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The Grand Ol' Marijuana Debate
I like to follow these Marijuana debates. I like to have these marijuana debates. However, the same arguments are always used. The above interview is, however, interesting.
Tags: debate, drug, government, hash, herb, legal, legalization, marijuana, pot, war
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Permalink Reply by Kendrick Irvin on -
New Colombian President Joins Call for Drug Legalization Debate
http://www.cannabisculture.com/v2/node/24678
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Permalink Reply by LesYpersound on -
i don't want legalization, just decriminalization.
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Permalink Reply by BlaqJeff on -
Arguing with people who don't have the facts behind them and they still insist they are right is an exercise in futility. This debate is no different than some current debates happening now, in that regard.
As far as legalizing pot? I could care less, as long as I can grow a plant or two in the privacy of my own home.
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Permalink Reply by Darkness Unlimited* on -
LesYpersound said:
Well at the very least, pot, LSD, & ecstacy ought to be on `par - legally - with cigarettes.i don't want legalization, just decriminalization.
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Permalink Reply by kifaru on -
I like the debates too but I always seem to hear the recreational smokers trot out ehe "medical" argument as if they want it for some ailment. To me that's intellectually dishonest. If you like weed because it makes you feel good and your use will not harm anyone else and you are willing to accept the concomitant negative effects i.e. get yourself some health insurance so I don't have to be taxed to pay for the cancer you might get then I do not care. What I don't want to see is legalization then regulation that means that the only access people have to marijuana is from corporations like the proposed legalization regulations to be enacted in D.C..
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Permalink Reply by Wheredawhitewomenat on -
I support the regulation of all drugs.
That's right, all of them. Even meth? I highly doubt that Crystal Meth will ever be marketed, but hey if someone wants meth mouth...not my problem.
People are going to use and abuse drugs whether they're legal or not.
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Permalink Reply by Kendrick Irvin on
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The whole medical marijuana stance is a little over played, imo. Sure marijuana helps plenty of people. However, there are more than enough people who use marijuana, or would use marijuana, recreationally if it were legal. My dad for instance, my old youth paster too. Both of them say that if pot was legal these days, they would go back to using it. I think the fact that some people think they can just take away the right o scientifically study marijuana is ridiculous. I think that holding a substance responsible for people actions without holding the person personally responsible for their actions is ,well, irresponsible.
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Permalink Reply by Ghettopunkrocker on -
Interesting debate, I've always said as long as you're responsible with it, there shouldn't be an issue with using marijuana. But, if you're irresponsible by lacing it with something else. Well, that goes into a different territory.
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Permalink Reply by Oba Richards on -
If i cant grow my own fuck it I'll grow my own anyway.
once the "MAN" get his hands on the regulations of the herb and they pass, it will be so much money flowing around, The "MAN" will try to milk it dry.
fuckin Colorado is booming in sales already
They know and study the herb for years now so the debate is just Idle talk.
oh yeah fuck the corporate world
peace and love with the buds
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fc%2Fa%2F2010%2F09%2F...
This article states that Marijuana is a Civil Rights issue.
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." So said the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1967, when he spoke out against the Vietnam War. At the time, he was roundly criticized for speaking out on an issue considered outside the purview of civil rights leaders. King understood better than most at the time, the true cost of war - in lives lost, in futures squandered, in dreams deferred and in misspent resources. Eventually, a majority of Americans came to agree with him about the war in Vietnam. His moral courage lay in speaking out in the face of no agreement, caring more about his integrity than his popularity.
It is the mission of the California NAACP to eradicate injustice and continue the fight for civil rights and social justice wherever and whenever we can. We are therefore compelled to speak out against another war, the so called "war on drugs."
This is not a war on the drug lords and violent cartels. This is a war that disproportionately impacts young men and women and is the latest tool for imposing Jim Crow justice on poor African Americans.
We reject the oft-repeated but deceptive argument that there are only two choices for dealing with drugs - heavy-handed law enforcement or total permissiveness. Substance abuse and addiction are American problems that impact every socioeconomic group, and meaningful public health and safety strategies are needed to address it. However, law enforcement strategies that target poor blacks and Latinos and cause them to bear the burden and shame of arrest, prosecution and conviction for marijuana offenses must stop.
The report released in June by the Drug Policy Alliance confirmed our view that marijuana law enforcement in California disproportionately target our youth. Despite consistent evidence that black youth use marijuana at lower rates than whites, in every one of the 25 largest counties in California, blacks are arrested for marijuana possession at higher rates than whites, typically at double, triple, or even quadruple the rate. We believe whatever potential harms may be associated with using marijuana are more than outweighed by the immediate harms that derive from being caught up in the criminal justice system.
Given the current economic crisis and high level of unemployment, particularly for black men, do we really want to permanently handicap a person's ability to get an education, make a decent living and have a productive life because they used marijuana? Equally important - is arresting people for possessing marijuana the best use of our scarce tax dollars? Can we justify wasting millions attempting to reduce demand for cannabis through law enforcement? How many more years do we wait before declaring that strategy a failure?
The California NAACP does not believe maintaining the illusion that we're winning the "war on drugs" is worth sacrificing another generation of our young men and women.
Enough is enough. We want change we can believe in, and that's why we're supporting Prop. 19. Instead of wasting money on marijuana law enforcement, Prop. 19 will generate tax revenues we can use to improve the education and employment outcomes of our youth. Our youth want and deserve a future. Let's invest in people, not prisons.
Alice Huffman is the president of the California State NAACP.
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