Congressman Tom Tancredo: Drug violence should cause us to consider marijuana legalization

At a speech to the Denver Lincoln Club on May 20, 2009, former Congressman Tom Tancredo says the drug war has been a failure and calls for consideration of legalizing marijuana.

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• Tancredo
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• drug war

[luvsix]

thats fucking wrong why are we hunted down ur never gonna win im smoking right now ur making tha kids rebel there gonna ask why is something more harmless than alcohol illegal

[TheRealRossputin]

luvsix, you're a great argument against legalization if smoking pot causes people to be as incomprehensible as you are.

[thefakeyeti]

@the7thslave

"These same people pushing prohibition would be targeted for treason investigation ahad they been around during the founding of our country"

JESUS CHRIST!

I am sure the founding fathers respected the first amendment far more then that :P

[thefakeyeti]

"it's legal now so it must be okay"

it is also legal to hold up a sign near a busy highway that reads "I like children.. Legalize pedophilia"

But I wouldn't recommend doing it!

Federal government wasn't designed to enfoce morality laws.

[ParapaDrifter]

Hemp (marijuana) has been used for 5k years as a curative drug. It is one of the only plants that has an abundance of THC(cannibinol).

It has been shown to cure cancer in 2003 by manuel Guzman! Look it up!

google - guzman site:americanmarijuana(.)org

Hemp industralization is the answer to our economic depression.

[mos619]

That's the point though, no one really wants freedom cause that makes them responsible and people are stupid and whinny and expect the state to take care of em, protect em, feed and clothe them, and parent for them. Seems like all that hullabaloo about the evils of communism and the hysterical reactions it induced was a ploy to keep people from realizing the real threat to the country, to corporate fascists buyin up the government cause in capitalism money is king, fuck the people.

[chaser2273]

im 15 and i could get pot WAYYYYYY easier than i could get alcohol

[JTLJTLJTL08]

marijuana is not a drug...... start cracking down on meth and heroine users.... shit ruins people lives....

[HarryJAnslinger]

I support you.

[acamogirl]

people are ready for this. We've been ready. We need another resources for income in the USA. It does no harm to the body. You cannot overdose, unlike alcohol, I've done the research, you would have to smoke 1500 lbs. in 15 min. to get a lethal dose, unlike cocain,it is not physically addictive at all, unlike heroin, It does not give you cancer,unlike cigs., and it costs the USA Billions a year to try to jail those who use or sell,and it could make us billions in revenue. Legalize it. dumb asses

[gsuitter]

5 stars for Tom.

[shersondf]

if you think about it there is going to be another civil war, most the people working for cartels are American solders well trained and armed, we need to end this peacefully now before it starts to cook down there. Otherwise there is just going to be more dead.