Posted on 11/04/2004 1:59:04 PM PST by Wolfie
Ann Arbor, Home of the hash bash.
As conservative as I am, I still think its absurd that weed is illegal in this country. The cops have better things to do than chase stoners around busting them for pot.
demand jury trials for pot - employ jury nullification
Marijuana remains illegal under state and federal law, regardless of whether it is used, possessed or sold within the city limits.
How inconvenient for the dopesmokers.
What's next? A Gavin Newsom style dopesmoking mayor handing out doobies?
What's the big deal about medical pot? I agree they shouldn't be able to defy state law in their city. They should have put the issue on a state ballot.
I personally think pot and hash (only) should be decriminalized everywhere in the US, and then taxed. Probably solve our deficit problem in less than 5 years. These drugs are no worse than tobacco and alcohol, and in fact in many ways not as bad. Take pot out of the black market and help remove those crimes associated with it from our legal system and prisons.
If you want to effectively make marijuana an offense which law is indifferent to, then rewrite the penalties for posession and use. Take the money out of it and take it out of the asset forfeiture catagory. If you make the penalty a $10 fine, the cops will refuse to use it for financial productivity and if it's not an asset forfeiture offense, no authority will care since there is no money in it.
Marjuana has no medical value; it's just hype that some choose to believe. It does drastically lower blood sugar, creating the "munchies" effect.
Social conservatives for the most part are adamantly opposed to legal weed. Personally, I love the stuff. Think it's great.
LOL! Very inconvenient but they will have the comfort to know that they are only being arrested under state or federal law.
Marjuana has no medical value; it's just hype that some choose to believe
Come to the cancer ward and try to peddle that. Your words are hollow here.
Political conservatives are adamantly opposed to the means by which it was made illegal by the federal government, regardless of what they think about the weed.
This type of thing sickens me. That weed is illegal in the first place is ridiculous, especially when we practically promote the use of more dangerous, legal drugs. Regardless of the hypocrisy of it all, the people have spoken, and the government must obey the will of the people. Or is this not America anymore? I cannot express how mad this type of corrupt behavior makes me.
As a former drunk (and drunk driver) I can honestly say that Ive never gotten high and not remembered driving home.
THANK YOU. This country is showing signs of something bad. I don't know what for sure, but I do know that it is scary that conservatives would defend this type of behavior.
Yeah, but the social conservatives are better organized and make much more noise than the small gubmint conservatives.
And when a federal agency exists for express purpose of influencing public opinion about the law in order to prevent any attempt to change it.
The initiative should have been to immediatly terminate a local police officer who attempts to defy three quarters of the people of the town that employs him in case of marijuana.
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