You Can Make a Difference
Dear friends,
Less than two days. That's how long it took ex-President Bush's cronies inside the federal government to strike out at President Obama and use taxpayer money to undermine him.
Last Thursday the DEA raided a medical marijuana dispensary in California, putting the lives of cancer, HIV/AIDS and other patients at risk.
But we can show President Obama that the American people will stand with him in this fight and hold him accountable for his campaign promise to end these raids.
As you may know, President Obama promised to end the Bush administration's cruel and costly raids on medical marijuana patients and caregivers in states where marijuana is legal for medical use. He's in the process of replacing Bush officials who are the source of the problem, but that takes time.
Quite frankly, what the Bush loyalists inside the DEA did in South Lake Tahoe is the equivalent of giving President Obama the finger.
Now is our chance to urge President Obama to protect at-risk patients. If he doesn't stand up forcefully to Bush's cronies, they will continue to undermine his presidency. And terminally ill patients will suffer.
Sincerely,
Bill Piper
Director, Office of National Affairs
Drug Policy Alliance
Don't Legalize All Drugs
Now I am all for legalizing weed for two reasons
1) I love weed
2) We're in a recession, and we spend 8-15 billion on just the drug war against pot each year in America.
Now imagine how much profit we'd enjoy if we legalized it. Millions of jobs would be created as soon as the fucking pen left Obama's hand, as it would need to be produced, transported, researched upon, improved upon, taxed, regulated, sold to other countries, and not to mention it has numerous biproducts other than the herb, such as foods, clothing, paper AND if we got good enough buds it could increase tourism.
Some researchers estimated that we could turn a yearly 60 billion dollars on marijuana if all resources were properly allocated, which means not only will our GDP be increasing, our national debt could be taking a step in the right direction.
So I ask, why imprison the completely unviolent, and USUALLY productive pothead members of society, and spend billions of dollars while doing it?
fuck the federal government
i'm serious. what good does it ever do, really?
war on drugs, war on your momma, war on your momma's momma...is it ever gonna end?
let's hope so.
LIBERTY should be more than a word on (fake) money.
Legalize all drugs, prostitution, and anything else that doesn't harm others.
It is time
The taxes that could be made from legalizing marijuana could help us fight more wars! Yay! Kidding, really, it would make a prolific dent in our little debt problem with China and quite a few other nations. Isn't it time that the government stood up and showed the American people how to become debt free? If legalization of a drug that doesn't cause violence helps solve this problem, isn't it a better solution than the few thousand jobs created by making it illegal? I believe that sometimes drugs are used improperly and there should be legal consequences for them, but I believe that marijuana is far outside of that kind of justification. Just my honest opinion. Michigan Cannabis Users LLC.
Enough...
OMG trying to help potsmokers! Too high to have reading comprehension huh? Tell that to Shakespeare. Saps your will to be productive? I suppose you're more prolific than Salvador Dali, eh? Too forgetful to function? Didn't seem to keep John Coltrane from becoming one of the greatest musicians in the HISTORY OF THE WORLD. Either educate yourself of STFU. Causes cancer? Care to back that up with some "science"? etc.
For real
How dumb are the people thinking this is anti marijuana. Fucking idiots.
Legalize, Regulate, Tax. Now is as good a time as any. Jobs, money, businesses, it's all there. Come on Obama, 2, 3 years? I'm patient.
Agreed for weed (no stronger drungs)
Regulate it, tax it, make it legal for people 18 and up. This will start a new taxable industry in the USA and keep the money in the hands of our country's governments.
Bringing down the prison corporations and lobbyists for such won't be easy though... big business, big $.
too hard
Its way too hard to regulate it. I love pot too. But i can understand both sides. There is no way to regulate it especially if they dont want you to do it during work hours. How are they going to test if you did it or not? It stays in your system for how long again? a month? I want them to regulate/legalize it but i dont see that happening any time soon.
Tokin' the Ganja
I do not see how it is a problem to let terminally ill patients smoke marijuana so that they can ease their suffering. Let's start a fight with what is arguably the most non-confrontational group of people - pot smokers. Legalize all drugs, regulate them, and tax them. Make revenue, free up the court system, and get non-violent drug offenders out of jail. Is it just me or did everyone forget how prohibition failed in the 1920's? Use the same government regulations for alcohol and implement that ideology for what is now considered "illegal" drugs. People are going to do drugs whether they are legal or not, we might as well take the power out of the drug cartels and put it into our government.
Yours very sincerely and respectfully,
Abraham Lincoln.
They're too high
to have any reading comprehension
Well, my fellow ignorant commentors..
If you read this document correctly..He is trying to help people that smoke marijuana.
POT IS GOOD
IF IN LIFE U DONT SUCCEED SCREW THE WORLD AND SMOKE SOME WEED
fuck you
I love pot, so fuck all of you.