Legalization of marijuana public's #1 issue on Change.Gov

legalize it and stop the attacks on law abiding non violent citizens. our DEA is like the german nazis used to be. go around and arrest and attack citizens. adolf hitler would be proud of the DEA. Legalize it!

The belief that we should be punished for using natural plants is contrary to the Declaration of Independence.

The War on Drugs is Public Enemy #1.

We wage war in Afghanistan because they make the most poppy flowers in the world.

We give more monetary and military support to Colombia than any other nation in Central or Southern America because of their coca plants.

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It is legal for a doctor to prescribe corporate manufactured T.H.C. pills that I can pick up at any of the fifteen pharmacies in my small town

but if I am caught planting a seed in my home, a pot of soil on the sidewalk, Valley Forge National Park or in the remnants of the wild natural world...

Am I a criminal? Maybe an environmental provocateur?

Can it perhaps be Patriotic to plant it?

The tax alone could be harnessed and used to create green industry (hemp by the way aka marijuanas nearly identical cousin makes 4x the amount of fuel per acre than corn, switchgrass, or any other option)

The fuel alone could create a new American Industry.

This is actually number 19 in the Energy section of change.org

Vote it up http://www.change.org/ideas/view/focus_on_hemp_for_a_source_of_clean_energy_and_...

Ctr-Alt-Del is RIGHT!

even in his name... lets, as a society, press Ctr-Alt-Del and RESET the world.

Make it equal. And BEGIN to program it with the DESIGN we envision...

Our current operating system is too buggy and slow and doesn't really work, even though we all want it to...

No amount of wishing will change it either...

And the people capable of FIXING our system don't care about the problem they created.

And they created it to fail, so it will...

Ah, i see a hint of noise in your message ruberube...

Competition was an evolutionary drive in all of us produced by our surroundings. At the time and up to this moment in time, Scarcity was thought to exist indefinitely as a incurable disease of society...

When we take away scarcity, and the evolutionary NEED for competition, our incentive and drives in life CHANGE. Thus making competition invalid and false in light of working towards truths we can all agree on and work towards...

I dont see how this is bad....I mean if marijuana was legalized, do you know many people would be freed out of jail. I mind you that a large population of marijuana drug offenses are NON-VIOLENT. We could use this for fuel, an eco-friendly material, beauty products, fuel, etc. But as American as apple pie is, I doubt the forces that be would make it legal.

Lib-fruit,

THC, the active ingredient of cannabis has
huge potential for medicine.
The major pharm. companies are not interested, as THC cannot be patented! Cannabis is like the wind or sunshine- it is easy and inexpensive to obtain…
That cant screw the public with this drug!

Lib- you just dont understand the basic force of democracy. That competition is good and monopolies are the death of democratic culture! Wake up and free yourself. I dont even smoke pot and I know this. Maybe you should go pop open a brew and relax!
Like alcohol thats a real constructive drug! NOT!

with the amount of resources we spend on the drug war, convicting and incarcerating non-violent recreational drug users...and the complete stupidity and waste of the entire process, and the EASE with which to fix it....

...yea, it should be a top priority

let the good times roll!! or... roll up some good times!!!!

i like it!

we've had 8 years of shutting up. keep speaking and say it loud, citizens!

Even though this isn't a top problem, legalizing marijuana will solve problems worldwide. I know that all the Colombian drug trafficking organizations would dry up if their products were legal.

Yes... ENORMOUS Change...

We just need to WAKE PEOPLE UP to the IDEA and the ideal it stands for when seen from a non-biased P.O.V.

Well, the people have spoken. I'm very interested in seeing just what Obama plans on doing with this. Change.gov was set up for us to give our input, we gave it. The legalization of Marijuana will indeed be a big change.

The REALITY of PEACE will only come into focus as we all, as a whole, begin to question everything.

Our purpose for questioning everything should be truth.

Reject all the noise, my friends, and we may all, someday, have peace...

Ah Yes... A CONCISE portrayal of truth...

Now... KNOWING that progression is HELD BACK by our very government, what to do?

This hope that, if people CARE enough to actually bring this case to the public, enough to give it fair trial and implication, is at the HEART of the issue...

So i pass the PEACE pipe; to YOU my friends.

REGARDLESS if you believe in the rights or wrongs of marijuana itself, I envision this as a step towards peace... :)

I don't know about it being the #1 issue, but it is certainly an important issue, even though many rich corporations don't want you to think so.

I am completely for the reform of our marijuana laws. Anyone who believes that marijuana laws do not need to be reformed has not done any significant research on the issue.

Legalizing marijuana for medical purposes and allowing farmers to cultivate hemp for many other useful products would cost some rich and powerful corporations a ton of money. Which is why they contribute heavily to conservative political parties, spread misinformation, anti-marijuana propaganda, and generally do everything they can to blindfold the public to the truth.

The lack of vision that comes in ignoring such truths KEEPS this debate from truly making an impact on society...

Again, a truth, tbowman131...

But, the REAL truth lies in seeing not in terms of money wasted, but time wasted. Energy wasted towards a better future...

not to mention the literally hundreds of billions of dollars the government has spent on its war on marijuana... it's a good thing that the money wasn't completely wasted... oh wait

liberal . extinction
actually you are clueless .. hung up on some festering need to destroy liberalism . most anyone who is into smoking weed.. is totally savvy of the hypocritical governmental outlawing of hemp .. and totally aware of the incredible usefulness of hemp products .. now i'm not saying there are no pot smokers who care only about getting high.. or know anything about other uses of hemp.. but they are few.. and vastly outnumbered by those who preach of pot being evil.. who have never tried it.. know little of hemps history in america.. or about hemps industrial usefulness .. that use the movie reefer madness as a useful source of information .. rather than a hilarious nostalgic look back at america's propagada war on hemp.
i suppose you voted for bush?? twice ??

Great point, Vierotchka...

And constantly society ignores some of the root causes of crime and the eventual max compacity our jails are continuing to reach...

The truth will set us all free...

Above post was in response to Liberal_extinction - and please use my complete handle and refrain from truncating it to turn it into an insult.

Of course, filling privately-owned prisons with millions of people committing misdemeanors at most is very profitable, it allows for slave-work as well as supplying victims to the worst psychopathic sadists in the land, no wonder you support this.

I certainly know a great deal more about them than you ever will - and what's wrong with getting stoned with cannabis? It is certainly infinitely less harmful than alcohol and doesn't lead to aggressive and arrogant behaviour the way alcohol and other drugs do. People like you are so anti-good that it is tragic... for you mostly.

Wrong, Sam_The_Wizer...
It's been proven that many civilizations where built off of the resource of Hemp.

The taxation of Marijuana and eventual legalization could be just what our economy needs to get it going again. As apposed to letting it sputter out of control.

The good thing is, is that this is too radical of an idea to actually happen. And more and more people, if they keep questioning society, will search for new ways to fix a system that isn't fixable...

Seek the truth my friends...

Sam, you obviously don't know the first thing about the number of mankind's problems - from fuel to food, from medicine to plastic, and more - that cannabis can solve.

This is the most conclusive evidence I've seen that marijuana should not be legal. If people that smoke it think this is the number 1 issue facing this nation they are obviously not thinking clearly.

I know he has a lot of other issues to deal with, but, the people have spoken!

This is BS! How can you use sources from a discussion board? FOX is lame..... I'm sorry but I'm voting this down.

Let's get out our "hope hats" and "hope" Obama will bring the "change" that he said to bring.

But on a real note, you should have voted for Ron Paul if you wanted to legalize Marijuana, not a central bank puppet.

lets see if he does anything about it