Comments on: Marijuana Advocates See "Tipping Point"

Pot Smokers Celebrate "420" With Protests, Smoke Outs As Usage Becomes More Accepted And Supporters Push For Legalization

[douglas_dunn]

My generation was going to change the world. Is "I didn't inhale" the best we can do?

Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of Americans who live in fear will someday have their freedom. We are not evil. We do not seek to harm others. Existing DUI laws address the only real harm that could be attributed to this plant. And this is the issue, replacing fear with freedom, not taxation.

Pot smoking is natural in the animal kingdom. It's so easy to take the position that the marijuana plant is a "drug" and therefore dangerous, all the while overlooking our constitutional obligation to protect our citizens against "cruel and unusual" punishment. Criminalizing pot only leads to alcohol substitution, which any dispassionate observer, including the good men and women of our police forces, knows is more destructive, both socially and bodily.

Is it not "cruel and unusual" to punish a child for doing something so innocent that KITTENS DO IT with catnip and BIRDS DO IT with coffee plants by locking them up with truly violent criminals?

Worse yet, we ask the best of our citizens, our police officers, to daily ruin the lives of innocent kids "in the name of the law." It's a mockery of true justice. It's a shame. It's a waste of money and lives. It's a CULTURALLY DEPRAVED HYPOCRACY because on the one hand popular culture condones pot smoking as an innocent pastime, but on the other hand lives are destroyed on a daily basis as a consequence of the laws on the books. Truly, it is a CULTURAL INSANITY for which we are paying a very high price indeed. Stop it America! End it now! Come to your senses!

[jjvarmint]

Yes, you are many different kinds of people--short-sighted, uninformed, selfish, reckless, indifferent, some stupid, some ignorant, some careless of other people's rights and feelings--none with the facts and the will to improve our nation. Making marijuana legal won't change the devastation it causes in millions of lives. You don't believe that, of course, because you don't want to believe it. You don't want to have to do without your precious little pet pleasure, you don't want to live in reality, you don't want to lose this freaking argument, but, then, you don't have to stand right in front of the destruction it causes, you don't have to face facts, you don't have to care about anyone but yourself. I treat addictions. I DO have to stand right in front of it. By my choice to be part of the solution, I submit to the grief of standing right in front of the lives of those being shredded by this destructive, addictive, insidiously innocuous-seeming drug, without the privilege of blinders or the luxury of denial. It will be a sad, sad day, for this country, the day we make this poison legal, except for a few of you who have lost the capacity to be happy any other way, than by ingesting a substance. Feeling down? Bored? Lonely? Alienated? Inadequate? Aw, that's okay--you don't have to actually DO anything about it. Just suck down a few of these burning leaves. Your problems won't have gotten any better, but--hey--you won't give a s**t.

[Michael_2010]

what the hell man....Obama is suppose to be for this kind of stuff, that's why we elected him. the question wasn't asked correctly...of course it wont improve the economy but it will definitely help. billions cut in prison taxes, then we can actually keep rapist and murderers in jail for there full term instead of letting them out on parole because of overcrowding problems, not to mention the taxes from the weed, taxes from pipes and bongs. it would employ thousands of people. and weed can also help depression, asthma, and many other health problems. all I've got to say is Mr. Obama. Please don't be ordinary.

[spaceatoms]

Dr. Jeckyll here and the report says 47 percent have tried it and now the potion please, good evening Mr. E. Hyde here and its more like 98 percent, again, the games continue where the truth isn't being told, so its time for a bailout on a Friday, and then the potion wears off, goodness gracious, its Monday and its back to work again.

[tincup356]

Obama is a fool to think that legalization would not help the economy or create jobs. Jobs that are needed badly in the middle class right now,,,,,,,family farms could once again prosper , growing a cash crop that could help the economies of the country where jobs are steadily eroding away.....State budgets could be eased as the cost per inmate per year is about 40,000$,,,last year there were over 850,000 marijuana arrests ........prison space and court dockets would be freed up to go after crimes with real victims, like corporate and investment fraud.,,,,,,,revenues could be made from NEW industry, paper products, cloth products, bio diesel fuel from the oil, the recreational industry of it would be similar in size to what the alcohol industry employ's,,,,,,every single job would be a new job,,,in all 50 states that could add up to millions of new jobs,,,and billions in revenues,,,,,Now how could that NOT possibly help the economy?

[wokatjoywdotcom]

The bottom line here is this,, The laws against pot do more harm than pot itself could ever do!

[honestabe8]

NORML is airing somthing along the lines of 7,700 TV ads today. anyone see one?

[rwsmith29456]

I'm not an "advocate" but I see little sense in something so benign being illegal.

[honestabe8]

not a big sports fan. nothing will make me want to shoot myself. i do like the red wings, though. manchester united when i get a chance to see them, too

[honestabe8]

my liver is pretty good. i drink about a case a beer a year. ganja, on the other hand....