[freepatriot32]

Members of Congress must understand that their constituents support harm reduction policies, not harm exacerbation policies.

obviosly this author has never been on a drug war thread here on free republic ;-)

[CWOJackson]

"What about a bill that dramatically increases penalties on medical marijuana providers who develop high-quality strains of marijuana for seriously ill patients?"

I'm sure they are only developing more potent strains for medical purposes.

[freepatriot32]

ping

[waterstraat]

Our police made a million and a half drug arrests last year, while letting tens of thousands of robbers, murderers, rapists, etc drive by while they were busy with marijuanna smokers. Yet, they still had a few minutes left to go after some violent criminals.

If you want to prevent our cops from going after violent criminals completely, then this is the way to do it.

[TheSpottedOwl]

Legalize the damn stuff.

[Soren]

These threads don't seem to generate the anti-drug vitriol they used to. Maybe I need to give it some more time..

[rdb3]

I'm having more and more of a hard time with this one, so someone please show me where I'm wrong in my thinking.

Marijuana is a naturally occurring plant. One can dry it out and smoke it to get high, yet that does not take away from the fact that it is still a naturally occurring plant. If one can't patent a naturally occurring plant, why make that naturally occurring plant illegal?

Do not think that I'm in favor of drugs or a L(l)ibertarian because I'm not. But I just can't get my head around why marijuana is illegal since it is not necessarily synthesized like coke or heroin.

Where am I wrong in my thinking?

[unixfox]

How bout a bill that MANDATES every federal, state and local officials to take random drug tests?

Wonder how many would be left after that happened !!

[Bronco_Buster_FweetHyagh]

Unbelievable.

[philman_36]

...a medical marijuana provider in California convicted in federal court for possession of just 33 plants with a THC content of between 13 and 25 percent would be sentenced "to a term of imprisonment which may not be less than 5 years."
This guy needs a serious clue! From the DEA theirselves.
Drug Intelligence Brief
According to University of Mississippi analyses, the THC content of commercial-grade marijuana has slowly risen over the years from an average of 3.71 percent in 1985 to an average of 5.57 percent in 1998. These analyses also show a corresponding rise in sinsemilla THC content from 7.28 percent in 1985 to 12.32 percent in 1998. The national averages of THC content for commercial-grade marijuana are as follows:

Average THC Content of Commercial-Grade Marijuana (Percentage)

1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998
3.97	4.52	4.52	4.19	4.77	5.56	5.57

There isn't any such thing as 25% THC marijuana that I can find, unless it's jumped about 13% in the last 5 years!
Pure scare tactics and more useless legislating!

[eleni121]

http://www.house.gov/souder/statements/011124a.html
If this is the essence of the Bill I'm all for it...Go Souder!

[Conservative til I die]

The insanity continues. Why not just give marijuana smokers 4,000 years per ounce possessed? Maybe 50,000 years per. That oughta stop the tide of drug use.

Hell, why not just shoot everyone at birth, that way we wouldn't have drug abuse at all. Like Uncle Joe Stalin, people are the problem. No people, no problem, eh?

But I'm sure the drug warriors are sexually aroused like you wouldn't believe right now.

[FLCowboy,]

Well, good. At least they can do something that doesn't pi** off the Democrats

[Cultural Jihad]

Members of Congress must understand that their constituents support harm reduction policies, not harm exacerbation policies.

Article paid for by socialist Soros. "Let's legalize bank robbery and outlaw gun possession, since people are getting hurt in these robberies!"

[No Blue States]

IMO If alcohol is legal pot should be, the ramifications to society from alcohol are much worse than pot.

Tax the gov grown smoke for social security funds and stop wasting valuable prison space and law enforcement resources on a real non problem.

[jmc813]

WOD Ping

[Wolfie]

This is mainly directed at the medical marijuana situation. Anything that accelerates the growing rift between the States and Feds viv-a-vis marijuana is a good thing.

[John Lenin]

California could probably close its budget gap if they legalized pot and put a big tax on it. But noooo, that makes too much sense.