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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how many politicians actually platform around legalization of marijuana?…thats the kind of politician i would vote for.
weed=good
Marijuana as a textile will never be used until some of the big cotton, and oil barrons die off. marijuana for it’s medicinal use won’t happen until we have some healthcare reform in this country. You see, prescription drugs are big business, and old asses in congress don’t want legalization of marijuana getting in the way. Folks, we need to change things, politics in Washington is at the point where some of this old bastards need to retire or freaking die. When Generation X takes control, we will see major change and reforms in the marijuana laws. Until then, we have to sit back and hide our behavior from police because they job depends on, “the war on drugs.” It’s coming ya’ll, a new day will emerge where we will no longer have hide our personal habits from fear of the facist asshole police.
you are not going to get it legalized sooo get over it. it doesn’t need to be legalized for ovbilious reason!!!!!!!!! GET A LIFE!!! find so good cause to spend all u time on where u can make a differance!!!
I hate the fact that our government is making money off this drug, because we all know everyone in the white house does blow.If i were in the white house it would garentee my place for at least fifteen years. I wonder if anyone thought to go to college, get a degree, and petition to make it legal! – Kraka JACk
For a small percentage of people, alcohol is poisonous. I, myself, cannot metabolize it well. Cough syrup nearly killed me as a child. I am 25. One beer sent me to the hospital, near death, when i was in college. So, drinking is not for me. Marijuana was always my drug of choice. It helped with physical pain, anxiety, depression, when done in personalized moderation. I smoked maybe once a week, toward the weekend. Never drove high, never went to work or class high, always did my homework and paid my bills. just came home, smoked relaxed and enjoyed some music and friends for company sometimes. While i still greatly oppose meth, crack, smack, etc, i am for legalization, taxation, and regulation. Age 21, DWI enforcement. Eduation on how to use it responsibly. Marijuana is a gnat compared to the wasps we need to focus on (hardcore drugs). I worked at gas stations night shift for 4 years. The most scary people i had to encounter were drunks! Stoners gave us BUSINESS!, and were quite entertaining to watch, sometimes. I have given up smoking 2 years ago because i was tired of worrying about possible law enforcement harassment. so i promised not to smoke it until it is legalized, which will, in turn, make me fight harder. tghis is just what I personally did. to each, his own.
marijuana should not only be legalized for medical purposes, but for recreational purposes as well. marijuana is a very light drug, even compared to say….alcohol? in Morroco, where weed is legal and taxed, two thirds of the countries total economy is marijuana. the extra funds from marijuana alone in Morroco feeds 200,000 starving families. and, if weed was legalized and sold at a cheap price that would take care of the drug dealer problem. cause no one is gonna pay more to get it from a dealer when they can get better weed cheaper at the corner store. if we can drink alocohol responsibly, i’m sure we can get stoned responsibly too.
One of my biggest reason to legalize marijuana is the fact more and more people die everyday from drinking and driving, or from the effects of say alchol damages the liver. How often do you hear that a person has died from marijuana. I don’t believe I ever had. You can lierally drink yourself to death, but, can you smoke yourself to death in a sitting?
I don’t understand, our government does not want to legalize marijuana because they will loose millions of dollars from their ” war on drugs” taxes. But if they would create farms to produces marijuana cigarette’s they would be able to make all that tax money back easily, plus more. Just goes to show you our government would rather put people in jail rather then have a bounty of money.
Thanks for the link to the Calgary420.ca group. We’re fighting the good fight here in Alberta.
Be safe and be well, but be heard.
Bsdwolf
One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 30s
lobbied against hemp farmers – They saw it as competition. It is not as chemically
addictive as is nicotine, alcohol, or caffeine.
I don’t feel that medical marijuana poses any type of health danger other than that of
euphoric sensations, but who wouldn’t want to feel good anyways! (no pun intended)
Research/Studies do show however, that the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes really
do have significant amounts of health benefits and anyone will agree, when all is taken
into consideration as well as health risk, and the advantages are more for the cure of
what ails you, then why not legalize it. Afterall, marijuana has been used in many
countries, in many cultures, for thousands of years and is a natural herb of nature.
(not to mention one of industry’s biggest cash crop!)
Because then the government would have to admit defeat, once again, with it’s ability to “control” it’s people…More than that, there would be too big a shift in the economy, in favor of the people because when something illegal occurs, there is the whole court and trial thing…”Make them pay” etc. Besides, it’s just too simple an idea for most people to get…Legal means choice-Illegal means profit via thrill or crime.
Basically, it’s a culture shock idea. Consider the fact that the world is run by voters. Those of us whom would vote positive for the legalization of medical marijuana have, for the most part, experienced an inciteful event. An event that showed us that it is actually possible for this “evil empire” to be no more than a good herb placed here on earth to better the lives of those in need. The reason that medical marijana is illegal is that the world is run by voters. Until the majority of voters actually accept that medical marijuana is positively useful, it won’t be legalized. Since the majority of voters are people who actually understand how democracy works are the ones who vote, nothing will change. This is because marijuana is widely considered a useless and/or destructive tool. Knowledge is the key and ignorance is our enemy.
The government doesn’t want marijuana legal because if its legalised, they lose money not fighting “the war on drugs”
interestingly in the 30s when they legalized alcohol marijuana became a problem. a lot of jobs involved in irradication. Also the economic policies would change if everyone opened their minds.
Lets face it. Oftimes the very people that are making the decisions are in power because it’s illeagle. For example in the US the FBI, DEA, ATF, etc. receive funding based on their busts. If you don’t catch anything, no ones going to send you money. (In the US 85% of the contraband taking into custody is marijuana at the mexican border by Border Patrol, they actulaey farm it out to other agency’s so they can maintain their funding.) Why would they do something like take Marijuana off the schedule 1 list… it would kill their funding… kill their jobs. Until we find another way for those guys to make money, have “job security”, and sell it to them, we’ll have this push back.