»Here is my beef with the new supreme court desision on pot!«
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 In lieu of the new Supreme Court decision, here is my opinion on it. I agree with the Supreme Court in its decision that in this instance Federal law supersedes State law, but I also believe that they need to change the Federal law. Honestly if someone is going to be dieing of and inoperable brain tumor, let them rip a bong a few times before they die. Not only does it relieve the pain that they are going through, maybe the bong haze will make them forget that they have a tumor. I would like to go even further, if I may, with this subject. I further believe that the government should just legalize the stuff. Before some of you get your panties in a bunch, let me explain myself a bit more. No, I am not some dead-beat pot head that just wants to see pot legalized so that I could light up with out worry, no, I just think that it would be beneficial for the country in more than one way. I liken this subject to prohibition back in the 1920’s. Back then gangs ran booze from Mexico to America, or made it themselves. Because it was illegal there were no regulations on how it should be made, so a lot of the alcohol that was being sold was either low quality or had all kinds of toxins in it that blinded people if not killed them. Once the government again legalized the sale and consumption of alcohol they were able to regulate it so that we would know that every glass of beer, wine or whatever you fancy might be, was being held to a specific standard of quality. The government also taxed it and was able to bring in added revenues, thus benefiting from its legalization. I see the first half of this example is exactly what we are experiencing with marijuana right now, and I believe that if we were to legalize it, the government would be able to do the same thing with it as the did with prohibition, and pull in a lot of tax money because if it. This would also mean an end to the gangs and cartels running pot from other countries to here, so it would end (at least in some part) of the bloody drug wars out on the streets. Another point I turn to is that, in all honestly, I think that alcohol is worse for you than pot. My proof is when you look at someone under the influence of alcohol and under the influence of marijuana what do you notice about them? Depending on the person, people that are so hammered get very ornery and edgy easily, and are more prone to get into fights over stupid reasons or become destructive. I have never seen someone who is high want to start a fight with anyone, or do anything other than giggle like a little kid. When people are high they are as cool and mellow with everything around them as I have ever seen people. I am not saying that booze is bad, but just pointing to that fact that people are less heated when smoking marijuana then when consuming booze and trying to make a point that pot does impair your senses when under the influence, but I don’t see it as any worse than if you were under the influence of alcohol. I find it hypocritical for the American Judicial body to allow addicting and potentially harmful substances like alcohol and tobacco to be sold to the American public with out any hesitation, yet ban others. When it really comes down to it, our government has been searching for a way to end the “War on Drugs” coming through our borders. The funny thing is that they have had the answer under their noses all along but have refused to consider it. The legalization of marijuana would end all black markets for the drug. Yet another benefit would be that we would no longer need to be worried about harmless citizens filling up our prison systems when trying to live out their minimum two-year prison sentence for possessing pot. The sentence of growing 100 marijuana plants is over 5 years in prison, which is longer than the sentence for Grand Theft Auto or even manslaughter. Other consequences for being convicted of owning even a small amount of marijuana is loss of college scholarships, or not even being able to live in residence halls on campus because you are now a felon of a federal offense, and have that on your permanent record the rest of your life. A bit ridiculous don’t you think? People complain about taxes going to waist, I see no greater waist of federal tax dollars than the money spent on arresting, convicting, and imprisoning people today for possession. Legalization would put an end to this gargantuan waist of money. For more information on the astounding and ridiculous facts on prohibition go to  One last point is that with the ‘munchies’ from smoking down, we would sell more snacks, thus strengthening the American economy. Ok so that last statement was just a joke, but really, I do think that there are many benefits that could be brought about by the legalization of marijuana, many more than I was able to mention here. But that is just my opinion… posted by strummy83 |
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| in-my-opinion.orgPoliticsPolitics and Crime (Assorted topics)here is my beef with the new supreme court desision on pot! |
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 Just move to Canada  posted by Kupov |
