What We Have to Say About Legalizing Marijuana

When I was art director of High Times Magazine from '87-'92, William Buckley Jr. favored legalization fer crying out loud. Hard to believe that almost 20 years later it's still an issue. Ridiculous.

When I started to quit using intoxicants in '93, I used weed to quit booze, booze was very hard to stop using, seems to me an addiction rate of 15% is kind of low. A year later I quit the weed, that was much easier to do - no physical withdrawal, it seems to me an addiction rate of 9% is kind of high.

Now if I could just cut back to 5 cups of coffee a day...

Weed just makes you peaceful. Government doesn't want that. They want us to be soldiers and fight for their money and petrolium.

Yea Obama you can't stop me. I was just gonna roll one. Do you want some?

Obama is captured by Pharma,and those who make $ off the drug war.

Hypocrisy is Obama's last name.

Laws against cannabis destroys lives. Cannabis prohibition is a form of control and a means of profit. Those in power who support marijuana prohibition do not have the best interest of the public in mind at all. They couldn't care less about the people other than making us slaves to keep them rich and powerful.

Such bullshit....McDonald's is more harmful to our country than pot.

So, they think the science says marijuana is too bad to legalize. What a laugh. Even if you accept this at face value, Why isn't bacon illegal. it clearly isn't good for you according to the science. It tastes great. I get a good feeling when I've tasted, savored, and swallowed it. This Whitehouse is filled with a bunch of rank cowards who on this issue are MORALLY BANKRUPT. Boy, the left would abandon these a$$holes in a heartbeat if there was only some other viable candidate. Obama, you smoked pot. Get off your dead a$$ and help people for a change by standing up for their right to decide for themselves to name their poison. You certainly didn't give a $hit about the science when you suspended the EPA rules recently. Hope Indeed from a COWARD is a laugh at the expense of all of us; but moreso, the poor slobs sitting in jail because of this stupidity; and remember, our taxes fund this nonsense.

only 32% are addicted to tabacco. Wow, we are a stronger willed people than I thought.

Here is the LAme Ass responce to over 150,000 signitures to legalize Marijuana and over 50% of the nation saying they want legilization now.
Please reply in kind.
Notice who wrote this excuse for toilet paper responce Gil Kerfuckle Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy protecting his bullshit job by siting propoganda from a research group who gets paid to talk shit about marijuana they wont even allow research into the benificial effects of maijuana just its so called negitive effects which cannot be duplicated under controlled experimant as is really demanded of scientific teories that pass mustard. and notice how legilization of merijuana became drug use because it is imposible for these assholes to stay on subject (probably drinking too much) and I love the note about the progress they have made against alcoholism a substance with no medical value and still legal as shit. if they are so concerned about addiction why can't they treat the addics and leave the rest of us the fuck alone?! they seem to be doing a fine job running alcohol, how bout that just legalize and tax marijuana and open a bunch of not for profits to take care of those who claim to be pot addics, my guess is they will be out of business in a month.

The only way to end the Drug War will be to lobby Congress through a special interest group. Join the MPP and/or NORML and you will help end this atrocious war.

A response from the NORML site: I've omitted the name

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October 29th, 2011 at 9:14 am

I was a Police Chief also, and an officer for 15years, and it does not make his or my statements anymore creditable. It appeared, he Googled what he thinks is facts and done the copy/paste thing, this prohibition is for one thing only “CONTROL”. It is unconstitutional and a violation of peoples rights. If the Government found out today that pecans cured cancer, then tomorrow all Pecan Trees would be illegal to own.
I have Multiple Sclerosis and I see first hand what Cannabis does to help deal with pain. I don’t know if it helps everyone with this disease but it does me, and it does not make me stupid to attempt to be pain free and addicted free of the FDA drugs they are pushing.
I feel that American’s are seeing this attempt of Control of our every move. I pay my bills and take care of my family and don’t feel that I need to be controlled by Government, I have a wife that is doing fine in that department.
Time to “S T A N D U P” and stop taking this kind of abuse from our Government, As Officers have been told several times by citizens “We pay your Salary” lets let the White House Hear That, If You want “CHANGE”

As we know, science is only there to be debunked by the 1%ers...think global warming...and marijuana legalization...but its a bitch when you eat your own words all the time, and O sure knows a bit about that. He talked a lot of smack and got a lot votes and then couldn't walk the talk...the story of many a big loser...

From the article that I found interesting:

“Visits to emergency rooms” links to 2009 DAWN data which contains this interesting bit of fine print, “Within DAWN, the drug misuse or abuse category is a group of [emergency room] visits defined broadly to include all visits associated with illicit drugs.” That is, if you mention pot, have pot on you, or your urine or blood tests positive for pot, that’s a drug-related emergency room visit. If you smoked a bowl last night, broke your leg skiing today, went to the ER, and they found metabolites of THC in your pee, that’s going into the DAWN stats as a pot-related ER visit.

So we have illegal marijuana which lets government arrest people and make them choose jail or rehab, then those rising rehab numbers are an indication that we need to keep arresting people. And we have emergency room data that tells us that some sick and injured people, like some Americans generally, smoke pot. Can you tell us why we shouldn’t end those charades and consider regulating cannabis like alcohol and tobacco?

Isnt the government supposed to protect our liberties and freedoms yet they infringe on state laws... Marijuana needs to be dealt with at the state level like it says in the constitution. If its legalized tomorrow, the government has no right to say its illegal.

Sad state of affairs when a President who said he would let science have its say and then to turn around and refuse to deal with the gross inequities of the pot law is grossly disappointing! Shame on Obama!