Comments on: Poll: 41 Percent Support Pot Legalization

[confused58]

You must be high mattcat, no American gun manufacturers supply Mexican drug dealers. The guns are bought by Americans and illegally sold across the border.Only about 17% of guns confiscated in Mexico have come from America even with our open borders.Everybody needs to fire one up and chill.

[hionareef]

All of a sudden, everyone is going to drive around stoned. Isn't there anyone who prefers to be straight at home or at work anymore?

100 years ago when everything was legal, we had the same percentage of addiction in society as we have today. If cigarettes and alcohol are legal, so should be coke and heroine. They're just as toxic and addictive. BTW, as espresso is coffee, hash is pot. Both are about as addictive as the other. Look it up.

[hionareef]

Let's pretend there is a field sobriety kit that tests for the actual THC that last about a day or so, and not the non-psychoactive metaboties that stay in our system for a month that our current urine test detect. Would more people be okay with legalization?

To be honest, when I read about traffic deaths, I never read "marijuana may had been a factor".

[Realityman7]

well this also my point how could you detect and evaluate DUI.The pot affect humane with 1 or 2 or 3 pots like to be "space out" and to drive on the road? unbelievable...

[hionareef]

Either your driving erradically or not. In 13 states, MJ patients do it all the time.
If there was a significant problem, you'd be sure you'd here about it here.

[element51]

John_Merritt......We must be associating with different people. I have smoked for over 30 years and my net worth is over 1.2 million as of yesterday. I know many successful people who smoke and are able to have very productive lives. They represent a wide range of occupations from lawyers to photographers to writers. These are people who are no threat to society and who certainly not slackers or flat out lazy. I would submit that you just might be streaching the truth a bit and I doubt that you have many friends who smoke since you apparently do not. Generally speaking, people who do not smoke do not have very close relationships with people who do smoke. I urge you to look at the whole picture before passing judgement. The benefits of legalizing far outweigh not taking action to legalize.

[scottportraits2]

I think these polls are not really a good indicator of the mass opinion. You only ask stable middle class people, and miss all the foreclosed, minority, low income, and disenfranchised citizens. As if those people don't matter or count. I've never been asked by a survey or poll about anything, yet I've been a register active voter since the 1970s.

These polls are stilted.

[sixtyfps]

mattcat25: your comments read like you're a prohibitionist plant. Really, it's like someone's got the stereotype written down and occasionally queefs out another one of those absurd comments.

If you were a film actor, you wouldn't make it as an extra in Transformers.

CBS Poll = Complete Bull S*%# Poll
944 adults nationwide, interviewed by telephone does not represent 306,908,238 Americans. Also they don't represent the Great Golden State of California who's people are more educated, brighter, creative, racially diverse and open to new ways of thinking than any other place on planet earth. It's no wonder that CBS has been losing viewer ship for many years they seem to have remained in an era of Harry Anslinger and box car racing wow! Hey here's a suggestion try reinventing CBS into the 21century then maybe you won't see a steady trend of reverse revenue streams.

[phwtb]

yeah yeah yeah... sure you use it just for pain relief. ;)

Get real folks. Legalizing it for taxation isn't going to work. There are still going to be alllllll those dealers out there that WILL fill the prescription cheaper than Walmart ever will, dealers that WILL give you top notch, Grade A at a fraction of Uncle Sam's price and there will ALWAYS be those good for nothing low lifes out there that won't be able to afford it in a controlled environment so home grown will still be the bargain shoppers best bet.

And then you have the problem of figuring out what pot will go with what tax... Acapulco Gold with a $50 tax... but what about Happy Haze, or Black Widow or any of the other 300+ types of pot and the even bigger problem of the arrest and conviction of all those out there driving around stoned because "now it IS legal", the problem the families will have burying more of their loved ones because some idiot was stoned and tried to drive home...

Get real. This is the most ridiculous debate I have ever encountered.

OR could this be another ploy of the federal government? Legalize pot, then hash, then coke, then all the other loser menu items out there. Get the ENTIRE country addicted to it, just like the cigarette companies did with smokers and then the government can tax the SH** out of all the non-smokers for a change.

But- warning to any and all of my employees: I will still enforce drug screening and I will STILL fire anyone on the spot for popping positive...

Good luck California!

[lilbro_87747]

Go research the science of cannabis therapeutics by Robert Melamede. This man just took the top spot of Cannabis Science inc., our society needs marijuana readily available. We need fresh thinking! Out with the old in with the new! People are dying because of an outdated law, both medically and in a war that could have been prevented if people would have just stopped and thought for themselves. But unfortunately, all to easy we follow the crowd and then we wonder why things are the way they are. To all you stoners & potheads! Grow a pair, we need all your voices to be heard including those that are neutral on this topic there is three wars going on in this world. The war in the East, the war down South in Mexico that as I write has spread and is killing thousands of people "The War on drugs", and most importantly the war for everyones wellbeing! Millions of teenagers are dying due to man made drugs (Big pharmaceuticals, who dont care about you and your health they just want your money and to continue a repetitive cycle of deceit and lies based off of greed for more) For those out their who are diagnosed with brain cancer that are dying needlessly! People its time to wake up and seriously look at the facts.

[phwtb]

Not NO but HELL NO! We have enough idiots driving high, endangering enough people on the roads as it is. This will do nothing but affirm the fact that greed is the fundamental stepping stone for California. You want more tax revenue? Tax everyone's morning Latte, bottled water and tanning lotions. That should bring in more than enough revenue.

Just as a side note here, I have to sit back and laugh about this one because I have been asking non-smokers (not tokers) for years, "where are you going to get all that tax revenue when you finally badger all the smokers into quitting?" Looks like California is the first one to face the hard ugly truth that they did all this to themselves.

ahhh California. Home of all the beautiful people~