LEGALIZE MARIJUANA!!!

[redsoxliberal]

4:20.

:smoke:

[JohnKleeb]

1. yes!!!!!!!!!

and I dont even use it.

[getoffmytrain]

2. It is legal

in my living room.

[neohippie]

4. got company?

need some... nudge nudge wink wink

[getoffmytrain]

5. I am a greedy

selfish little bong ripper.... :-)

[monkeykid22]

42. make it legal

yeah like most of you i say marijuana needs to b legalized Orly reason why ppl smoke cigarettes is cuz they cant smoke weed legally and all those against it smoking ciggs can go screww off also ciggs cause deaths and kill someone every day. weed cant kill u can smoke all u want and just fall asleep and wake up hungry. people i know mostly use it to help them selves to concentrate and use it for good needs! i say it should b legalized to all over 18 and cigarettes b illegalizeciggerates those are the killers!!!

[katnip]

54. :smoke:

And mine

[neohippie]

3. and I will advertize it!

what deficit?, talk about generating some revenue and bailing out all the family farmers, plus it would create so many new economic niches, like heady toys, and school and church bake sales incomes would take off through the roof

[alittlelark]

6. And 10's of millions will be happy!!!!

Growers and users will be thrilled!!! :D B-) :hippie: :smoke:


Dealers and the Prison Industrial Complex will be sad.:grr: :grr: :hurts:

[Lefty48197]

7. The last line of your post is what makes me think it should be legal.

.

[alittlelark]

8. Only the Prison Industrial Complex and dealers are happy w/ it

being illegal. (are you baked?)

[indigobusiness]

10. And the trafficers/corrupt customs/corrupt law enforcers/politicians

etc.

[alittlelark]

11. Too sad, and too true.

[Freebird12004]

31. omg - you're reading my mind

and think of all of the tax revenues B-)

[monkeykid22]

43. legal it

yeah like most of you i say marijuana needs to b legalized Orly reason why ppl smoke cigarettes is cuz they cant smoke weed legally and all those against it smoking ciggs can go screww off also ciggs cause deaths and kill someone every day. weed cant kill u can smoke all u want and just fall asleep and wake up hungry. people i know mostly use it to help them selves to concentrate and use it for good needs! i say it should b legalized to all over 18 and cigarettes b illegalizeciggerates those are the killers!!!

[monkeykid22]

44. leagalize it if u love urself

yeah like most of you i say marijuana needs to b legalized Orly reason why ppl smoke cigarettes is cuz they cant smoke weed legally and all those against it smoking ciggs can go screww off also ciggs cause deaths and kill someone every day. weed cant kill u can smoke all u want and just fall asleep and wake up hungry. people i know mostly use it to help them selves to concentrate and use it for good needs! i say it should b legalized to all over 18 and cigarettes b illegalizeciggerates those are the killers!!!

[yay]

50. That post gave me a headache...

For the love of god... use full words!!!

[woofless]

9. Now that's a DAMN good idea.

Why didn't I think of that? Sheesh.

Woof

[JonLP24]

37. Woah I thought I was you for a second

I saw the avatar and I was wondering "when did I say that?" lol

[burn the bush]

12. i support Norml too

thats
National Organization to Reform Marijuana Laws

I think they are at norml.com

legalized pot would be taxable like cigs, so the gov would get money, the smokers would have clean sources, the courts and jails would clear out of petty pot criminals. It's a win/win situation. Responsible Marijuana use should me legal. I should not have to worry about avoiding someone at my door just coz i just smoked one. It's my house. I don't drive when I smoke. I don't sell it. And when i worked, I didnt work buzzed. Why can't I smoke?

[Feathered Fish]

16. One Problem...

If it is completely leagalized, then sure enough there will be additives. I want my marijuana clean only with loads of THC. The drug companies would have too much of an orgy with legal marijuana. Let's decriminalize first. :smoke:

[Nikia]

17. It already is in some states

The problem with decriminalization is that it still usually sentences dealers to prision terms. Users have to get the product from somewhere. It is hypocritical to imprision people who sell what we consider a non crimnalized product.

[Dark]

19. Well, you could grow it yourself.

Top of the line seeds should be easy to obtain, and one to three plants should be enough each season.

[yay]

57. Depends on what you're growing really NT

[SPICYHOT]

25. you r right!

i want it pure too, i don't need more chemicals!!!

[Kimo]

36. Old Turd's Comment

I remember years ago on Rowen and Martin's Laugh In, their skit
about news, past, present and future.

"Today, 20 years future, the government made tobacco illegal and
marijuana legal" Now that would have been in the 1970's.

