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Students Fight for Weed

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While their friends are sitting in class, Jeff Fontas and Andrew Edwards are attending committee meetings and co-sponsoring legislation as the youngest state representatives in the New Hampshire House.
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  • sickinjersey
  • madmatt90000
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      madmatt90000  

    • i think the government should legalize pot and the only reson the government doesnt legalize it is because it would be to hard to keep people from growing it for free! WHY DO WE HAVE CIGARETS AND ALCHOL IF WE DONT HAVE WEED!!

    • 3 years ago
  • middle_east
  • nhimack
  • Lostrelics
  • nhimack
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      nhimack  
    • Lostrelics:

      NH's Govenor is a tool. His Daughter got busted for DWI so he pulled her out of college and forced her to go to a smaller college closer to home so he could monitor her. He probably has a few drinks himself on a regular basis. Canabis is not a drug but in this "Live Free or Die" state we have some of the toughest Cannabis laws of all the states. When will these hypocrtical politicians realize that this plant is here to hellp mankind. Cures for all type of deseases and they keep following the old "reefer madness" mindset. It's not addictive, it's not harmfull if taken as intended as a tea not smoked, but who can afford that.
      Still smoking after 40 years, because they can kiss my A$$ the bunch of drunks. Sorry to hear you got nailed for so little, bet the cop felt great that he took such a hardened druggie of the streets LOL

    • 3 years ago
  • couldntfindausername
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      couldntfindausername  

    • Whoa there just a minute - "model member of society"?

      Let me get this straight - the guy breaks the law by speeding, loses his license, then breaks the law *again* by driving with no license, and *again* by having drugs in the car.

      Just what sort of society regards *that* as model behaviour?

    • 3 years ago
  • shemshem
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      shemshem  

    • well done guys, it's time we accepted that drug laws often do more harm than good

      if a cannabis users does no harm, why should they be busted? The law that does that is unjust

    • 3 years ago
  • Bwittany
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      Bwittany  

    • I love this pod every time it comes on! My mom loves it too.
      It's so inspiring for young people who want to get involved in politics.

      As far as the pot goes, I personally think it should be legalized for it's medicinal qualities butttttttt there are much more important things to focus on in the government right now. We have a Bush in office!

    • 3 years ago
  • mstr_hue_jax
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      mstr_hue_jax  

    • Marijuana is proven to cure some types of cancer. Why keep something like that from the public but turn around and sell the public a pack of cigarettes? Interesting.

    • 3 years ago
  • KSweeney
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      KSweeney  

    • though i may not share the same view as those guys, i am so happy to see them actually doing something about what they believe in. i am sick and tired of hearing "legalize it, legalize it" with no action or proper research

    • 3 years ago
  • BFAM_RVS
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      BFAM_RVS  

    • Power to the people...we have to keep fighting in to in order to create change for us and our people...never give up...

      BFAM_RVS

    • 3 years ago
  • chilling
  • Bandit_Queen
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      Bandit_Queen  

    • There is actually an national organization called Students for Sensible Drug Policy which in 1998 formed in oppostition to the Higher Education Act Drug Provision (law which denies financial aid to anyone with a drug conviction). SSDP has chapters across the nation and in canada. Anyone who wants more info should go to ssdp.org

    • 3 years ago
  • AxeRFJ
  • Nicole_Vonde
  • Nicole_Vonde
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      Nicole_Vonde  

    • why would you cut off tuition for people who want to make themselves better? They will make this country better in a whole. The goverment just want to get out cheap by saying ohh you can't have student loans anymore because you had a little bit of weed. It wasn't enough to make you really messed up. If you look at the heath factors, you are putting yourself in factors as in like accidents, but what if people have finals and they are freaking out and can't get meds from the doctor to help them out? I just think that it was stupid.

    • 3 years ago
  • TheNome
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      TheNome  

    • It sucks how HERB is still looked down upon. I mean ruining a persons future because of such a small amount of herb?? COme on!! Meth is is a problem.

    • 3 years ago
  • A_H_Jones
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      A_H_Jones  

    • I don't understand what is so hard to understand about it. Weed is illegal. Just stay away from it, and other drugs, and you wouldn't even have to worry about this stuff.

    • 3 years ago
  • jonesch77
  • J_Jammer
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      J_Jammer [removed]  

    • Lame.