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 strummy83: beef Beef? strummy83: supreme court Of what country? strummy83: pot Pot? Beef pot? posted by knn |
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Beef -meaning sort of an annoyance (problem) here is my beef/problem America United States of Pot - Marijuana posted by Kupov |
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 eyy, nice post strummy. good logical points but...even if they legalized it, addictions will increase because of the availability of it. then people will want to get more of it, and drug lords and everything will be exactly the same, except the US gov't will make money. and of course people are still going to try to find a way to get MORE marijuana. im assuming US gov't would restrict the amounts into rations. posted by sangu |
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Marijuana really causes a lot of drug lords sangu (Sarcasm) Mabye if they legalized heroin or cocain. It is basically legal here in canada and there is no problem with "Drug lords" or misuse. posted by Kupov |
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Ummm... addictions? There are no marijuana addicts. Sure there are pot heads, but they aren't addicts. Sure marijuana can be habit-forming and cause motivational problems. But I'm sure with a lot of "dead-beat pot heads" the case is as such... If you took away the pot, they'd just be dead-beats. posted by Er |
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that's right posted by Kupov |
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strummy83: Back then gangs ran booze from Mexico to America, or made it themselves. Because it was illegal there were no regulations on how it should be made, so a lot of the alcohol that was being sold was either low quality or had all kinds of toxins in it that blinded people if not killed them. But you suppose that getting blind and being killed is BAD. That doesn't convince me. If you take forbidden drugs, then getting blind is of course the price that you have to pay for your illegal behaviour. Thus not legalization of pot is the right way, but forbidding alcohol. The only bad point about drug prohibition is that the mafia gets richer and richer. The prohibition was one of the reasons how the organized crime got big and Al Capone became famous. Thus we have to
Case closed. Society gets rid of the mind-destroying effects of drugs. Voila. posted by knn |
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sangu: even if they legalized it, addictions will increase because of the availability of it. then people will want to get more of it, and drug lords and everything will be exactly the same, except the US gov't will make money. but I don't see how what you said is really any different than what happens with tobacco or alcohol. When you really think about it, yes all three drugs are bad for you in many ways (and I am refering to alcohol as a drug in this instance), but I just don't see why the American government feels they can say one drug is ok for the people to use and then turn around and say that another is illegal. They all screw you up in the end. sangu: im assuming US gov't would restrict the amounts into rations. I don't see why they would have to restrict ammount you can have, I think if they set an age limit like they do with drinking and smoking there would be no real other restrictions needed. Like Kupov said, it isn't legal in Canada, just de-criminalised, and they seem to be functioning normally as a country. I don't see why Americans coudn't be the same posted by strummy83 |
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strummy83: but I don't see how what you said is really any different than what happens with tobacco or alcohol. When you really think about it, yes all three drugs are bad for you in many ways (and I am refering to alcohol as a drug in this instance), but I just don't see why the American government feels they can say one drug is ok for the people to use and then turn around and say that another is illegal. They all screw you up in the end. Exactly. Thus alcohol must be forbidden. posted by knn |
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Any SC ruling that Thomas dissents from has got to be so far to the right it's gone around to the left. posted by holy_of_holies |
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knn: Exactly. Thus alcohol must be forbidden. No thus tobbaco must be forrbiden. alchohal is the lesser of the evils. posted by Kupov |
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 strummy83: but I just don't see why the American government feels they can say one drug is ok for the people to use and then turn around and say that another is illegal. using this logic you can't legalize pot either, then the "coke-heads" will say, "hey! what about coke? you legalized weed, why not coke?" then the heroin junkie and so on and so forth. So like knn said, it's either all or none and I don't see the government legalizing all drugs anytime soon m'kay? oh and for the record I'm against legalizing the cheeba and I am a former pothead indeed 
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Kupov: No thus tobbaco must be forrbiden. alchohal is the lesser of the evils. I doubt that. Proof? Statistics? posted by knn |
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