Comments on: Pot No Longer Focus of Anti-Drug Campaigns

CBS News Examination Finds Prescription Drugs Are Seen as Bigger Threat Than Marijuana by Government, Non-Profit Groups

[earthling76]

Barney Frank has introduced a bill that would legalize marijuana use by responsible users. Call your Congressman and tell him/her that they need to support this legislation. If you don't speak up,.... well it might never happen. You can go to high times web site under the NEWS tab and click drug policy. Look for the article to have been posted in the last 2 months or so. Links to other organizations that continuously try to change current laws can also be found there (activist). Get involved.

[earthling76]

Do not purge the man or his policies from our history. To forget the past only condemns us all to relive this travesty over again in the future. Our nation should have learned from alcohol prohibition that legislating morality does not work. Also, his policies worked great for those who benefited at the time. Dupont and Hearst. Who knows if he had the foresight to predict that it would eventually turn into the mess it has in our time.

[earthling76]

Those are some weak hiding spots though.

[earthling76]

@rrozsa

So much for the theory that cannabis inhibits libido. Right on.

[earthling76]

I find you here today saying the same things you said the other day. You are by definition,.... insane. Don't worry, no body wants anything to do with your kids.

[earthling76]

@squatz

Are you being serious here?

[sugar_maple]

Count me in as a productive American citizen who uses marijuana occasionally. I have many friends who are professionals who use marijuana and have great jobs.

I also pay taxes, so stop wasting my money on pursuing individuals who use cannabis.


***How about we talk about INDUSTRIAL HEMP and why the hell that is illegal still in the country?!

[sugar_maple]

Huh? The point of legalization is for people able to grow their own if they want. Idea would be to lower the cost of the black market product FIRST! the lowering and flooding the market of marijuana would tumble and seriously hurt the Mexican Cartels. Then after that, companies could develop a market for specialty strains in which people would not have seed for (sensemilla). Who would sue them and for what, you?

[incog-nito]

Uh oh. Big Pharma is not going to like this news.

[sugar_maple]

It is time for the politicians to listen to the public and not the special interest groups such as POLICE, DEA, LAWYERS, CORPORATIONS (alcohol, pharmaceutical, cotton and timber).

All of those special interests will lose if cannabis is legalized.

BUT legalizing cannabis will allow farmers to grow hemp for industrial purposes, and will be able to produce marijuana for medicinal, therapeutic, and recreational purposes. The in return will create more jobs and an extra revenue source for state and local governments.

How can people view marijuana as controlled the way it is right now? Legalization will regulate and control it as a commodity.

I also consider myself a white and conservative voter. So you "neo-cons" can throw your hands up now.