Bill would get tough on super pot

so an NFL player who gets drunk on LEGAL alcohol and runs someone over as he's driving drunk home gets 24 days in prison for basically murdering someone, but if you smoke some strong marijuana with THC over some arbitrary percentage, then you go to prison for 25 to life? This congressman is dangerous and he needs to be stopped. It was this same kind of reefer madness that created the situation in the UK where Gordon Brown increased the penalties for pot possession even as his own health board advised him it wasn't needed. He also seemed to ignore the fact that marijuana use went down when the penalties were lower.

Oh shit I will have to cut down my garden...yah right!

This is getting WORSE. Come on. This can't be happening.
It's a pity. I'd same a damn shame. We are so much deep in "dept", that under the proper conditions, with knowledge in place this can be stopped., and LEGALIZED. POT Come on Doctors. You have seen, read the research. Most people know it's not potent, nor dangerous!!! It's not going to send you to the hospital, maybe to the refrigerator, but for real. There's a time to smoke and a time when not to smoke., and all, most, all good smokers know that. Us the educated ones, there has to be education. And it's like poker. "You gotta know when to hold'm Know when to fold'm, Know when to walk away, know when to run, you never count your money when your sitt"n at the table, ther'll be time enough for count"n when the game is done.

They just don't see the big picture. There are so many uses for the plant. The entire plant serves a useful purpose. Every single part. So much good can come from this beautiful plant.
What does this tell you about our government? Right Under Our Noses... yes, oh yes. and it is getting WORSE. you see it happening in front of your eyes every day. You shrug it aside likes its nothing until it without avoidance hits you dead on. What do you do now. Yea ye see. Look at things with a different prospective and you will discover something other than you've been trained to. and of course this depends on your age. But I'm sure some of you know where I'm comin from. but so you know, open your eyes and see where this is leading before you approve it.

hot air.

War on drugs... war on Terrorism....

I know, let's start a war on some intangible entity... Something that can only be defined by us, cos we're the good guys!

Alcohol, not a drug, it's fine, good and taxable, puts people in prison even when it's legal!

Pharamceuticals, not drugs,, they are fine, the durg companys tell us so with their expensive adverts and lobbyists.... in fact they're better than natural alternatives because they are patentable as well! ch-ching!

Weed? erm.. you can grow it at home? How do we tax that? It turns aggressive people into pascifists? Come on now, how will we fill up our prisons?

Water boarding... not terrorising the possibly innocent, sleep deprivation, starvation, imprisonment.... nope not terror... they might know where the next bad guy is, and if not, they will inspire honest people into being bad guys, and if they ever get out, well they will be bad guys then right?

Shock and awe.... nope that's not terror either, because we do it, we're the good guys see.....

When will we stop gauging a thing's merit by it's profits and actually address how they affect society.

When will they stops making up these illusory wars and admit it's the elite creating a class war.

One of the funnier aspects of the article is that "kush" is actually a family of cannabis strains from the Kush region and has nothing at all to do with cannabis' THC content.

Just for clarity it described in this article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_Kush

Lake County Sheriff Mark Curran is obviously a stunned tool who doesn't have a clue so having this idiot stand out there and make these claims is just laughable.

This guy is a bald faced moron anyway.

That would be pointless.

There are virtually no additional negative consequences compared to weaker pot.

Also, people will just smoke higher quantities of weaker pot.

Time to rebel...

republicans are pretty stupid. you cant stop the sweet green rebellion!
this is a tasty pic:)

AHHH this is my congressman.

For the record, I didn't vote for him.

Enough is enough! It's time to stop the madness! Not the madness of smoking cannabis. I'm talking about politicians who choose to spin madness in the war on drugs.

Right now people are speaking out daily about the wonders of the plant cannabis. States have changed their laws to enable people to consume cannabis for medical purposes.

Is this guy nuts? Cannabis has many medicinal uses. The THC is one of the main substances in cannabis, which helps humans. Pharmaceutical companies are working to perfect their drugs benefits. Pharmaceutical companies should be so lucky, as to be able to perfect their drugs, using better agricultural processes.

Cannabis does not require the disclaimers, listing all the horrendous side effects, which their drugs can cause. Cannabis has never killed anyone.

Better THC, along with other beneficial elements contained in cannabis, will be researched by scientists, once the war on cannabis hemp has ended. I hope they are able to perfect all the chemicals in cannabis, to make it beneficial for many illnesses.

It's time to end the war and work towards a recovery. More crazy 'distortion' is not what America needs. Another politician running on fear. People who are sick will welcome the discoveries, which will occur after the war has ended.

End the war, not the plant! Man only wishes he could protect his synthetic drugs, to the extent which God has. Man has already tried to kill the plant cannabis. They have failed. It's time to end the madness! It's time to end the war!

thats just wrong folks we will not stand for this shit freedomI WANT MY GODDAMN RIGHTS TO BEING FREE

Good pot apparently inspires stupid law.

Dude what is wrong with this country day by day we just go backwards. Every time I hear one of these ass out ideas make me wanna move to an isolated island in the pacific and burn my passport. We have to take our country back. We must take the selfish multimillionaires from ruling our country and our. Give the power back to the people, back to the people.Rise people, rise take the streets like the 60's. RISE!!!!!!!!!

Day by day the U.S congress is getting even more asshole-ish.

O.o 25 years for some kush? WTF man? Take enough ritalin and you'll be fucking out.

I vote for Rep Mark Kirk to be impeached or fired or jailed or w/e jsut FIRE HIM ._. He just wants to put more people in jail for no reason.

Not to mention the alcohol Everclear®,
Golden Grain®.

No matter how strong the THC in a specific Marijuana strain you can't O.D and the possiblies of you doing anything dangerous are very low because most likely you'll just pass out like a hour or so after smoking a strong strain.

bad law .

Right on BustYourFace!

25 years in prison for a joint? Wow.

There are guys found guilty of molesting children who do less time.

Stupidity runs amuck in our system.

I propose a toast: May the sons of these lawmakers each get busted with "super pot" on Christmas day.

Cheers