We should legalize. No I'm no pot head, but I say the more corruption the better, cause when it's all a peace full he//, that's when the the dear old jar heads bring it all crashing down
Government. Private Prisons & Darth Vaders will have to surrender to the truth that MOST people will keep paying TAXES but will Stand Against WEED prohibition.
The many variables that could be factored into how much cannabis prohibition is costing us is much higher.
When the government holds tobacco, and alcohol to the same scrutiny as cannabis, only then will I believe what the government has to say about weed. Studies have found that smoking tobacco is a much better indicator of using harder drugs than cannabis. (Gateway drug)
Until then I suggest you hold up your middle finger and vote to legalize cannabis.
Do I get to sue all the gov't officials for the time and money they stole from me now that society is realizing how lame marijuana criminalization is?
U.S. has more people in jail than any other country.They don't want to legalize it because it might hurt the profits of the booming U.S. Prison industrial Complex Racket. Just ask Darth Cheney who has financial ties to it all.
There is something of an "occult" reason why cannabis is esp. disdained by authoritarian governments.
Cannabis, in a relatively mild way, has the effect of enabling people to perceive perspectives they would have never otherwise considered. It is more than a cliche, the "free hippie" - it is a common consequence of the psychedelic experience which cannabis provides.
Perhaps not consciously...but you just know "the bosses" have some kind of sense or awareness about this dynamic. Closed minds.
I was told by a friend that hemp was the world's best photosynthesizer. It converts the sun's energy into biomass more efficiently than any other plant, with at least four times the biomass/cellulose potential of corn or kenaf.
If the drug warriors would actually put things in perspective instead of buying their own BULLSHIT, they'd realize this is NOT that big an issue. Sure, there are problems here and there that arise b/c some idiots overuse drugs or drug traffickers cause violence in the inner cities, but we can deal with those in a reasonable manner! There's no reason to criminalize simple use or possession.
I mean, doesn't arresting people for use or possession violate one of the bill of rights?
Our entire war on drugs violates the American constitutional principle of INNOCENT before proven guilty. It's NOT supposed to be the other way around, but all the anti-drug idiots don't seem to give a fuck. They'll run roughshod over the law and Constitution all they want just to "protect the children." Arresting someone just for using drugs assumes that either a) he's a dealer or b) he's gonna become violent and start shooting places up or commit other crimes b/c of it.
The negative effects of drug use are SOCIETAL issues, not criminal. They cannot be dealt with by arresting and locking folks up. I mean, no one in America, aside from the Prohibition Party with its 100 members or so, is advocating we ban alcohol again. Yet we have a DEA and ONDCP for the 15-20 million or so Americans who do any one or more of the illicit drugs?? How does that make sense?? Can 15-20 million Americans doing illegal drugs REALLY make us worse than most using alcohol?
The DARE program is the biggest waste of money. It is one of the most insidious ways of law enforcement violating the notion of innocent until proven guilty. I mean, they ASSUME that every kid, without this program, is gonna do drugs, totally ignoring the personality of each individual and putting them all into some collectivist box.
Hell, the drug problem was never that bad! Look at drug use and drug crime in the late 60s/early 70s when the WOD started. It's pretty much the same today! It wasn't a crisis back in Nixon's day, nor was it ever. But the gov't and drug warriors have built an entire industry of indoctrination. It's just sick. They never tell you the actual history behind drug use. Either they're dumb enough to assume it was a huge problem, or they don't want you to know it wasn't.
LTR: Legalize, tax and regulate. Personally I'd like to see all the drugs legalized and regulated and sold in a more controlled market. I think it's kind of wimpy to say "Legalize pot" but then pretend like the OTHER drugs are SOO much more dangerous that we have to keep them illegal. No. Legalize em all! The gov't doesn't have the right to tell me what I can and can't consume. It's not like the world will end tomorrow if it's all legal.
If hemp were legal, it could become an economically viable and low-polluting source of fuel, paints and varnishes, textiles and fabrics, paper and even food. Hemp might replace trees as a raw material for press board or particleboard construction material.
Any country that legalises hemp now and cultivates its possibilities will be in a much stronger position economically in the future when oil reserves completely deplete themselves.
The reason we lag behind other western nations, in decriminalizing marijuana is because of the Christian Right. I think the Christian Right, along with big business, have it in their best interest to keep marijuana illegal. For big business, marijuanas illegal status keeps the penal system needing more resources, which big business can provide, and the religious right prefers to keep marijuana illegal because it offers a form of escapism, which is something that religion likes to monopolize.
