Great to see that we have received so many comments from our first post.
I can see from your comments that you feel medical marijuana should be legalized. The reason being that marijuana can help people with many different illnesses and medical conditions.
Why do you think most countries governments don’t legalize medical marijuana?
Considering marijuana is considered by many to be a light drug, which does less damage than alcohol.
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Check out this opinion piece in Verde magazine at Palo Alto High School in California about the new ballot measure that may legalize marijuana.
http://voice.paly.net/view_story.php?id=9608
i think those who cannot handle this drug should not be smokin it period. I really think that it should be legalised for those over 21 not for childdren 20 and younger some people just can’t smoke it they need to not get the government involved in this i really think people with it make it legal.
People of older generations take weed to seriously. I grew up in a very relaxed household where i had a lot of freedoms. For the most part i stayed out of trouble. However in the past year i was charged with possession of marijuana.
After spending over two thousand dollars of my hard earned money these charges are finally taken care of. This incident was completely stupid. It was bull shit. Even the cops in booking laughed and said quote “kid these are bull shit charges.”
But i couldnt help but sit there and think that weed really is not as bad as alcohol and thats legal and it does not even compare to other hard drugs which are horrible for you. Weed has been proven to have no negative effects on the body or mind.
People in our country overthink shit and it really pisses me off. Marijuana should be legal. it would help our country with our economic issues and we would be the suprising poster child for legalizing weed.
Other countries may see this and realize that its not such a bad thing either…anyway i really cant type anymore because i just finished smoking some of that amazing stuff they call marijuana. Now its time to eat…………let me know what you think of my opinion. everyone has one so lets hear it! LEGALIZE IT!
Weed should be legalized it hurts nobody and its a pain in the ass to have to buy it from a drug dealer and think about the risk your taking it would be much easier to just be able to walk in a store and buy what you want but obamas working on getting it legalized so keep your fingers crossed!
Subjects I’ve read here were comparing this to alcohol, taxing, and minors possessing it. First I’d like to address those issues before going back to the original subject of this blog. I do believe alcohol is much worse for your mind & body than pot, almost to the extent that alcohol should be outlawed instead. Pot as it stands is a victimless crime; it hurts no one.
You can’t say the same about alcohol; many violent crimes & accidents are caused by it, but since it is acceptable to drink ’til you puke then our society will remain backwards. My dad’s friend, who didn’t smoke, was in prison many years from accidentally killing his own son by gun when he was sneaking whiskey. He has no recollection of it at all. He just woke up the next day heart broken from the loss of his son. Now he smokes instead of drinking. Which is safer?
Now the subject about worrying if kids possess weed; if and when it is legal, it will be controlled by the government with an age limit to buy. Like alcohol, kids will always find a way to obtain something they aren’t supposed to have. Once legalized for medicinal reasons then the doctor will determine if the patient is old enough.
Now when it comes to taxing marijuana, none of us level-headed people can answer why it’s not done yet. Yes taxes will increase the cost of pot, but for a good cause. This country has really screwed themselves when they listen to Harry J. Anslinger in 1930. He started a campaign against marijuana doing everything he could to scare the american public into thinking the drug is evil, making up lies in hopes to control immigration.
Anslinger had a personal vendetta against pot and mexicans, so now our economy is suffering for it. If they had only knew. Once the people started to realize this, president Reagan put a stop to the progress in the best interest of his own personal reasons and not for the good of the nation. We could have progressed and today would have a better economy with jobs and less crimes, leaving room in the prison system for actual violent offenders.
Now to talk about medicinal use. First I AM a law abiding citizen. I just happened to move to a backwards state where the laws are not so progressive. Here they believe marijuana should remain criminal for only monetary reasons. Instead of realizing that medicinal marijuana would bring jobs, new residents bringing more tax money in, this state thrives on the court costs and fines innocent non-violent people pay.
Something I can buy in California with a medical card lands me up in jail here, loosing your job meaning you can’t even afford to pay the fines. How does that help anything? Where is the money they’re bringing if you can’t even find a job now with a blemish on your criminal background. Backwards thinking.
