Marijuana Community: 'We the People Will Legalize Marijuana, Not President Obama!'

Source:Marijuana Community- MSNBC talking about marijuana legalization.

"We the People Will Legalize Marijuana, NOT Obama!" 

From the Marijuana Community

Here are the reasons why marijuana will be decriminalized in America

Young people, people in my generation and young support it, overwhelmingly, now apparently (according to the Gallup Poll 50%) of Americans are in favor of decriminalizing marijuana. And not all Americans are under fifty, a lot of Americans aren't. 

We have 2.4M people in prison in America or under some form of public supervision, the largest Prison population in the world (on a per-capita basis) hundreds of thousands of those people are under supervision, because of drug related crimes. 

Our country is essentially broke with a 14T$ debt in a 14T$ economy ,and most of our states are broke as well and looking to cut spending everywhere, including in corrections. And states like California are now looking to release non-violent offenders. Like drug offenders and this is already happening in California as Governor Jerry Brown announced a couple of weeks ago. 

Americans tend to want to be able to control what they put in their body's and how they live their lives, as that Gallup Poll suggests. And of course there's the hypocrisy of our War on Drugs: where we essentially have three drugs in America that represent about the same amount of health risks: alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana, but two of them legal, of course alcohol and tobacco. 

Marijuana Community: Dylan Ratigan- 'Legalizing Marijuana is Number One Issue At the White House GOV Website!'

Source:Marijuana Community- MSNBC anchor Dylan Ratigan, talking about marijuana legalization, being talked about at The White House.

"Legalizing Marijuana is Number ONE Issue At the White House GOV Website!" 

From Marijuana Community

The White House is clearly not interested in decriminalization of marijuana as far as decriminalizing it. Just one issue that I disagree with them on, but there are plenty of people who are in the country who are interested in it, which is why we are now seeing measures on ballots in states to decriminalize marijuana. California being one in 2010 and Colorado will be at least one in 2012. 

Now the question will be will the Obama Administration if they were to get reelected (and thats a big if at this point) would not get in the way of Colorado and not force anti-marijuana laws in that state. I doubt it, they don't seem to be a big believer in states rights and federalism (Letting states pass and enforce their own laws) I hope they would stay out of the way of Colorado and let them mange their own laws and enforce their own drug policies. 

Drug enforcement from the Obama Administration, which is a big disappointment to me because Barack Obama is clearly a very intelligent man with a great legal background. Along with Attorney General Eric Holder and they must be able to see that our War on Drugs is not working and has failed and that it's time we try something else. And decriminalization of marijuana would be a way to reform our drug policies, letting people decide for themselves whether to use a drug thats about as dangerous as alcohol, instead of arresting people for smoking or possessing pot. 

Decriminalization of marijuana is a bi-artisan issue with bipartisan support in Congress with Representative Ron Paul and Representative Barney Frank one of the oddest of odd couples having a bill together to do this. The lessons that we learned from alcohol prohibition of the 1920s and 30s, can be applied to marijuana prohibition from 1937 up till today, that if people want to do or use something bad enough, they'll find a way to do it whether it's legal or not. 

People have been smoking marijuana since 1937 and a lot of them have never been to prison for it. People who are smart with pot and don't get addicted to it, similar to alcohol prohibition. People still drank and organized crime made a lot of money off if alcohol by producing and selling it (tax free by the way) because they obviously weren't going to report those activities to government. 

So if we were smart (which is a gigantic if) we would decriminalize marijuana and treat it like alcohol. And regulate and tax it like alcohol to make it as safe s possible. Decriminalization of marijuana is clearly not the biggest issue that President Obama is facing today. But it's important enough because with our failed forty-year so-called War on Drugs. That they at least look at their drug policies and if anything step back and let the states try some different things here. And see what happens from them. 

Marijuana Community: 'Get Info About Marijuana!'

 

Source:Marijuana Community- What are you smoking? LOL

"GET INFO ABOUT MARIJUANA! Marijuana Community." 

From the Marijuana Community

You take politics out of the marijuana debate and politicians not worried about looking "soft on crime" or "soft on the War on Drugs" than marijuana would already be legal in America. Same thing with alcohol in the 1920s and 30s: take politicians out of that debate and we don't have alcohol prohibition either back then. 

Marijuana prohibition is about big government trying to control how people live their own lives, trying to protect people from themselves. Marijuana decriminalization is about pragmatism and sanity, making something that government already knows a lot of its people use, as safe as possible. Just the way alcohol and tobacco are regulated in America and that system by in-large has worked very well in America. 

I'm not arguing that marijuana is healthy for people and that everyone should be using it and I wouldn't make the same argument for alcohol and tobacco either. I'm just saying that if you know people are going to do something that is very similar to other things that are already legal like alcohol and tobacco, you might as well take a realistic and practical approach to marijuana and decriminalize it at least at the Federal level. And let the States figure out where to go with marijuana from there, just as they regulate alcohol, tobacco and marriage today. 

If you are anti-big government and don't want government controlling how you live your own life, as long as you are not hurting innocent people, then you have no problem with marijuana decriminalization and then regulating and taxing it. 

If you believe 2M people is too many people to have in prison and the fact that we have hundreds of thousands of people in prison just for possession or use of narcotics, then you don't have a problem with marijuana decriminalization. And again regulating and taxing it, treating it like alcohol and tobacco to prevent people from driving or flying to use as examples while they are high. Again to make it as safe as possible because marijuana like alcohol and tobacco have negative side effects. 

