I have seizures i can not work drive and drink becouse of it but i do smoke weed and it does help it seems to me like we are losseing our freedom First, marijuana appears to be less harmful than some other legal drugs. Unlike the nicotine found in cigarettes, THC, the active chemical in marijuana, has never been proven to be physically addictive. While the alcohol found in beer, wine and other such beverages has caused many deaths-by-overdose, there have been no documented cases of fatal marijuana overdoses. It makes little sense that these proven-harmful substances remain legal and widely advertised while marijuana is illegal and condemned.
Secondly, contrary to the opinion of Justice Thomas, evidence suggests that marijuana does have valid medicinal applications. It has enabled many cancer patients ravaged by chemotherapy and AIDS patients on numerous nauseating medications to eat again, preventing their weakened bodies from consuming themselves. It has been used to ease the pains of quadriplegia, to soothe the seizures of epilepsy and the pain of multiple sclerosis. People unfortunate enough to be stricken with terminal diseases should not also be denied their sole relief or sent to jail for trying to lessen this pain through marijuana use.
This brings us to the next contentions in the case for legalization: Possession arrests and prison overcrowding. About 85 percent of marijuana-related arrests are possession arrests. Every day, law enforcement officials waste their time and our tax dollars by arresting people merely for possessing the drug. Additionally, U.S. prisons are just teeming with marijuana offenders, people who have never done anything to harm anyone else. If marijuana was decriminalized and these "offenders" set free, there would be more space in our prisons for dangerous, violent criminals (e.g. rapists, child molesters, murderers, etc.) who pose an actual threat to society.
I have smoked weed for a long time and i have had 2 simple possession charges. The idea of it being illegal is stupid. It is a plant, its not even a drug. It doesn't have to be chemically altered. In the bible it even says that god give us all animals and all seed bearing plants for our use. What the gov. and cops need to do is legalize weed and focus on the other drugs the hard stuff. Weed should be the least of their worries.
I Think Weed should be legal because it would stop all of the united states debt problems and people enjoy it to be honest. the government wants make me quit or i will be going to jail. does any one see justice? i am a good person who minds his business an they are just putting more stress on my life that i don't need when will they stop taking it so serious its not cocaine and it's not like they caught me selling it. really having weed in my system is gonna land me in jail they would have to have to put not just me but millions of others in jail they just wanna make the most money before they let my case go.
I'm very concerned with the governments continued reticence to legalize marijuana throughout the U.S.. I personally have smoked marijuana for approximately 30 yrs. until recently I haven't went more than a couple of days without it. When I started smoking ,I had no clue of the benefits or history of the drug that made me feel better about life in more ways than I can list. The reason for me recently having to quit smoking marijuana is a really messed up situation. My ex-girlfriend/babies mother and her live in partner were recently arrested for dealing marijuana, crystal meth , and prescription drugs to minors. Michigan rightfully took my daughter from them, but instead of letting me have her put her in the foster care system. They said it was because I lived in Indiana and that I was not in a stable environment. NOTE: I was in a stable relationship with the same girl for quite sometime and that we were buying a house in her name due to my credit. Since they were arrested I've moved to Michigan [where medical marijuana is legal] .I've had to leave my girlfriend, my family, my friends, my home, my life, and everything else, just to be put on random drug screens, psychological evaluations, and they want me to take prescription drugs to fight my Bi-polar disorder.
I can see the US Government is missing the boat on this one. Obama's failed drug war continues, drug cartels get bigger and stronger. The real victims of the US drug war are the American people. It's time the US government gets serious with this important issue. Prohibition has never worked and will never work. The time to legalize is now, stop the madness.
Have chronic diverticulitis caused by extreme stress. I have been raising children since 9 (siblings, nieces, nephews and now grands) The stress of trying to make the dollars stretch in this economy makes me vomit, not to mention the fifty million other things in my life that have given me stress. 3 rapes, two robberies, two divorces from a domestic violence and child abuse all caused by alcoholic spouse and maternal parent (native American) The last straw was when my vote was purged for NO reason in 2000 and I had to watch my country go down the toilet under Bush pt 2. The pain in my intestines and lower back from being so stressed i get backed up. Marijuana helps me cope without the side effects of meds like zelnorm which btw works great to heal my GERD, but also causes heart problems. I can't drink to wind down as the emotional anger just expands to where people can't be around me at all. I have been diagnosed with a severe intolerance of the BS all day long. The doctor told me to treat them all like satelites and not invite them in my world since they are so full of it and procrastinators looking for a job in a bad economy, have taken it's toll. Legalization would end this sneak and peak around the corner for meds.