In minute 2:052:15 the host said that 850,000 people are arrested on marijuana related charges each year! That means, in a period of 22 years, at the current rate, we are arresting the same number of people for marijuana as the current population of New York City - our LARGEST CITY! Our priorities are misguided. This wholesale persecution of people, for doing an innocuous activity, is a travesty. What right do we have to call ourselves the freest nation in the world when we do this?
haha, I'll pass. Shes old school latino conservative. She still thinks smoking it will make you rape people. "talking to her like an adult" has never worked in the past for the most minuscule things, it deff wont with pot.
I will never no why certain plants are illegal, yet I can go to a walmart or lawn and garden place and buy plants grow them, extract the toxic aspects in certain plants and kill you with it.
but other plants you do at your own free will, and you go to jail.
the only gateway part of weed is where you get it from, because some shady people sell it push it on kids and push more profitable drugs on people. I don't want weed, but still want it legal, I have used it for pain after surgery before
I think society has a vested interest in rethinking drug policy from a view of moral/punishment to one of health/treatment. The current approach is grossly inefficient, billions go towards interdiction that stops a fraction of drugs coming in, billions more to process and house prisoners, and for all that money we get very little results. We should have freedom to choose and unbias info guiding those choices. The police have a VESTED INTEREST in maintaining prohibition.
and dont forget the politicians, all they gotta do is invoke drugs, get everyone scared, and the dumbass populace will throw any them any amount of money they ask for. And since the cause is ultimately futile theres no real reason not to syphon a lil bit here a lil bit there, the cash is just goin in to trash anyway.
This comment has received too many negative votesshow
1. The first lady has a VESTED INTEREST in Marijuana going legal---her husband is a marijuana lawyer, and the national shift will allow him to make lots of money, successfully defending people from National or State law.
2. The second "republican" lady is talking about a Bawney Fwank (lol) bill. What kind of Republican does this?
3. Next, will we have cocaine dispensaries at the nearest elementary school? How about heroin shops next to daycares? All taxed and regulated, of course.
Some countries are already doing this with tobacco and liquor vending machines...
IMHO, just legalize EVERYTHING and tax the SHIT out of it..... They'll be angry, but they'll pay to get it anyway....
And it's not like the police won't have nothing to do, with all the legal stoners/crackheads running about.... They'll be plenty of poeple diong dumb shit in the streets...
@biggesttrucker your answer makes me think you are stoned right now. If you are comparing weed with cocaine and heroine than you barely have two brain cells working together or have never read a peer reviewed study in your life. Again if you do not know anything about a subject resist the urge to spew ignorance.
Wow talk about Chicken Little syndrome. Cocaine dispenseries? Are you bloody serious? You subscribe too much to the; "Marijuana is a gateway drug" bullshit they have been fore feeding us for the last 40 or so years.
FACT: Marijuana is less harmful than alcohol.
FACT: Marijuana kills 0 people a year. No one has EVER dies from marijuana use.
FACT Alcohol kills 75,000 people a year either by disease or under the influence related accidents.
i agree totally. cigarettes kill millions a year, so does heroin, crack, meth, and alcohol. i think the reason they will not toatally legalize it is because the use of hemp. did you know you can use hemp as paper if processed correctly?? thats why it wqas illegal a long time ago.
Yup! Not only paper, but clothing, fuel, and a ton of other things. Hemp is one of the most versatile plants on the face of the earth. Hence why it was outlawed.
1. most opponents also have a vested interest in prohibition. Politicians, law enforcement, correction and prison institutions all make billions of dollars on the drug war.
The marijuana lawyer will make more money with marijuana illegal.
2 What kind of Republican back Franks legalization bill? Freedom loving Republicans who believe in liberty and personal responsibility.
3 Zoning is local and dispensaries are never placed by schools and such.
decriminalize it and let the WEED grow where ever it can... it does NOT need to be taxed. Products developed from hemp can be taxed as any other product BUT NOT THE POT
@ogapadoga they already give that to soldiers, but with anti depressants, and the heroin and weed they are protecting for the bankers.
they also require some military pilots to use amphetamines on long flights, and will court martial them for refusing.
and by the way, more troops are getting killed by their own gun than by any so called terrorists (I call them defenders of their nation, if you care to know).
