Marijuana: prohibition or legalization?

Richard Nixon was wrong when he put cannabis hemp on the Dangerous Substance List. He didn't care about facts, he cared about politics. He used cannabis legislation as a political tool, facts be damned. As it turned out, it has been the American people who have been damned.

It's damned time to right the wrongs of Richard Nixon. Facts matter!
http://www.csdp.org/publicservice/nixon06.pdf
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Richard Nixon left office in shame, but his shameful policy remained. The war on cannabis has remained and harmed us in so many ways. It is time for change! It's time to change Richard Nixon's war on cannabis hemp. Facts matter!

from: http://www.csdp.org/publicservice/nixon06.pdf
"Blue Ribbon Report Richard Nixon Chose to Ignore"

After Richard Nixon flattened the Democrats as soft on crime in the '68 election, the President-elect faced a dilemma. There's not much the White House can do to impact crime. The thugs people are afraid of — burglars, robbers, rapists, murderers — are the business of state courts. Then somebody mentioned drugs.

In a textbook example of fear manipulation, Nixon warned the country that a plague of unimaginable proportions was about to engulf the nation. “The problem has assumed the dimensions of a national emergency,” he said. To fight the pushers on their own terms, he would need emergency powers — preventive detention, unorthodox strike forces, more freedom to search, wire tap, and arrest.

For scientific support, he appointed former Republican Pennsylvania Governor Ray Shafer to head a National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse. He told Gov. Shafer to treat marijuana just like heroin despite the "obvious differences between marijuana and other drugs." He was even more direct withchief of staff Bob Haldeman. "I want a Goddamn strong statement about marijuana...that just tears the ass out of them."

But after months of testimony from academics, medical experts, lawmen and health professionals, the facts overwhelmed the myths. The report was devastating:“Marijuana use, in and of itself, is neither causative of, nor directly associated with crime...” It found no basis for the gateway theory. Alcohol, it said, was probably a greater danger, and the report concluded that personal use of marijuana should no longer be a crime.

Richard Nixon ignored the report and proceeded to spin disinformation for political gain. It is time for change! It's time to use facts as our guide, not spun distortion!

I think it should be legalized with limits. If we grew marijuana we could use it to make paper and then we would use less trees and it would be good for the environment. plus think of all the money we could make from the taxes

Legalize! think of the tax money to be made from weed and in this economy what we could do with it for people!