Posted on 02/01/2005 10:22:25 AM PST by .cnI redruM
WASHINGTON — Pot. Cannabis. Hemp. Weed. Grass.
The herb takes many names. But in the nation’s capital, where the marijuana lobby (search) was once the recreational diversion of Playboy Magazine's Hugh Hefner, pro-pot special interest groups have crystallized the divergent issues behind the plant and gained a seemingly unified voice.
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"It’s a no-brainer. It makes no sense putting old and sick folks in jail for an herb that makes them feel better," said Bruce Mirken, spokesman for the Marijuana Policy Project (search), which was established in 1995 by Rob Kampia, a former mainstay at the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, the first pro-pot lobby in Washington, D.C.
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Actually, when you come right down to it, it makes no sense putting young and healthy folks in jail for an herb that makes them feel better. Flame resistant suit ON.
If that were all the slacker spice did, you'd have a good point there.
Nor is it making us safer by incarcerating sick people who use it so they can keep the medications that battle cancer and other ailments in their systems. It is the very best nausea medication in existence.
As long as we tolerate legal alcohol, anti-marijuana policy is pure hypocrisy.
It is the stated goal of the Marijuana Policy Project to legalize the recreational use of marijuana. Oh yeah, and medical use.
The medicinal angle is so disingenuous it's laughable.
If these guys had the brains or guts to argue for legalization on the merits, maybe somebody would listen to them.
So you think we should make alcohol illegal?
Nor is it making us safer to incarcerate people who smoke to relax and enjoy life.
>>>Actually, when you come right down to it, it makes no sense putting young and healthy folks in jail for an herb that makes them feel better. Flame resistant suit ON.
Agreed. Yeah, it makes you a slacker, and 95% of the people who smoke it through college realize they have a life to live and grow up (alcohol having the same effect), but there is no reason to ban a naturally occuring plant. Or consider it more dangerous then cocaine.
Get the meth labs!
Welcome to the pharmocracy.
Nope, I think we should legalize every non-synthetic intoxicant, for practical purposes, economic purposes, and out of respect for the Word of God (Genesis 1:26-30).
The other 90 percent of the 'pot lobby' is just plain about recreational use, no doubt about it. However it's evident that people are going to use it, and locking everybody up is not going to solve it. If we spent half the money on drug education and assistance programs that we spend on prosecuting the WOSD, we'd be better off.
Not that I'm for legalization of Pot. But if it helps people who have cancer then by all means let them have it. That ain't gonna happen though because drug companies can't see a way to make a profit from something that can be grown naturally....
>>>>I'm inclined to agree - seems victimless to me. Worst case, they screw themselves up. Whose problem is that? Not mine. The war on drugs seems to be a war against gene pool chlorine. Lets let em all do whatever they want. Some kid gets stoned, falls asleep, eats a brownie, end of story. Some idiot smokes crack and starves to death - his fault. We don't need those kind of idiots in the world - let the world dispose of them by allowing them to destroy themselves. Little Malthusian, but sensible.
Taking safety tabs and instructions off of products would help too.
Maybe alcohol should be made illegal. It is a terribly addictive and destructive drug.
When you consider all the prescriptions for drugs people take for just that reason, you'd be hard pressed to find a logical argument against your proposition.
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