One of the most bogus rationales for keeping pot illegal is that it is a "gateway drug". The fact is that by keeping it illegal you are forcing otherwise law abiding citizens to go to the black market. The same person who sells illegal pot will normally sell other illegal substances. If pot were legal the chances are that a pot smoker who buys from an authorized dealer would never run into coke meth heroin or any number of black market drugs. The laws of this country have made pot a gateway drug. last I checked it is a plant with no agenda.
Pot was legal once, then prohibition came....and when the government learned that people could do without the taxed alcohol, suddenly the weed was outlawed. My step father told me of using weed way back before it became such a big deal....Phillip Morris has recently bought 20,000 acres of swamp land and is already changed package sizes to fit joints! Do they know something the rest of us don't?? The only problem with legalization, is that it won't be pure anymore and will have additives like cigarettes do. That's what kills, the additives, not the tobacco. Legalize, but keep it in private hands to grow.....
The legalization of drugs would prevent our civil liberties from being threatened any further, it would reduce crime rates, reverse the potency effect, improve the quality of life in the inner cities, prevent the spread of disease, save the taxpayer money, and generally benefit both individuals and the community as a whole. Our arguments are based on a basic appreciation of the benefits provided by voluntary exchange and the role markets play in coordinating human activities. Legalizing drugs would eliminate many inconsistencies, guarantee freedoms, and increase the effectiveness of the government's anti-drug beliefs. The present war on drugs has not and will not produce a decisive victory. We advocate a new approach to this important social problem.
I wrote the blog at http://pdunkle.blogspot.com and I believe that as soon as big business and our governement learns how to effecitvely tax the marijuana industry and yes it is a industry ..they will legalize it so fast your head will spin. I am surprised the tobacco industry hasn't jumped on the band wagon and started selling pot. The only problem with that is they will put so many additives in it that it won't be the same as it is grown. Tobacco is proof of that, pure tobacco from the field doesn't hurt you anywhere near what the tobacco they sell with additives does. write your congressman and tell him/her to legalize marijuana or you will vote for someone that will.
i think the goverment is wrong in keeping marijana illegal. if the u.s. is so broke and there is a way to make money, why not legelize pot. the only reason why alchol is legal is because the rich won't it that way. well folks it's 2009 all most 2010 it about time we legalize it for everyone to use and start bring down the defecet. it's just not a logcail thing to keep it illegal. it's the 2nd dumbest thing the u.s. has done in a long time, first thing was legalize booze, that kills innocent people.
After living as a New Jersey MS Patient and using Rx medications for the past 12 years and also an additional 3 years of Lymes Disease Rx medications prior to that, I could not be here today without daily use of VAPORIZED marijuana as the side-effects of all of those Rx medications are far worse than MS itself and marijuana helps to control them in a more pleasant manner with a much lower dosage of Rx Medications like Oxy Contin, Baclofen, Neurontin, Elavil or even Vicadin. Marijuana allows me to be dad of 3 daughters. Without a small amount of marijuana (less than 1 g) at 5 AM I am stuck in bed with dizziness, nausea, chronic pain and heavy spasticity, preventing any boardwalk, beach combing, or anything seasonal activities at all. So when my kids say "What can we do today Dad?" my answer could dramatically change to "nowhere kids I am too sick" depending on my use if it is available or not. NJ Senate Bill S-119 and Assembly Bill A-804 could improve my families' quality of life by a hundred fold.
Also the way I vaporize is 100% carcinogen free and done away from my home and family anyway. There isn't even any second hand smoke because it is a vapor, the moisture consumed immediately returns itself to the atmosphere humidity in an entirely different way than smoke and it's ash content.
I have another statement. In case you wonder why polititcians refuse to vote to legalize pot, think for a moment. Where do you think a great deal of their donations come from? Making pot legal will destroy the huge profits the politicians count on.
No one ever speaks of the savings incurred as a result of the lesser need for law enforcement. Millions of wasted dollars are spent fighting something 100 million plus citizens want to do just to please a bunch of older voters the politcians are afraid of.
I would like to add that alcohol is legal and people die from drinking too much. However, pot can never be overdosed on and therefore seems to be more safe than alcohol.
