Americans’ Top Political Priority: Marijuana Law Reform!

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This should not be a big deal. People are tired of being locked up for something that shouldn't be illegal to begin with. People smoking cannabis isn't the problem; the problem is the prohibition.

If there's any reason not to do this, all the people responding on current as well as Mr. Obamas web site have yet to come up with it. I haven't heard anything that makes any sense.

Legalize it and lets be done with it already. Yes we Can !!

Even though I haven't read up on a lot of the ideas that whitenoise has posted here (thank you for the links, I'll have to take a look at them), I have noticed much of the same mechanics in play at the local level. Possesion charges and the resulting probation funds alot of the projects in the county I live in, and the same holds true in all of the counties in metro Atlanta. Except for the provisional time when you are first arested, no jail time is served (cut into the profits), just a monthly check to be collected from those on probation. Even those who are brought in for trafficing (albeit it must be under a certain amount and absoloutley no narcotticts) are given leniency, where they serve no time just a probationary period.

I have to look to find the country the embargo was excercised against but marijuana was made illegal because of the hemp trade. Plain and simple, it was an embargo made on anything hemp (ropes, sails for ships, blunts).

Like most of life problems, there isn't a simple answer or simple result. The DEA would have to focus somewhere else. Prisons wouldn't need as many guards. Its a tangled web.

The simple fact is; a vast number of people want pot legalized. Give the people what they want.

Sadly, I really don't think 19,5k is enough votes for something like this. When I heard of this previously they didnt provide the vote count and I assumed it was much higher.

For this type of prohabition to be ended it will require the action of more than 20,000 people.

20,000 out of 300,000,000 is not a clear enough majority.

free the weed.

Yes individuals make money off of keeping cannabis illegal, but it costs the tax payers (thats you and me) billions of dollars to process, sentence, and house/feed these nonviolent offenders. This has led to the over crowding of our prisons and leads to the current trend of paroling, not the nonviolent cannabis users they have mandatory sentences, but the rapists, molesters and Murderers who are actually eligible for a parole at all. So just from the stand point of human rights this is not a fair or even logical solution to any thing . If we then add all the financial benefits that legalization of cannabis and hemp would bring which by all official estimates would be in the tens of billions of dollars, then it becomes a truly no-brainer that even we stoners with our so called loss of brain cells (Bullshit) can see is the best and only course of action to take. By the way it has never been us supporters of cannabis/hemp legalization that think ours is the only important thing that our country and the world needs to address, in fact most of us have gone out of our way to show the immense benefit that said legalization would bring to almost all the other concerns such as Global Warming the health care issue and agriculture and fuel production. So it seems to me that all of you winers out there saying that supporting legalizing cannabis and hemp is just abandoning all our other problems we face as a nation and a world, you are the Haters just because you idea was not first you have to go and smash the ideas and hopes of other people? Thats weak. I never once told any one not to vote for any of the other issues in fact I also voted for them, single payer health care, LGBT equality rights, repealing of the FISA and Patriot Act, making the grid green in 10 Years almost all of the top ten I helped by voting for. However now that the voting is done and Cannabis has taken 1st place all those other ideas are pissed off and change.org is pushing the whole Cannabis reform to the back WTF so it only democracy if we do what the mainstream media want or the more vocal lobby of the health care industry and the all powerful LGBT agenda wants? It just really pisses me off that I could put so much time and effort into those same issues and then have those supporters shit on me and the rest of the people also trying to get our problems solved to. Any one posting comments on here that fit that mold I say you are a bunch of Hypocrites you only want change for you and no one else. Shame on you.

weed is yummy!!!

If Obama pulls this off He will be loved even by the racists lmao...go Obama and make a change...smoking does bring peace within some1 i wont lie because drinking is the opposite affect...& smoking weed is not only for blacks i seen that written somewhere in here whites smoke it also so i dont thing its a political thing to fill up the prisions its just a old retarted law that was put up..remember its not the whites that run this country its the JEWS go yell at them not the regular irish, polish, russian, italian, etc white looking guy!!!!!

how much MONEY do you think they would make if they legalized and taxed?

we could be out of the recession in weeks, if the gov taxed weed.

You silly internet people, please! Gimme a break, stop living the dream, get realistic and get your mind out of the smoke. They make MONEY by putting people away for drug possession, okay. They will not stop

Amazing how internet has changed the face of political involvment. We need those 19k young people in washington, i think, to actually change anything, at all.

And if the "terrorist" don't like us b/c of our freedom, then what better way to piss them off. See conservatives, there is a plus for you too :)

And we can keep the D.A.R.E campaign, just change it to D.A.R.E "Drugs Are R theres eally Excellent" or "drugs are really expensive" if you still want to use a little bit of scare tactics

Then let us do something about it!

Our gov't must stop spending, enough with the bailouts you can't put a price on greed!

The legalization of Marijuana could be the ultimate stimulus package if we want it to be.

Excellent information by WhiteNoise...
This legalization thing just doesn't seem to go away.
I don't smoke it anymore but I do know that most of the marijuana sold in this area in the northeast is grown both indoors and outdoors within a hundred miles...

when was mj not legal until the 50's?