      That should have passed. It's a small amount. It's like if you stab someone you're not sentenced to life in prison unless you like stab them a lot and they DIE.

      Measure of how much does matter....in everything. DUH.

    • 3 years ago
  • jjeziorski
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      jjeziorski  

    • Just remember - the same politicians who vote this stuff down are the ones who are going back to their office to blow cocaine off of hookers' chests, then home to beat their wives after a few strong cocktails.

      Well, ok. Not all of them. I'll play fair - I'm guessing like 73%

      The rest just think we're all going to be left behind when Jesus comes back.

    • 3 years ago
  • freecrack
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      freecrack  

    • how can we as a society tackle big issues like stem cell research and capital punishment when we cant get passed the simplest of issues like wether or not marijuana should be legal. its sad that these guys who just want to do the right thing have to fight for this. how many other things could they be doing with thier time. if its ok for tobacco to addict and kill thier customers why is weed illegal. we accept all the lives lost or damaged as a result of alcohol but i cant smoke a joint?i hope these guys can fix this situation so that one day our governments time can be dedicated to things of true importance.

    • 3 years ago
  • mrburns
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      mrburns  

    • right brain,

      weed causes baldness, and stupidity.

      Awesome clay,

      but I usually give my trashman a case of beer every christmas. What is cheaper? A case of Bud light or weed?

      God bless big oil
      God bless all of the pot heads who did not get the job that I have (kind-a like natural selection, meaning companies won't hire you)

    • 3 years ago
  • Bwittany
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      Bwittany  
    • mrburns:

      You're stupid!

      I have a hard time studying without pot.
      Or cleaning.
      Or writing an essay. Or making extra intelligent remarks in class.

      Might want to be less quick to judge mister.

    • 3 years ago
  • photosnob
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      photosnob  

    • notreallybutyeah

      You are definitely thinking on a much deeper level then I was when I first read this story. I was going to send a response trying to debate you but I can't......I think you are right-on with what you are saying......Our judicial system lacks a backbone and is in "business" to make money.....When it comes to drugs it is not in business to clean up society or solve our drug problems, but to make money and make sure the money makers keep coming back. They can't or wont go after the main players in the drug game because they need them in business to supply the judicial system with the money makers(drug users). Now prison is another subject that is fueled by drugs. 90 percent of inmates are in prison for something related to drugs. It is definitely a vicious circle that our government doesn’t' want to end.

    • 3 years ago
  • photosnob
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      photosnob  

    • Flipriza.....Is it an issue that really matters? Is it right up there with global warming, the war in Iraq, gas prices, a slumping economy, over crowding of our jails, abortion, capital punishment, etc.....

    • 3 years ago
  • notreallybutyeah
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      notreallybutyeah  
    • photosnob:

      Sorry for the length:
      The "War on Drugs" that provided the philosophical pedestal upon which this drug policy stands, has proven ineffective, corrupt and ultimately harmful to the petty criminal and end-user instead of the drug tycoons who are behind the supply chain. If McDonald's was illegal, it would be like going after the guy getting paid $6.55 an hour to flip burgers, and the man stuffing them down his face instead of the CEO. Any state's power is only so large, and when it is divides itself among the multitudes its power correspondingly weakened.

      Continuing the metaphor, finding the CEO would not be difficult given the "Intelligence Community's" supposed sophistication in espionage.

      Further, Department of Corrections data show that about a fourth of those initially imprisoned for nonviolent crimes are sentenced for a second time for committing a violent offense. Whatever else it reflects, this pattern highlights the possibility that prison serves to transmit violent habits and values rather than to reduce them.

      http://www.drugwarfacts.org/prison.htm

      Money makes the World go 'round, as the old song goes, as do drugs the criminal one. This places this minor step in the fight for drug decriminalization firmly on the list that you provided.

    • 3 years ago
  • jjeziorski
    • 0
      jjeziorski  
    • photosnob:

      Our war on weed's annual budget rivals that of Iraq war spending... so yes - it's of paramount importance.

      9 Billion US dollars would give a basic education to each human being on the face of the planet.

      But we, as a nation, spend over 16 Billion a year on perfume alone...

      Which would be simpler - decriminalizing weed & funding all our failing schools with a single piece of legislature?

      Or convincing each perfume-buyer in the US to donate that money to charity instead?