I with over half of the rest of the country agree that weed should be legal!! I have lost my job of 12 years because of a random drug test. I was known to be one of the best workers in my department and now I am jobless and can't draw unemployment because I indulged in a joint in the afternoon. I never worked while I was high and never broke anything or hurt anyone. Their is really nothing I can do about what happened to me, but I hate to see such hard workers as myself lose their jobs over marijuana use when I saw people still hungover from the night before and couldn't hardly function and they still have their jobs.
I agree marijuana is a plant and it is not as dangerous as tobacco. I can smoke a joint and sleep or I can take a handful of valium or xanax and pain killlers from being hurt in the military. I can't sleep and I cannot work without something for pain and something to sleep. I can take the pills or I can smoke a joint. I would like to smoke the joint but it is illegal and I do not wish to go to jail or deal with street pushers. I go to real Doctors and I am happy they help me with the prescription pills. However if Marijuana were legal I wouldn't have to watch the side effects or worry about being addicted to prescription drugs. I started serving my country when I was 19 and now it is time my country helped take care of me. Legalizing marijuana would help me very much. Look at my blog http://pdunkle.blogspot.com there are articles about marijuana and a few other things I wrote.. enjoy it and leave a comment so I can know how others feel about this problem our entire country has.
I believe that if Obama decided to make marijuana legal that we will pop right out of the economic down fall. Just look at Amsterdam they have never been in a war. It just makes people relaxed and peaceful!!!!!! The best part about it would be that all of the pot dealers would have to get a job instead of making the billions of dollars UNTAXED!! I smoke marijuana and it releaves my back pain better then any pill could ever do, and it also takes all anger out of my body !
The legalization of Marijuana will do nothing but help our crumbling country. I honestly believe that the legalization of Marijuana will make this country safer from itself, increasing production, lowering crimes and making overall happiness of the people skyrocket... I smoke weed... Why cant the government leave us innocent pot smokers alone?
March 07, 2010, 08:58
I have seizures i can not work drive and drink becouse of it but i do smoke weed and it does help it seems to me like we are losseing our freedom First, marijuana appears to be less harmful than some other legal drugs. Unlike the nicotine found in cigarettes, THC, the active chemical in marijuana, has never been proven to be physically addictive. While the alcohol found in beer, wine and other such beverages has caused many deaths-by-overdose, there have been no documented cases of fatal marijuana overdoses. It makes little sense that these proven-harmful substances remain legal and widely advertised while marijuana is illegal and condemned.
Secondly, contrary to the opinion of Justice Thomas, evidence suggests that marijuana does have valid medicinal applications. It has enabled many cancer patients ravaged by chemotherapy and AIDS patients on numerous nauseating medications to eat again, preventing their weakened bodies from consuming themselves. It has been used to ease the pains of quadriplegia, to soothe the seizures of epilepsy and the pain of multiple sclerosis. People unfortunate enough to be stricken with terminal diseases should not also be denied their sole relief or sent to jail for trying to lessen this pain through marijuana use.
This brings us to the next contentions in the case for legalization: Possession arrests and prison overcrowding. About 85 percent of marijuana-related arrests are possession arrests. Every day, law enforcement officials waste their time and our tax dollars by arresting people merely for possessing the drug. Additionally, U.S. prisons are just teeming with marijuana offenders, people who have never done anything to harm anyone else. If marijuana was decriminalized and these "offenders" set free, there would be more space in our prisons for dangerous, violent criminals (e.g. rapists, child molesters, murderers, etc.) who pose an actual threat to society.
February 17, 2010, 13:46
I have smoked weed for a long time and i have had 2 simple possession charges. The idea of it being illegal is stupid. It is a plant, its not even a drug. It doesn't have to be chemically altered. In the bible it even says that god give us all animals and all seed bearing plants for our use. What the gov. and cops need to do is legalize weed and focus on the other drugs the hard stuff. Weed should be the least of their worries.
February 02, 2010, 17:06
I Think Weed should be legal because it would stop all of the united states debt problems and people enjoy it to be honest. the government wants make me quit or i will be going to jail. does any one see justice? i am a good person who minds his business an they are just putting more stress on my life that i don't need when will they stop taking it so serious its not cocaine and it's not like they caught me selling it. really having weed in my system is gonna land me in jail they would have to have to put not just me but millions of others in jail they just wanna make the most money before they let my case go.