A local TV channel here aired a news story about the progressing laws on medical marijuana on the west coast. That night the telephone poll subject was asking us to vote on if we think it should be legal in this area. The next night the poll results were 69% to 31% in our favor. Amazing for this conservative republican state.
Along with the results the local sheriff had a news story announcing it wouldn’t be a good time to decriminalize it here claiming it’s a gateway drug to problem drugs like meth and other ignorant anti-pot propaganda. The thing that’s not thought of is that if it was legal than it couldn’t be a gateway to anything because it wouldn’t be viewed as a bad drug in the first place. Other reasons they mentioned was admitting they get revenue
from it being against the law. I proved above that doesn’t work
Marijuana has simply been a crutch for government officials to blame other things on. Lies based on unrelated matters have turned into a drug brainwashing the citizens for years forming our ignorant backwards society today confusing criminals with good innocent people.
November 7, 2009
Honourable Nicholson
Parliament Buildings
Ottawa
Dear Honourable Nicholson
I wonder if you could answer some questions for me? After all, I am a law abiding citizen, with the right to know why outdated laws are being used to turn ordinary people like me into criminals. Your war against marijuana is a contemptuous process that puts people in jail where they do not belong. It is quite obvious why offenses that take lives or harm people are illegal. We do have the right to live healthy and safe lives, do we not? Now please tell me how smoking or selling marijuana endangers or harms anyone’s life, any more than alcohol, tobacco or toxins from vehicles and factories. Please tell me why you think marijuana should be illegal, but make sure to do your research into why it was made illegal in the first place, if you haven’t already? It certainly was not for health. What must the citizens of Canada do, who want the laws changed around this product? What do you need… letters, petitions, phone calls, court cases?
I also ask that you immediately stop the extradition of Marc Emery. He should not go to jail, he is not a dangerous criminal. Actual criminals, such as pedophiles, sex offenders and murderers, are often released on technicalities or allowed out on probation because they behaved well behind bars. Yet you want to send a perfectly harmless individual to jail for five years for selling something that should be legal. I thought I was living in an enlightened era, but it seems the Dark Ages are still upon us.
I hate to think our politicians are afraid of organized crime that wants our marijuana which is being exchanged for dangerous drugs. If you legalize this product, it takes it away from organized crime! If that is an erroneous thought, let me know why.
Please think about this… if hemp and marijuana were legalized, thousands of jobs would be created. There would be a licensing process. Industrial hemp needs to be planted outdoors, and can fully replace what trees have given us, saving our forests. Medicinal marijuana should be grown indoors, so as not to be compromised.
Do you have any idea how beneficial these plants are to us, I’m very curious? Or are you basing your opinion solely on the fact that “the law says it is illegal”? It used to be illegal for women to vote, and those laws got changed, but I hope I don’t have to go through what the suffragettes did to accomplish it.
I look forward to your reply.
Linda Kelly
PO Box 1436, Kaslo BC V0G 1M0
One of the problems inhibiting legalization is that people who smoke a glass pipe are not considered serious or mature. It is this stigma that scares many people who use pot to keep it a secret. It is up to us to be public about our choices and to make sure our voices are heard by the ones that ultimately decide what the rules are. Every letter you send to a representative is considered the voice of a thousand constituents that did not take the time to write.
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They the politicians need to figure out the new TAX which would be legalizing weed "medical marijuana" I feel 30 foot and i know weed serves me better than the oxy"s and all the other pills the keep me doped up on. 3 good hits and my pain "what PAIN" ITS GONE MAYBE FOR ONLY 3 OR 4 HOURS but damn thats better than rottening my guts out with all these other chemicals. Alrite im done for now YALL make sure your puffin on the good stuff
Get real Obama, Mandatory Heathcare, Why dont you use the billions of dollars legalization would generate in an attempt not to make my generation have to pay for the mistakes of greedy banks and wall street executives. Goverment run legalization its time to face the FACTS……………….