We should legalize. No I'm no pot head, but I say the more corruption the better, cause when it's all a peace full he//, that's when the the dear old jar heads bring it all crashing down
God save our ship
ZZXdestruction 1 year ago
Given how cotton, and other stuff is heavily
subsidized, why not this: end the hyper subsidization of agricultural products, and the war against hemp, cannabis, and
the sweet herb? Money will be saved, because the subsidies will end, and there
will be no need for foreign aid. Which is simply the transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.
1Vigilant00 2 years ago
I thought this article was about Mail Order Marijuana = Mom, lol...
but I guess those are just an urban myth afterall...
evexxxxx 2 years ago
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pac1811 2 years ago
Government. Private Prisons & Darth Vaders will have to surrender to the truth that MOST people will keep paying TAXES but will Stand Against WEED prohibition.
VJjosesanchez 2 years ago
amen
allawayjared 2 years ago
Got to love how you can see that womans face for a few frames @ 2:53
ChoixAkion 2 years ago
The many variables that could be factored into how much cannabis prohibition is costing us is much higher.
When the government holds tobacco, and alcohol to the same scrutiny as cannabis, only then will I believe what the government has to say about weed. Studies have found that smoking tobacco is a much better indicator of using harder drugs than cannabis. (Gateway drug)
Until then I suggest you hold up your middle finger and vote to legalize cannabis.
666babyoscar 2 years ago
yes
allawayjared 2 years ago
Do I get to sue all the gov't officials for the time and money they stole from me now that society is realizing how lame marijuana criminalization is?
MoneyIsSilver 2 years ago 6
exactly
allawayjared 2 years ago
U.S. has more people in jail than any other country.They don't want to legalize it because it might hurt the profits of the booming U.S. Prison industrial Complex Racket. Just ask Darth Cheney who has financial ties to it all.
arcturus33333 2 years ago
too true
allawayjared 2 years ago
There is something of an "occult" reason why cannabis is esp. disdained by authoritarian governments.
Cannabis, in a relatively mild way, has the effect of enabling people to perceive perspectives they would have never otherwise considered. It is more than a cliche, the "free hippie" - it is a common consequence of the psychedelic experience which cannabis provides.
Perhaps not consciously...but you just know "the bosses" have some kind of sense or awareness about this dynamic. Closed minds.
KosmicCitizen 2 years ago
I was told by a friend that hemp was the world's best photosynthesizer. It converts the sun's energy into biomass more efficiently than any other plant, with at least four times the biomass/cellulose potential of corn or kenaf.
Loquacious1000 2 years ago
Your friend is probably right. Prohibition has been more about eliminating the "competition" than about the moral issue of recreational use.
It makes strong, durable clothing, the seeds are amazingly nutritious, it grows like a "weed," hence the nickname, and the list goes on and on.
mrbhave 2 years ago
I think your friend is right too, and the seeds have the best essential fatty acids out of any seed on earth
allawayjared 2 years ago
If the drug warriors would actually put things in perspective instead of buying their own BULLSHIT, they'd realize this is NOT that big an issue. Sure, there are problems here and there that arise b/c some idiots overuse drugs or drug traffickers cause violence in the inner cities, but we can deal with those in a reasonable manner! There's no reason to criminalize simple use or possession.
I mean, doesn't arresting people for use or possession violate one of the bill of rights?
whoo689 2 years ago
Our entire war on drugs violates the American constitutional principle of INNOCENT before proven guilty. It's NOT supposed to be the other way around, but all the anti-drug idiots don't seem to give a fuck. They'll run roughshod over the law and Constitution all they want just to "protect the children." Arresting someone just for using drugs assumes that either a) he's a dealer or b) he's gonna become violent and start shooting places up or commit other crimes b/c of it.
whoo689 2 years ago
@whoo689
Is innocent until proven guilty in the Constitution?
Thought that was a Bill of Rights thing.
greyflcn 2 years ago
The negative effects of drug use are SOCIETAL issues, not criminal. They cannot be dealt with by arresting and locking folks up. I mean, no one in America, aside from the Prohibition Party with its 100 members or so, is advocating we ban alcohol again. Yet we have a DEA and ONDCP for the 15-20 million or so Americans who do any one or more of the illicit drugs?? How does that make sense?? Can 15-20 million Americans doing illegal drugs REALLY make us worse than most using alcohol?
whoo689 2 years ago
The DARE program is the biggest waste of money. It is one of the most insidious ways of law enforcement violating the notion of innocent until proven guilty. I mean, they ASSUME that every kid, without this program, is gonna do drugs, totally ignoring the personality of each individual and putting them all into some collectivist box.