    • 3 years ago
  • beachbrewer
  • flipriza
    • 0
      flipriza  

    • as a wise man once said to me:

      "weed doesn't make you stupid, stupid makes you stupid"

      great job that we have youth represented to take on youth issues that really matter...

    • 3 years ago
  • nhimack
  • joekangiser
  • tribe10
  • ValCrisis
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      ValCrisis  

    • "Weed is not a drug. I've done the research. It just grows like that....thats not the same as drugs. You have to do stuff to drugs, chemically. You have to add baking soda, water, stir it up, I don't know the receipe I'm just saying!"

    • 3 years ago
  • COMPTON
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      COMPTON  

    • ITS NOT THE WEED KEEPING KIDS OUT OF SCHOOL...IT S THE COST,IF YOU CANT HANDLE IT DONT SMOKE IT...FOR THE TWO GUYS VOTE FOR THEM...WEED HELPS SICK PEOPLE...IT MIGHT HELP YOU!!DONT BLAME THE ERB,DOCTERS,POLICE,SCIENTIST,TEACHERS ARE KNOW TO SMOKE..SO IF YOU CANT HANDLE STAY AWAY..

    • 3 years ago
  • Abamanation
  • crazy_french
  • photosnob
    • 0
      photosnob  

    • You have to respect there go get'em attitude but I can think of more important issues. I hate to see the one kid penalized because of a law that can be manipulated. Whatever happened to live and learn and second chances?

    • 3 years ago
  • millennial
  • delas78
  • whocontrolstheworld
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      whocontrolstheworld  
    • Image

    • It seems that marijuana activism has taken off in the past couple of months. Did you guys see the story about an individual woman who was doing some serious advocating for a pot-smoking lounge in a local airport? Her logic was pretty sound, too.

      There's a videoo - but for some reason it won't post. Check out the above link to see the story and the woman's logic. She thinks it would calm down travelers and, subsequently, decrease airport stress for everyone. Seems like solid thinking to me!

    • 3 years ago
  • marandah
  • RyanBWylie
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      RyanBWylie  
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    • "Over 200,000 students have lost their financial aid due to minor drug convictions."

      Government propaganda paints pot smokers as underachievers, when in actuality the system itself seeks to make them that way with pointless restrictions.
      Bad for America, but good for the industries that sell booze and cigs.

    • 3 years ago
  • schmedly
    • 0
      schmedly  

    • Politicians are such chicken shit assholes. I would love to look into the closets of these guys that folded. Someone has some pictures.....uhoh, there's those pesty black helicopters circling overhead again.....gotta go

    • 3 years ago
  • SDLN
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      SDLN  

    • Those are some motivated potheads.

      Also, I remember when they attached that penalty to the financial aid. America was sinking towards the right at the time. It was supposed to deter the use of marijuana, but it did nothing except spoil the promising future of some Americans.

    • 3 years ago
  • Abamanation
  • clayjj05
  • regjoeschmo
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      regjoeschmo  
    • clayjj05:

      Why should a teacher be restricted from marijuana use?? No they shouldnt be high during work (and who should be??) or tell children about it (and what did you know about your teachers personal life?? Drug laws should be compared to the constitution in the aspect of "does it harm another person?"

    • 3 years ago
  • rightbrain
    • 0
      rightbrain  

    • Don't let anyone stop you guys. Remember what Teddy Roosevelt said about reform; "There are plenty of scoundrels always ready to try to belittle reform movements or to bolster up existing iniquities in the name of Americanism; but this does not alter the fact that the man who can do most in this country is and must be the man whose Americanism is most sincere and intense."

    • 3 years ago
  • jtap
  • melynda
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      melynda  

    • If the government would let us grow, we could pay for our tuition without straining the resources of the Financial aid department. Then inner-city youths would have a real chance at going to college.

    • 3 years ago
  • damnneargenius
    • 0
      damnneargenius  

    • They should use drugs as the reward for good behavior or accomplishment. Making them illegal just associates them with the shady criminals and stupid/lower-class elements of our population that are the last people that should be doing them.

    • 3 years ago
  • regjoeschmo
    • 0
      regjoeschmo  

    • so, is it the drugs keeping our children out of school or our overzealous drug laws doing so?? This is a major point for de-criminalization.

    • 3 years ago
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