| Marijuana isn't
right or wrong. My goodness, it's just a plant.
It is a God-given resource for living. It was put
here on earth to use just like all other plants. Genesis 1:29 speaks
thusly of hemp/cannabis/marijuana and other
plants: "Behold I have given you every plant
yielding seed which is upon the face of all the
earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit; you
shall have them for food."
According to
the 1998 Monitoring The Future study, an annual
federally funded student self-reporting drug
survey done through the University of Michigan by
the National Institute of Drug Abuse, 90% of 12th
graders considered marijuana to be fairly easy or
very easy to get. 90%!!!
After 62 years
of marijuana prohibition, 30 years into a
"WAR on drugs", which I call a
"War" on our freedoms, millions
arrested and ruined by the law. 90% of high
school seniors say it's "EASY" to score
pot. As an adult who understands the black
market, and has participated in it I agree with
their analysis. I have no real problem obtaining
marijuana, the police make it a little
inconvient, and dangerous. Because we are forced
to obtain our preferred drug on street corners,
controlled by thugs and criminals instead of
stores or bar's. I submit that our drug
control problems can't get any worse than they
are today. It's uncontrolled. Millions
clearly want it. I myself can-not see where
in the constitution it gave the state's or the
federal government the authority to regulate a
citizens body anyway. Which is what these laws
are designed to do. The government is wrong to
incarcerate individuals for what is clearly less
harmful than tobacco or alcohol two drugs
sanctioned by the government with taxes,
subsidy's and least we not forget billion dollar
settlements.
I don't know
about the rest of you folks, but I am sick and
tired of ducking and dodging the police and
wasting tens of billions of dollars every year
for a drug policy that simply doesn't work; a
drug policy that puts our children at greater
risk than no policy at all. That incarcerates
their parents, and creates "WAR" zone's
in some inner city communities.
After a 30 year
long civil war against 70 million marijuana users
and their families, over 13 million arrests for
marijuana crimes, an eight fold increase in
prison inmates, after the expenditure of a
trillion dollars on marijuana prohibition, what
do we have to show for our hard-earned tax
money??? No-thing! A bunch of Democrats and
Republicans still lying, saying the
"WAR" is being won by the governments
force's. Bullshit, I can arrive in any
town, in any city, and obtain the drug of my
choose (marijuana) within 12 hours, less than one
in most cities. Again I say what have we
gained?
Again I say
nothing except millions of people ruined by
the law, not marijuana! Drugs are cheaper, more
available and stronger than ever before, and
school children with $20 can buy marijuana or any
other drug, 24 hours a day, seven days a week,
anyplace in the USA. Mainly because it is
illegal, if it were legal it would be sold in
store's where the sale's would be
regulated. As it is now any kid who wants a
joint will just go to a street corner and get it.
No-one asks for ID's on the street. The
demand for marijuana is to great for any law to
stop it. It doesn't stop me. The law is wrong. I
like millions of other adults choose to use
marijuana.
It sounds more
like a drug non control policy. What kind of
fools are we to tolerate government stupidity of
this magnitude? I personally use marijuana daily
and resent being forced to buy marijuana off the
streets from thugs. The street crimes that
politicians talk about, is on the street because
that is what their idiotic policies have
created.
The democrats
and republicans have had their heads up their
ass's for so long when it come's to the drug
policies of this country, I'm amazed there hasn't
been a wider revolt across the county. But it's
coming, citizens in six state's have
legalized marijuana (Arizona,
California, Oregon, Washington state, Nevada, and
Alaska). Jesse Ventura was elected Gov. of Minn.
one of the issue's that encouraged voter's to
vote him in ahead of the DEMO - PUBLICANS was his
idea to change the drug policies, namely by
legalizing marijuana. And citizens in 5 more
state's are set to vote for legalization in the
year 2000.
It's long past
time for a change in drug policy. What the
democrats and the republicans have been doing
simply doesn't work. Our responsibility to our
children, and the citizenry at large demands we
find a better way. The current war on drugs, is
ass backward. It doesn't work and never will
work!
Eventually more
and more citizens like myself will begin to
openly call for Jury Nullification as a way to
end the war. Jury Nullification is when citizens
on a jury judge a law as well as the evidence and
decide the law is wrong. And acquit. Thereby
Nullifying the law.
The government
will never win this immoral "WAR"
against the, freedoms, desire's and wants of it's
own citizens. I do have a answer---
TAXATE,
REGULATE and EDUCATE
of
incarcerate?
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