Comments on: After Vote To Decriminalize Pot, Now What?

Mass. Law Enforcement Grapples With Ditching Criminal Cases, Applying Civil Penalties

[sukanyamol]

It''s about time that this harmless drug, (way less harmful than alchohol which is addicitive and has caused many, many deaths...) was legalized. Yes, you can develop a habit of use, but when one decides to not use marijuana, there is nothing in ones bloodstream to undermine your resolve.

[impeach__w]

What to do now??? SMOKE IT UP!!!

[fedup_w_pols-2009]

Now what you do is what the PEOPLE TOLD YOU TO DO.. I know hard concept for politicians use to getting their way but tuff *** the people spoke, the people pay you so shut up and do your job.

Foolish war on drugs. They can''t keep drugs out of jails of all places then they have not a chance in hell of getting them off the streets. Nice to know our own government has waged a war against it''s own citizens for 40 years and not got a *** thing to show for it but more crime and less freedom. All states need to do this and tell these politicians who seem to want to be our nannies to take a hike and find something else to worry about. If anyone who drinks alcohol thinks pot is bad your a hypocrit plain and simple. If someone smokes a little pot they are a drug addict yet someone who has a few glasses of wine at night is not an alcoholic for some reason. Double standards as usual. The real reason they will not legalize drugs on their own is because there is no money in legalization of a plant.

[mgdubya-2009]

It''s about time. When will the rest of the states and the federal government wake up. The hypocritical war on drugs is a farse and a failure. If anyone was interested in "gateway drugs" they would be focusing on alcohol - where almost all drug use starts (and ends) (i.e., there is no "gateway"). People are being labeled criminals for growing and ingesting a plant. Their lives ruined and families torn apart, all because someone told the lawmakers that marijuana is bad. Why not try some before you decide that anyone who does is a criminal.

[sincity_q]

The war on drugs is, and has been since it began, an utter failure. All it has accomplished is to create a new class of nonviolent criminal, enabled home invasions by drug enforcement officials... often mistakenly and cost the taxpayer billions of dollars.

Now, I don''t think a full blown legalization is the answer either. But if taken substance by substance, we see that some like heroin, Methamphetimines and crack are more dangerous than pot. If we were to focus on education and then forward a select enforcement against the more dangerous compounds, we could save money and reduce the number of users through that education.

We''ve been at this for over 40 years and we''ve succeeded in doing is making life worse. It''s time for a change.