[monkeykid22]

45. true true

yeah true but its still way load better than cigerates

[UpsideDownFlag]

13. god damn son of a bitch! i made a poll, tried to be the first to post a

weed topic....well, i made the first poll.

[Freebird12004]

32. hmmm - somehow

I think I remember voting in that poll

[Midnight Rambler]

14. Absolutely

and start passing joints around the UN. we'll have world peace in a year.

:smoke:

[realisticphish]

22. can you imagine...

hey china, chill with the human rights violations, man. you're killing our buzz. so, until no violations, we no pass you the shit.

(general agreement, some coughing)

dude, i know this KICK ASS pizza place, that will totally deliver for free...


:hippie: The Incorrigible Democrat

[Atillason]

15. why not

Legalize it, tax it, health care for everybody...sounds good to me

[BTTB]

18. Works for me, even if I don't smoke.

It's true that there wouldn't be a surge of new customers. It's like porn, you're curious, but mom says no. You get the urge to watch it.

Also, weed's not a "kill people" drug. It's a chill drug, obviously.

[catmandu57]

20. Issues like this

may be what's needed to counter the fundie right. I know many people who just won't take the time to get out to bote because the issues that affect them aren't being addressed.
Whenever there is a marijuana inititive on the ballot, people come out to vote.
They had their gay marriage nazis come out, let's get the stoners, I bet that there are more of us than them.

[Krs216]

21. I don't smoke it, but

legalizing it is the only way to stop the massive illegal importation from Mexico.

[cms]

27. Same here...

I don't use either...but I'd have to say that it would solve more problems than it would create. I dont' know the exact figures but I once heard that you'd have to smoke a shit load of dope to OD and die. This true?

[sphincter]

33. yes

It is said that you need to smoke about 70 kilograms to OD, in one go. Much safer than alcohol and prescription drugs like tylenol.

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[UnknownMan]

23. legalize it not a good idea :P

[bamacrat]

24. It has to kill someone first.

Racism is the reason for marijuana is illegal. Watch the documentary about weed, called Grass. Woody Harrelson is the narrator.

[Mokkori]

26. Legalization is a bigger undertaking than you think

Vancouver has an enormous problem with marijuana. You have probably heard by now that weed is decriminalized for personal use in BC, which is true provided that you don't consider a kilogram bag "personal use".

Almost all the marijuana in BC is grown in rented houses. Gangs of criminals rent houses by getting their friends and relatives--people with clean criminal records--to rent the house for them. It is estimated that in neighbouring Surrey, one in every six houses is use as a marijuana grow-up. ONE IN SIX! Those houses all end up ruined. Severe water damage, hazardous mould contamination, unsafe electrical system tampering. Many have to be knocked down or torched.

A pilot project was started to set up a marijuana farm in Manitoba. Government workers acquired marijuana seeds and consulted experienced growers to set up their lab. Then they fired the experienced growers and tried to do it themselves. The results were ruined crops and extremely bad marijuana that no one wanted. I'm not sure if the project has been fully scrapped or if they are still trying. If this had worked, it could have been the beginning of legalization.

Another huge problem to overcome is that a lot of people still think that marijuana will make you jump through a plate glass window and die. Here in BC, we have a political party dedicated to the single issue of getting marijuana legalized. The problem is that the members of the BC Marijuana Party are extremely dumb. The more they open their mouths, the more people think that legalization is a bad idea. In the words of Dave Chappelle, "You have smoked yourself retarded." Until mainstream politicians and non-users (such as myself) begin taking up the case for legalizing it, it will not happen.

When it does happen, it will certainly happen in Canada first. Since opting out of the Iraq war, we have learned that we can safely disagree with the US when lives are at stake. People are starting to realize that marijuana is not actually a gateway drug; that it is the "criminal act" of buying marijuana that leads people to try other criminal acts in the form of harder drugs, theft, and violence.

The majority of violent crime in Canada is drug-related. People rob gas stations and convenience stores to buy drugs. People steal cars to use in robberies and b&e's to fund their drug habit. Chinese, East Indian, and Vietnamese gangs murder each other over drugs. When more people can see that marijuana is a keystone in the crime problem, something will be done about it.

[JonLP24]

60. In what you described in your 2nd paragraph is nearly identical

to what is happening in the emerald triangle. 3 counties in Northern California, alot of those houses are used for grow houses and many do lead to environmental problems.