November 16, 2009, 03:38
I'm very concerned with the governments continued reticence to legalize marijuana throughout the U.S.. I personally have smoked marijuana for approximately 30 yrs. until recently I haven't went more than a couple of days without it. When I started smoking ,I had no clue of the benefits or history of the drug that made me feel better about life in more ways than I can list. The reason for me recently having to quit smoking marijuana is a really messed up situation. My ex-girlfriend/babies mother and her live in partner were recently arrested for dealing marijuana, crystal meth , and prescription drugs to minors. Michigan rightfully took my daughter from them, but instead of letting me have her put her in the foster care system. They said it was because I lived in Indiana and that I was not in a stable environment. NOTE: I was in a stable relationship with the same girl for quite sometime and that we were buying a house in her name due to my credit. Since they were arrested I've moved to Michigan [where medical marijuana is legal] .I've had to leave my girlfriend, my family, my friends, my home, my life, and everything else, just to be put on random drug screens, psychological evaluations, and they want me to take prescription drugs to fight my Bi-polar disorder.
November 10, 2009, 16:22
I can see the US Government is missing the boat on this one. Obama's failed drug war continues, drug cartels get bigger and stronger. The real victims of the US drug war are the American people. It's time the US government gets serious with this important issue. Prohibition has never worked and will never work. The time to legalize is now, stop the madness.
October 28, 2009, 19:38
Have chronic diverticulitis caused by extreme stress. I have been raising children since 9 (siblings, nieces, nephews and now grands) The stress of trying to make the dollars stretch in this economy makes me vomit, not to mention the fifty million other things in my life that have given me stress. 3 rapes, two robberies, two divorces from a domestic violence and child abuse all caused by alcoholic spouse and maternal parent (native American) The last straw was when my vote was purged for NO reason in 2000 and I had to watch my country go down the toilet under Bush pt 2. The pain in my intestines and lower back from being so stressed i get backed up. Marijuana helps me cope without the side effects of meds like zelnorm which btw works great to heal my GERD, but also causes heart problems. I can't drink to wind down as the emotional anger just expands to where people can't be around me at all. I have been diagnosed with a severe intolerance of the BS all day long. The doctor told me to treat them all like satelites and not invite them in my world since they are so full of it and procrastinators looking for a job in a bad economy, have taken it's toll. Legalization would end this sneak and peak around the corner for meds.
October 20, 2009, 19:03
One of the most bogus rationales for keeping pot illegal is that it is a "gateway drug". The fact is that by keeping it illegal you are forcing otherwise law abiding citizens to go to the black market. The same person who sells illegal pot will normally sell other illegal substances. If pot were legal the chances are that a pot smoker who buys from an authorized dealer would never run into coke meth heroin or any number of black market drugs. The laws of this country have made pot a gateway drug. last I checked it is a plant with no agenda.
October 19, 2009, 20:05
Pot was legal once, then prohibition came....and when the government learned that people could do without the taxed alcohol, suddenly the weed was outlawed. My step father told me of using weed way back before it became such a big deal....Phillip Morris has recently bought 20,000 acres of swamp land and is already changed package sizes to fit joints! Do they know something the rest of us don't?? The only problem with legalization, is that it won't be pure anymore and will have additives like cigarettes do.
That's what kills, the additives, not the tobacco. Legalize, but keep it in private hands to grow.....
September 26, 2009, 14:33
The legalization of drugs would prevent our civil liberties from being threatened any further, it would reduce crime rates, reverse the potency effect, improve the quality of life in the inner cities, prevent the spread of disease, save the taxpayer money, and generally benefit both individuals and the community as a whole. Our arguments are based on a basic appreciation of the benefits provided by voluntary exchange and the role markets play in coordinating human activities. Legalizing drugs would eliminate many inconsistencies, guarantee freedoms, and increase the effectiveness of the government's anti-drug beliefs. The present war on drugs has not and will not produce a decisive victory. We advocate a new approach to this important social problem.
September 21, 2009, 14:05
i think marijuana should be legal because it does not kill people and it gets you high.
August 18, 2009, 16:43
I wrote the blog at http://pdunkle.blogspot.com and I believe that as soon as big business and our governement learns how to effecitvely tax the marijuana industry and yes it is a industry ..they will legalize it so fast your head will spin. I am surprised the tobacco industry hasn't jumped on the band wagon and started selling pot. The only problem with that is they will put so many additives in it that it won't be the same as it is grown. Tobacco is proof of that, pure tobacco from the field doesn't hurt you anywhere near what the tobacco they sell with additives does. write your congressman and tell him/her to legalize marijuana or you will vote for someone that will.