 Let's decriminalize marijuana, let's stop arresting people for simple use or possession of it. 

Let's pardon our prison inmates who are in prison for marijuana possession or use who haven't committed any other crimes while in prison. 

Let's transfer our prison inmates who are in prison for possessing or using other narcotics and haven't committed any other crimes while in prison to drug rehab clinics and halfway houses where they can get the help that they need with their addiction and turn their lives around. Because they don't represent a threat to anyone else other than themselves. 

Let's save our limited prison space for the people who need to be in prison who do represent a major threat to society. 

And let's end the failed forty year fake War on Drugs where we've spent trillions of tax revenue trying to control how people live their own lives, instead of how they interact with each other. 

And let free people in a free society live their own lives instead of trying to control our population. If you know someone is going to do something and you can't stop them from doing it and all you can do is to react to what they did after the fact. And they are not hurting anyone else with their actions, you might as well give them as much info as possible about what they are doing. Instead of trying to stop them all together, so they can make the most informed decisions as possible. 

Marijuana Prohibition to me is sort of like sex prohibition for adolescents: it's just as ineffective.

Marijuana Community: 'US Government ALLOWED Mexican Drug Cartel To Smuggle Drugs!'

Source:Marijuana Community- Mexican drug dealers.

"US Government ALLOWED Mexican Drug Cartel To Smuggle Drugs!" 

From Marijuana Community

Here's another example of the hypocrisy in the American so-called War on Drugs: allowing some narcotics come into America, in exchange for info on other drug cartels. Fixing one broken leg while you are breaking the other. And you can add this to the list of hypocrisy in the fake War on Drugs: prohibiting marijuana while allowing alcohol and tobacco, drugs that are just as dangerous if not more dangerous than marijuana. 

Now I've said this before: I'm not for legalizing marijuana because I think its good for people or I want to use it and not risk going to jail because of that use. But what I'm saying is that if government is going to prohibit and activity, because they think it's bad for people and try to protect us from ourselves and try to make these decisions for us, instead of giving us the freedom of choice to decide these things for ourselves, then they should prohibit all activities where the cost benefits are about the same. Alcohol and tobacco are excellent examples when talking about marijuana. Otherwise it's just hypocritical of government and gives people another reason not to trust them, as if people didn't have enough already. 

If you want to win the fake War on Drugs, you can start by being honest with the people you are trying to protect and not be hypocritical. And stop having laws and trying to pass new laws that attempts to protect people from themselves and instead just have laws that try to protect innocent people from the harm of others. Because once you pass a law, you still have to enforce it , otherwise it's as worthless as jaywalking laws. 

Just because you make something illegal, doesn't mean it goes away, thats why we have jails and prisons, all the evidence you need to know that. And enforcing laws comes with a cost whether they are good laws or bad laws. A cost to society, so you might as well just have good honest laws that are designed to protect innocent people from the harm of others. And stop having and passing as Classical Liberal economist Milton Friedman called "Bad Laws" laws that are designed to protect people from themselves instead of the harm of others. 

This Mexican drug cartel case of where the U.S. Government agreed to let narcotics smuggled into America in exchange for intelligence on other drug cartels. Is just more evidence of the hypocrisy and stupidity of the fake War on Drugs and why we need to change and reform it before this war causes more damage on American society.

Reason: ‘Prop 19: Legalization of Marijuana in California’

Source:Reason Magazine- with a look at the war on marijuana.

"November 2, 2010, California voters will decide whether or not to legalize marijuana.

If passed, Proposition 19 would control marijuana like alcohol, allowing adults 21 years of age and over to possess up to an ounce of pot for personal consumption and grow marijuana at a private residence in a space of up to 25 square feet. The initiative would also allow local governments to tax and regulate the commercial cultivation, transport, and sale of marijuana.

In order to get a handle on the debate surrounding. Prop 19, we spoke to both supporters and opponents of the initiative.

So what do you think? Should Californians legalize marijuana?

Approximately 6 minutes. Produced by Paul Feine and Alex Manning.” 

From Reason Magazine 

Just from listening to a couple of the law enforcement officers in this video, you hear the same big government arguments in favor of continuing the War on Drugs and marijuana as we’ve heard before: “Do we really want another legal, toxic substance on the market.?” Which is just acknowledging that we already have toxic substances on the market and we already have legal narcotics on the market with alcohol, tobacco, and a whole host of prescription drugs, including painkillers, which are all addictive.

The same argument against marijuana, can also be used against alcohol and prescription drugs, which are legal narcotics in America. So I don’t have a question here because I already know the answer, but what makes marijuana so special when it comes to the War On Drugs is the alcohol and tobacco industries. Those industries don’t want the new competition that could come from a legalized marijuana industry and have subsidized the political campaigns and career of politicians and other public officials who keep marijuana illegal in America.

When you live in a free society, you are acknowledging that there are real risks that come with that personal freedom, including dangerous and risky choices. It then becomes a question of how you deal with those risks: do you make criminals of people for what they do just to themselves or do you acknowledge the obvious and except the fact that just because you criminalize something, that doesn’t mean it goes away, it just means it’s illegal. And that maybe we’re just better off with making the best out of risky choices and trying to make those choices as safe as possible. Which is what we decided to do as a country with alcohol. 

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