[Rhiannon12866]

28. Yes, especially for medical purposes

And it is much less dangerous than alcohol.:smoke:

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[Stump]

35. 420

Just wanted to drop my 420th post here. Legalize it!!! :smoke:

[rcrush]

38. i love weed. n/t

[machI]

39. I support legalized marijuana

Grow your own and be tax neutral

[montanto]

40. It is at my house!

[monkeykid22]

41. legal weed

yeah like most of you i say marijuana needs to b legalized Orly reason why ppl smoke cigarettes is cuz they cant smoke weed legally and all those against it smoking ciggs can go screww off also ciggs cause deaths and kill someone every day. weed cant kill u can smoke all u want and just fall asleep and wake up hungry. people i know mostly use it to help them selves to concentrate and use it for good needs! i say it should b legalized to all over 18 and cigarettes b illegalizeciggerates those are the killers!!!!

[Horus45]

47. At the VERY least, make Medical Marijuana legal!

[Dante99]

48. yes...legalize it

Marijuana does not only have medical benefits.

If it was legalized, sold in stores and taxed, (let's say around a 10% tax rate), there would be a $10 billion revenue to be made, assuming that $113 billion is spent every year (according to statistics)

Secondly, around $50 billion is spent enforcing marijuana prohibition. Legalize it, that's an extra $50 billion plus the $10 billion from revenue.

I wonder if this money could have been used to help our sh!tty economy and possibly cut some spending from the stimulus package...

Also, if it was legalized and sold in stores, there would be more control over who buys it. People would have to be carded to make sure that they're of age so we don't have 13 year old kids lookin to get their first high.

[Mfkzt]

49. LEGALIZE

I'm going to smoke one :)

[paulsby]

51. i think it's lame

but i am all for legalization (or at least decriminalization).

heck, i think fat people in spandex are lame. shouldn't be illegal though.

i know many police officers who are for decrim/legalization.

it's a waste of resources, and just plain bad policy.

[flyboyscott68]

52. it is already for medical

It is already legal for medical uses. Last week the President's administration said there was a medical use for marijuana.
They said they are not going to go above the states anymore; that means there is a medical use for marijuana.
That would effectively illuminate the need for each state to pass there own laws. The federal government said there is a medical use. Each state could pass laws restricting use,but, it is already legal.

[Noah223]

53. fed has no right to tell you what to put in your body!!!

I don't get how in the name of god any one could say that putting any thing in your body would be illegal... im not saying that i dont think your an fool for doing that sort of crap but its not my place to arrest you for doing it, your not hurting any one!!! the only person you are hurting is yourself! also it would make drugs a lots safer if they where regulated like alcohol so you could sue the person if he sells you something that makes you blind or in some way hurts you!

[droidamus2]

55. Unbelievable...

Jack Cafferty on CNN wrote a column condemning the War on some Drugs and calling for its abolition. It is unbelievable that some of the people there, when the question of taxing the drugs, brought up the idea that it would unemploy a lot of people in the enforcement, criminal prosecution and prison systems. So what now the War on Drugs is just a jobs program for police, lawyers/judges and prison guards?

[lfairban]

56. Abhorrent, but all too common.

Many believe the same about the GM bailout and the Teamster support of trucking vs railroad transportation.

My favorite is a little known Government Agency here in Ohio called the Ohio Coal Development Authority, whose primary function is to keep Ohio coal miners employed. Some say it would be cheaper to put them all on pensions.

[flyboyscot68]

58. You should have seen AL Roker

You should have seen the al roker special on marijuana. He trotted out the same old arguments, that have been dis-proven years ago. He used the "it ain't your daddies pot", "all the money supports terrorism", and "it's a gateway drug". I could not believe he would try to use the same old lies about marijuana. When will the Main Stream Media wake up and admit they have been lying for years. Marijuana has hundreds of medical uses, and hemp has 1000's of industrial uses. Please stop the lies.

[MCRchick505]

59. I agree...to an extent

While I agree that mirijuana does have its medicinal value.
There are those people out there who will abuse the
legalization. Of course, that would happen with the
legalization of ANYTHING that was once on the controled
substances list. But from my research, the drug would have to
be under the strictest control. Only senior doctors should
have access to it, and even in that case, the drug should be
extremely hard to obtain. This drug has too many downsides to
be easily acccessed by everyone. 

What would legalizing mirijuana do to the massive drug war in
mexico? This proves how rutheless people under the
influence(or SELLING the influence)can be. If they are
legalized, the demand for their product will go up. Do we
really want to support these people? 

[JonLP24]

62. Alcohol is readily available today

And the effects are stronger and often leads to risky or violent behavior in some people. Overall most people drink responsibly, why can't cannabis be the same? I'm a lifetime user but have never had any of the problems I've had with alcohol.

This is crazy, your plan would make it harder to get then it is today and overall it won't stop the #1 recreational drug other then alcohol in the world.

[flyboyscotty68]

61. we are getting there fast now