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

[straightmate]

Legalization is so overdue. I've been watching this (painfully) for over twenty years, and I feel like we're getting very close. We'd probably be there already if it weren't for that Texas idiot and his eight years of rubbish. There might be hope for real freedom yet.

[Questionews]

Legalization & taxation of pot will help the economy.
Not to mention the sales of chips, cookies & ice cream will skyrocket!!

[stuart2020]

I'll pass off the ball to get things rollin'.

[DoubleHappiness88]

Pot is **No Longer Focus of Anti-Drug Campaigns** BUT sick puritans with a fetish for punishment will still try to ruin the lives of those caught with it.

END THE FAILED, FOOLISH WAR ON DRUGS!

[debinok1]

I have to question the reasoning behind those who wish to keep marijuana illegal. Those people are either involved in the alcohol industry, the prescription drug industry, or they are dealing illegally. Those are going to be the industries hit the hardest in the beginning.

[realism86]

LEGALIZE AND TAX! The drug war has been an utter failure... There have been over 100 million who have used it and know that it isn't worth all of the bloodshed (6,000 lives lost in Mexico this year already). You know why prohibition of alcohol did not work? Because people who had drank it knew that it was not harmful in moderation and was their right to consume, feeding a violent black market for the illegal intoxicant. THE SAME EXACT GOES FOR MARIJUANA!!! It is even impossible to overdose on!!! Not so for alcohol or any pain killer that you can buy over the counter! This war against marijuana makes absolutely no sense!

[winchesterla]

Tax?? Here them a come. Babylon no want no one smoke what comes free. Jah put it on earth for us man. You can't tax it.

[rrozsa]

To winchesteria: I agree that people should be able to grow it for free - just like I can grow my own tomatoes. But for those who sell it to others, then yes, tax it.

[bajajohn1]

What is wrong with you? Just legalize the pot, stop the killing along both sides of the border and do NOT TAX IT.

[ewo1977]

rrozsa do you really think that those street vendors aren't sending that money up a chain of command for product, and protection. To think that the money made on the corner doesnt follow a trail to people who can influence laws is naive.

[legacyabq]

So all these celebrities, and kids, have OD'd on RX drugs.

The "safe" legal drugs our government approves..

So how many people have OD'd on pot??


ZERO ZERO ZERO ZERO ZERO ZERO ZERO ZERO ZERO



I smoke maybe once a month. It sno problem. I think about my problems in a new perspective. Its always helpful.

.. and utterly harmless..

I am educated, responsible, friendly, tax-paying, VOTING,and a father of four kids, a loving husband..

And a little pot every now and then enhances my life, like good food or wine..

Dont drink though.. That stuff is bad for you!!

lol

[noirviolette]

Great comment,and so very true.I also liked and agreed with your comments dragon8me.

[rwsmith29456]

In spite of efforts to make pot look like a dangerous drug, it isn't. It probably doesn't have even the harmful effects of alcohol. It's just benign. Go after the drugs that do real harm to people like meth, crack, heroin, etc. If a person is arrested for pot they hava a criminal record. Go catch the real criminals.