I agree with White Noise, the world is run on money and power, especially America. Currently the government makes a lot of money off of pot. They fine the crap out of you if you have just a little bit and don’t care if they over pack the jail system for pot because the government doesn’t pay for them to be in there, we do, in our taxes. So why on earth would they get ride of such a profitable law. If you look at it you can pretty much grow "pot" anywhere, your back yard, basement anywhere; this would make it really hard to regulate and tax because who is to say that you have “store bought” pot or “home grown” pot. They would never know so even if they legalized it they wouldn’t make anything close to what they profit now because they wouldn’t be in complete control over it. Cigarettes for example are really profitable legal because they can have complete control over it. Tobacco can only grow in certain parts of the country and is much harder to grow. So they make their money for cigarettes through all the taxes they attach to them, because they know you have to buy it from them. They wouldn’t make much money if it was illegal because 90% of it would be gone, off the market completely because they are the ones making it. No underground Tobacco farms would be around and if so it wouldn’t benefit them hardly as much as it does now. Alcohol is the same, they can make a lot more money having it available to everyone because of the DUI fines, the taxes, under aged drinking laws, drinking in public and the list goes on. So personally I agree with White Noise because he is right, it won’t happen.

P.S. Seriously guys are we really fighting for this anyways. There are so many more important things going on right now in the world and you are worried about pot. That’s sad on so many levels. Where are your priorities? Why is this #1 for anybody right now?

MORE FUN FILLED OFFICIAL FACTS FOR EACH & ALL

INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 1999
(House of Representatives - May 07, 1998)

A Tangled Web: A History of CIA Complicity in Drug International Trafficking
http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1998_cr/980507-l.htm

Just in case you wonder why "WeThe People" are not aware of this...

"Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch-all for fuckoffs and misfits - a false doorway to the backside of life, a filthy piss-ridden little hole nailed off by the building inspector, but just deep enough for a wino to curl up from the sidewalk and masturbate like a chimp in a zoo-cage." ~ Hunter Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Yes we can..push...tax Afgan Kush!

Decriminalizing Cannabis and a strong push toward creating a real green collar industry could get us out of this recession.

We're fighting a war in iraq, the economy is going down the tube, and what comes up number one? Marijuana? That's just sad.

Americans make me cry right now, and I am one.

Won't happen & this is partly why...

Welcome to the war against drugs scam !

The criminalization of pot is simply needed to fill the prisons & rationalize the private incarceration system… & they get to destroy the black community as a bonus… Business as usual !

In the USA, the prison system is owned by private corporations (i), meaning that companies make money from putting people in jail.

This explains why America has the largest absolute prison population in the world (ii). Not just relative to its 300m population, but relative to the world. Even communist China, with 1.3 billion people, has less people in prison than America. US police officers are fired or given demotions if they do not meet a certain quota of people put in jail (iii). It’s called the prison-industrial complex (iv), and is just one example of how capitalism is yielding negative effects in America.
So how are so many people being put in prison? Welcome to the drug war. The CIA ships in cocaine to the United States in mass (v), and then uses the corrupt police force to deal these illegal drugs to the American public (vi). Naturally, having dealt the drugs, the police then know who is in possession of cocaine, so later bust them for it. Not only is the drug-industrial complex served, but so is the prison-industrial complex. Classic corporatism all made possible through the corrupt police force of bully-mentality.

And if by now you’re saying, “well, just because people are selling drugs, doesn’t mean the kids are forced to buy them”, consider the glorification of drugs in movies and television. Young kids love listening to Amy Winehouse and others (vii) (viii), but there is no age limit on how old you have to be to watch her on the news, boxed into the classic drug nightmare of so many poor victims of the entertainment industry. The average lifespan in the United States is currently 78 (ix) and expected to be commonly as high as 100 in the coming generations (x), yet in the entertainment industry was just over 60 in 1999 and was as low as 48 in 1950 (xi). Also consider the abomination that is America’s education system (xii), and its up-to and in some cases above 50% high school dropout rates (xiii).

Footnotes
i http://www.correctionsproject.com/corrections/pris_priv.htm
ii http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/2925973.stm
iii http://www.emissourian.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19506987&BRD=1409&PAG=46...
iv http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/199812/prisons
v http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1998_cr/980507-l.htm
vi http://www.serendipity.li/cia/fifty.html vii http://danasdirt.com/2007/11/27/amy-winehouse-meets-a-young-fan/
viii http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_to_black#Charts
ix http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy
x http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/1977733.stm
xi http://www.ancestry.com/facts/HOLLYWOOD-life-expectancy.ashx
xii http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx4pN-aiofw
xiii http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,344190,00.html

PS : Back then pot prohibition was but an excuse to wipe out the hemp industry … http://piratebook.com/chapter_17.htm

Marijuana should be legalized, taxed and regulated for medical and recreational purposes.

Yes we can.

Yes we can .. Puff puff..
Big Up Barack!
How long can we lock people down for simple possession? Reform and education is the way to help advance people, not punishment and segregation.

Good to see

"Revoke the Tax Exempt Status of the Church of Scientology"

Is in the top 10 issues too.

google the answer...but it was legal before. Sad thing is...the government played tricks with the law they passed. but the good thing is, it made it easier to move single drugs into different categories. imagine how violence levels would drop, over one drug. alcohol should have stayed illegal and mary jane legal

Continues to remain in first place on the website...huh...I wouldn't have thought that.

Such a simple fix, really. Just a few more days and we'll see what he does.

when was marijuana legal in the USA?

time to paint the white house green!