August 14, 2009, 21:44
i think the goverment is wrong in keeping marijana illegal. if the u.s. is so broke and there is a way to make money, why not legelize pot. the only reason why alchol is legal is because the rich won't it that way. well folks it's 2009 all most 2010 it about time we legalize it for everyone to use and start bring down the defecet. it's just not a logcail thing to keep it illegal. it's the 2nd dumbest thing the u.s. has done in a long time, first thing was legalize booze, that kills innocent people.
August 14, 2009, 02:28
After living as a New Jersey MS Patient and using Rx medications for the past 12 years and also an additional 3 years of Lymes Disease Rx medications prior to that, I could not be here today without daily use of VAPORIZED marijuana as the side-effects of all of those Rx medications are far worse than MS itself and marijuana helps to control them in a more pleasant manner with a much lower dosage of Rx Medications like Oxy Contin, Baclofen, Neurontin, Elavil or even Vicadin. Marijuana allows me to be dad of 3 daughters. Without a small amount of marijuana (less than 1 g) at 5 AM I am stuck in bed with dizziness, nausea, chronic pain and heavy spasticity, preventing any boardwalk, beach combing, or anything seasonal activities at all. So when my kids say "What can we do today Dad?" my answer could dramatically change to "nowhere kids I am too sick" depending on my use if it is available or not. NJ Senate Bill S-119 and Assembly Bill A-804 could improve my families' quality of life by a hundred fold.
Also the way I vaporize is 100% carcinogen free and done away from my home and family anyway. There isn't even any second hand smoke because it is a vapor, the moisture consumed immediately returns itself to the atmosphere humidity in an entirely different way than smoke and it's ash content.
Your's truly,
Charles Kwiatkowski
Hazlet, NJ 07730
July 28, 2009, 22:57
I have another statement. In case you wonder why polititcians refuse to vote to legalize pot, think for a moment. Where do you think a great deal of their donations come from? Making pot legal will destroy the huge profits the politicians count on.
July 28, 2009, 22:50
No one ever speaks of the savings incurred as a result of the lesser need for law enforcement. Millions of wasted dollars are spent fighting something 100 million plus citizens want to do just to please a bunch of older voters the politcians are afraid of.
July 28, 2009, 18:53
I would like to add that alcohol is legal and people die from drinking too much. However, pot can never be overdosed on and therefore seems to be more safe than alcohol.
July 27, 2009, 20:13
I with over half of the rest of the country agree that weed should be legal!! I have lost my job of 12 years because of a random drug test. I was known to be one of the best workers in my department and now I am jobless and can't draw unemployment because I indulged in a joint in the afternoon. I never worked while I was high and never broke anything or hurt anyone. Their is really nothing I can do about what happened to me, but I hate to see such hard workers as myself lose their jobs over marijuana use when I saw people still hungover from the night before and couldn't hardly function and they still have their jobs.
July 18, 2009, 03:40
I agree marijuana is a plant and it is not as dangerous as tobacco. I can smoke a joint and sleep or I can take a handful of valium or xanax and pain killlers from being hurt in the military. I can't sleep and I cannot work without something for pain and something to sleep. I can take the pills or I can smoke a joint. I would like to smoke the joint but it is illegal and I do not wish to go to jail or deal with street pushers. I go to real Doctors and I am happy they help me with the prescription pills. However if Marijuana were legal I wouldn't have to watch the side effects or worry about being addicted to prescription drugs. I started serving my country when I was 19 and now it is time my country helped take care of me. Legalizing marijuana would help me very much. Look at my blog http://pdunkle.blogspot.com there are articles about marijuana and a few other things I wrote.. enjoy it and leave a comment so I can know how others feel about this problem our entire country has.
July 16, 2009, 05:11
I believe that if Obama decided to make marijuana legal that we will pop right out of the economic down fall. Just look at Amsterdam they have never been in a war. It just makes people relaxed and peaceful!!!!!! The best part about it would be that all of the pot dealers would have to get a job instead of making the billions of dollars UNTAXED!! I smoke marijuana and it releaves my back pain better then any pill could ever do, and it also takes all anger out of my body !
July 12, 2009, 21:33
The legalization of Marijuana will do nothing but help our crumbling country. I honestly believe that the legalization of Marijuana will make this country safer from itself, increasing production, lowering crimes and making overall happiness of the people skyrocket... I smoke weed... Why cant the government leave us innocent pot smokers alone?
PS: Amsterdam is an awesome place to vacation! :D
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