whoo689 2 years ago
Hell, the drug problem was never that bad! Look at drug use and drug crime in the late 60s/early 70s when the WOD started. It's pretty much the same today! It wasn't a crisis back in Nixon's day, nor was it ever. But the gov't and drug warriors have built an entire industry of indoctrination. It's just sick. They never tell you the actual history behind drug use. Either they're dumb enough to assume it was a huge problem, or they don't want you to know it wasn't.
whoo689 2 years ago
LTR: Legalize, tax and regulate. Personally I'd like to see all the drugs legalized and regulated and sold in a more controlled market. I think it's kind of wimpy to say "Legalize pot" but then pretend like the OTHER drugs are SOO much more dangerous that we have to keep them illegal. No. Legalize em all! The gov't doesn't have the right to tell me what I can and can't consume. It's not like the world will end tomorrow if it's all legal.
whoo689 2 years ago
We're making progress :-)
EscpdFrmPsykward 2 years ago
If hemp were legal, it could become an economically viable and low-polluting source of fuel, paints and varnishes, textiles and fabrics, paper and even food. Hemp might replace trees as a raw material for press board or particleboard construction material.
Any country that legalises hemp now and cultivates its possibilities will be in a much stronger position economically in the future when oil reserves completely deplete themselves.
Loquacious1000 2 years ago
@Loquacious1000
Well hemp is a great replacement for cotton and paper.
But ANY plant, hemp included, is a rather poor method of turning sunlight into energy.
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Electricity on the other hand
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greyflcn 2 years ago
The reason we lag behind other western nations, in decriminalizing marijuana is because of the Christian Right. I think the Christian Right, along with big business, have it in their best interest to keep marijuana illegal. For big business, marijuanas illegal status keeps the penal system needing more resources, which big business can provide, and the religious right prefers to keep marijuana illegal because it offers a form of escapism, which is something that religion likes to monopolize.
alphacause 2 years ago
In minute 2:05 2:15 the host said that 850,000 people are arrested on marijuana related charges each year! That means, in a period of 22 years, at the current rate, we are arresting the same number of people for marijuana as the current population of New York City - our LARGEST CITY! Our priorities are misguided. This wholesale persecution of people, for doing an innocuous activity, is a travesty. What right do we have to call ourselves the freest nation in the world when we do this?
alphacause 2 years ago
I wish I could show my mom this.
NuLLx42 2 years ago
You Can!
What's The Hold-Up BUDdy?
MoxNewsDotCom 2 years ago
haha, I'll pass. Shes old school latino conservative. She still thinks smoking it will make you rape people. "talking to her like an adult" has never worked in the past for the most minuscule things, it deff wont with pot.
NuLLx42 2 years ago
That why she needs a Mother to explain to that the drug war is stealing resorces from her grandchildren!
Moms care care about stuff like that.
MoxNewsDotCom 2 years ago
which is why I considered it after seeing this. I dont know :P
NuLLx42 2 years ago
Send it to her in an email
does she do the e-mail?
MoxNewsDotCom 2 years ago
haha, no. she can hardly use a remote. she was raised on a farm in Guatemala.
NuLLx42 2 years ago
@MoxNewsDotCom Hah BUDdy xD
13annielove 1 year ago
If marijuana is decriminalized the government will have to figure out a new way to persecute minorities in the USA.
xxEROxxSENNINxx 2 years ago 4
come on!
flunderdown 2 years ago
I will never no why certain plants are illegal, yet I can go to a walmart or lawn and garden place and buy plants grow them, extract the toxic aspects in certain plants and kill you with it.
but other plants you do at your own free will, and you go to jail.
the only gateway part of weed is where you get it from, because some shady people sell it push it on kids and push more profitable drugs on people. I don't want weed, but still want it legal, I have used it for pain after surgery before
sx200ser 2 years ago
I think society has a vested interest in rethinking drug policy from a view of moral/punishment to one of health/treatment. The current approach is grossly inefficient, billions go towards interdiction that stops a fraction of drugs coming in, billions more to process and house prisoners, and for all that money we get very little results. We should have freedom to choose and unbias info guiding those choices. The police have a VESTED INTEREST in maintaining prohibition.
mos619 2 years ago 3
and dont forget the politicians, all they gotta do is invoke drugs, get everyone scared, and the dumbass populace will throw any them any amount of money they ask for. And since the cause is ultimately futile theres no real reason not to syphon a lil bit here a lil bit there, the cash is just goin in to trash anyway.
mos619 2 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
1. The first lady has a VESTED INTEREST in Marijuana going legal---her husband is a marijuana lawyer, and the national shift will allow him to make lots of money, successfully defending people from National or State law.
