Seems like a no-brainer to me. Legalize it and then tax it, crime goes away when u do this, the drug dealers lose, and parents have to talk to their kids about marijuana.
Pennsylvania lawmakers figured out, how-to eliminate the School Property Tax ten years ago. Today, abolishing the school tax would help generate hundreds of thousands of jobs, resulting in millions more residents, and a fast track to recovery. ..... Pennsylvania lawmakers refuse to face facts. If they do not want to help Pennsylvanians keep their homes, why would they want to help patients with legitimate MMJ issues? ....... Our federal government, at least, realizes, it's makes no sense to waste taxpayer money on fighting states.
60 Minutes does another "tax and regulate" propaganda piece arguing to give it all over to Big Dispensaries and ultimately to Big Pharma. Why no honest discussion about this? LOL.
I am well known nationally as one who believe we have the inalienable right to grow, gift and sell our overage without taxation or regulation. My friend Jack Herer, Dennis Peron, and a growing list of activist also embrace this. So why hasn't 60 Minutes taken the time to get my opinion. Because they are but cogs in the Corporate Machine . . . that's why.
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Why, when during this political season much discussion is on letting controversial issues (I.e. abortion or healthcare), the Federal laws on marijuana trump state laws? So much has been said about letting the states govern themselves in so many areas, this holdout seems so narrow minded. The classification of marijuana as a schedule one drug, in the same category as heroin is rediculous IMHO. Yes, marijuana needs to be regulated, but do it as alcohol, tobacco, etc. is.
This was a very poorly researched story. It was not even pointed out that the Justice Department is lying about only going after people in violation of state law. Many state-legal, licensed dispensaries have been targeted by the Justice Department, including Harborside in Oakland, a model dispensary. (Oakland is now suing the federal government over that raid.) But that's OK, it's for the children after all. They need to be sent the right message, that politics is the most important thing when it comes to caring for the sick. They too need to be sent the message that just because something makes you feel less horrible, is no reason not to put you in jail for using it.
Listen slower. The man from the Fed said they have no interest in going after Patients and Caregivers. IOW, individuals with tiny little grows. Harborside hardly compares.
I was curious to see if they'd mention CA at all. I think Oakland was an easy target because there isn't a critical mass of overt dispensaries in the Bay Area the way there are in Denver or Boulder. Also, people react differently to raids in hippie, diverse, working class Oakland vs. lily-white, middle class CO. So the research and interviews were accurate for this story, but not for a story looking at national marijuana policy and enforcement efforts.
You need to understand the amount of people who have "cards" who are not using pot to help a medical issue. They are using it to get high. It is a drug. When you use it and get behind the wheel of a car, you are no different than a drunk driver. You are in an altered state. There are functioning pot users just as there are functioning alcoholics. Having it legal here and not legal in the eyes of the federal government sends a mixed message to our children. I am voting not only NO but a resounding NO on legalization. I don't care how much money it brings in. It has caused alot of heartache in my family and I am pretty sure I am not the only one. I used to smoke pot so I know what it is like. But I did not use it to function in my daily life. Maybe that is the difference.
You need to understand that making something illegal doesn't solve any of those problems, and simply creates new ones that are far worse. This isn't opinion, it's history and today's reality. We have both the history of alcohol prohibition that failed and was repealed, as well as 40 years of failed drug prohibition presently.
The solution is legalization, regulation, and treatment. It's not perfect, but it's the best there is.
If a plant as beneficial to society as marijuana has caused your family heartache then, instead of turning the government into one for all of us, maybe you should all consider clubbing together to pay for a nanny.
In 1988, after reviewing all scientific evidence brought forth in a lengthy lawsuit against the government's prohibition of medical marijuana, the DEA's own administrative law judge (Judge Francis Young) wrote: "MARIJUANA, IN ITS NATURAL FORM, IS ONE OF THE SAFEST THERAPEUTICALLY ACTIVE SUBSTANCES KNOWN. IN STRICT MEDICAL TERMS, MARIJUANA IS SAFER THAN MANY FOODS WE COMMONLY CONSUME."
No person of any age, in all of recorded history, has ever died from marijuana, marijuana is nontoxic. Many have died from marijuana prohibition and tens of millions have been caged or otherwise seriously harmed. The US arrests someone on marijuana charge every 38 seconds. In 2010, 52.1% of the 1,638,846 total arrests for prohibition violations were for marijuana, making a calculated total of 853,839. Would you rather have your kid locked up with killers and child molesters or would you prefer to do your own proper parenting?
This is baloney, of course. You fail to realize the majority of voters who voted for medical marijuana, primarily wanted to move marijuana as far as possible toward re-legalization for all adult consumers - medical and recreational. Proof is the 46 percent of the vote for California's Prop 19 to re-legalize marijuana, in 2010.
Many people think marijuana consumption causes accidents like alcohol does. It doesn't, for various reasons. Research has shown marijuana is less intoxicating. More importantly, while alcohol drinkers think they are better drivers and so drive faster and more aggressively, marijuana consumers are very aware of their altered consciousness and correctly judge when they are too impaired to drive - refraining from doing so. If they must, they correctly compensate for their altered state by driving slower and more cautiously.
