
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