I don’t see how any of the “problems” posed in the article are essentially bad. I’d rather have cops fighting real criminals than going after potheads who are otherwise committing no real crimes.
From what I’m hearing, you can walk into a MALL in California and buy pot from one of the “medical outlets”.
I’ll appreciate this as my glaucoma worsens Im sure
To be honest, I think ‘weed’ is the most neligible drugs out there, even among legal drugs. It would make more sense if cigarettes were illegal and weed was legal.
JMO.
>>>>>the law in Virginia states that possession of any marijuana (even just residue in a pipe), is a misdemeanor..... more than 1/2 ounce is typically charged as felony distribution with up to 10 years in prison.<<<<<
As a Virginian, I have to say that the felony threshold is absolutely insane. That will ruin a college kid ***for life***.
I might add that marijuana is America’s largest cash crop.
Table 7. Top Cash Crops in the United States (Average Value 2003 – 2005)
Rank / Crop / Average Production Value ($1000s)
1 Marijuana $35,803,591
2 Corn $23,299,601
3 Soybeans $17,612,200
4 Hay $12,236,638
5 Vegetables $11,080,733
6 Wheat $7,450,907
7 Cotton-All $5,314,870
8 Grapes $2,876,547
9 Apples $1,787,532
10 Rice $1,706,665
Source:
Marijuana Production in the United States (2006)
By Jon Gettman, Ph.D.
“The lesson here is obvious. All potheads should immediately report to Massachusetts. Bring all your friends and that awesome work-ethic that pot smokers are known for, to a state that richly deserves your company.”
LMAO
And this is a bad thing how?
Long over due imho.
That would be one less thing for the government to be wasting resources upon.
Additionally, the profit for smuggling should drop through the floor, and it will no longer be worth killing people over.
Massholes!
Good. Pot is a plant. People should be able to grow it in their gardens if they want.
It’s rumored that the politicians that backed this ballot initiative received large campaign donations from Frito-Lay.
sure can tell all of the potheads here.
Have fun.
Yeah, and this is one issue where I agree with my fellow libtards on. The Drug War stinks. If you want to stop drugs, secure the damn borders and end taxpayer treatment programs for junkies. But stop using strawman arguments to defend the Drug War which only feeds the law enforcement and prison industries. Let the states legalize and tax marijuana so they won't come begging to the feds for a bailout.
BTW, Mass. recently almost passed an initiative to kill the state income tax and the Libertarian candidate for Senate came in 2nd against Uncle Ted in 2000, so the state still has some patriots left.
It’s amazing how far people will go to justify their vices as virtues or “harmless recreation” when they are anything but.
Conservatives need to get on the right side of issues like this. We need to take a more Libertarian approach.
We should legalize (and tax):
Marijuana and its derivatives
Online gambling
Prostitution
To pretend that we can stop these activities or that somehow we as a nation will morally wake up is lunacy.
I think ALL drugs should be decrimalized as for possession and use. Put the sellers in jail. I am tired of the crime and murder and the use of such to make our police force a military type force and as a push for gun control. I did not use to feel this way but I have changed my mind. The war on drugs is bad for freedom.
See this? ----> .
That's the world's smallest violin, playing you a sad song right there.