2. The second "republican" lady is talking about a Bawney Fwank (lol) bill. What kind of Republican does this?
3. Next, will we have cocaine dispensaries at the nearest elementary school? How about heroin shops next to daycares? All taxed and regulated, of course.
biggesttrucker 2 years ago
Some countries are already doing this with tobacco and liquor vending machines...
IMHO, just legalize EVERYTHING and tax the SHIT out of it..... They'll be angry, but they'll pay to get it anyway....
And it's not like the police won't have nothing to do, with all the legal stoners/crackheads running about.... They'll be plenty of poeple diong dumb shit in the streets...
AfricanMadman 2 years ago
They'd look nice next to the gun-shops.
BeortheMad 2 years ago 2
4. How about you pull your head out of you ass?
baronderothchild 2 years ago
show an example of your exaggerated view ? Marijuana has been legal in several countries for a long time now without your pathetic scenario.
bonzaibb12 2 years ago
@biggesttrucker your answer makes me think you are stoned right now. If you are comparing weed with cocaine and heroine than you barely have two brain cells working together or have never read a peer reviewed study in your life. Again if you do not know anything about a subject resist the urge to spew ignorance.
drgoodvibesxxx 2 years ago 2
@biggesttrucker
Wow talk about Chicken Little syndrome. Cocaine dispenseries? Are you bloody serious? You subscribe too much to the; "Marijuana is a gateway drug" bullshit they have been fore feeding us for the last 40 or so years.
FACT: Marijuana is less harmful than alcohol.
FACT: Marijuana kills 0 people a year. No one has EVER dies from marijuana use.
FACT Alcohol kills 75,000 people a year either by disease or under the influence related accidents.
Kroder 2 years ago 2
i agree totally. cigarettes kill millions a year, so does heroin, crack, meth, and alcohol. i think the reason they will not toatally legalize it is because the use of hemp. did you know you can use hemp as paper if processed correctly?? thats why it wqas illegal a long time ago.
scourgefe1nd 2 years ago
Yup! Not only paper, but clothing, fuel, and a ton of other things. Hemp is one of the most versatile plants on the face of the earth. Hence why it was outlawed.
Kroder 2 years ago
biggesttrucker, your points are totally flawed.
1. most opponents also have a vested interest in prohibition. Politicians, law enforcement, correction and prison institutions all make billions of dollars on the drug war.
The marijuana lawyer will make more money with marijuana illegal.
2 What kind of Republican back Franks legalization bill? Freedom loving Republicans who believe in liberty and personal responsibility.
3 Zoning is local and dispensaries are never placed by schools and such.
gsuitter 2 years ago 3
@biggesttrucker
Anything less harmful than Alcohol and Tobacco should be legal.
greyflcn 2 years ago
LOL
PlatoTemplars 2 years ago
you won't find any self respecting DA searching for people with weed?
HA HA HA
RevolutionNewz 2 years ago
lol... sure
i'm from Washington State.. were Marijuana has been LEGAL for medicinal use for over 10 years!!
yet we still hear abt the DEA doing "drug busts" in the homes of patients!!
and local DA's doing there best to undermined our law and prosecute PATIENTS!!
2bRealist 2 years ago
"Gateway drug"
pffffffft...
FantasmaBAnco 2 years ago 3
decriminalize it and let the WEED grow where ever it can... it does NOT need to be taxed. Products developed from hemp can be taxed as any other product BUT NOT THE POT
motorolarules 2 years ago 3
marijuana should also be given to soldiers fighting in battlefields... it makes them less scared and make them shoot better...
ogapadoga 2 years ago
@ogapadoga they already give that to soldiers, but with anti depressants, and the heroin and weed they are protecting for the bankers.
they also require some military pilots to use amphetamines on long flights, and will court martial them for refusing.
and by the way, more troops are getting killed by their own gun than by any so called terrorists (I call them defenders of their nation, if you care to know).
RevolutionNewz 2 years ago
Moms will help the cause a lot more than that guy with the crazy eyes fom NOrML>
biggerflexible 2 years ago 7
or the dipshits on 'Marijuana radio'
motorolarules 2 years ago