The point is, judgement is not affected like it is with alcohol. Marijuana consumers simply don't put themselves or others in harm's way. Consequently, the preponderance of the research shows marijuana is NOT a significant cause of auto accidents
Marijuana and Driving: A Review of the Scientific Evidence
http://norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=5450
100 million Americans have consumed marijuana. There are an estimated 30 million current consumers. The vast majority consume moderately - on the weekends or less, and are successful, hard-working, respected members of their communities. They are from all walks of life and loved by the families they support.
Marijuana is as American as apple pie - and healthier.
First off, everything can be abused. Alcohol, prescription drugs, etc. How many people die every year from prescription drugs both legally obtained and illegally? No one and I mean no one has ever died from marijuana. Marijuana has been used for centuries to help with ailments and is greatly documented for its uses during the centuries. Do you know why the federal government is so against it? It's because of all the prison and pharmaceutical lobbyists. If this where to be legalized big pharmaceutical companies and privately run prisons would be hit hard. What the episode should have talked about is the hypocrisy of the federal government. What hypocrisy, you may ask? Marijuana is a class one controlled substance. This means it cannot be prescribed and has no medicinal benefits whatsoever. However the FDA is fast tracking approval of a drug called Sativex, which is an extract of the whole marijuana plant. On one hand your government is telling you there is no medical benefit to marijuana put is approving a drug that is basically the same as you making an extract of a plant that you could grow in you backyard. The only difference is that your plant cost next to nothing the one that you'll have to buy from big pharma will cost you several hundred dollars a month. So it is in the interest of the pharmaceutical companies to lobby the politicians to close down the state dispensaries and make their product the only choice legally on the market. You think the politicians are looking out for you (ha ha), their only taking care of their interests. So when they are out of office they are still being taken care of, the majority of them at least.
You mean the way some people misuse Vicodin? Should we make that illegal as well? How about morphine? The potential for abuse exists in every substance - including chocolate. How about we all grow up and realize that the power to control everyone elses' actions is but an exercise in futility?
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I am well known nationally as one who believe we have the inalienable right to grow, gift and sell our overage without taxation or regulation. My friend Jack Herer, Dennis Peron, and a growing list of activist also embrace this. So why hasn't 60 Minutes taken the time to get my opinion. Because they are but cogs in the Corporate Machine . . . that's why.
Please join my FB group by clicking on the first link below. Spread the word:
Bruce Cain for 2012 Presidency wants a "Green Economy based on Marijuana"
https://www.facebook.com/groups/362786563776326/
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http://www.newagecitizen.com/
New Candidate for 2012 Presidency wants a "Green Economy" Based on Marijuana
http://www.newagecitizen.com/MERP/RelegalizeNowObama57.htm
Bruce Cain for President 2012: The Great Betrayal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pX4NvEIw9g
Hempstalk 2009: Jack Herer - Hemp Can Save The Planet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2h0rcUS4bSk
Because Marijuana is Safer that Beer . . .
How About We Start Treating It That Way?
MERP Headquarters
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Um, because you don't live in Colorado and are not part of this discussion?
Prohibition is not the answer.
The solution is legalization, regulation, and treatment. It's not perfect, but it's the best there is.
In 1988, after reviewing all scientific evidence brought forth in a lengthy lawsuit against the government's prohibition of medical marijuana, the DEA's own administrative law judge (Judge Francis Young) wrote: "MARIJUANA, IN ITS NATURAL FORM, IS ONE OF THE SAFEST THERAPEUTICALLY ACTIVE SUBSTANCES KNOWN. IN STRICT MEDICAL TERMS, MARIJUANA IS SAFER THAN MANY FOODS WE COMMONLY CONSUME."
No person of any age, in all of recorded history, has ever died from marijuana, marijuana is nontoxic. Many have died from marijuana prohibition and tens of millions have been caged or otherwise seriously harmed. The US arrests someone on marijuana charge every 38 seconds. In 2010, 52.1% of the 1,638,846 total arrests for prohibition violations were for marijuana, making a calculated total of 853,839. Would you rather have your kid locked up with killers and child molesters or would you prefer to do your own proper parenting?
Many people think marijuana consumption causes accidents like alcohol does. It doesn't, for various reasons. Research has shown marijuana is less intoxicating. More importantly, while alcohol drinkers think they are better drivers and so drive faster and more aggressively, marijuana consumers are very aware of their altered consciousness and correctly judge when they are too impaired to drive - refraining from doing so. If they must, they correctly compensate for their altered state by driving slower and more cautiously.
The point is, judgement is not affected like it is with alcohol. Marijuana consumers simply don't put themselves or others in harm's way. Consequently, the preponderance of the research shows marijuana is NOT a significant cause of auto accidents
Marijuana and Driving: A Review of the Scientific Evidence
http://norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=5450
100 million Americans have consumed marijuana. There are an estimated 30 million current consumers. The vast majority consume moderately - on the weekends or less, and are successful, hard-working, respected members of their communities. They are from all walks of life and loved by the families they support.
Marijuana is as American as apple pie - and healthier.